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Colloquia Doctoralia

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inizio

Giovedì 19 Aprile 2018 14:30

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Via Pascoli - edificio di Fisica - 3rd Floor

relatore

Prof. Wolfgang Wild

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A Large European Astronomical Facility: The Cherenkov Telescope Array

abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. With more than 100 telescopes at two sites, CTA will be the world's largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory covering the full sky with a northern array located at the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory on the island of La Palma (Spain) and a southern array near the European Southern Observatory site at Paranal (Chile). Three classes of telescope types spread over a large area are required to cover the full CTA very-high energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. In the presentation we will give a comprehensive overview of the CTA science goals, technical concept, telescope designs and the construction status.

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