arXiv:1307.2232v2 [astro-ph.HE] 29 Jul 2013

CTA contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013)

arXiv:1307.3452 [pdf, other]
Title: A Central Laser Facility for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Markus Gaug, Carla Aramo, Marco Cilmo, Federico Di Pierro, Aurelio Tonachini, Piero Vallania (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), ID659, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3406 [pdf, other]
Title: Towards a full Atmospheric Calibration system for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
M. Doro, M. Gaug, O. Blanch, LL. Font, D. Garrido, A. Lopez-Oramas, M. Martinez (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3137 [pdf, other]
Title: 4 m Davies-Cotton telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
R. Moderski, J.A. Aguilar, A. Barnacka, A. Basili, V. Boccone, L. Bogacz, F. Cadoux, A. Christov, M. Della Volpe, M. Dyrda, A. Frankowski, M. Grudzińska, M. Janiak, M. Karczewski, J. Kasperek, W. Kochański, P. Korohoda, J. Kozioł, P. Lubiński, J. Ludwin, E. Lyard, A. Marszałek, J. Michałowski, T. Montaruli, J. Nicolau-Kukliński, J. Niemiec, M. Ostrowski, Ł. Płatos, P.J. Rajda, M. Rameez, W. Romaszkan, M. Rupiński, K. Seweryn, M. Stodulska, M. Stodulski, R. Walter, K. Winiarski, Ł. Wiśniewski, A. Zagdański, K. Zietara, P. Ziółkowski, P. Żychowski (for the the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.2807 [pdf, other]
Title: A Compact High Energy Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
M. K. Daniel, R. J. White, D. Berge, J. Buckley, P. M. Chadwick, G. Cotter, S. Funk, T. Greenshaw, N. Hidaka, J. Hinton, J. Lapington, S. Markoff, P. Moore, S. Nolan, S. Ohm, A. Okumura, D. Ross, L. Sapozhnikov, J. Schmoll, P. Sutcliffe, J. Sykes, H. Tajima, G. S. Varner, J. Vandenbroucke, J. Vink, D. Williams (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: 4 pages. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3880 [pdf, other]
Title: All Sky Cameras for the characterization of the Cherenkov Telescope Array candidate sites
Dušan Mandát, Miroslav Pech, Jan Ebr, Miroslav Hrabovský, Michael Prouza, Tomasz Bulik, Ingomar Allekotte (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3169 [pdf, other]
Title: An Analog Trigger System for Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
M. Barcelo, J.A. Barrio, O. Blanch Bigas, J. Boix, C. Delgado, D. Herranz, R. Lopez-Coto, G. Martinez, L.A. Tejedor (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
arXiv:1307.4965 [pdf, other]
Title: An outdoor test facility for the Cherenkov Telescope Array mirrors
M. C. Medina, B. Garcia, J. Maya, A. Mancilla, J. J. Larrarte, E. Rasztocky, M. Benitez, J. Dipold, M. Platino (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions atarXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3053 [pdf, other]
Title: Night Sky Background Analysis for the Cherenkov Telescope Array using the Atmoscope instrument
Markus Gaug (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), ID0658. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.6100 [pdf, other]
Title: Typical atmospheric aerosol behavior at the Cherenkov Telescope Array candidate sites in Argentina
Rubén D. Piacentini, Martín Freire, María I. Micheletti, Graciela M. Salum, Javier Maya, Alexis Mancilla, Beatriz García (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
arXiv:1307.4719 [pdf, other]
Title: Characterization of Potential U.S. Sites for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
R.A. Ong, T.Aune, J. Hall (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures, in Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.4989 [pdf, other]
Title: Characterization of the candidate site for the Cherenkov Telescope Array at the Observatorio del Teide
Irene Puerto-Giménez, Markus Gaug, Rafael Barrena, Julio Castro, Michele Doro, Lluís Font, Miguel Nievas Rosillo, Jaime Zamorano (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), ID0609, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4943 [pdf, other]
Title: Comparison of Different Trigger and Readout Approaches for Cameras in the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project
M. Shayduk, S. Vorobiov, U. Schwanke, R. Wischnewski (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3386 [pdf, other]
Title: Development of the Photomultiplier-Tube Readout System for the CTA Large Size Telescope
H.Kubo, R.Paoletti, Y.Awane, A.Bamba, M.Barcelo, J.A.Barrio, O.Blanch, J.Boix, C.Delgado, D.Fink, D.Gascon, S.Gunji, R.Hagiwara, Y.Hanabata, K.Hatanaka, M.Hayashida, M.Ikeno, S.Kabuki, H.Katagiri, J.Kataoka, Y.Konno, S.Koyama, T.Kishimoto, J.Kushida, G.Martinez, S.Masuda, J.M.Miranda, R.Mirzoyan, T.Mizuno, T.Nagayoshi, D.Nakajima, T.Nakamori, H.Ohoka, A.Okumura, R.Orito, T.Saito, A.Sanuy, H.Sasaki, M.Sawada, T.Schweizer, R.Sugawara, K.-H.Sulanke, H.Tajima, M.Tanaka, S.Tanaka, L.A.Tejedor, Y.Terada, M.Teshima, F.Tokanai, Y.Tsuchiya, T.Uchida, H.Ueno, K.Umehara, T.Yamamoto (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
arXiv:1307.5194 [pdf, other]
Title: Developments for coating, testing, and aligning Cherenkov Telescope Array mirrors in T\"ubingen
A. Bonardi, J. Dick, E. Kendziorra, G. Pühlhofer, A. Santangelo (for the CTA consortium)
Comments: 4 pages, 6 figures. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232. Proceeding ID 207
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4557 [pdf, other]
Title: Dielectric Coatings for IACT Mirrors
A. Förster (1), T. Arrmstrong (2), P. Chadwick (2) (for the CTA Collaboration), M. Held (3) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (3) BTE Bedampfungstechnik GmbH, Elsoff, Germany)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.5006 [pdf, other]
Title: Expected performance of the ASTRI-SST-2M telescope prototype
C. Bigongiari, F. Di Pierro, C. Morello, A. Stamerra, P. Vallania, G. Agnetta, L.A. Antonelli, D. Bastieri, G. Bellassai, M. Belluso, S. Billotta, B. Biondo, G. Bonanno, G. Bonnoli, P. Bruno, A. Bulgarelli, R. Canestrari, M. Capalbi, P. Caraveo, A. Carosi, E. Cascone, O. Catalano, M. Cereda, P. Conconi, V. Conforti, G. Cusumano, V. De Caprio, A. De Luca, A. Di Paola, D. Fantinel, M. Fiorini, D. Fugazza, D. Gardiol, M. Ghigo, F. Gianotti, S. Giarrusso, E. Giro, A. Grillo, D. Impiombato, S. Incorvaia, A. La Barbera, N. La Palombara, V. La Parola, G. La Rosa, L. Lessio, G. Leto, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M.C. Maccarone, G. Malaguti, G. Malaspina, V. Mangano, D. Marano, E. Martinetti, R. Millul, T. Mineo, A. MistÒ, G. Morlino, M.R. Panzera, G. Pareschi, G. Rodeghiero, P. Romano, F. Russo, B. Sacco, N. Sartore, J. Schwarz, A. Segreto, G. Sironi, G. Sottile, E. Strazzeri, L. Stringhetti, G. Tagliaferri, V. Testa, M.C. Timpanaro, G. Toso, G. Tosti, M. Trifoglio, S. Vercellone, V. Zitelli (The Astri Collaboration), L. Arrabito, K. Bernlohr, G. Maier, N. Komin, The Cta Consortium
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3048 [pdf, other]
Title: Exploring high-energy processes in binary systems with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
J.M. Paredes, W. Bednarek, P. Bordas, V. Bosch-Ramon, E. De Cea del Pozo, G. Dubus, S. Funk, D. Hadasch, D. Khangulyan, S. Markoff, J. Moldon, P. Munar-Adrover, S. Nagataki, T. Naito, M. de Naurois, G. Pedaletti, O. Reimer, M. Ribo, A. Szostek, Y. Terada, D.F. Torres, V. Zabalza, A.A. Zdziarski (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.3677 [pdf, other]
Title: FlashCam: A fully digital camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
G. Pühlhofer (2), C. Bauer (1), F. Eisenkolb (2), D. Florin (3), C. Föhr (1), A. Gadola (3), G. Hermann (1), C. Kalkuhl (2), J. Kasperek (4), T. Kihm (1), J. Koziol (5), A. Manalaysay (3), A. Marszalek (5), P.J. Rajda (4), W. Romaszkan (4), M. Rupinski (4), T. Schanz (2), S. Steiner (3), U. Straumann (3), C. Tenzer (2), A. Vollhardt (3), Q. Weitzel (1), K. Winiarski (4), K. Zietara (5) (for the CTA consortium) (6) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abteilung Hochenergieastrophysik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany, (3) Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland, (4) AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, (5) Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
arXiv:1307.3056 [pdf, other]
Title: Impact of E-ELT laser light on Cherenkov Telescope Array cameras
Markus Gaug, Michele Doro (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), ID0660. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4586 [pdf, other]
Title: Impact of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) altitude on Dark Matter searches in the Milky Way Halo
Louise Oakes, Emrah Birsin, Gernot Maier, Ullrich Schwanke (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.2988 [pdf, other]
Title: Large Size Telescope camera support structures for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
G. Deleglise, N. Geffroy, G. Lamanna (for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4540 [pdf, other]
Title: Mechanics and cooling system for the camera of the Large Size Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
Carlos Delgado, Oscar Blanch, Carlos Diaz, Noemi Hamer, Ohoka Hideyuki, Razmik Mirzoyan, Masahiro Teshima, Holger Wetteskind, Tokonatsu Yamamoto (for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4563 [pdf, other]
Title: Mirror Development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
A. Förster (1), T. Armstrong (2), H. Baba (3), J. Bähr (4), A. Bonardi (5), G. Bonnoli (6), P. Brun (7), R. Canestrari (6), P. Chadwick (2), M. Chikawa (8), P.-H. Carton (7), V. De Souza (9), J. Dipold (9), M. Doro (10), D. Durand (7), M. Dyrda (11), E. Giro (12), J.-F. Glicenstein (7), Y. Hanabata (13), M. Hayashida (8), M. Hrabovski (14), C. Jeanney (7), M. Kagaya (3), H. Katagiri (3), L. Lessio (12), D. MANDAT (14), M. Mariotti (10), C. Medina (15), J. Michałowski (11), P. Micolon (7), D. Nakajima (16), J. Niemiec (11), A. Nozato (13), M. Palatka (14), G. Pareschi (6), M. Pech (14), B. Peyaud (7), G. Pühlhofer (5), M. Rataj (17), G. Rodeghiero (12), G. Rojas (18), J. Rousselle (19), R. Sakonaka (13), P. Schovanek (14), K. Seweryn (17), C. Schultz (10), S. Shu (13), F. Stinzing (20), M. Stodulski (11), M. Teshima (8,16), P. Travniczek (14), C. Van Eldik (20), V. Vassiliev (19), Ł. Wiśniewski (17), A. Wörnlein (20), T. Yoshida (3) (for the CTA Consortium) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) University of Durham, Durham, Great Britain, (3) Ibaraki University, Japan, (4) Desy Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany, (5) IAAT, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (6) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy, (7) CEA, Irfu, Centre de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (8) ICRR University of Tokyo, Japan, (9) Instituto de Fsica de So Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, (10) University of Padova and INFN sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy, (11) Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland, (12) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy, (13) Kinki University, Japan, (14) Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, (15) Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia, CCT La Plata-CONICET, Argentina, (16) Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany, (17) Space Research Center - Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland, (18) Universidade Federal de So Carlos, (19) University of California Los Angeles, California, USA, (20) ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.5905 [pdf, other]
Title: Monte Carlo comparison of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
T. Jogler, M. D. Wood, J. Dumm, A. Bouvier (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.5028 [pdf, other]
Title: Argentinian multi-wavelength scanning Raman lidar to observe night sky atmospheric transmission
Juan Pallotta, Pablo Ristori, Lidia Otero, Fernando Chouza, Delia Raul, Francisco Gonzalez, Alberto Etchegoyen, Eduardo Quel (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
arXiv:1307.5463 [pdf, other]
Title: Novel Photo Multiplier Tubes for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project
Takeshi Toyama, Razmik Mirzoyan, Hugh Dickinson, Christian Fruck, Jürgen Hose, Hanna Kellermann, Max Knötig, Eckart Lorenz, Uta Menzel, Daisuke Nakajima, Reiko Orito, David Paneque, Thomas Schweizer, Masahiro Teshima, Tokonatsu Yamamoto (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
arXiv:1307.6313 [pdf, other]
Title: The Formation of Condensation on Cherenkov Telescope Mirrors
P.M.Chadwick (1), S.A. Cleaver (1,5), M.Dyrda (2), A. Förster (3), J. Michalowski (2), J. Niemiec (2), C. Schultz (4), M. Stodulski (2) (for the CTA Consortium) ((1) University of Durham, UK, (2) Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS, Krakow, Poland, (3) Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (4) Universita di Padova and INFN, Italy, (5) now at Astrium Ltd.)
Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, in Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.4275 [pdf, other]
Title: Open-structure composite mirrors for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Michal Dyrda, Jerzy Michalowski, Jacek Niemiec, Marek Stodulski
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4939 [pdf, other]
Title: Optimized next-neighbor image cleaning method for Cherenkov Telescopes
Maxim Shayduk (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3409 [pdf, other]
Title: Performance of the Cherenkov Telescope Array at energies above 10 TeV
Anna Barnacka, Leszek Bogacz, Mira Grudzińska, Adam Frankowski, Mateusz Janiak, Piotr Lubiński, Rafał Moderski (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.4580 [pdf, other]
Title: Pointing Calibration for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Medium Size Telescope Prototype
Louise Oakes, Bagmeet Behera, Juergen Baehr, Sandra Gruenewald, Tobias Raeck, Stefan Schlenstedt, Anja Schubert, Ullrich Schwanke (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.2773 [pdf, other]
Title: Progress in Monte Carlo design and optimization of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
K. Bernlöhr, A. Barnacka, Y. Becherini, O. Blanch Bigas, A. Bouvier, E. Carmona, P. Colin, G. Decerprit, F. Di Pierro, F. Dubois, C. Farnier, S. Funk, G. Hermann, J.A. Hinton, T.B. Humensky, T. Jogler, B. Khélifi, T. Kihm, N. Komin, J.-P. Lenain, R. López-Coto, G. Maier, D. Mazin, M.C. Medina, A. Moralejo, R. Moderski, S.J. Nolan, S. Ohm, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, R.D. Parsons, M. Paz Arribas, G. Pedaletti, S. Pita, H. Prokoph, C.B. Rulten, U. Schwanke, M. Shayduk, V. Stamatescu, P. Vallania, S. Vorobiov, R. Wischnewski, M. Wood, T. Yoshikoshi, A. Zech (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4072 [pdf, other]
Title: Schwarzschild-Couder telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Development of the Optical System
Julien Rousselle, Valerie Connaughton, Manel Errando, Brian Humensky, Reshmi Mukherjee, Daniel Nieto, Akira Okumura, Vladimir Vassiliev (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3038 [pdf, other]
Title: Signatures of relativistic protons in CTA blazar spectra
A. Zech, M. Cerruti (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.4189 [pdf, other]
Title: Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope structure for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Jacek Niemiec, Jerzy Michałowski, Michał Dyrda, Wojciech Kochański, Jaromir Ludwin, Marek Stodulski, Paweł Ziółkowski, Paweł Żychowski (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.5014 [pdf, other]
Title: Sites in Argentina for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project
Ingo Allekotte, Gonzalo de la Vega, Alberto Etchegoyen, Beatriz García, Alexis Mancilla, Javier Maya, Diego Ravignani, Adrián Rovero (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.3035 [pdf, other]
Title: SST-GATE: A dual mirror telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
A. Zech, J.-P. Amans, S. Blake, C. Boisson, C. Costille, F. De-Frondat, J.-L. Dournaux, D. Dumas, G. Fasola, T. Greenshaw, O. Hervet, J.-M. Huet, P. Laporte, C. Rulten, D. Savoie, F. Sayede, J. Schmoll, H. Sol (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.5129 [pdf, other]
Title: Study Of Casleo Clear Sky Aerosol Loads In 2011 From One Year Of Aeronet Quality Assured Data
Lidia Otero, Pablo Ristori, Raúl D'Elía, Juan Pallotta, Eduardo Quel (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
arXiv:1307.4565 [pdf, other]
Title: The Cherenkov Telescope Array Large Size Telescope
G. Ambrosi, Y. Awane, H. Baba, A. Bamba, M. Barceló, U. Barres de Almeida, J.A. Barrio, O. Blanch Bigas, J. Boix, L. Brunetti, E. Carmona, E. Chabanne, M. Chikawa, P. Colin, J.L. Conteras, J. Cortina, F. Dazzi, A. Deangelis, G. Deleglise, C. Delgado, C. Díaz, F. Dubois, A. Fiasson, D. Fink, N. Fouque, L. Freixas, C. Fruck, A. Gadola, R. García, D. Gascon, N. Geffroy, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, F. Grañena, S. Gunji, R. Hagiwara, N. Hamer, Y. Hanabata, T. Hassan, K. Hatanaka, T. Haubold, M. Hayashida, R. Hermel, D. Herranz, K. Hirotani, S. Inoue, Y. Inoue, K. Ioka, C. Jablonski, M. Kagaya, H. Katagiri, T. Kishimoto, K. Kodani, K. Kohri, Y. Konno, S. Koyama, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, G. Lamanna, T. Le Flour, M. López-Moya, R. López, E. Lorenz, P. Majumdar, A. Manalaysay, M. Mariotti, G. Martínez, M. Martínez, D. Mazin, J.M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, I. Monteiro, A. Moralejo, K. Murase, S. Nagataki, D. Nakajima, T. Nakamori, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, A. Nozato, Y. Ohira, M. Ohishi, H. Ohoka, A. Okumura, R. Orito, J.L. Panazol, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J.M. Paredes, G. Pauletta, S. Podkladkin, J. Prast, R. Rando, O. Reimann, M. Ribó, S. Rosier-Lees, K. Saito, T. Saito, Y. Saito, N. Sakaki
Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.5092 [pdf, other]
Title: The IFAE/UAB and LUPM Raman LIDARs for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
A. López-Oramas, O. Abril, O. Blanch Bigas, J. Boix, V. Da Deppo, M. Doro, L. Font, D. Garrido, M. Gaug, M.Martínez, G. Vasileiadis (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.4545 [pdf, other]
Title: The NectarCAM camera project
J-F.Glicenstein (1), M.Barcelo (11), J-A. Barrio (12), O.Blanch (11), J.Boix (11), J.Bolmont (4), C.Boutonnet (2), S.Cazaux (1), E.Chabanne (7), C.Champion (2), F.Chateau (1), S.Colonges (2), P.Corona (4), S.Couturier (5), B.Courty (2), E.Delagnes (1), C.Delgado (10), J-P.Ernenwein (6), S.Fegan (5), O.Ferreira (5), M.Fesquet (1), G.Fontaine (5), N.Fouque (7), F.Henault (8), D.Gascón (13), D.Herranz (12), R.Hermel (7), D.Hoffmann (6), J.Houles (6), S.Karkar (4), B.Khelifi (5), J.Knödlseder (3), G.Martinez (10), K.Lacombe (3), G.Lamanna (7), T.LeFlour (7), R.Lopez-Coto (11), F.Louis (1), A.Mathieu (5), E.Moulin (1), P.Nayman (4), F.Nunio (1), J-F. Olive (3), J-L. Panazol (7), P-O. Petrucci (8), M.Punch (2), J.Prast (7), P.Ramon (3), M.Riallot (1), M.Ribó (13), S.Rosier-Lees (7), A.Sanuy (13), J.Siero (13), J-P.Tavernet (4), L.A.Tejedor (12), F.Toussenel (4), G.Vasileiadis (9), V.Voisin (4), V.Waegebert (3), C.Zurbach (9) (for the CTA consortium) ((1) DSM/IRFU, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (2) APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Universite Paris Diderot, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cite, rue Alice Domon et Leonie Duquet, France, (3) Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie, Toulouse Cedex, France, (4) LPNHE, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, Universite Denis Diderot Paris, France, (5) Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, France, (6) Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France, (7) LAPP, Universite de Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France, (8) UJF-Grenoble, Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France, (9) Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Universite Montpellier, France, (10) CIEMAT, Avda. Complutense, Madrid, Spain, (11) Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE) Edifici Cn, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Spain, (12) Grupo de Altas Energias, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Av Complutenses, Madrid, Spain (13) Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia (ICC-UB), Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franques, Spain)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.2723 [pdf, other]
Title: The Photodetector Plane of the 4m Davies Cotton Small Size Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
V. Boccone, J.A. Aguilar, A. Basili, A. Christov, M. della Volpe, T. Montaruli, M. Rameez (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.6489 [pdf, other]
Title: The Real-Time Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
A. Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, J.L. Contreras, A. Lorca, A. Aboudan, J. J. Rodríguez-Vázquez, S. Lombardi, G.Maier, L. A. Antonelli, D. Bastieri, C. Boisson, J. Borkowski, S. Buson, A. Carosi, V. Conforti, A. Djannati-Ataï, J. Dumm, P. Evans, L. Fortson, F. Gianotti, R. Graciani, P. Grandi, J. Hinton, B. Humensky, K. Kosack, G. Lamanna, G. Malaguti, M. Marisaldi, L. Nicastro, S. Ohm, J. Osborne, S. Rosen, M. Trifoglio, G. Tosti (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
arXiv:1307.4962 [pdf, other]
Title: The dual-mirror Small Size Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
G. Pareschi, G. Agnetta, L.A. Antonelli, D. Bastieri, G. Bellassai, M. Belluso, C. Bigongiari, S. Billotta, B. Biondo, G. Bonanno, G. Bonnoli, P. Bruno, A. Bulgarelli, R. Canestrari, M. Capalbi, P. Caraveo, A. Carosi, E. Cascone, O. Catalano, M. Cereda, P. Conconi, V. Conforti, G. Cusumano, V. De Caprio, A. De Luca, A. Di Paola, F. Di Pierro, D. Fantinel, M. Fiorini, D. Fugazza, D. Gardiol, M. Ghigo, F. Gianotti, S. Giarrusso, E. Giro, A. Grillo, D. Impiombato, S. Incorvaia, A. La Barbera, N. La Palombara, V. La Parola, G. La Rosa, L. Lessio, G. Leto, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M.C. Maccarone, G. Malaguti, G. Malaspina, V. Mangano, D. Marano, E. Martinetti, R. Millul, T. Mineo, A. MistÒ, C. Morello, G. Morlino, M.R. Panzera, G. Rodeghiero, P. Romano, F. Russo, B. Sacco, N. Sartore, J. Schwarz, A. Segreto, G. Sironi, G. Sottile, A. Stamerra, E. Strazzeri, L. Stringhetti, G. Tagliaferri, V. Testa, M.C. Timpanaro, G. Toso, G. Tosti, M. Trifoglio, P. Vallania, S. Vercellone, V. Zitelli (for the ASTRI Collaboration), J.P. Amans, C. Boisson, C. Costille, J.L. Dournaux, D. Dumas, G. Fasola, O. Hervet, J.M. Huet, P. Laporte, C. Rulten, H. Sol, A. Zech (for the GATE Collaboration), R. White, J. Hinton, D. Ross, J. Sykes, S. Ohm, J. Schmoll, P. Chadwick, T. Greenshaw, M. Daniel
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
arXiv:1307.5560 [pdf, other]
Title: Towards a common analysis framework for gamma-ray astronomy
Jürgen Knödlseder, Michael Mayer, Christoph Deil, Anneli Schulz, Marie-Hélène Grondin, Pierrick Martin, Sylvie Brau-Nogué (for the CTA Consortium)
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:1307.3992 [pdf, other]
Title: Towards the ASTRI mini-array
F. Di Pierro, C. Bigongiari, C. Morello, A. Stamerra, P. Vallania, G. Agnetta, L.A. Antonelli, D. Bastieri, G. Bellassai, M. Belluso, S. Billotta, B. Biondo, G. Bonanno, G. Bonnoli, P. Bruno, A. Bulgarelli, R. Canestrari, M. Capalbi, P. Caraveo, A. Carosi, E. Cascone, O. Catalano, M. Cereda, P. Conconi, V. Conforti, G. Cusumano, V. De Caprio, A. De Luca, A. Di Paola, D. Fantinel, M. Fiorini, D. Fugazza, D. Gardiol, M. Ghigo, F. Gianotti, S. Giarrusso, E. Giro, A. Grillo, D. Impiombato, S. Incorvaia, A. La Barbera, N. La Palombara, V. La Parola, G. La Rosa, L. Lessio, G. Leto, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M.C. Maccarone, G. Malaguti, G. Malaspina, V. Mangano, D. Marano, E. Martinetti, R. Millul, T. Mineo, A. Misto, G. Morlino, M.R. Panzera, G. Pareschi, G. Rodeghiero, P. Romano, F. Russo, B. Sacco, N. Sartore, J. Schwarz, A. Segreto, G. Sironi, G. Sottile, E. Strazzeri, L. Stringhetti, G. Tagliaferri, V. Testa, M.C. Timpanaro, G. Toso, G. Tosti, M. Trifoglio, S. Vercellone, V. Zitelli (The Astri Collaboration), The Cta Consortium
Comments: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)