Speaker
Nepomuk Otte
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Description
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be a new observatory for the study of very-high-energy gamma-ray sources, designed to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity in the ~30 GeV to ~100 TeV energy band compared to currently operating instruments: VERITAS, MAGIC, and H.E.S.S. CTA will probe known sources with unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution, and spectral coverage, while also detecting hundreds of new sources. This presentation will describe the status of the CTA project and the development of a novel dual-mirror Cherenkov telescope led by the CTA-US group.
Primary author
Nepomuk Otte
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
