IAR   05382
INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE RADIOASTRONOMIA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Monte Carlo design studies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Autor/es:
BERNLÖHR, K.; BARNACKA, A.; BECHERINI, Y.; BLANCH BIGAS, O.; CARMONA, E.; COLIN, P.; DECERPRIT, G.; DI PIERRO, F.; DUBOIS, F.; FARNIER, C.; FUNK, S.; HERMANN, G.; HINTON, J. A.; HUMENSKY, T. B.; KHÉLIFI, B.; KIHM, T.; KOMIN, N.; LENAIN, J.-P.; MAIER, G.; MAZIN, D.; MEDINA, M. C.; MORALEJO, A.; NOLAN, S. J.; OHM, S.; DE OÑA WILHELMI, E.; PARSONS, R. D.; PAZ ARRIBAS, M.; PEDALETTI, G.; PITA, S.; PROKOPH, H.; RULTEN, C. B.; SCHWANKE, U.; SHAYDUK, M.; STAMATESCU, V.; VALLANIA, P.; VOROBIOV, S.; WISCHNEWSKI, R.; YOSHIKOSHI, T.; ZECH, A.
Revista:
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2013 vol. 43 p. 171 - 188
ISSN:
0927-6505
Resumen:
The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned as the future instrument
for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy with a wide energy range
of four orders of magnitude and an improvement in sensitivity compared
to current instruments of about an order of magnitude. Monte Carlo
simulations are a crucial tool in the design of CTA. The ultimate goal
of these simulations is to find the most cost-effective solution for
given physics goals and thus sensitivity goals or to find, for a given
cost, the solution best suited for different types of targets with CTA.
Apart from uncertain component cost estimates, the main problem in this
procedure is the dependence on a huge number of configuration
parameters, both in specifications of individual telescope types and in
the array layout. This is addressed by simulation of a huge array
intended as a superset of many different realistic array layouts, and
also by simulation of array subsets for different telescope parameters.
Different analysis methods in use with current installations and
extended (or developed specifically) for CTA are applied to the
simulated data sets for deriving the expected sensitivity of CTA. In
this paper we describe the current status of this iterative approach to
optimize the CTA design and layout.