A. Donini (Author), Christopher Eckner (Author), Gašper Kukec Mezek (Author), Samo Stanič (Author), Serguei Vorobiov (Author), Lili Yang (Author), Gabrijela Zaharijas (Author), Danilo Zavrtanik (Author), Marko Zavrtanik (Author), Lukas Zehrer (Author)

Abstract

Two of the Key Science Projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consist in performing a deep survey of the Galactic and Extragalactic sky, providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. To optimize the time spent to perform the Extragalactic survey, a so-called “divergent mode” of the CTA was proposed as an alternative observation strategy to the traditional parallel pointing in order to increase its instantaneous field of view. The search for transient VHE sources would also benefit from an extended field of view. In the divergent mode, each telescope points to a position in the sky that is slightly offset, in the outward direction, from the center of the field of view. In this contribution, we present the first performance estimation from full Monte Carlo simulation of possible CTA divergent mode setups.

Keywords

very-high-energy gamma rays;Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory;CTAO Key Science Projects (KSPs);galactic survey KSP;extragalactic survey KSP;

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Language: English
Year of publishing:
Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
Organization: UNG - University of Nova Gorica
UDC: 539.1
COBISS: 215235587 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 1824-8039
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Pages: 8 str.
Chronology: 2019
DOI: 10.22323/1.358.0664
ID: 25396071