Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Anthony M. Brown; Atreya Acharyya; Alberto Dominguez; Tarek Hassan; Jean-Philippe Lenain; Santiago Pita; H. Abdalla; C. Carlile; D. Dravins; A. Zmija; The CTA Consortium

doi:10.22323/1.395.0887

Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Anthony M. Brown, Atreya Acharyya, Alberto Dominguez, Tarek Hassan, Jean-Philippe Lenain, Santiago Pita, H. Abdalla, C. Carlile, D. Dravins, A. Zmija, The CTA Consortium

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory is the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Building on the strengths of current IACTs, CTA is designed to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity, with unprecedented angular and energy resolution. CTA will also increase the energy reach of IACTs, observing photons in the energy range from 20 GeV to beyond 100 TeV. These advances in performance will see CTA heralding in a new era for high-energy astrophysics, with the emphasis shifting from source discovery, to population studies and precision measurements. In this talk we discuss CTA’s ability to conduct source population studies of γ-ray bright active galactic nuclei and how this ability will enhance our understanding on the redshift evolution of this dominant γ-ray source class. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) - GAI - Gamma Ray Indirect
Volume	395
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0887
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	37th International Cosmic Ray Conference - Online, Berlin, Germany Duration: 2021 Jul 12 → 2021 Jul 23 Conference number: 37

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Name	Proceedings of Science
Publisher	Sissa Medialab Srl
ISSN (Print)	1824-8039

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Conference	37th International Cosmic Ray Conference
Abbreviated title	ICRC2021
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	2021/07/12 → 2021/07/23

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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Active Galactic Nuclei
Astrophysics
Cosmic rays
Germanium compounds
Telescopes
Tellurium compounds
Active galactic nuclei
Angular resolution
Cherenkov telescope arrays
Current imaging
Energy
Energy resolutions
Ground based
Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
Orders of magnitude
Population studies
Gamma rays

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Brown, A. M., Acharyya, A., Dominguez, A., Hassan, T., Lenain, J.-P., Pita, S., Abdalla, H., Carlile, C., Dravins, D., Zmija, A., & The CTA Consortium (2022). Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array. In 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) - GAI - Gamma Ray Indirect (Vol. 395). Article 887 (Proceedings of Science). https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0887

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Brown, AM, Acharyya, A, Dominguez, A, Hassan, T, Lenain, J-P, Pita, S, Abdalla, H, Carlile, C, Dravins, D, Zmija, A & The CTA Consortium 2022, Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array. in 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) - GAI - Gamma Ray Indirect. vol. 395, 887, Proceedings of Science, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Berlin, Germany, 2021/07/12. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0887

Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array. / Brown, Anthony M.; Acharyya, Atreya; Dominguez, Alberto et al.
37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) - GAI - Gamma Ray Indirect. Vol. 395 2022. 887 (Proceedings of Science).

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Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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