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Colin Carlile, researcher at Lund Observatory. Photo.

Colin Carlile

Guest researcher

Colin Carlile, researcher at Lund Observatory. Photo.

Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Author

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

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Lund Observatory - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Publication/Series

Proceedings of Science

Volume

395

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Keywords

  • 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

Conference name

37th International Cosmic Ray Conference

Conference date

2021-07-12 - 2021-07-23

Conference place

Berlin, Germany

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1824-8039