CTA simulations with CORSIKA/sim lowbar telarray

Journal Article · Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 EST 2008 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3076816· OSTI ID:21255194

Bernloehr, K ^[1]

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1. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, 69029 Heidelberg (Germany)

While current atmospheric Cherenkov installations consist of only a few telescopes each, future installations will be far more complex. Monte Carlo simulations have become an essential tool for the design and optimisation of such installations. The CORSIKA air-shower simulation code and the sim lowbar telarray code for simulation of arrays of Cherenkov telescopes have been used to simulate several candidate configurations of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in detail. Together with other detailed and simplified simulations the resulting data provide the basis for the ongoing optimisation of CTA over a wide energy range. In this paper, the simulation methods are outlined and preliminary results on a number of configurations are presented. It is demonstrated that the initial goals of the CTA project can be achieved with available technology, at least in the medium and high energy range (about 100 GeV to 100 TeV)

• OSTI ID: 21255194
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1085, Issue 1; Conference: 4. international meeting on high energy gamma-ray astronomy, Heidelberg (Germany), 7-11 Jul 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3076816; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
CHERENKOV COUNTERS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CONFIGURATION
EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS
GAMMA ASTRONOMY
GEV RANGE 100-1000
MONTE CARLO METHOD
OPTIMIZATION
TELESCOPES
TEV RANGE 01-10
TEV RANGE 10-100