Status of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project
Ulisses Barres de Almeida (for the CTA Consortium)

TL;DR
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation gamma-ray observatory with significantly improved sensitivity, aiming to explore the high-energy universe and involving international collaboration, including Latin American participation.
Contribution
This paper provides an overview of the CTA project, highlighting its scientific goals, technical design, current prototyping phase, and Latin American involvement.
Findings
CTA will improve sensitivity by a factor of 5-10.
First instruments are under construction in the prototyping phase.
Latin America is actively involved in the project.
Abstract
Gamma-ray astronomy holds a great potential for Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology. The CTA is an inter- national initiative to build the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, which will represent a factor of 5-10 times improvement in the sensitivity of observations in the range 100 GeV - 10 TeV, as well as an extension of the observational capabilities down to energies below 100 GeV and beyond 100 TeV. The array will consist of two telescope networks (one in the Northern Hemisphere and another in the South) so to achieve a full-sky coverage, and will be com- posed by a hybrid system of 4 different telescope types. It will operate as an observatory, granting open access to the community through calls for submission of proposals competing for observation time. The CTA will give us access to the non-thermal and high-energy universe at an unprecedented level,…
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