Comparison of Fermi-LAT and CTA in the region between 10-100 GeV

Funk S, Hinton JA (2013)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2013

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Book Volume: 43

Pages Range: 348-355

DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.05.018

Abstract

The past decade has seen a dramatic improvement in the quality of data available at both high (HE: 100 MeV to 100 GeV) and very high (VHE: 100 GeV to 100 TeV) gamma-ray energies. With three years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and deep pointed observations with arrays of Cherenkov telescope, continuous spectral coverage from 100 MeV to similar to 10 TeV exists for the first time for the brightest gamma-ray sources. The Fermi-LAT is likely to continue for several years, resulting in significant improvements in high energy sensitivity. On the same timescale, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be constructed providing unprecedented VHE capabilities. The optimisation of CTA must take into account competition and complementarity with Fermi, in particularly in the overlapping energy range 10-100 GeV. Here we compare the performance of Fermi-LAT and the current baseline CTA design for steady and transient, point-like and extended sources. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Funk, S., & Hinton, J.A. (2013). Comparison of Fermi-LAT and CTA in the region between 10-100 GeV. Astroparticle Physics, 43, 348-355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.05.018

MLA:

Funk, Stefan, and J. A. Hinton. "Comparison of Fermi-LAT and CTA in the region between 10-100 GeV." Astroparticle Physics 43 (2013): 348-355.

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