The Cherenkov Telescope Array

切伦科夫望远镜阵列

• 批准号: LE150100070
• 负责人: Prof Gavin Rowell
• 金额: $ 18万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LE150100070
• 关键词: Cherenkov; Telescope; Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a major advance in very high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will be ten times more sensitive than current instruments and will transform many topics in high energy astrophysics concerning extreme particle acceleration, and in astro-particle physics such as dark matter. Over 1000 scientists from over 25 countries are involved and prototype telescopes are under construction. This project will enable a hardware contribution to the pre-production array of telescopes, bringing with it full membership, plus access to all data and core science programmes of CTA. Australian astronomers can then influence astrophysics goals of CTA, and add new scientific value to Australia's radio astronomical facilities.

切伦科夫望远镜阵列（Cherenkov Telescope Array，CTA）是极高能伽马射线天文学的一项重大进展。它将比目前的仪器灵敏十倍，并将改变高能天体物理学中有关极端粒子加速的许多主题，以及暗物质等天体粒子物理学。来自25个国家的1000多名科学家参与其中，原型望远镜正在建造中。该项目将为望远镜的预生产阵列提供硬件，使其成为正式成员，并获得CTA的所有数据和核心科学计划。澳大利亚天文学家可以影响CTA的天体物理学目标，并为澳大利亚的射电天文学设施增加新的科学价值。