Speaker
Description
The forthcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the first facility based on Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) to be operated as an observatory open to the community through open calls for observing time and public data access. With arrays of large multiplicity, three classes of telescopes, and state-of-the-art technology implemented end-to-end, CTAO will significantly enhance sensitivity as well as angular and energy resolution compared to currently operating experiments such as MAGIC, H.E.S.S., and VERITAS. It will operate across an unprecedented passband, ranging from a few tens of GeV up to 100 TeV. With the two sites of CTAO-N in La Palma, Canary Islands, and of CTAO-S in Chile, CTAO will have full access to both the Northern and Southern sky. These features will expand enormously the power of IACT observations in all the science topics, including AGNs. In this talk I will briefly present the CTAO, the timeline for its implementation, and the adopted policies for distributing the observing time and allowing data access. Then I will focus on the perspectives for science in the field of Active Galactic Nuclei, also in the context of a multi-wavelength and multi-messenger approach. A glimpse on some themes of fundamental physics and cosmology that can be tackled through these observations will be given as well.
| Collaborators (if any) | on behalf of the CTAO Consortium |
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