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Szanecki, M.; Sobczyńska, D.; Niedźwiecki, A.; Sitarek, J.; Bednarek, W.
Astroparticle physics, 07/2015, Volume: 67Journal Article
We investigate possible sky survey modes with the Middle Sized Telescopes (MST, aimed at covering the energy range from ∼100GeV to 10TeV) subsystem of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). We use the standard CTA tools, CORSIKA and sim_telarray, to simulate the development of gamma-ray showers, proton background and the telescope response. We perform simulations for the H.E.S.S.-site in Namibia, which is one of the candidate sites for the CTA experiment. We study two previously considered modes, parallel and divergent, and we propose a new, convergent mode with telescopes tilted toward the array center. For each mode we provide performance parameters crucial for choosing the most efficient survey strategy. For the non-parallel modes we study the dependence on the telescope offset angle. We show that use of both the divergent and convergent modes results in potential advantages in comparison with use of the parallel mode. The fastest source detection can be achieved in the divergent mode with larger offset angles (∼6° from the field of view center for the outermost telescopes), for which the time needed to perform a scan at a given sensitivity level is shorter by a factor of ∼2.3 than for the parallel mode. We note, however, the direction and energy reconstruction accuracy for the divergent mode is even by a factor of ∼2 worse than for other modes. Furthermore, we find that at high energies and for observation directions close to the center of the array field of view, the best performance parameters are achieved with the convergent mode, which favors this mode for deep observations of sources with hard energy spectra.
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