Wednesday 10 December 2008

Speaker: Jim Hinton   (U Leeds)

Title: Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and the CTA project

Abstract: Over the last few years results from the HESS system of Cherenkov telescopes on a wide range of
topics have demonstrated the potential of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. The future of this field is now
being planned - the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is a unified effort by European groups to build
an instrument 10 times more sensitive than HESS. I will describe the plans and prospects for CTA in the
context of the results from HESS and other TeV gamma-ray telescopes.