Observer Access to the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jürgen Knödlseder (1) , Volker Beckmann (2) , Catherine Boisson (3) , Sylvie Brau-Nogué (1) , Christoph Deil , Bruno Khélifi (2) , Michael Mayer , Roland Walter

1 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
2 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
3 LUTH (UMR_8102) - Laboratoire Univers et Théories

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a ground-based facility for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, will operate as an open observatory, serving a wide scientific community to explore and to study the non-thermal universe. Open community access is a novelty in this domain, putting a challenge on the implementation of services that make VHE gamma-ray astronomy as accessible as any other waveband. We present here the design of the CTA Observer Access system that comprises support of scientific users, dissemination of data and software, tools for scientific analysis, and the system to submit observing proposals. We outline the scientific user workflows and provide the status of the current developments.

Mots clés: gamma ray: VHE; Cherenkov Telescope Array; observatory; programming

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

Jürgen Knödlseder, Volker Beckmann, Catherine Boisson, Sylvie Brau-Nogué, Christoph Deil, et al.. Observer Access to the Cherenkov Telescope Array. 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Jul 2015, The Hague, Netherlands. pp.781, ⟨10.22323/1.236.0781⟩. ⟨hal-01553937⟩