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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a new observatory for very
high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA has ambitions science goals, for which
it is necessary to achieve full-sky coverage, to improve the sensitivity
by about an order of magnitude, to span about four decades of energy,
from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV with enhanced angular and energy
resolutions over existing VHE gamma-ray observatories. An international
collaboration has formed with more than 1000 members from 27 countries
in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. In 2010 the CTA
Consortium completed a Design Study and started a three-year Preparatory
Phase which leads to production readiness of CTA in 2014. In this paper
we introduce the science goals and the concept of CTA, and provide an
overview of the project.
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