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Despite the earnest efforts and competitive results, the current generation of IACTs can only go so far in search for dark matter. At one point, accumulation of additional hours no longer increases the sensitivity, and the energy and angular resolution of the telescopes cannot be improved any further. Fortunately, progress towards the future of Cherenkov astronomy is already well under way: the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will mark the new generation of IACTs, with an order of magnitude better sensitivity than the current instruments. This chapter briefly introduces the main characteristic of the CTA and its prospects for dark matter detection.
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The simulations correspond to the baseline Southern array (and do not include the CTA-US array enhancement), while Segue 1 is observable from the North. Still, the sensitivity curve scales linearly with 1/J for observations well outside the Galactic plane, and therefore are trivially computed for Southern targets of similar characteristics.
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Aleksić, J. (2016). Future Prospects. In: Optimized Dark Matter Searches in Deep Observations of Segue 1 with MAGIC. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23123-5_6
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