Raman LIDARs and atmospheric calibration along the line-of-sight of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Otger Ballester,a Oscar Blanch,a Joan Boix,a Johan Bregeon,b Patrick Brun,b §ıdıka Merve Çolak,a Michele Doro,c Vania Da Deppo,d Lluís Font,e Omar Gabella,b Rafael García,a Markus Gaug,e Camilla Maggio,e Manel Martínez,a Òscar Martínez,a Pere Munar Adrover,e Raul Ramos,e Stephane Rivoire,b Samo Stanič, f David Villar,e George Vasileiadis∗,b Longlong Wang, f Marko Zavrtanik, f ,g a Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain b Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS/IN2P3, France c INFN Sezione di Padova and Università degli Studi di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy d CNR-Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies UOS Padova LUXOR, 35131 Padova, Italy e Unitat de Física de les Radiacions, Departament de Física, and CERES-IEEC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain f Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica, 5270 Ajdovščina, Slovenia g Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia