Two of the Key Science Projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
consist in performing a deep survey of the Galactic and Extragalactic sky,
providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. To
optimize the time spent to perform the Extragalactic survey, a so-called
"divergent mode" of the CTA was proposed as an alternative observation strategy
to the traditional parallel pointing in order to increase its instantaneous
field of view. The search for transient VHE sources would also benefit from an
extended field of view. In the divergent mode, each telescope points to a
position in the sky that is slightly offset, in the outward direction, from the
center of the field of view. In this contribution, we present the first
performance estimation from full Monte Carlo simulation of possible CTA
divergent mode setups.
