Category Archives: CTA
UW–Madison team awarded NSF grant to develop cameras for the world’s largest high-energy gamma-ray observatory
This story was adapted from the WashU and CTAO releases for the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [...]
Promotions for three WIPAC faculty
This story was originally published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison physics department. Congratulations to Associate [...]
WIPAC at ICRC 2025
The 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), the largest conference in the world for cosmic [...]
Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera
The debut of a new detector has many “firsts”: the first assembly, the first shift, [...]
How do astronomers test-drive a telescope?
Graduate student Leslie Taylor helped fine-tune a high-energy gamma-ray telescope this summer. Detecting the Crab [...]
Winter at the Whipple Observatory: Leslie Taylor’s four months commissioning the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Leslie Taylor spent four months in Arizona recently. Her research [...]
UW–Madison scientists play instrumental role in proving viability of innovative gamma-ray telescope
Scientists in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium have detected gamma rays from the Crab [...]
CTA prototype telescope records first light and first particle showers
Less than a week after its inauguration on January 17, 2019, the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope [...]
Gamma-ray telescope ready for prime time
A new telescope, part of an international effort to develop and build the world’s largest, [...]
Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope
A unique high-speed camera, designed to capture the fleeting effects of gamma rays crashing into [...]
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