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 [...]