Category Archives: CTA
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
APS April meeting highlights: IceCube results on neutrino oscillations and WIPAC talks
The American Physical Society meeting on astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, the so-called April [...]
Meet Gretel and Roberto, two physicists-in-training
This summer, two students worked with WIPAC throught the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at [...]
TARGET 5, enabling precision gamma-ray astronomy
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will detect gamma rays with unprecedented precision. To do this, [...]