Press Releases
11/11/2016
CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Demonstrates Viability of Novel Schwarzschild-Couder Design
Download full release: 2 MB / PDF In October 2016, the ASTRI telescope prototype (pictured below), a novel dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder telescope design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), passed [...]
09/19/2016
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and CTA Observatory Sign Agreement on Hosting CTA’s Northern Hemisphere Array
Download full release: 2 MB / PDF On 19 September 2016, the Council of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) concluded negotiations with the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) [...]
06/13/2016
CTA Headquarters and Science Data Management Centre Sites Selected
Download full release: 2 MB / PDF On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the [...]
11/26/2015
CTA Prototype Telescope Achieves First Light
Download full release: 1 MB / PDF On 26 November 2015, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCTFigure1), recorded CTA’s first ever Cherenkov [...]
07/16/2015
Paranal and La Palma Sites Chosen for Final Negotiations to Host World’s Largest Array of Gamma-Ray Telescopes
Download full release: 2 MB / PDF On 15 and 16 July 2015, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Resource Board decided to enter into detailed contract negotiations for hosting CTA [...]
03/26/2015
Start of Negotiations for CTA North
Download full release: 2 MB / PDF On 26 March 2015, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Resource Board, composed of representatives of ministries and funding agencies, met in Heidelberg to [...]
04/10/2014
Site Negotiations for Cherenkov Telescope Array Started
Download full release: 2 MB / PDF On 10 April 2014, the 12 country delegates mandated by their governments to decide about the start of site negotiations for CTA met [...]