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The latest news from the CTAO
2024-January-26
University of California Awarded $3.9 Million to Develop Alignment System for Medium-Sized Telescopes
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $3.9 million to researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) to lead the development of a next-generation telescope alignment system for the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MST). The alignment systems will be the first major U.S. contribution to the CTAO.
Press Releases
2023-December-26
LST-1 Discovers the Most Distant AGN at Very High Energies
On 15 December, the LST Collaboration announced through an Astronomer’s Telegram (ATel) the detection of the source OP 313 at very high energies with the LST-1. Although OP 313 was known at lower energies, it had never been detected above 100 GeV, making this the LST-1’s first scientific discovery. With these results, OP 313 becomes the most distant Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) ever detected by a Cherenkov telescope, further showcasing the LST-1’s exceptional performance.
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