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- ‘Women of CTA’ Goes Virtual this February 11
- ‘Women of CTA’ Returns Online this February 11
- ‘Women of CTA’ Returns to Bologna on 11 February
- “Women of CTA” Returns for Fifth Edition on 8 February
- “CTA Observatory: Connecting Minds Worldwide to Unravel the Mysteries of the Extreme Universe” at the Expo 2020 Dubai
- “ESCAPE to the Future” Event Recommits CTAO and ESCAPE Partners in Collaboration for Open Science
- 15th CTAO Council Meeting Report from the Managing Director
- AMANAR: Under the Same Sky
- ASTRI-Horn is first Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror configuration to detect the Crab Nebula at TeV energies
- Bibha Chowdhuri: A Ray of Light
- Building CTA: December 2018 Project Office Update
- Calling All Early-Career Scientists: New “CTAO School” Launches in June 2024
- Can You Hear Me? Un viaggio nel tempo con i messaggeri dell’Universo
- Carola Dobrigkeit: Unveiling Cosmic Rays from Brazil
- Catching Gamma-Ray Bursts with CTA? Yes we can!
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of
- CHEC-S Camera Achieves First Light on the ASTRI-Horn Telescope
- Chien-Shiung Wu: The Queen of Nuclear Research
- Chile Site Instruments Continue to Multiply
- CTA Consortium 2.0: Preparing for Construction and Operations
- CTA Consortium Holds its Bi-annual Meeting in Orsay, France
- CTA Consortium Holds its Biannual Meeting in Lugano, Switzerland
- CTA Consortium Meeting Comes to a Close in Bologna
- CTA Headquarters and Science Data Management Centre Sites Selected
- CTA in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
- CTA Promoted to Landmark Status on the 2018 ESFRI Roadmap
- CTA Prototype LST-1 Detects Very High-Energy Emission from the Crab Pulsar
- CTA Prototype Telescope Achieves First Light
- CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Achieves First Light
- CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Demonstrates Viability of Novel Schwarzschild-Couder Design
- CTA Prototype Telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Inaugurated at Whipple Observatory in Arizona
- CTA Prototype Telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Achieves First Light
- CTA Prototype Telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Detects Crab Nebula
- CTA Prototype Telescope, the SST-1M, Catches its First Glimpse of the Sky
- CTA Releases its Updated Science Case
- CTA Representatives Meet with Local Officials in La Palma to Discuss Plans for Northern Hemisphere Array
- CTA Telescope Prototype, the Gamma-Ray Cherenkov Telescope, Inaugurated on 1 December
- CTA-North Film to Premiere on 10 June via Live Streaming Event on Sky-Live.TV
- CTA’s Galactic Plane Survey Will Provide Unprecedented View of Our Galaxy
- CTAO Adopts the Gammapy Software Package for Science Analysis
- CTAO Releases the Layout of its Arrays for the Alpha Configuration
- DESY Announces Science Data Management Centre Building Architectural Competition Winner
- DESY Hosts Thai Royalty at DESY-NARIT Cooperation Agreement Signing
- Dr. Roberta Zanin Joins the CTAO as its New Project Scientist
- Enrique Pérez Montero: A Living Oxymoron
- ESO Becomes Shareholder of Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
- Estreno del vídeo de CTA-Sur el 17 de marzo en un evento online en directo
- EU Particle Physics & Astronomy Commit to the Research Data Revolution Making the European Open Science Cloud a Reality
- Evento en Granada el 27 de Abril para Explorar la Ciencia Abierta y Oportunidades con el CTAO
- Federico Ferrini Begins Tenure as CTA Managing Director
- Final Agreements Signed for CTA’s Southern Hemisphere Site in Chile
- Final Preparations Begin for CTA-North Site Construction
- Finding the First Pulsar in the Armagh Planetarium with Jocelyn Bell
- First ‘CTA around the world’ Event to be Held in Bologna on 22 October
- First ‘Women of CTA’ Meeting to be Held in Bologna, Italy on 11 February
- Frank Kameny: From Astronomer to Activist for LGBTQIA+ Rights
- From Footrace to Convergence: A United Effort Brings Construction Within Reach
- Gammapy Receives the Jury Prize at the Open Science Awards for Open-Source Research Software
- Hadrons or Leptons? That is the question!
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Shortening Astronomical and Societal Distances
- High-Energy Neutrino Transients with CTA
- Il CTAO Organizza L’Evento Pubblico e Gratuito “DM dall’Universo” il 16 Aprile a Bologna
- In Memory of Dr. Berrie Giebels (1971 – 2023)
- In Memory of Prof. Giovanni Bignami (1944-2017)
- In Memory of Prof. Nicolò D’Amico
- In Memory of Prof. Ronald Cintra Shellard (1948 – 2021)
- In the Right Direction: The GCT Team Begins Observations in Paris
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and CTA Observatory Sign Agreement on Hosting CTA’s Northern Hemisphere Array
- Jacco Vink awarded with a NWO Grant allocated for the production of SST cameras
- June 4 Press Event to be Held in Lugano, Switzerland in Conjunction with CTA Consortium Meeting
- Katherine Johnson: Human Calculator and Trailblazer
- La Palma Consortium Meeting Wrap-up
- Large-Size Telescope Prototype Lays ‘First Stone’
- Large-Sized Telescope Prototype Records its First Light
- LST Prototype Camera Installation Signals End of Construction
- LST Prototype Nears Completion with Camera Support Structure Installation
- LST Prototype Sheds Icy Shell Before Structure Completion
- LST-1 Discovers the Most Distant AGN at Very High Energies
- LST-1 Inauguration: 10 October 2018, La Palma
- Major Telescope Operations Milestone Achieved with ACADA Software Integration
- Margherita Hack: Astronomer and Changemaker, now has her own Statue
- Marie Curie: The Strange Case of Cherenkov Radiation
- May 2020 Consortium Meeting Wrap-up
- Medium-Sized Telescope Prototype Records First Cherenkov Light with the FlashCam Camera
- Meet the CTA-North Site Manager, Paolo Calisse
- Meet the CTA-South Site Manager, Volker Heinz
- Microquasars: The “Elusive” Gamma-Ray Emitters
- Milla Baldo Ceolin: A Golden Mimosa of Particle Physics
- Mirjana Pović: Fulfilling Dreams in Africa through Astronomy
- November 2021 CTA Consortium Meeting Wrap-up
- October 2019 Consortium Meeting Wrap-up
- October 2019 CTA Project Update
- October 2020 Consortium Meeting Wrap-up
- Paranal and La Palma Sites Chosen for Final Negotiations to Host World’s Largest Array of Gamma-Ray Telescopes
- PeVatrons: The Hunt for the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays with CTA
- Pre-Registration Opens for CTA’s First Science Symposium
- Prof. Tavani elected new President of INAF
- Q&A with ACADA Deputy Coordinator & Quality Manager, Bernhard López
- Q&A with Director of Administration, Stephan Haid
- Q&A with Infrastructure Design Coordinator David Bristow
- Q&A with Off-Site ICT Infrastructure Lead Nadine Neyroud
- Q&A with Project Scientist, Roberta Zanin
- Q&A with RAM Engineer George Pruteanu
- Raman LIDAR Pathfinder on CTA-North Site Achieves First Light
- Redshift: Why Does Distance Matter to CTA?
- Sally Ride: The Sky is No Longer the Limit
- Sandra Faber: A Luminous and Inspiring Scientific Career
- Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Prototype Primary Mirror Installation Complete
- Season’s Greetings from CTAO Managing Director, Stuart McMuldroch
- Season’s Greetings from the CTA Observatory!
- Seminario online de CTAO con la Fundación Starlight
- Site Infrastructure Work Commences
- Site Negotiations for Cherenkov Telescope Array Started
- Small-Sized Telescope Harmonization Process and Status
- Spanish Scientific Community Gathers to Discuss the Latest Progress on the CTA Project
- Start of Negotiations for CTA North
- Statement of Support for Ukraine
- Status of the CTAO-North site and LST-1 after Volcanic Eruption at La Palma (Spain)
- Stefan Schlenstedt Joins CTAO as Computing Coordinator
- Stefano Stanghellini Joins the CTAO as Telescope Coordinator
- Stephan Haid Joins the CTAO as Director of Administration
- Stuart McMuldroch, Designated Director General for the future CTAO ERIC, Joins the Management Board of the CTAO gGmbH
- Sub-Consortium Forms to Build First Pre-Production MST for CTA
- Surveying the Large Magellanic Cloud
- The “Strategic Plan for European Astronomy” Ranks the CTAO as Highest Priority in Ground-based Astronomy
- The Astronomical Infrastructures of the Future Meet in Granada
- The Board of Governmental Representatives Approves the CTAO’s Cost Book and Scientific & Technical Description
- The Board of Governmental Representatives Submits the Formal Request to Establish the CTAO ERIC
- The Cherenkov Telescope Array Hosts its First Science Symposium
- The CTAO Barcelona Raman Lidar Pathfinder detects the volcano dust plume at La Palma
- The CTAO Enters a New Phase of Growth
- The CTAO Publishes its Gender Equality Plan
- The CTAO Science Data Management Centre Lays “First Stone”
- The CTAO Science Symposium Returns in April 2024 for its Second Edition
- The CTAO Signs Cooperation Agreement with the Square Kilometre Array Organisation
- The CTAO Will Double its Staff as Major Infrastructure Development Begins In 2024
- The Dark Side of the Matter
- The Low End: Why CTA is Interested in Low-Energy Gamma Rays
- The LST Collaboration Publishes its first Scientific Paper with Data from the LST-1
- The LST Collaboration Publishes the LST-1 Performance Paper
- The LST Prototype’s Dish is Mounted
- The LST-1 Detects its First Gamma-Ray Signal
- The LST-1 Passes its Critical Design Review
- The MST Structure Successfully Undergoes its Critical Design and Manufacturing Review
- The Multiple Synergies with CTAO
- The SST Underwent the Product Review and Is One Step Closer to the Final Critical Design Review
- The Swiss Scientific Community Gathers to Discuss the Contributions and Scientific Goals of the CTAO
- Two New Webinar Series Launch in April 2021
- University of California Awarded $3.9 Million to Develop Alignment System for Medium-Sized Telescopes
- Update from the Managing Director: Closing the Book on 2020 & Moving Toward Construction
- Update from the Managing Director: Planning, Funding and Paperwork
- Update from the Managing Director: Staying the Course – Navigating & Adapting in Turbulent Times
- Update from the Managing Director: Turning the Page
- Vera Cooper Rubin: Uncovering Dark Matter, a Missing Chunk of the Universe
- What the Propagation of Energetic Light can Tell us about the Evolution of Stars, Intergalactic Magnetic Fields and Fundamental Physics
- Wolfgang Wild Announced as CTA’s New Project Manager
Science Library
- A new method for aerosol measurement using wide-field photometry
- A technique for estimating the absolute gain of a photomultiplier tube
- A trigger interface board for the Large and Medium Sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Advances in multi-pixel photon counter technology: First characterization results
- An image-based array trigger for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays
- An innovative silicon photomultiplier digitizing camera for gamma-ray astronomy
- An integrated workspace for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Analysis of the H.E.S.S. public data release with ctools
- Assembly and performance of SiPM arrays for the prototype SCT proposed for CTA
- Astroclimatic characterization of Vallecitos: A candidate site for the Cherenkov Telescope Array at San Pedro Martir
- Atmospheric monitoring and inter-calibration of the telescope optical throughput efficiencies using the trigger rates of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Blazar VHE spectral alterations induced by photon-ALP oscillations
- Calibration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array using cosmic ray electrons
- Characterisation and testing of CHEC-M—A camera prototype for the small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov telescope array
- Characterization of a 6×6-mm2 75-um cell MPPC suitable for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project
- Cherenkov Telescope Array extragalactic survey discovery potential and the impact of axion-like particles and secondary gamma rays
- Cherenkov Telescope Array sensitivity to branon dark matter models
- Comparing different approaches for stellar intensity interferometry
- Constraints on very high energy gamma-ray emission from the Fermi Bubbles with future ground-based experiments
- Cross calibration of telescope optical throughput efficiencies using reconstructed shower energies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Cut-off characterization of energy spectra of bright Fermi sources: Current instrument limits and future possibilities
- Dark matter substructure modelling and sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to Galactic dark halos
- Data-driven detection of multi-messenger transients
- Deep learning with photosensor timing information as a background rejection method for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Dependence of accessible dark matter annihilation cross sections on the density profiles of dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Design and characterization of a single photoelectron calibration system for the NectarCAM camera of the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
- Detection of the Crab Nebula with the 9.7 m prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope
- Estimation of the height of the first interaction in gamma-ray showers observed by Cherenkov telescopes
- Expected signatures from hadronic emission processes in the TeV spectra of BL Lacertae objects
- First detection of the Crab Nebula at TeV energies with a Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration: the ASTRI-Horn telescope
- First optical validation of a Schwarzschild Couder telescope: the ASTRI SST-2M Cherenkov telescope
- Fundamental physics with blazar spectra: a critical appraisal
- Gamma-gamma absorption in the broad-line region radiation fields of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Gamma-ray flares from relativistic magnetic reconnection in the jet of the quasar 3C 279
- GammaLib and ctools: A software framework for the analysis of astronomical gamma-ray data
- I3T: Intensity Interferometry Imaging Telescope
- Identifying TeV source candidates among Fermi-LAT unclassified blazars
- Impact of Laser Guide Star facilities on neighbouring telescopes: the case of GTC, TMT, VLT, and ELT lasers and the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Introducing the CTA Concept
- Large scale characterization and calibration strategy of a SiPM-based camera for gamma-ray astronomy
- Measurement of performances of the NectarCAM photodetectors
- Mirror production for the Cherenkov telescopes of the ASTRI mini-array and the MST project for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Modelling the Galactic VHE gamma-ray source population
- Monte Carlo performance studies for the site selection of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Monte Carlo studies for the optimization of theCherenkov Telescope Array layout
- Monte Carlo studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Multiwavelength radiation models for low-luminosity GRBs and the implications for UHECRs
- Nature of the low-energy, γ-like background for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Novel silicon photomultipliers suitable for dual-mirror small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov telescope array
- Observing small-scale γ-ray anisotropies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- On the expected γ-ray emission from nearby flaring stars
- On the potential of atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays for resolving TeV gamma-ray sources in the Galactic plane
- On the potential of Cherenkov Telescope Arrays and KM3 Neutrino Telescopes for the detection of extended sources
- On the prospects of cross-calibrating the Cherenkov Telescope Array with an airborne calibration platform
- On-site mirror facet condensation measurements for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Optical spectroscopy of blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array – II
- Optimal strategies for observation of active galactic nuclei variability with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
- Optimizing Cherenkov photons generation and propagation in CORSIKA for the CTA Monte–Carlo simulations
- Performance of a small array of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes sited in Australia
- Performance study of a signal-extraction algorithm using different parallelisation strategies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s real-time-analysis software
- Pointing optimization for IACTs on indirect dark matter searches
- Pre-construction estimates of the CTA sensitivity to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre
- Probing the absorption of gamma-rays by IR radiation from the dusty torus in FSRQs with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Procedures for the relative calibration of the SiPM gain on ASTRI SST-2M camera
- Procedures for the relative calibration of the SiPM gain on ASTRI SST-2M camera
- Progress in unveiling extreme particle acceleration in persistent astrophysical jets
- Prospects for annihilating dark matter in the inner galactic halo by the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the young supernova remnant RX J1713.7−3946
- Prospects for gamma-ray observations of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Prospects for the detection of high-energy (E>25 GeV) Fermi pulsars with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Prototyping hexagonal light concentrators using high-reflectance specular films for the Large-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Putting the hadron beam scenario for extreme blazars to the test with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Qualification and testing of a large hot slumped secondary mirror for Schwarzschild–Couder Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes
- Radio Galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Reconfigurable ASIC for a low level trigger system in Cherenkov Telescope Cameras
- Risk assessment of environmental conditions affecting the useful lifetime of Cherenkov telescopes at El Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory
- ROBAST: Development of a ROOT-based ray-tracing library for cosmic-ray telescopes and its applications in the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Scientific prospects for the ASTRI mini-array: a data challenge
- Searching for gamma-ray counterparts to gravitational waves from merging binary neutron stars with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Seeing the High-Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array – The Science Explored with the CTA
- Selection of astrophysical/astronomical/solar sites at the Argentina East Andes range taking into account atmospheric component
- Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation
- Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to dark subhalos
- Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to the detection of a dark matter signal in comparison to direct detection and collider experiments
- Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to the detection of intergalactic magnetic fields
- Simulated gamma-ray pulse profile of the Crab Pulsar with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Simulating the optical performance of a small-sized telescope with secondary optics for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Sizing up the population of gamma-ray binaries
- Strategies for the follow-up of gravitational wave transients with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Supernova remnants in the very–high–energy gamma-ray domain: the role of the Cherenkov telescope array
- TARGET 5: A new multi-channel digitizer with triggering capabilities for gamma-ray atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
- Testing dark matter with Cherenkov light – prospects of H.E.S.S. and CTA for exploring minimal supersymmetry
- Testing source confusion and identification capability in Cherenkov telescope array data
- The Cherenkov Telescope Array potential for the study of young supernova remnants
- The Crab Nebula variability at short scales with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- The front-end electronics and slow control of large area SiPM for the SST-1M camera developed for the CTA experiment
- Towards a polarisation prediction for LISA via intensity interferometry
- Unveiling the origin of the gamma-ray emission in NGC 1068 with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Useful life of astrophysical scientific facilities
- V-shaped cherenkov images of magnetically-separated gamma-rays
- White rabbit-synchronized accurate time-stamping solution for the Cherenkov Telescope Array