Silicon photomultipliers will provide a core enabling technology in the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the world’s largest and most sensitive gamma-ray observatory Eye in the sky: Hamamatsu Photonics has ...

Cherenkov radiation refers to the photon emission from the swift charged particle moves with the velocity greater than the phase velocity of light in the surrounding materials. Ever since its ...

On 15 December, the Large-Sized Telescope (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 ...

The latest iteration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s (CTA’s) science case, Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, was made available today via the CTA website library and arXiv(1709.07997) and ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA - https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/cta/) is the next-generation ground-based instrument designed to ...

Scientists have successfully tested the first prototype camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. Telescope arrays VERITAS, HESS and MAGIC have spied active supermassive black holes, the remnants of ...

Sites in Spain and Chile have been chosen to host the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) – a huge gamma-ray observatory 10 times more sensitive than existing instruments, which will study supernova ...

Between January and February 2020, the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST), the LST-1, observed the Crab Pulsar, the neutron star at the centre of the Crab Nebula. The telescope, which is being ...