The potential CTA brings to the hunt for dark matter is clear: it will exponentially increase our chances of solving the mystery behind dark matter in the next decade, and it could very well hold the key to unveiling completely unimagined discoveries in the field of fundamental physics.
For its biannual meeting the CTA Consortium gathered on 21 – 25 October in Bologna, next to the future headquarters of the CTA Observatory (CTAO). More than 200 scientists and engineers from 18 countries met to share the results of their work, to make progress on the implementation plans for the observatory and to discuss the future.
CTA observations are expected to have a large impact on GRB science and provide information on the amount of energy carried by the VHE component, its spectral shape and temporal evolution, and on the presence of internal absorption affecting the intrinsic spectral shape. These observations can be used to unveil important physics, such as the source density and magnetic field strength, the energy of the emitting electrons, and the jet Lorentz factor (i.e. the velocity of the jet), thus bringing new information on shock wave physics, GRB environments and jet properties. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss)
The CTA Consortium’s new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), officially became effective on 2 October 2019 after 52 signatures were obtained (or two-thirds of 78 parties).
The CTA Consortium gathered on 3-7 June for its biannual meeting in Lugano, Switzerland, in a breath-taking location next to Lake Lugano (see image). About 200 scientists and engineers from 21 countries met during one week to share the results of their work, to make progress on the implementation plans for the observatory and to discuss the future. The event was organised and sponsored by our Swiss colleagues from the University of Geneva, the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.
Recent discoveries of high-energy cosmic neutrinos and gravitational waves have put multi-messenger astronomy in the spotlight. Now, the world-wide science community is looking forward to seeing results from CTA, which is anticipated to provide a wealth of new information with unprecedented precision. (Image credit: NASA/IceCube)
The low energies from CTA’s perspective are those on the low edge (20 GeV to around 200 GeV) of its full energy range between 20 GeV and 300 TeV. Why are these low energies important and what do scientists hope to discover through their study? This is an overview of why scientists are scrambling to push for excellent sensitivity of CTA in this lower-energy band.
In 2019, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will get a €16 million boost by the European Commission for its implementation.
CTA announced the dates and location for its first science symposium: 6-9 May 2019 at Teatro Duse in Bologna, Italy. Pre-registration is now open!
During the week of 14 May, the CTA Consortium held its bi-annual meeting in France on the campus of Orsay, south of Paris. More than 260 scientists and engineers attended the gathering, joining ten different parallel sessions and a plenary session over the course of the week.