project

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

A ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy under construction on two sites, one at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma and one in Chile's Atacama Desert.

Known aliases

Cherenkov Telescope Array
CTAO

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science1 publisher

A UAB team solved the muon-ring shadow geometry of CTAO's dual-mirror telescopes

Simplified treatments of the secondary mirror's shadow can misstate how much of a muon's Cherenkov light reaches the camera by up to 40 percent, ten times the calibration precision CTAO requires of itself.

Publishers:phys.org

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