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+title: "15th CTAO Council Meeting Report from the Managing Director"
+description: "On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) will sign the final agreements needed for CTA’s southern hemisphere array to be hosted near ESO’s Paranal Observatory in…"
+date: 2018-12-18
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Council-768x432.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+The 15th meeting of the CTAO Council was held 13-14 November in La Palma. The location was very suitable considering that on October 10, the LST telescope prototype was inaugurated on the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, the northern hemisphere site of the CTA Observatory. This gave the delegates the opportunity to admire the first impressive instrument of the “family of 118” that shall constitute the largest system of telescopes ever constructed in the world. Within this festive atmosphere, which contributed to an excellent collaboration with our colleagues from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the Council dealt with several crucial topics and made decisions that will mark and consolidate CTA’s future. It was also a meeting of transition in the Council governance: Gabriel Chardin was re-elected as Chair for another year and Markus Schleier succeeded Giampaolo Vettolani, who completed his mandate as Vice Chair. We are very grateful to Giampaolo for his contributions to the Council in his service as both Chair and Vice Chair since the Council’s inception.
+
+An important highlight from the meeting is that we saw the investment in CTA continuing to grow. Both Australia and Poland signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of CTA, thus formally reinforcing the existing involvement of their scientific community and enlarging the international participation in the CTA project. A significant consequence, jointly with the increased commitment of France, is our advancement toward the threshold funding: we have reached 94% of the 250 M€ goal. Additionally, the Swiss government expressed the intention to increase its contribution in the next two years.
+
+Finances were a major focus of the meeting. Beyond the nomination of the company auditor for the year 2018 and the standard report on the current budget status, we discussed the 2019 budget extensively. As a result, the funding agencies have approved to contribute a consistent increase of about 4 M€ in 2019, well beyond the 2.4 M€ of 2018. This will allow the management to further develop the recruitment campaign necessary to reach the critical size of staff to prepare and manage the construction phase. The CTAO has grown from 16 members (January 2018) to 30 (expected in January 2019), with the objective to reach 60 members by December 2019, including staff for CTAO Headquarters, the Science Data Management Centre and the CTA-North site.
+
+In an effort to continue our progress toward construction, I proposed a new pathfinder strategy as an approach to advance our technical progress on CTA sites. According to the statutes, CTA construction can only start with the advent of the final legal entity (the CTAO ERIC); which challenges us to address our transition to an ERIC while simultaneously continuing the progress of the various project phases. With the pathfinder strategy, CTAO can enter an agreement to install an instrument on site, at the contributor’s cost, for testing purposes without the CTAO making a decision about the final technical design and executing an In-Kind Contribution (i.e. a pathfinder may have to be removed from the site). The new pathfinder strategy was well-received by the Council.
+
+As for the status of the CTAO ERIC, we have seen great progress in 2018, with several meetings taking place that have pushed us steadily toward our new and final legal entity. At the Council meeting, a legal consultant presented an analysis that was very reassuring about the tax conditions and transfer of assets to the CTAO ERIC, and it seems this matter will not be a showstopper to the process.
+
+And, finally, perhaps one of the most important themes for the future of CTA has been the evolution toward the signature of the agreements that will allow for the formalization of the ESO site as the location of the CTA-South array. Thanks to the strong  and positive intervention of the ESO Director General, we have been able to solve the residual impediments rising from some formalities related to the ERIC application, and which put us in the position to sign the three lateral agreements in Santiago, Chile during the week of 17 December!
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+---
+title: "ACADA Software System Passes its Critical Design Review"
+description: "On September 23, the CTAO ACADA Collaboration achieved yet another milestone when the CTAO Central Organisation officially approved and closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) system.…"
+date: 2024-10-04
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Screenshot-2024-10-04-at-12.17.16-768x432.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On September 23, the [CTAO ACADA Collaboration](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/data-and-computing/) achieved yet another milestone when the [CTAO Central Organisation](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/team/) officially approved and closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) system. The approval of the CDR, an in-depth evaluation to ensure the system design meets all the requirements of the Observatory, marks a new phase in the project, moving from testing to integrating the advanced software packages that will operate the arrays.
+
+The ACADA system includes all the software responsible for the supervision and control of telescopes and calibration instruments at both CTAO array sites. The system ensures that the execution of the astronomical observations is accurate and efficient, managing the data acquisition and compression of the raw data, handling science alerts to automatically rearrange the observation schedule and to inform other observatories of interesting gamma-ray events, and providing the user interface for the site operators and astronomers. Thus, as an orchestra director guides the different instrumentalists to produce music, the ACADA software controls a great variety of sub-systems to make the telescopes and support instruments operate together harmoniously to allow the data to flow.
+
+Developing such a complex system requires many steps or “releases.” Getting to this point with ACADA, alone, has been the result of around 40 people from 10 institutes from six countries working together over the past 4-5 years to prepare and test the software to ensure it is ready to be used by the CTAO. To evaluate the first release, members of the ACADA Collaboration traveled to the [CTAO-North](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/) site in La Palma, Spain, in September-October 2023 to carry out [two separate integration campaigns](https://www.ctao.org/news/major-telescope-operations-milestone-with-acada-integration/) with the [Large-Sized Telescope (LST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) prototype or LST-1, in cooperation with LST Collaboration experts. The campaigns, [documented in a series of interviews](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbrmKxp2hJarvTgFVXq8ysB), were a complete success, exhibiting that the system could operate a telescope as expected and allowing researchers to identify and solve minor issues. The results of this integration were also considered during the evaluation of the CDR as a proof-of-concept for the implementation of the system’s design.
+
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+During the CDR, initiated in October 2023, a panel of internal and external experts identified two main tasks that needed to be completed to fulfill the review objectives, as well as other recommendations for improvement. By successfully addressing the issues, the CDR was approved and closed in September this year.
+
+With this important step achieved, the ACADA Collaboration will now keep working on the implementation of the successive releases of the software, preparing for its integration with multiple telescopes and other instrumentation on [both array sites](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/) for the eventual acceptance of the full system by the Central Organisation.
+
+Congratulations to the ACADA Collaboration on this significant milestone!
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+---
+title: "AMANAR: Under the Same Sky"
+description: "This summer, the CTA Observatory will collaborate in the “AMANAR: Under the same sky” project in the Canary Islands and in October in Tindouf, Algeria. The project will use astronomy to promote and support the scientific education of young…"
+date: 2019-07-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/imagen-1-768x510.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+[AMANAR website](https://www.galileomobile.org/amanar)
+
+[IAC press release (en español)](http://www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=1585)
+
+On 8 July 2019, “[AMANAR: Under the same sky](https://www.galileomobile.org/amanar)”, an initiative to promote and support the scientific education of children living in the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria), was launched in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain). The project, conceived by the international organization [GalileoMobile](http://www.galileo-mobile.org/) and the [Asociación Canaria de Amistad con el Pueblo Saharaui](http://www.acapscanarias.com/) (ACAPS), consists of a combination of outreach activities and visits to the Canary observatories with the children in July and August as part of  their summer in the Canary Islands with the “[Holidays in Peace](https://www.fmreview.org/peopletrafficking/crivello-fiddian-chatty)” program. The project will also include a visit to the refugee camps by a group of scientists and experts in October. The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is one of the participating partners in this project, supporting the organization of activities and the provision of educational material for the camp visits.
+
+AMANAR, which means “Pleiades” in Berber, was born as an outreach project to inspire the Saharawi community through the observation of the Universe and the development of scientific skills, as well as to promote peace, common understanding and a sense of world citizenship under the same sky. The project, conceived by GalileoMobile and ACAPS, was selected as a “Special Project” within the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU’s) [100th Anniversary activities](https://www.iau-100.org/). It is co-funded by the  [Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias](http://www.iac.es/index.php?lang=en) (IAC) and the IAU’s Office of Astronomy for Development and counts on the collaboration of CTAO, Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC), Virgo Collaboration , IAU’s Office for Astronomy Outreach, IAU’s Astronomy Translation Network, Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP), Cielos de La Palma, Asociación Canaria de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Saharaui (ACSPS), Fundación Observatorio de Temisas, Agrupación Astronómica de Gran Canaria, Asociación Astronómica AMNIR, TITSA and CEIP Juan de Zamora.
+
+The summer activities in the Canary Islands within the “Holidays in Peace” program will be carried out in Tenerife (July 20), La Palma (27 July) and Gran Canaria (August 3). In Tenerife and La Palma, the Saharawi children will join us in a visit to the observatories, where they will get an up-close look at some of the telescopes, such as the Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) located at the El Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma). Moreover, the group has crafted educational and outreach workshops for the children to inspire their interest in the Cosmos and develop their creativity. These activities include designing a new telescope to catch gamma rays and learning about the Solar System, among others. CTAO Outreach and Education Coordinator, Alba Fernández-Barral, and the Outreach and Communication Officer, Megan Grunewald, have actively participated in the organization of activities for these two sites and will join the group on these dates. The last activity will take place in Gran Canaria, in the Juan de Zamora school (Arucas), where the Saharawi and local children will learn about astronomy and will enjoy the night sky together. The astronomical program within the “Holidays in Peace” is expected to continue for the next three years. The project will close this year in October with a visit to the refugee camps in Tindouf, where scientists and experts from different organizations will carry out workshops at schools and will study and disseminate the astronomical knowledge of the Saharawi population.
+
+“The project has a long-term goal of contributing to raise awareness, at the national and international level, about the hard conditions that the Saharawi people must live in the refugee camps, which has lasted already for 40 years. To do so, we will create different audiovisual materials, such as an immersive video and a documentary, with which we will give a voice to the participants and disseminate their message of peace and social justice,” explains the main organizer Sandra Benítez Herrera, astrophysicist and science communicator at the IAC’s Communication and Scientific Culture Unite (UC3) and member of GalileoMobile since 2011. “The institutions collaborating in the project have committed to help in this sense, too.”
+
+The CTAO’s participation is within the framework of its own Astrodiversity program. The CTAO is a global organisation proud of its diversity that aims to become a reference of equity and respect in science, as well as to work internationally to achieve equality in our field. Based on this idea, the CTAO Outreach, Education and Communication group has created the Astrodiversity program, under which it joins all its diversity-related activities.
+
+### About GalileoMobile:
+
+GalileoMobile is an international project, itinerant and non-profit, whose objective is to share Astronomy with students and teachers of rural communities with reduced access to programs of this type. The team consists of a group of 15 volunteer astronomers, educators and science communicators from around the world. Since its creation in 2008, GalileoMobile has reached more than 1,400 teachers and 16,000 students, donating hundreds of telescopes and organizing public sky observations for thousands of people in 15 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Nepal, Peru, Spain, Uganda and the United States of America.
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+---
+title: "ASTRI-Horn is first Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror configuration to detect the Crab Nebula at TeV energies"
+description: "The observations of the Crab Nebula were carried out between December 2018 and January 2019, during the ASTRI-Horn telescope verification phase, for a total observation time of about 29 hours, divided in on- and off-axis source exposure."
+date: 2019-05-07
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/15354061055_c2311325a0_k_small-768x513.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Exactly 30 years after the first historical observation of Crab nebula at TeV energies, which opened the era of TeV astronomy with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), another advancement in IACT technology has been achieved. The ASTRI-Horn Cherenkov Telescope, based on the innovative Schwarzschild-Couder dual-mirror configuration and equipped with an innovative camera, has detected the Crab Nebula at TeV energies for the first time, proving the viability of this technology.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In 1989, the very first detection of the Crab Nebula at TeV energies (about a trillion times the energy of visible light) was obtained with the Whipple Telescope. This discovery was the initiation of *TeV astronomy*, which, with its rapid growth, has led to the detection of about 200 gamma-ray sources from other ground-based detectors like H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS and has paved the way for the next generation: the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO).
+
+Because gamma-rays never make it to the Earth’s surface, these instruments use the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) to detect the by-product of the gamma-ray’s interaction with the atmosphere: Cherenkov light. The interaction produces cascades of subatomic particles – these highly energetic particles can travel faster than the speed of light, which causes a faint and extremely short (of the order of a billionth of a second!) flash of bluish light. Cherenkov telescopes, since the very beginning, have been built following a typical optical design where the light is reflected off the telescope’s mirror to be captured by the camera and then is converted into an electrical signal that is digitized and transmitted to record the image of the light.
+
+The Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is leading the ASTRI (*Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana*) project aimed at the design, deployment and implementation of a novel end-to-end prototype telescope that is proposed for the CTA Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs). This Cherenkov telescope, named ASTRI-Horn (in honor of Guido Horn d’Arturo an Italian astronomer who first proposed in the past century the technology of tessellated mirrors for astronomy), is adopting a wide (10°x10°) field *Schwarzschild-Couder dual-mirror *optical configuration and is equipped with a specifically designed, innovative Silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) camera managed by very fast read-out electronics. The ASTRI-Horn prototype, located on Mount Etna (Italy) at the INAF “M.C. Fracastoro” observing station, has been conceived as an end-to-end project including the full data archiving and processing chain, from raw data up to final scientific products.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The observations of the Crab Nebula were carried out between December 2018 and January 2019, during the ASTRI-Horn telescope verification phase, for a total observation time of about 29 hours, divided in on- and off-axis source exposure. The camera system was still undergoing assessment, and its functionality was not fully exploited. Moreover, owing to recent eruptions of the Etna Volcano, the mirror reflection efficiency was partially reduced. In spite of such camera and mirrors limitations, observations yielded the detection of the Crab Nebula with a statistical significance of 5.4s above an energy threshold of about 3.5 TeV, definitively probing the new technologies and opening a new era for IACT.
+
+“The result obtained by ASTRI is an important milestone for the IACT technologies. It is demonstrating that the dual mirror configuration, firstly proposed by the great German Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild more than a century ago, is performing well. It is now possible to achieve a very large field-of-view with a much more compact Cherenkov telescope design, easily observing very energetic cosmic gamma-rays up to a few hundreds of TeV” says Giovanni Pareschi, astronomer at the INAF-Milano and principal investigator of the ASTRI project.
+
+Three classes of  telescope are required to cover the full CTA energy range (20 GeV to 300 TeV): Medium-Sized Telescopes (12 m diameter dish) will cover CTA’s core energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV) while the Large-Sized Telescopes (23 m) and Small-Sized Telescopes (4 m) or SSTs are planned to extend the energy range below 100 GeV and above a few TeV, respectively. The ASTRI-Horn telescope is one of three proposed SST designs being prototyped and tested for CTA’s southern hemisphere array.
+
+“CTA has been exploring the dual-mirror technology since the very beginning of the project, and some prototypes have been realized using such an approach: the ASTRI-Horn and the GCT for the SST and the SCT for the Medium-Sized Telescope,” says Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of the CTA Observatory (CTAO). “The result obtained by ASTRI-Horn telescope is very encouraging and confirms the potential of technological advancement for Cherenkov astronomy.”
+
+The ASTRI project ([http://www.brera.inaf.it/astri/](http://www.brera.inaf.it/astri/)) is led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) with the support of MIUR (the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) and with in collaboration with a number of Italian Universities (including, Perugia, Padova and Roma Tor Vergata) and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), and the direct the participation of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and FAPESP in Brazil and North-West University in South Africa
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a global initiative to build the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory with 118 telescopes split between two sites: one in the northern hemisphere on the island of La Palma, Spain, and the other in the southern hemisphere near Paranal, Chile. More than 1,400 scientists and engineers from 31 countries across five continents and more than 200 research institutes are participating in the CTA project. CTA will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond and will be the first ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory open to the world-wide astronomical and particle physics communities. CTA will address some of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics, seeking the origin and role of relativistic cosmic particles, probing extreme environments and exploring physics frontiers.
+
+### Contacts:
+
+Giovanni Pareschi
+
+INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera – ASTRI Princilpal
+
+[giovanni.pareschi@inaf.it](mailto:giovanni.pareschi@inaf.it)
+
++39 331 6113735
+
+Megan Grunewald
+
+CTAO Outreach and Communications Officer
+
+[megan.grunewald@cta-observatory.org](mailto:megan.grunewald@cta-observatory.org)
+
++49 6221-516471
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+title: "The Board of Governmental Representatives Approves the CTAO’s Cost Book and Scientific & Technical Description"
+description: "On 24 June 2021, the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR) approved the CTA Observatory’s (CTAO’s) Cost Book and Scientific & Technical Description, fundamental documents towards the establishment of the final legal entity of CTAO as…"
+date: 2021-06-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTANorth_4LST5MST_featureimage_350_160-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 24 June 2021, the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR) approved the CTA Observatory’s (CTAO’s) Cost Book and Scientific & Technical Description, fundamental documents towards the establishment of the final legal entity of CTAO as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). The decision comes after the approval of the Cost Book by the [CTAO Council](https://www.cta-observatory.org/about/governance/) this week. The BGR, comprised of representatives of the future ERIC member countries, is one of the key committees created to prepare and evaluate documentation for the transition of CTAO’s legal status from the current gGmbH (under German law) to an ERIC (under European law).
+
+“The decision of the BGR endorses the support of the shareholder countries for the construction of the CTA Observatory,” explains Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director. “We are very excited that the Cost Book and the Scientific & Technical Description evaluations were successfully completed and that the ERIC application will be finalised soon.”
+
+The Cost Book approved by the BGR presents the expected construction costs for individual components and work items for building the CTA Observatory to which each country and institution will contribute.
+
+“In preparing the Cost Book, we have taken great care in maximizing the science capabilities while aligning the scope of the construction project with the funding reality and strategic interests of the future ERIC members,” says Wolfgang Wild, CTAO Project Manager.
+
+The CTAO’s Scientific & Technical Description presents the key aspects of CTAO, such as the construction project’s development and intended lifecycle, and summarizes the scientific capabilities and technical goals to be accomplished during the construction.
+
+In particular, it includes the configuration of the telescope arrays at the two sites for the first construction phase, named “Alpha Configuration.” This configuration includes 4 Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) and 9 Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs) for the northern hemisphere array located on La Palma (Spain), and 14 MSTs and 37 Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) for the southern hemisphere array situated in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The definition of these configurations is the result of a meticulous optimization process for each array’s scientific capabilities, which implies the specialization of the northern array in extragalactic sources (low and medium CTAO’s energy range) and that of the southern array in Galactic targets (medium and high CTAO’s energy range) for the first construction phase.
+
+“The Alpha Configuration ensures the outstanding performance of the Observatory and its transformational science,” says Roberta Zanin, CTAO Project Scientist. “Both telescope arrays will achieve 5 to 10 times better sensitivity than any current instrument, which will constitute a giant scientific leap in gamma-ray astronomy.”
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+---
+title: "The Board of Governmental Representatives Submits the Formal Request to Establish the CTAO ERIC"
+description: "On May 31, the CTAO’s Board of Governmental Representatives submitted the formal request to the European Commission to establish the CTAO ERIC, which will be CTAO’s final legal entity in charge of overseeing the construction and operation…"
+date: 2022-06-01
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/ESO_small-768x387.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 31 May 2022, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory’s (CTAO’s) Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR) submitted the formal request to the European Commission to establish the CTAO ERIC or European Research Infrastructure Consortium. The CTAO ERIC will be the final legal entity of the CTAO that will oversee the construction and operation of the Observatory. This request, known as the “Step 2” application, includes the final version of all the required documentation with the approval of the future CTAO ERIC member countries, as their formal commitment to build and support the Observatory throughout its lifetime. The BGR, comprised of representatives of the future ERIC member countries, is the key committee created to prepare and evaluate documentation for the evolution of CTAO’s legal status from the current gGmbH (under German law) to an ERIC (under European law).
+
+“With this submission, the preparatory phase to create the CTAO ERIC has concluded. It is now in the hands of the European Commission to ratify the creation of the new legal entity,” explains Prof. Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of the CTAO gGmbH. “The CTAO gGmbH was charged with two main objectives: preparing for construction and achieving the formation of the ERIC. This will be the final, conclusive milestone and, soon, we may declare our tasks achieved, creating the fundaments for the realization of the CTA project!”
+
+As the final step towards the establishment of the ERIC, the Step 2 application’s Statutes describe the provisions governing the ERIC, the rights and obligations of the members, their contribution, tasks and activities, as well as the principles covering the different policies. The application includes the Cost Book and the Scientific & Technical Description of the CTAO, which present the expected construction costs of the Observatory and the construction project’s development and lifecycle, respectively. The submission of the Step 2 application also reinforces the financial and in-kind contribution commitment of the member countries that will form the CTAO ERIC.
+
+“Thanks to the commitment of all countries supporting the construction of the Observatory and the active collaboration of all members of the BGR, as well as the collaboration of the CTAO gGmbH, a long and complex process has been completed successfully on May 31,” says Prof. Aldo Covello, Chair of the BGR. ”We are now ready to start the construction of this important research infrastructure, as soon as the European Commission approves it.”
+
+In the next few months, the European Commission will revise the formal request and prepare its final decision. In this delivery period, the Commission can request additional information. The establishment of the CTAO ERIC is expected to take place in the first half of 2023, which will mark the official start of the Construction and Operation Phase of the CTAO, the first ground-based gamma-ray observatory.
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+---
+title: "The CTAO Barcelona Raman Lidar Pathfinder detects the volcano dust plume at La Palma"
+description: "On September 22, the Barcelona Raman LIDAR (BRL) Pathfinder installed on the CTAO-North site at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) detected the volcano dust plume while monitoring the atmosphere.…"
+date: 2021-10-14
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/20210325_194553_small-768x346.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On September 22, the Barcelona Raman LIDAR (BRL) Pathfinder installed on the CTAO-North site at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) detected the volcano dust plume while monitoring the atmosphere. These are the first results made public by the BRL team and the most accurate results for the characterization of the atmosphere provided by any current operative LIDAR system on-site.
+
+The observations with the BRL Pathfinder, composed of a powerful laser and a telescope, were carried out between September 18 and 22 2021, covering the eruption of the volcano in Cumbre Vieja (El Paso, southern region of La Palma) on September 19. The data set includes a series of 2000 laser shots into the atmosphere at various zenith angles (from 0o to 60o). From the time required for each shot to travel back to the telescope, it is possible to distinguish the various atmospheric components at each altitude.
+
+Preliminary data reconstruction allows to clearly distinguish two aerosol layers from 1.2 to 1.6 km and from 2.2 to 4.0 km above the CTAO-North site level (3.4 to 3.8 km and 4.4 to 6.2 km above sea level, respectively). The corresponding relation between “backscatter coefficient,” a measure of how light is getting back-scattered during its path through the layer, and the “extinction coefficient,” a measure of how light coming from sky sources is altered as it passes through the different atmosphere layers, indicates the presence of large diameter particles at the lower layer. A similar interpretation could be made when comparing the light extinction at two different wavelengths and deriving the so-called “Ångström coefficient.” This allowed to interpret the lower layer as a dust plume from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, while the upper layer is interpreted as a cloud with typical characteristics for La Palma atmosphere at those altitudes.
+
+These results are an important help for other profiling instruments at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, particularly LIDARs, to determine which part of their data can be attributed to the volcano dust plume and which is due to other weather phenomena. It will also help to calibrate dust evolution simulation tools, as those used by the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET, in Spanish), needed to predict with high precision short- and mid-term evolution of the path that the volcanic dust plumes take.
+
+The BRL Pathfinder, built in Barcelona and installed at the CTAO-North site inside the LST-1 construction area in February 2021, is a key instrument to measure the vertical profiles of aerosol within the atmosphere, fundamental for the calibration of the CTAO telescopes. The system is being tested at the CTAO-North site and, after one year, will be returned to Barcelona for updates based on the data collected.
+
+The BRL Pathfinder for the CTAO-North site is a joint project between CTA members from IFAE-BIST (Institute of High Energy Physics – Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology), UAB & IEEC-CERES (Autonomous University of Barcelona & Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia-Center of Space Studies and Research), Center of Astrophysics and Cosmology of the University of Nova Gorica and Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova. Paolo Calisse, the CTAO-North Site Manager, serves as the on-site project manager for the instrument.
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+---
+title: "Building CTA: December 2018 Project Office Update"
+description: "Building the world’s largest observatory is no small task. It requires meticulous consideration of every aspect of building and maintaining the technology – from funding and foundations to software and safety – and the experience and…"
+date: 2018-12-18
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/projectoffice1_small-768x378.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+*By Wolfgang Wild, CTAO Project Manager *
+
+(originally published in the [December 2018 Issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/41fe652a9123/cta-newsletter-dec2018))*
+
+*
+
+Building the world’s largest observatory is no small task. It requires meticulous consideration of every aspect of building and maintaining the technology – from funding and foundations to software and safety – and the experience and resources to determine those requirements and plot the path forward. In the past six months, we have been making major strides toward putting all the pieces in place. Here is a summary of some of the main achievements and developments within the Project Office.
+
+Project Office Build-Up
+
+CTA is a very large project (in fact, the planned CTA Observatory with up to 120 telescopes on two sites is larger than any existing observatory today) so one of our biggest priorities has been ramping up the CTAO/Project Office, which means we have been vigorously recruiting technical staff. In particular, the Systems Engineering group has been strengthened in the areas of requirements and interface management, system safety and system validation and verification. Additionally, our first staff members have moved into the temporary Science Data Management Centre building in Zeuthen. We still need to strengthen our quality assurance, system integration, configuration management and documentation management so keep an eye out for those positions and more on our [Jobs page](https://www.cta-observatory.org/jobs).
+
+CTA Requirements
+
+As the requirements are the basis for the project, including those for the development, construction, testing, acceptance and operation of CTA, quite some effort has gone into complementing, revising and finalizing the requirements in the various areas. We have accomplished this through holding several dedicated discussions and workshops over the past year. Since September 2017, the Project Office has held discussions at Project Committee meetings and organized workshops for multiple areas, including OES, DPPS and SUSS. The top-level science requirements have been consolidated into one document and approved by the Project Scientist, and a document that establishes a standard Monte Carlo simulation framework for CTA has been updated and approved. Both documents, which are fundamental for CTA, were endorsed by the CTA Consortium Board in its meeting on 28 Sep 2018 in Berlin.
+
+CTA Simplification and Harmonization
+
+CTA will be a large science infrastructure with a large number of subsystems and units and a high degree of complexity. There are many good reasons to design and implement the simplest and most harmonized system possible. In fact, we are convinced that a high degree of simplification will be a crucial success factor both during construction and operation. This need for harmonization applies to many subsystems and components of the array. In the area of the three proposed Small-Sized Telescope (SST) designs (see below figure), harmonization is of very high importance due to the large number of units to be built, operated and maintained (70 in the baseline scenario). For this reason, the Council mandated that I carry out a procedure to arrive at a single SST design. Thus, the SST harmonization process is underway to decide on a single design for the SST structure, mirrors and camera, with the intention that all current teams will have a well-defined contribution to the final design.
+
+On 1 August 2018, a “Request for Information – SST Implementation” was issued by CTAO to the SST teams with responses received by 31 October. The responses will be provided to a panel of external experts, which will be asked to advise CTAO on the SST harmonization, taking into account science, engineering, operations and project management aspects. The panel composition and charges were approved by the CTAO Council in its 13-14 November meeting, and we envisage the SST harmonization review meeting to take place in early 2019.
+
+In-Kind Contribution Documents
+
+Preparation of the In-Kind Contribution (IKC) documents, the IKC Framework and the IKC Agreement template, has continued. After significant discussion, the IKC Framework document was approved by Council on 20 June 2018 and was provided to the work package leaders. This policy document outlines the rules for IKCs and will be an integral part of any future Call for Expressions of Interest and of future IKC Agreements. The IKC Agreement template draft was prepared by CTAO and is now being discussed by the Administrative and Finance Committee and In-Kind Review Committee. Assuming quick convergence, we aim for Council approval at the Spring 2019 meeting.
+
+Array Site Updates
+
+The Project Office, along with the IAC, have prepared the tender documents, including the scope of work for the first phase of the detailed project design for the CTA-North site. This first phase includes the design and construction of the remaining Large-Sized Telescope (LST) foundations and the first Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) foundation and the infrastructure for calibration equipment, as well as roads, power distribution and data networks. A European tender will be published to engage an architect and engineers to provide detailed designs and to undertake the necessary environmental impact assessments of the site. All applications will be reviewed and approved by the local authorities of Villa de Garafia and Cabildo de La Palma prior to starting any form of construction on site. If all goes as planned, the planning approvals should be completed by mid-2019 with the initiation of work on site before the end of 2019. Additionally, the CTAO is in the process of hiring a CTA-North Site Manager and should have a candidate on board very soon. The negotiations for the CTA-South site have concluded, and we plan to start infrastructure detailed design work in 2019.
+
+Construction Schedule
+
+We are working hard to collect all the information we need to build a credible and realistic construction schedule. For this, a firm basis is needed in the areas of requirements, system definition, system interface definitions, technical readiness, cost estimate and available funding, among other things. Work has started and is ongoing on the CTA system design, sub-system and interface definitions and cost book update. We are aiming to have the major construction milestone dates defined around March 2019, although the final schedule will depend on the time scale for creating the construction legal entity ERIC. Right now, we’re planning to conduct the first Critical Design Review for the LST in May 2019.
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+---
+title: "Bibha Chowdhuri: A Ray of Light"
+description: "In the tenth article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Atreyee Sinha (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Ritam Sinha (University of Jerusalem) delve into the life and achievements of Bibha Chowdhuri, first Indian woman to…"
+date: 2022-11-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_BC-01-1-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Atreyee Sinha, Maria Zambrano Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, Spain) and Ritam Sinha, Theoretical Physicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)*
+
+At a time when India was fighting to break free from the shackles of colonial rule, a brilliant young woman in that very country was quietly fighting her own battles. Bibha Chowdhuri was born in 1913 in Kolkata, in erstwhile British India, into a family of social reformers. The prevailing culture of religious dogmatism and social discrimination at the time prevented women from receiving any education. Amidst such cultural stigma, Bibha’s education was made possible by her progressive upbringing, which enabled her to obtain a Master’s degree in physics from the University of Calcutta in 1936, as the only female student in her class. Later, she would become the first Indian woman to pursue a Ph.D. in physics. These achievements, however, did not mean she had an easy path ahead in her quest to find a position after graduation. It was only after a lot of persuasion, that she was hired to be part of the new cosmic-ray research group of Prof. D.M. Bose in Kolkata.
+
+Bibha’s arrival to the research world came when fundamental particle physics was making rapid progress. In an era before the advent of human-made particle accelerators, cosmic rays coming from outer space were the principal source for studying high-energy interactions. The first part of Bibha’s work involved understanding the nature and composition of the cosmic rays, which nowadays we know are very energetic particles, composed mainly (99%) of protons and helium nuclei. To investigate the effect of the atmosphere on the flux of these particles, Bibha and Bose rode mules together high into the Himalayas to visit stations for their studies — a potentially scandalous act for unmarried Bibha in 1930s India. They set up their experiment at three different altitudes, reaching 4300m! The idea was to expose “halftoned” photographic plates to the cosmic rays for long periods at these altitudes and observe the particle tracks left behind.  The painstaking analysis of these photographic plates hinted at the presence of a hitherto unknown particle, which they believed to be the “mesotron.” They reported their results in four rapid publications in the prestigious journal Nature, and even tried to estimate the mass of this particle. The value of the mass was underestimated, but they were actually quick to caution that their set-up was not sensitive enough to provide accurate measurements and advocated the need for further experiments.
+
+Unfortunately, the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939 led to an embargo in obtaining photographic plates from England, and their research had to be discontinued. In post-war England, Cecil Powell and his group continued these studies using improved photographic plates in balloon and high-aircraft experiments, leading to the detection of a new particle called the “pion,” winning him the Nobel Prize in 1950. Despite Powell’s strong acknowledgement of the work of Bose and Chowdhuri, including in his book “The Study of Elementary Particles by the Photographic Method,” the latter duo was pushed into obscurity.
+
+Not one to give up, Bibha continued her research by joining the lab of Sir. P.M.S. Blackett in Manchester, UK for her PhD in 1945. At that time, Blackett and his collaborators were studying certain highly energetic components of cosmic rays called “penetrating showers.” Bibha undertook the study of these showers and calculated their density using innovative experimental techniques combining the Wilson cloud chamber and Geiger-Muller counters. Her thesis titled “Extensive Air Showers associated with Penetrating Particles” was submitted in 1949. This was a few months after Blackett had won the Nobel prize “for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation.” It is unclear how much of her work contributed to his award. What is at least known is that her thesis examiners, Janossy and Wilson himself, were impressed enough to recommend her to Dr. Homi Bhabha for a position at the prestigious Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai (TIFR), India. At TIFR, she became the first female faculty member, and was placed in-charge of the Cloud Chamber Group where she continued her investigations on cosmic air showers.
+
+Bibha left TIFR in 1954 and spent a few years at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, teaching Physics in French and working with multi-plated cloud chambers in the French Alps. Thereafter, she moved to the U.S., first to the University of Michigan, and then to MIT, collaborating with Prof. Bruno Rossi on prototyping Plastic Scintillators for detecting large air showers.
+
+Upon her return to India, she joined the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad and worked towards setting up the Kolar Gold Field Experiment, which led to the first detection of atmospheric neutrinos. She had plans of setting up further experiments for cosmic ray research in India with Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the Indian space program. However, these plans had to be abandoned due to the sudden and untimely death of Sarabhai in 1971. Soon after, she left PRL and returned to her birth city, Kolkata, where she was to spend the rest of her days. She remained active in science till her death in 1991.
+
+Despite her pioneering contributions in the field of cosmic ray research, Bibha received no recognition in India. Only recently, almost three decades after her death, her biography “*Bibha Chowdhuri, eine indische Hochenergiephysikerin als “Star” am Himmel*” (“A Jewel Unearthed: Bibha Chowdhuri” in English) got published by a German press. In 2018, the International Astronomical Union honoured her by naming the white dwarf star HD 86081 “Bibha.” Bibha, which means a “ray of light” in Bengali, will now forever shine bright in the sky!
+
+—
+
+Further Reading:
+
+[https://www.tifr.res.in/~ipa1970/news/2021/JanJune/05-S_C_Roy_R_Singh_Vol51(1-2).pdf](https://www.tifr.res.in/~ipa1970/news/2021/JanJune/05-S_C_Roy_R_Singh_Vol51(1-2).pdf)
+
+[https://books.google.es/books/about/A_Jewel_Unearthed_Bibha_Chowdhuri.html?id=qIJhuwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y](https://books.google.es/books/about/A_Jewel_Unearthed_Bibha_Chowdhuri.html?id=qIJhuwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y)
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+---
+title: "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of"
+description: "In the second article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Dominik Elsässer (Researcher at the TU Dortmund and CTAC member) delves into the academic career of Cecilia Payne-Gasposchkin and her scientific discovery."
+date: 2022-03-31
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_CP_cap-01-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.cta-observatory.org/outreach-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project.
+
+*Written by Dominik Elsässer, Researcher at the Technical University Dortmund (TU Dortmund; Germany)
+
+*
+
+“The stars in the sky – what are they made of?“
+
+This is a question that probably most astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts have heard, and that must have been asked countless times throughout all human history. Some of the most fascinating mysteries in 21st century physics, those about the origin and the composition of the cosmic rays, and about the nature of the dark matter, are coming from the very same human trait of curiosity: to find out what all the objects in the Universe consist of.
+
+And while today we are still working on the answers to the questions about the dark and energetic Cosmos, eagerly awaiting more powerful observatories like the CTAO, for the stars themselves the answer has been found. It was given by one of the most brilliant astronomers of the 20th century, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who in the process of finding the solution to this, and other scientific mysteries, had to prevail against an environment that was heavily discriminating against women, and who, in defeating prejudice and gender discrimination, became a role model and beacon for young scientists to follow in her footsteps.
+
+An excellent student from early on, Cecilia Payne was awarded in 1919 a scholarship to study at the prestigious Cambridge University. Pursuing physics and chemistry there, her interest in astronomy was kindled among others by Arthur Eddington. Despite being a very good student, Payne was not awarded a formal degree, as for women this would still be impossible for nearly two decades at Cambridge University at that time. Already then, however, there were a few programs in the world to foster the careers of female scientists. One such program had been initiated at Harvard College Observatory, and Cecilia Payne in 1923 became the second scientist that came to Harvard on the fellowship awarded by this program. As time would tell, she was to make some of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the 20th century at Harvard, while at the same time the fellowship would still not grant her equal treatment with her male colleagues. This is a lesson that we as a community could have learned countless times: support for careers is instrumental, but what really needs to change are our attitudes.
+
+Payne’s primary research interest at that time was in the atmospheres of stars and their chemical composition. Scientists had for long identified distinct absorption lines in the spectra of the Sun and other stars. Lines, that to a chemist or physicist are what the lines of a fingerprint are to a criminologist: giveaways that enable a unique identification, in our case of the very elements the stars are made of. The prevailing paradigm at that time was one that may come intuitively: that the composition of the stars, and by extension most matter in the Universe, should be very similar to the abundances observed here on Earth, the only place we can study in great detail. In other words, that the stars should predominantly be made of elements like silicon, oxygen, iron, calcium and sodium. And indeed, those ideas seemingly had one strong argument in their favor: for example, looking at the spectra of many bright stars, the lines of silicon seem to be present in about the strength one would naively expect from their abundance on Earth. Many scientists at that time, including the adviser of Payne during her PhD thesis, Henry Norris Russell (by Hertzsprung-Russell-Diagram fame) thought the case settled. Not so Payne, who by scientific curiosity and intellectual brilliance was able to see beyond the obvious. Using then-new ideas about the ionized states of matter, in her PhD thesis she was able to show without any scientific doubt that the strengths of the absorption lines betrayed much more about the states of ionization of the atoms, than about their relative abundance. Taking this into account, the spectra told a different story: the vast majority of the mass of our Sun, and nearly all stars, consists of elements that are much less abundant Earth’s crust: Hydrogen and Helium. The Earth, in a way, had again been intellectually moved from the center of the Cosmos: neither did the Sun orbit the Earth, nor were the stars even made of the same stuff we are!
+
+Sadly, Payne was initially declined the accolade and admiration of colleagues that should be expected to come with such a monumental discovery, one that should secure her a place in history at the sides of Copernicus, Kepler and Einstein. Russell, not able to overcome long held beliefs, lobbied Payne into a form of scientific self-denial, by noting in her thesis that although her calculations yielded the very results she showed, they seemed to be in contradiction with the obvious. Only towards the end of the 1920s it became more and more acknowledged where the real contradiction was: by those well-established men believing in their worldview above the facts uncovered by a young and brilliant colleague. And despite this and several more seminal contributions by Payne-Gaposchkin to astronomy, it would take until 1945 for the courses she taught at Harvard to become part of the official course catalogue, and until 1956 for her to become the first female full professor at Harvard.
+
+So, while every day on which we study the composition of the Universe and all the extreme objects it contains we are remembered that all of us are standing on the shoulders of scientific giants like Payne-Gaposchkin, at the same time we must remember the hardships she and others had, and sadly still have, to endure by not being given the equal respect and standing among colleagues that should come with excellent scientific work. Changing the attitudes of humans seems to be at least as difficult as understanding the composition of the Universe.
+
+———-
+
+Recommended reading by the author:
+
+– “What Stars Are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin” by D. Moore and J. Bell Burnell
+
+– Biographic dates available online on the [UCLA Library website](http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Payne-Gaposchkin,_Cecilia_Helena@861234567.html) and [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin).
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+---
+title: "Chien-Shiung Wu: The Queen of Nuclear Research"
+description: "In the eleventh article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Marianna Giustino, MSc. Student in Physics at the Collegio Universitario Luciano Fonda, presents the life and achievements of the brilliant Chien-Shiung Wu, nicknamed…"
+date: 2022-12-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_CSW-01-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Marianna Giustino, MSc. Student in Physics at the University of Trieste and student of the Collegio Universitario Luciano Fonda (Italy).*
+
+Imagine being a Chinese woman born in 1912, at the very beginning of the Xinhai Revolution. Imagine being highly interested in poetry and science but not being allowed to attend any school. This is the context in which Chien-Shiung Wu, the “Queen of Nuclear Research,” was born.
+
+In a dark time for women’s emancipation, Wu was lucky because she lived in a rare spot of light: her mother was a teacher, her father was an engineer and they both strongly believed in gender equality. In particular, her father founded one of the first schools for girls in Jiangsu and he encouraged girls, including his daughter, to join. At the age of 10, Wu had to move to Shangai to continue her studies. In 1929, she was admitted to the Central National University, where she graduated in Physics with the highest honors in 1934.
+
+In 1936, thanks to the economic support of her uncle, Wu moved to the United States after the University of Michigan offered her a scholarship to earn a PhD. Nevertheless, she became attracted to the facilities at Berkley, which hosted the first cyclotron. Thus, she enrolled at the University of Berkley as soon as Professor Lawrence, amazed by her talent, offered her another scholarship for a PhD in Nuclear Physics. She obtained the PhD in Physics in 1940.
+
+In 1942, Chien-Shiung Wu married Luke Yuan, Professor Lawrence’s student, and moved to Princeton. There, she had to face the America of that time, where women were not allowed to teach in most universities. Again, Professor Lawrence played a fundamental role in Wu’s life: he recommended her to many prestigious universities and, in the end, she became first woman hired as a faculty member by Princeton’s physics department.
+
+During the years that followed, Wu collaborated with prominent and established scientists such as Robert Oppenheimer and Emilio Segrè. The latter made possible a meeting between Wu and Enrico Fermi, who asked her to participate in the Manhattan Project at Columbia University, focused on the process of uranium enrichment. In 1944, she joined the Columbia University in New York City.
+
+It was at the Columbia University where Wu would carry out what would later be one of her greatest legacies: the Wu Experiment. In 1956, and after a review of some experimental observations regarding new particles, the theoretical physicists Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang proposed that, despite what happened with the other fundamental forces in Physics, the conservation of the so-called “parity” was violated in the weak interactions, responsible for the radioactive decay in subatomic particles (this force plays a fundamental role in the nuclear fusion that takes place, for example, inside stars). In order to demonstrate the theory, it was necessary to execute a challenging experiment. Professor Lawrence, who once described Wu as the most talented female experimental physicist he had ever known stated, “She would make any laboratory shine!” This reputation is why the two scientists asked Professor Wu to deal with the experiment. Parity implies that the properties of a system in a frame of reference keep unchanged in the frame of reference mirrored with respect to an axis. Wu’s experiment spun radioactive cobalt-60 nuclei at temperatures close to absolute zero (-273.15 ℃), aligned within a uniform magnetic field. In doing so, the cobalt is transformed into another element through the emission of an electron, process known as beta decay. If parity was preserved, the electrons would shoot off in a certain direction. If, on the contrary, the electrons did not follow the predicted direction, parity would not be conserved. The experiment proved that they did not, therefore the violation of parity was demonstrated for weak interactions.
+
+It was a revolutionary result for Nuclear Physics. In 1957, Lee and Yang received the Nobel Prize for *“their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles,”* while Chien-Shiung Wu was overlooked by the prize committee. Nonetheless, in 1978, she won the first Wolf Prize in Physics *“for her persistent and successful exploration of the weak interaction which helped establish the precise form and the non-conservation of parity for this new natural force.”*  The Wolf Prize is considered one of the most prestigious awards in various fields, including Physics, in which only two of the 68 laureates since 1978 have been women.
+
+She retired in 1981 and became a professor emerita at the Columbia University. After that, she travelled around the world to talk about how dedication and determination allowed her to become part of something that is still a highly gendered field. In this way, she became an inspirational figure for girls and women all around the globe.
+
+Wu teaches us that in STEM, as well as in every field, we always have to be ourselves, to show ourselves as we excel and to fight for our rights so that our capacities and the value of our work are the only parameters on which we can be judged.
+
+Wu suffered a stroke on 16 February 1997, in New York City. In accordance with her wishes, her ashes were buried in the courtyard of the Ming De School, the one that her father had founded.
+
+—
+
+Bibliography:
+
+[https://scienzapertutti.infn.it/rubriche/biografie/2372-chien-shiung-wu](https://scienzapertutti.infn.it/rubriche/biografie/2372-chien-shiung-wu)
+
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu)
+
+[https://physicsworld.com/a/overlooked-for-the-nobel-chien-shiung-wu/](https://physicsworld.com/a/overlooked-for-the-nobel-chien-shiung-wu/)
+
+[https://www.aauw.org/resources/faces-of-aauw/chien-shiung-wu-overlooked-for-nobel-prize/](https://www.aauw.org/resources/faces-of-aauw/chien-shiung-wu-overlooked-for-nobel-prize/)
+
+[The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022. Tue. 27 Dec 2022.](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1957/summary/)
+
+[Wolf Prize Laureate in Physics 1978 – Chien-Shiung Wu](https://wolffund.org.il/2018/12/09/chien-shiung-wu/)
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+title: "Frank Kameny: From Astronomer to Activist for LGBTQIA+ Rights"
+description: "In the sixth article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Eugenia Gatti (CTAO HR Specialist and member of the CTAO Gender Equality Plan Group) gives us a glimpse into the life of Frank Kameny, who was banned from working as an…"
+date: 2022-07-29
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_FK-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project.
+
+*Written by Eugenia Gatti (CTAO HR Specialist and member of the CTAO Gender Equity Plan Group).*
+
+It is likely that Frank Kameny, who was born in 1925 in New York City, did not think about activism in his early life. It was only after experiencing discrimination in his pursuit to explore the Universe, that he ended up becoming one of the most committed LGBTQIA+ rights movement activists of the past century.
+
+In fact, after World War II, he followed his passion for the stars and space and, under the supervision of the eminent astronomer and physicist [Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin](https://www.cta-observatory.org/building-from-diversity-article-cecilia-payne-gaposchkin/), earned a PhD in Astronomy at Harvard University. His thesis was based on the observation and photoelectric measurements of RV Tau stars and yellow semiregular variables from 1952 to 1954. He then started teaching at Georgetown University and later became an astronomer at the U.S. Army Map Service in 1957.
+
+However, despite his excellent education and work, Frank Kameny was fired after a few months from the Army, when they discovered that he had previously been arrested because of his homosexuality or what they called “lewd conduct.” Unfortunately, in that period, he was one of many people fired due to discriminatory policies against homosexuality followed at the time.
+
+After losing his appeal, he was barred from applying for any other federal employment for three years. This was quite the paradox considering his education and profession were in high demand at the time in the “race to space.” But it was this rejection that ignited his passion for what became his life-long commitment to fighting injustice.
+
+Between 1958 and 1959, while he struggled to work in academia and private industry under difficult financial conditions as money was barely sufficient for food, he discovered the Mattachine Society, a secret organization that advocated for homosexual rights. In 1965, he helped the Society organize a protest in front of the White House, the first to be organized by a homosexual organization in Washington DC. Together with the Mattachine Society, Kameny also planned the first Pride Parade in New York in 1970.
+
+In the same years, he supported many employees that were fired only because of their sexuality and acted as a first point of contact to mediate with lawyers. Moreover, he used his name to write letters condemning homophobic behaviours – a brave and strong message in times when very few dared to disclose their sexual orientation.
+
+And in 1973, Kameny joined forces with Barbara Gittings, leader of LGBTQIA+ rights movement, to take his activism even further by successfully challenging the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders.
+
+Kameny’s story is an inspiration to many for a variety of reasons the first being for his courage, teaching us that no-one should give up their true self and should fight for the right to be themselves, even if they often stand alone against many more formidable opponents. He also teaches us commitment, integrity and perseverance by bringing his determination and skill to his fight for equality. Finally, Kameny teaches us that one voice can be powerful but many are a force for change – his collaboration with many other activists to create a network to raise awareness about sexual orientation and diversity helped create a foundation for activism and change that we continue to build upon today.
+
+Thus, Kameny’s legacy, which started in Astronomy and led to him becoming one of the most significant figures in the LGBTQIA+ movement, was and still is fundamental to achieve an inclusive society and scientific field. Nowadays, there is still a lot of work to do in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics): A recent study (Cech and Waidzunas, 2021) on LGBTQIA+ workers in STEM workplaces reports that they are more likely to experience episodes of harassment and social marginalization. Moreover, the loss of career opportunities and devaluation of their work are also common experiences. As a consequence, many LGBTQIA+ professionals (22%) have thought to leave the STEM field, thus leading to a loss of knowledge, experience and technological innovation in the scientific area. Therefore, it is key to continue making inclusion one of the core rights of all working environments.
+
+The end of Kameny’s scientific career was a loss for science but a win for LGBTQIA+ rights. But how many other marginalized people and their potential contributions to science have been lost, as well?  Thanks to Frank Kameny and all the activists from our past, present and future, there is a path forward for equal rights for all in society and science.
+
+—
+
+Bibliography:
+
+[Frank Kameny’s Orderly, Square Gay-Rights Activism | The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/frank-kamenys-orderly-square-gay-rights-activism)
+
+[Frank Kameny: Astronomer and Gay Rights Pioneer | Capitol Technology University (captechu.edu)](https://www.captechu.edu/blog/frank-kameny-astronomer-and-gay-rights-pioneer)
+
+[Astronomer Frank Kameny: Founding Father of the Gay Rights Movement (wondriumdaily.com)](https://www.wondriumdaily.com/astronomer-frank-kameny-founding-father-of-the-gay-rights-movement/)
+
+[The Mattachine Society – LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide – Research Guides at Library of Congress (loc.gov)](https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/before-stonewall/mattachine)
+
+[About  |  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month  |  Library of Congress (loc.gov)](https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about/)
+
+[Frank Kameny | Making Gay History](https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-1-5/)
+
+[The A.P.A. Ruling on Homosexuality – The New York Times (nytimes.com)](https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/23/archives/the-issue-is-subtle-the-debate-still-on-the-apa-ruling-on.html)
+
+[Franklin E. Kameny (1925–2011) · Vol. 43, Issue 1 (aas.org)](https://baas.aas.org/pub/franklin-e-kameny-1925-2011/release/1)
+
+[Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – Human Rights Campaign (hrc.org)](https://www.hrc.org/our-work/stories/repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell)
+
+[A. Cech, T. J. Waidzunas, Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM. Sci. Adv. 7, eabe0933 (2021).](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe0933)
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+---
+title: "Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Shortening Astronomical and Societal Distances"
+description: "In the third article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Simone Iovenitti (Post-doc Researcher at the INAF-OAB and CTAC member) delves into the history behind Henrietta Leavitt’s discovery that allowed to measure extragalactic…"
+date: 2022-04-29
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_HL-01-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.cta-observatory.org/outreach-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Simone Iovenitti, Post-doc Researcher (INAF-OAB; Italy)
+
+*
+
+Nowadays, the strategy for measuring the distance of remote astronomical objects with respect to the planet Earth is based on the so-called “distance ladder” [1]. It is a sequence of different measurement methods, relying on various physics phenomena. The most interesting aspect is that every method works only in a specific range of distance, and this is why we need a sequence of several steps (exactly as in a ladder) to reach very faraway objects. Fortunately, every step overlaps with both the previous and the next one, so it is possible to obtain a resulting ladder which is well calibrated. Today, this approach allows us to measure the huge distances in the Universe, which is an issue that has challenged astronomers of all epochs. Several scientists gave their contribution in the realization of the “distance ladder.” In particular, a crucial result was achieved in 1908 by a brilliant woman astronomer: Henrietta Swan Leavitt. As we will learn through her story, her findings helped solve the fundamental problem of measuring the distance between distant objects in space. Similarly, the story of her life is still probably helping us today in solving the embarrassing problem of the cultural distance between the role of men and women in science.
+
+At the beginning of the 20th century, astronomers were still wondering if some of the cosmic objects they observed, which at that time looked like “nebulae,” were part of the Milky Way or if, on the contrary, they were extragalactic sources. This so-called “Great Debate” [2] relied on the  incapability to measure their distance. The only methods available for measuring distances at that moment were based on triangulation and parallax, but those objects were too far for these approaches to work (nowadays, we know they were galaxies, whose distances are actually hundreds of times larger than the size of the Milky Way).
+
+In general, when we look at an astronomical object, we record a light intensity (the *magnitude*) which is affected by the distance of the source. If we knew the intrinsic light emission (the *luminosity*), then we could calculate the distance of the source with just one equation, but the problem is that usually it is impossible to have such information in advance. The only chance is to discover a “standard candle,” a class of cosmic source characterized by having the same intrinsic luminosity. In this scenario, the magnitude of such an object can be used to calculate its distance using the laws of light propagation, because we already know its intrinsic luminosity. This intriguing possibility became feasible in 1908, when the first standard candle of astronomy was unexpectedly discovered, thanks to the intuition and the hard work of Leavitt, an insightful and tenacious woman.
+
+Between 1877 and 1919, the director of the Harvard College Observatory was Edward Charles Pickering. He was a famous member of the Royal Astronomical Society and he decided to focus his research on the study of stellar photometry and spectroscopy, two disciplines based on the analysis of light intensity and frequency components, respectively. At that time, the analysis of astronomical sources was carried out using *photographic plates*, whose examination required a lot of time and experience. Moreover, excellent math skills were fundamental to work in astronomy, as there were no electronic devices to make calculations. For this reason, Pickering chose to recruit over 80 women to work for him, a group that later would be known as the “Harvard Computers.” In the team there was a young woman graduated in the Radcliffe College, Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She was tasked with examining a huge amount of data concerning the brightness of variable stars, objects whose emission presents a periodic variation in time (known as *period*). In particular, she focused on the “Cepheid variables,” a class of periodic objects presenting the same features of the star Delta Cephei. In 1908, she published her results about almost 2000 variable stars, noting a new unexpected relationship: The brighter the star,  the longer its period [3]. In the following years, she looked more carefully at this curious relation, focusing on 25 Cepheids belonging to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. As they were approximately at the same distance, their differences in magnitude (the observed brightness) had to correspond to real differences in intrinsic luminosity. Henrietta analyzed her data sample considering this situation and found out a very surprising relation: the logarithm of the period is proportional to the logarithm of average luminosity. This typical feature of Cepheids constitutes a very powerful relation for astronomers! Following Henrietta’s prescriptions, one can calculate the intrinsic luminosity of a Cepheid and hence its distance, simply by measuring the period of its magnitude variation. This discovery constituted a giant leap in the realization of the “distance ladder” for measuring the position of remote astronomical objects.
+
+The period-luminosity relationship for Cepheids discovered by Henrietta was published in 1912 in a paper by Pickering [4], although the first sentence indicated that it was “prepared by Miss Leavitt.” This relation allowed to develop the modern understanding of cosmological distances and the Universe structure, being an effective method to accurately measure distances on an inter-galactic scale. In particular, when Cepheids were identified in the Andromeda Constellation [5] the “Leavitt law” allowed to definitely affirm that those “nebulae” were not part of the Milky Way, but galaxies themselves. The Harvard College Observatory became a premiere observatory in the world and several scientists said that Leavitt deserved the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking research. Unfortunately, she died very young in 1921, at the age of 53. Her death was seen as a tragedy by other astronomers, not only for her scientific skills, but also because “she had the happy, joyful, faculty of appreciating all that was worthy and lovable in others, and was possessed of a nature so full of sunshine that, to her, all of life became beautiful and full of meaning” [6].
+
+———-
+
+[1] Webb, Stephen (1999). [*Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ntZwxttZF-sC). Springer Science & Business Media. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1852331061](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1852331061).
+
+[2] [https://apod.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate20.html](https://apod.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate20.html)
+
+[3] Leavitt, Henrietta S. (1908). “1777 variables in the Magellanic Clouds”. *Annals of Harvard College Observatory*. 60: 87–108. Bibcode:[1908AnHar..60…87L](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1908AnHar..60...87L).
+
+[4] Leavitt, Henrietta S.; Pickering, Edward C. (1912). “Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud”. *Harvard College Observatory Circular*. 173: 1–3. Bibcode:[1912HarCi.173….1L](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1912HarCi.173....1L).
+
+[5] Hubble, Edwin P. (1929). “A spiral nebula as a stellar system, Messier 31”. [*Astrophysical Journal*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_Journal). 69: 103–158. Bibcode:[1929ApJ….69..103H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1929ApJ....69..103H). doi:[10.1086/143167](https://doi.org/10.1086%2F143167).
+
+[6] Johnson, George (2005). [*Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How To Measure the Universe*](https://archive.org/details/missleavittsstar00john) (1st ed.). New York: Norton. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-393-05128-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-05128-5).
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+title: "Finding the First Pulsar in the Armagh Planetarium with Jocelyn Bell"
+description: "In 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered the first radio pulsar, changing the history of astronomy forever. In the first article of the CTA’s “Building from Diversity” series, Michael Burton (Director of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium)…"
+date: 2022-02-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_JB-01-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Michael Burton, Director of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
+
+*
+
+The story of Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s discovery of pulsars is one of the best known in astronomy. The story of how, as a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, she detected “a bit of scruff” on the chart recorder of the radio telescope designed by her supervisor Anthony Hewish. A telescope that she’d built in 1967 as part of her PhD – the Interplanetary Scintillation Array at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge.
+
+The bit of scruff turned out to be what is now known as pulsar PSR B1919+21, the rapidly rotating neutron star that is the collapsed core of a massive star, just a few kilometres across and spinning with a period of 1.3 seconds. The jet of radiation from this neutron star was what was being measured as the pulsing radio signal. Of course, at the time this was a completely new phenomenon. Subsequently, the consequences for astrophysics were profound. However, right then, even proving that the signal seen on the chart recorder was coming from a cosmic source and was not interference was challenge enough. Trawling through many metres of paper from the chart recorder, Jocelyn was looking for faint signals on a noisy background that repeated at the sidereal rate (i.e., 23hr 56m), rather than the solar rate (i.e., 24 hrs). Once the team were convinced that the source was indeed cosmic, and not terrestrial in origin, they then jokingly dubbed it LGM (little green men, later LGM-1 as a second was found), so unexpected and unusual it was, seemingly more akin to an artificial signal that a natural one.
+
+This story is well known, many articles, discussions, even TV programmes, have been devoted to it. Not so well known is the story of how Jocelyn learnt where on the sky her remarkable new object lies. As a radio astronomer, working through the day (as well as the night!) the stars are not visible to the eye. How does one recognise the constellation (Vulpecula – the little fox) that the source is found in? Jocelyn wanted to know.
+
+Here Jocelyn’s origins from Northern Ireland come in. She lived in Lurgan in County Armagh. Her father, Philip Bell, was the architect for Armagh Observatory, one of the world’s oldest optical observatories, one that has been in continuous use since its foundation in 1790. Architect here was an official government position with responsibilities for looking after the observatory building, not actually designing it. Jocelyn had grown up experiencing Armagh Observatory from the inside, including following her father around the ducts under the roofing when he was fixing leaks and making repairs!
+
+In the mid-60’s the Armagh Observatory Director, Eric Lindsay, had, following a 2-decade campaign, managed to raise the funds to add a Planetarium to the Observatory, to meet the growing demand for public outreach alongside its scientific mission. Joceyln’s father then became the architect for the Planetarium as well, responsible for designing its innovative, striking dome.  In turn, the Dome became an iconic symbol of the space age in Armagh for this was also the era of the Apollo Moon programme and featured strongly in the Planetarium’s public programmes.
+
+PSR B1919+21 was discovered on 28 November 1967. The next month Jocelyn was back home in Armagh, and with her family, for Christmas. The Planetarium had just been completed. The roof was in place and, protected from leaks, the first projector (a GOTO Mars projector from Japan) freshly installed under the guidance of the Planetarium’s first Director, Patrick Moore (who later became an icon himself as the presenter of the BBC’s Sky at Night).  Jocelyn, of course, wanted to see the new Planetarium, even though it had not yet opened to the public. She also wanted to know the location of her LGM on the sky.
+
+Vulpecula is in fact neatly sited in the middle of the Summer Triangle – the asterism made up by the three bright stars of Altair, Deneb and Vega. So, while it is a rather modest constellation with no stars in it that are brighter than 4th magnitude, Vulpecula can be readily located in the sky using the Summer Triangle as a guide. So, Patrick Moore was well able to show Jocelyn where the constellation lay. However, the reason why Jocelyn was so interested in Vulpecula had to remain a mystery, for she could not then tell the story of the LGM.  It remained a secret, only known to the research team!
+
+The reason for this is, of course, now history, for it was the location of the first known pulsar! Half-a-century later, when the Armagh Planetarium was celebrating its 50th anniversary, we were honoured by Jocelyn visiting us and telling the story of her own first there and of finding where Vulpecula is on the Dome. We even recorded a short planetarium show where she narrates this story and we show you Vulpecula in the Summer Triangle using our very latest Digistar projector, now in the age of the digital planetarium and the immersive experience it provides!
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+title: "Margherita Hack: Astronomer and Changemaker, now has her own Statue"
+description: "In the fifth article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Anna Wolter, in collaboration with Claudia Mignone (INAF), delves into the personality and social impact of the astronomer Margherita Hack, of whom the first statue of a…"
+date: 2022-06-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_MH-01-1-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Anna Wolter with the collaboration of Claudia Mignone (INAF)*
+
+Smiling, attentive, inclusive, caustic.
+
+Able to explain complex ideas using a simple language. Widely known and easily recognizable by many. Lover of animals and bicycles. Driven by the desire to always go a step further, by the curiosity to understand and explain something that is still a mystery. Always ready to get involved and to do it with her own hands. Aware of our place in the Universe: a small, inhabited grain of sand.
+
+This, and much more, was Margherita Hack, or Marga to her husband and close friends. She was born in Florence in 1922, where she studied in the 1940s, during the Second World War, with a thesis in observational astronomy. She worked a few years at the Brera Observatory of Milan where she did not find the equipment and support she would have liked. Finally, in 1964, she won the chair of Astrophysics at the University of Trieste, which brought as a “gift” the position of Director of the Astronomical Observatory. Lo and behold: Margherita Hack became the first woman in Italy to run an Astronomical Observatory! A milestone for women in science. Under her leadership, the observatory would turn from a small, provincial institute to a lively and active international research center.
+
+It is difficult then to know which of her characteristics captured more the imagination of the Deloitte Foundation when they selected her as the “role model” – a female scientist for whom they would erect a statue, the first in Italy, where statues of women already exist but as goddesses and madonnas, representations of ideals or abstract concepts. I was honoured to be involved in [the selection process](https://www2.deloitte.com/it/it/pages/about-deloitte/articles/una-scultura-per-margherita-hack-a-milano---deloitte.html), in a diverse panel of artists, municipality managers, scientists and various intellectual figures. Sissi, the winning artist, inspired her design in the long periods spent listening to Margherita’s voice,  becoming identified with her,  understanding her essence. And finally, on June 13, her work was unveiled, which the city of Milan has destined to the gardens facing the Università Statale. The statue will be seen by thousands of students passing by as they seek their own path in life, every day.
+
+We will ask ourselves, in the years to come, how effective this statue of Margherita has been as a reference and as a role model for girls and boys. As we reflect on why her figure  is so representative, we are aware that Margherita Hack did not make any particular scientific discoveries, even if her work is highly respectable, like that of many colleagues. However, she achieved her results and made an impact by keeping an open eye towards the world and innovation. For example, she did not have an easy life at the Brera Observatory, because she did not appreciate the study of classical astronomy, then carried out by her colleagues with the Merate telescopes. However, through collaborations – mostly international ones, from France to Holland and then again in the United States, from Berkeley to Princeton – she learnt and developed the study of spectroscopy as a tool to investigate the physical state of celestial sources. In the 1970s and 1980s, she took advantage of the IUE mission (a satellite for observation in the ultraviolet band) to revamp the Trieste Observatory, involving it in international research and pushing it towards one of the most cutting-edge disciplines of contemporary astrophysics: space science. She was a real manager. She knew how to unite the people working in the institute and to push them in their career, fostering their independence.
+
+Always active in the communication of science to the general public, from print media to books and later television, she became even more active in outreach after her retirement, from the direction of the Observatory in 1987 and then, ten years later, from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Trieste. In her relationship with the public, she showed an uncommon capacity for inclusion and openness. She was always attentive to the rights of all, fighting battles for civil and minorities rights.
+
+I think that much of her attention to others, and also the ability to not fall victim to stereotypes, comes from her family atmosphere and environment. She came from a non-traditional family in which, for political reasons (during intense fascist times), had a father that did not work, but lives peacefully the fact that it is the wife who provides for the sustenance of the family. Therefore, she had a caring father, but also the influence of broad cultural views and a proponent of freedom. They were also a vegetarian family out of respect for animals. In short, I suspect that Margherita didn’t even experience stereotypes in her childhood, and this made it, perhaps, an easier task for her to care for all.
+
+Today, I wonder if the one represented in the statue is the right gesture to remember the work of an astrophysicist who has always looked at the essence of things (spectroscopy, in fact, to put it in scientific terms) and not at the appearance or classification (the “classical” astronomer who measures the positions of stars in the sky). I urge our scientific community to devise in the next few years a new gesture that represents the work we do here, today, with large telescopes and observatories such as CTAO. A gesture that is able to simultaneously grasp the charm of the knowledge of refined detail and the complexity of the framework in which it is inserted.   * *
+
+Certainly, I would like to emphasize that Margherita Hack was not a “genius” in the sense of being so out of the ordinary as to be unattainable, inimitable. Margherita is each and every one of us, with her bad temper, when needed, with her smiles, all the more often, with the desire and tenacity to get, with the curiosity to find her own way, the desire to make things with her own hands. May the Universe continue to teach us new facts. She is a symbol, a model, an “undisputed myth,” a recognizable and accessible figure. And don’t forget: “Heaven has always been an open book,” as the commemorative plaque says. Let’s keep learning how to read it.
+
+—
+
+References and more information
+
+Italian:
+
+[https://it.pearson.com/mystem.html#hack](https://it.pearson.com/mystem.html#hack) Margherita Hack. la storia dietro il mito [for kids]
+
+[https://edu.inaf.it/rubriche/libri/natae-in-via-delle-cento-stelle/](https://edu.inaf.it/rubriche/libri/natae-in-via-delle-cento-stelle/) *Nata in via delle cento stelle *Federico Taddia Mondadori –
+
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLOvtkg4JUQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLOvtkg4JUQ) 1922-2022: 100 anni di Margherita Hack | Editoriale Scienza
+
+[https://www.spreaker.com/show/marga](https://www.spreaker.com/show/marga) Podcast di Federico Taddia – per sentire la voce di Margherita..
+
+[https://lasinodoroedizioni.it/catalogo/profilo-di-donna/margherita-hack/](https://lasinodoroedizioni.it/catalogo/profilo-di-donna/margherita-hack/) *Margherita Hack* (P. Greco)
+
+English:
+
+[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01665-4](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01665-4) *First public statue of female scientist in Italy celebrates astronomer* (D. Castelvecchi)
+
+[https://sites.google.com/laudefontenebro.com/womeninscience/twentieth-century/margherita-hack](https://sites.google.com/laudefontenebro.com/womeninscience/twentieth-century/margherita-hack)
+
+[https://wave-network.org/inspiring-thursday-margherita-hack/](https://wave-network.org/inspiring-thursday-margherita-hack/)
+
+[https://www.italiani.it/en/daisy-hack-astrophysicist-and-scientist/](https://www.italiani.it/en/daisy-hack-astrophysicist-and-scientist/)
+
+[https://www.seminarsonly.com/news/google-paid-tribute-to-margherita-hack-with-doodle-on-her-birthday/](https://www.seminarsonly.com/news/google-paid-tribute-to-margherita-hack-with-doodle-on-her-birthday/)
+
+[https://www.google.com/doodles/margherita-hacks-99th-birthday](https://www.google.com/doodles/margherita-hacks-99th-birthday)
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+title: "Milla Baldo Ceolin: A Golden Mimosa of Particle Physics"
+description: "In the eight article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Elisa Prandini (researcher at the University of Padova, Italy) delves into the professional life, achievements and legacy that Milla Baldo, first woman to become a full…"
+date: 2022-09-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_MB-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Elisa Prandini, Researcher at the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Padova (Italy)*
+
+It was 1952 and Massimilla Baldo Ceolin, called Milla, was a young and determined girl who just graduated in Physics in Padua with an experimental thesis on the properties of one of the few subnuclear particles known at that time, the pion. Did she ever imagined that, some years later, in 1963, she would be the first woman to become a full professor at Padua University, one of the oldest Universities in the world?
+
+In her vigorous career, Milla’s research was devoted to subnuclear physics, the study of particles smaller than the atomic nucleus. Milla was particularly concerned with the weak force, one of the four fundamental interactions together with gravitational, electromagnetic and strong forces. In those fervent post-war years, theories, models, brilliant intuitions and amazing discoveries followed each other, and innovative experiments were devised and designed all over the world. These years were lived with great enthusiasm, but with very few means available. Italian physicists had the vital need to continue the legacy of Bruno Rossi, one of the fathers of cosmic-ray studies who had been ignominiously forced to leave Padua due to racial laws in 1938.
+
+To search for new subatomic particles, a cheap and clever method was to send instruments on balloons at high altitudes and study the interaction of the atmosphere with energetic particles of extraterrestrial origin, cosmic rays. This was also the method adopted by Milla in her first years of research, when she stood out for her determination, patience and analytical skills – important qualities needed to identify and characterize the numerous traces left by cosmic ray particles on nuclear emulsion plates. She was fragile and delicate in appearance, but, during her active and prolific life, she showed great determination, tenacity, energy and strength of character, qualities that certainly helped her in her career. She was also a brilliant and unconventional experimentalist, always trying to think “out of the box.” With this spirit, when one of the first synchrotron accelerators became available in the late 1950s, Milla had the idea of exposing nuclear emulsion plates to a pion beam. One of the most important results of her career came soon after: the discovery of the “strange” particle antilambda.
+
+Milla was an avid traveller, too. In the early 1960s, she participated in several experiments aimed at investigating the properties of the weak force in Argonne, CERN and Moscow. In the mid 1960s Milla started to focus her attention on another weakly interacting particle: the neutrino. Neutrinos are elusive subatomic particles that were theoretically proposed in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli but experimentally detected only in 1956. Her studies on neutrinos brought her enthusiasm and vitality to the main European facilities: in Aachen, Germany, at CERN and the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. By then, Milla’s authority and competence was internationally known and led her to lead the Padua section of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) from 1965 to 1968 and the Physics Department from 1973 to 1978.
+
+Art lover and mountain enthusiast, Milla was also involved in social battles that have marked the history of Italy’s post-war period, especially in the defense of democracy and the emancipation of women. She was proud of the golden mimosa she had received as recognition from the Union of Women in Italy, an association for political, social, and cultural promotion. Since 1946, the golden mimosa flower has been traditionally given to women on Women’s Day (8 March) in Italy. The tree has a beautiful golden bloom that, despite its delicate appearance, can grow in the most difficult conditions – a fitting representation for women like Milla!
+
+Today Milla’s legacy lives on in the prominent Neutrino Telescope conference. Inaugurated in 1988, this biennial conference in Venice has become the fixed appointment for hundreds of physicists who meet in the splendid setting of the Italian city of art to discuss the most recent findings related to neutrino physics and astrophysics.
+
+—
+
+Bibliography:
+
+“Milla Baldo Ceolin”, Maria Nicolaci, Ed. Asino d’oro 2015
+
+J. Prowse and M. Baldo Ceolin, “Anti-Lambda Hyperon”, Phys.Rev.Lett.1, (1958), 179
+
+Baldo Ceolin, “The Discreet Charm of the Nuclear Emulsion Era”, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 52:1-21 (2002)
+
+https://www.scienzainrete.it/contenuto/articolo/milla-baldo-ceolin-signora-dei-neutrini
+
+[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/massimilla-baldo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/](https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/massimilla-baldo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/)
+
+[https://www.pd.infn.it/it/giornate-in-ricordo-di-milla-baldo-ceolin/](https://www.pd.infn.it/it/giornate-in-ricordo-di-milla-baldo-ceolin/)
+
+This article was written with the support of Giovanni Busetto, Michele Doro, Sabine Hemmer, Mauro Mezzetto and Giulio Peruzzi.
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+title: "Mirjana Pović: Fulfilling Dreams in Africa through Astronomy"
+description: "In the ninth article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Isabel Márquez and Josefa Masegosa (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA, Spain) shares the story of Mirjana Pović and the impact of her academic and societal…"
+date: 2022-10-31
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_MP-01-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by **Isabel Márquez, Deputy Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA) and Scientific Director of the Severo Ochoa Project at IAA, and **Josefa Masegosa, Senior Staff Researcher at IAA (Spain)*
+
+Born in Serbia in 1981, Mirjana Pović excelled in primary school, where she loved mathematics and biology. Very early on she was delighted by observing the stars in the night sky. Starting when she was nine, she grew and became an adolescent embedded in the Yugoslav wars and their consequences. She said that “when you grow up in chaos, with so many unanswered questions, you feel so constricted, so locked in, that reading books, walking in nature and looking up at the night sky is a way to escape so much madness.”
+
+Thus, Mirjana decided to study Astrophysics, expecting to understand the processes behind the beauty of the night skies. With the encouragement of her family, and the required grants, she earned her PhD in extragalactic astrophysics at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain. And this is where her childhood passion for Africa bloomed – amazed by its beauty and diversity but disturbed by the inequalities. Her desire to help, led her to Tanzania to teach in the slums, and to instil in the children that education can change their lives.  After her thesis, she spent a year as a postdoc in South Africa, at the University of Durban. She came to Granada (Spain) for a meeting about Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and she was offered a postdoc at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), where she spent six years. She never stopped her involvement with the various projects already started in Africa, spending her holidays there to do volunteer work with children.
+
+During her many humanitarian trips, she also made contacts with young African astrophysicists trying to develop the discipline in their own countries, like Rwanda and Ethiopia. Finally, she decided to move to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in 2016 as a researcher in the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute. Recruited for her experience in the field and knowledge of Africa, she is the only woman and the only European on the team. Since 2016, she has been working hard to develop the space sector in Ethiopia, sometimes under very difficult conditions, including the ongoing civil war in the region of Tigray, northern Ethiopia.
+
+Despite the challenges, she has made an enormous impact on the academic and societal conditions in Ethiopia and throughout the continent through her contributions to the organisation of the institute; the country’s science sector strategy for the next 20 years; the generation of skills in astronomy and space science, technology and research; the popularisation of astronomy among the general public; and the inclusion of women and girls in science. Mirjana organised an IAU symposium on AGN for the first time in Addis Ababa in October 2019, the third IAU symposium held in Africa. She also has supervised more than 20 master and PhD students. Among other responsibilities, she serves currently as a secretary of the IAU Division C on Education, Outreach and Heritage. In 2019, she promoted the “STEM for GIRLS in Ethiopia” initiative, with the aim to inspire more girls to do science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In collaboration with the African Astronomical Society, she co-founded the African Network of Women in Astronomy, and has been its main coordinator since its establishment in 2020.
+
+Among the various awards Mirjana has received for such an amazing and impressive body of work, there are two that stand out for their international scope: The first, awarded in 2018, was the “Nature Research’s Inspiring Science Award” for which she impressed judges with her capacity to excel in her own research, as well as with the depth and breadth of her efforts in Africa to encourage women and girls in science. The second was the Inaugural 2021 Jocelyn Bell Burnell Inspiration Medal from the European Astronomical Society, awarded to Mirjana for her work in developing astronomy, science and education as a route out of poverty and to improve the quality of life for young people in Africa. Both are a result of Mirjana Pović’s deep conviction that through education, science and technology we can combat poverty in the long term and make our world a better place for everyone.
+
+—
+
+Bibliography:
+
+[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07198-z](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07198-z)
+
+[https://www.iaa.csic.es/en/news/researcher-mirjana-povic-receives-jocelyn-bell-burnell-award-european-astronomical-society/](https://www.iaa.csic.es/en/news/researcher-mirjana-povic-receives-jocelyn-bell-burnell-award-european-astronomical-society/)
+
+[https://epws.org/woman-scientist-mirjana-povic/](https://epws.org/woman-scientist-mirjana-povic/)
+
+[https://www.amit-es.org/cientificas/mirjana-povic](https://www.amit-es.org/cientificas/mirjana-povic)
+
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirjana_Povi%C4%87](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirjana_Povi%C4%87)
+
+[https://naukas.com/2019/02/26/la-astronoma-que-ilumina-a-las-futuras-estrellas-de-la-ciencia/](https://naukas.com/2019/02/26/la-astronoma-que-ilumina-a-las-futuras-estrellas-de-la-ciencia/)
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+title: "Sally Ride: The Sky is No Longer the Limit"
+description: "In the seventh article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Viviana Gammaldi (researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) gives us a glimpse into the achievements of Sally Ride, who was the first American female…"
+date: 2022-08-31
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_SR-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Viviana Gammaldi, Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)*
+
+When I was a child, I wanted to be an astronaut. I love to talk about it. I am proud of myself because I am currently an astrophysicist, which is, in a sense, somehow similar. It is clear that I was totally fascinated by the sky at first, but this soon turned into a fascination with the Universe.
+
+I remember when I was still at school, deciding which Bachelor’s degree to pursue. I checked all the requirements to be an astronaut on the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) webpages. Unfortunately, I came across something that could potentially destroy my dream of becoming an astronaut: myopia. Myopia is a common vision condition that can be described as blurred vision when an object moves further away from a person. The webpage states it clearly: an astronaut candidate needs to have perfect vision. Astronaut candidates must not have a history of having glasses, contact lenses, laser or eye surgery. In my eyes, this was the end of my dream. I am still wondering if something has changed, in the meanwhile…never say never!
+
+In January 1977, Sally Ride experienced a similar feeling while finishing her PhD in Physics, spotting an article in a newspaper advertising that NASA was recruiting a new group of astronauts for the Space Shuttle program and that – for the first time – women could apply! She knew immediately she wanted to fly into space. Ride was one of the 8,079 applications received by NASA, and despite the competition, she became the first American woman and third woman ever to go to space.
+
+Before we go any further, let us take a step back. Before Sally Ride decided to study Physics and become an astronaut, she was working towards a career as a tennis player. Her perfect physical shape actually helped her pass the astronaut selection process. During this period, she met Tam Elizabeth O’Shaughnessy, a tennis player and scientific writer, who was her partner in life for 27 years, until her death in 2012. Sally and Tam became growingly concerned about the lack of women in science. They understood that girls needed more role models to pursue and succeed in this field. As Sally liked to say, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” This is a quote that is still valid nowadays as it was more than 40 years ago.
+
+In fact, as the first American female astronaut assigned to a space shuttle crew, Sally got the attention of the media and had to deal with questions like “Do you weep when things go wrong on the job?”. She stayed calm and answered, “How come nobody ever asks Rick these questions?” Rick Hauck, her crew mate.
+
+In 2001, Sally and Tam founded the non-profit organisation “Sally Ride Science.” They created programs to inspire girls and boys of all backgrounds in science. Today, the “Sally Ride Science” is part of the University of California, San Diego, where Sally became a Professor in Physics after leaving NASA. The year after Sally died, Tam accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama on behalf of Sally, the American highest civilian honor.
+
+Sally Ride was, and still is, a role model in the scientific field for the generations that followed her (including mine). She was not only a pioneer in space travel, helping open that field to other women, but she was also a scientist committed to gender equity, promoting the scientific career among girls and women, and encouraging young people to stay in science as they go through their career. She is one of the leading figures on which we build the future in science.
+
+—
+
+Bibliography:
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+title: "Vera Cooper Rubin: Uncovering Dark Matter, a Missing Chunk of the Universe"
+description: "In the fourth article of the CTAO’s “Building from Diversity” series, Anjana Kaushik Talluri (PhD Student at the University of Minnesota) presents the story of how Vera Rubin provided the first strong evidence of dark matter and how her…"
+date: 2022-05-31
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Poster_ilustracion_facebook_VR-01-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the “[Building from Diversity](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)” project. *Written by Anjana Kaushik Talluri, PhD student at the University of Minnesota
+
+*
+
+A whopping 95% of the Universe is hidden! The visible, or baryonic, matter that we are familiar with accounts for a mere 5% of the Universe, while the rest comprises “dark matter” (27%) and “dark energy” (68%).
+
+While the fact that dark matter exists is supported with irrefutable evidence today, just a few decades ago, this idea was unthinkable. In 1933, astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered a glaring discrepancy in the mass of galaxies in the Coma Cluster inferred from the light observed and the total mass calculated from the rotational velocities of the galaxies, which for obscure reasons ended up being much higher. Though Zwicky correctly attributed this difference in mass to invisible matter, there was, unfortunately, insufficient technology available to back up his claims. Decades later, Vera Rubin, a preeminent American astronomer, opened a window to the field of dark matter by presenting concrete observational evidence to the astronomy community, which eventually forced them to take the argument seriously. The story of how the life of Vera Rubin is intriguing and an inspiration for many generations to come.
+
+In 1963, on a clear night at the Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona, Vera Rubin and her collaborator, Kent Ford, looked at the spectra of young, hot stars in our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, to measure their speeds about the center of the galaxy. Having shown in her prior work that galaxies rotate about a central point, Rubin was passionate to learn more about the motion of the stars in a galaxy. Thanks to Ford’s new image tube spectrograph, there was a drastic reduction in the exposure time, and they were able to obtain multiple (4-5) spectra each night. On the first night, as Rubin alternated between developing the images that Ford observed and eating ice cream, she realized that she had stumbled upon a puzzling mystery— the rotational curves she obtained seemed to indicate that the speeds of the stars in the outer parts of the galaxy were quite high, enough to fling them out of the gravitational pull of the galaxy! And yet, these stars remained in stable orbits. In a spiral galaxy like the Andromeda, where most of the light (and therefore, the corresponding mass) is concentrated in the central regions, one would expect from Newtonian physics that objects at larger radii would have lower orbital velocities due to a reduced gravitational force, much like the planets in our solar system. However, the flat rotational curves, indicating a constant orbital speed with distance, hinted at the existence of a form of matter in the outer regions of the galaxies that was invisible. Through painstaking work, Rubin continued to measure the speeds of more than 60 galaxies, all of which also showed flat rotation curves. While it was far from a smooth ride, eventually, Rubin was successful in throwing light on the existence of dark matter.
+
+Rubin’s curiosity and love for the Cosmos was highly palpable right from a young age; 11-year-old Rubin loved looking at the stars from her bedroom window, and she took pride in building a telescope from scratch with the help of her father. After completing her bachelor’s degree as the only astronomy student at the all-women’s Vassar College, Rubin applied for and was denied admission at Princeton University, which was not accepting female students at the time. She instead pursued her master’s at Cornell University, where she focused on studying the large-scale velocity distribution of galaxies and later earned her PhD in Astronomy from Georgetown University.
+
+Throughout Rubin’s career, as was typical of the time and, sadly, to a large extent even today, gender discrimination was highly prevalent. In fact, this was apparent in Rubin’s life quite early on. Not only did her high school physics teacher ignore the girl students in the class, but when Rubin informed him of her acceptance into Vassar College, her teacher replied, “You should do OK as long as you stay away from science.” She did not let such incidents deter her, however, and was an active champion of women’s rights and gender equality. At conferences, for example, she would call ahead to make sure that women were included in the mix of keynote speakers. In 1965, a time when women were not granted access to state-of-the-art telescopes such as the Palomar, Rubin not only became the first woman to gain access to Palomar, but she also played a key role in helping women gain access to the bathrooms and living quarters at the observatory, which were otherwise reserved only for men. With abundant passion and the support of her family, Rubin overcame every obstacle and kept pushing the boundaries of the male-dominated academia.
+
+Rubin’s work was the cornerstone of dark matter research. Her findings revealed a large missing chunk of the Universe and opened up a new field for the following generations of astronomers to explore. Her unparalleled contributions to this field should have truly won her a Nobel prize!
+
+With the aid of cutting-edge telescopes, we know today that dark matter does not emit or absorb light, which makes it invisible to conventional detectors. It is present in large halos around galaxies and binds luminous matter together in gravitationally bound structures. Dark matter is most likely made of non-baryonic, exotic particles such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) which still require detection. Powerful, next-generation observatories with superior sensitivities such as the CTAO will be instrumental in helping us understand the true nature and distribution of dark matter in the Universe.
+
+A much respected and beloved mentor, Rubin was heavily involved in ensuring her students received credit for their work. In fact, in her biography, she recalls a time when she refused to get her paper published when she was informed that her students’ names would not be included in it. Always caring for and willing to lend a helping hand to others, Vera Rubin will forever be remembered as a kind person and an inspiring mentor.
+
+Rubin always said, “Don’t let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are, and don’t worry about prizes and fame. The real prize is finding something new out there.”
+
+And she was a living embodiment of her advice.
+
+———-
+
+1. Rubin, V. C. (n.d.).*AA49-Frontmatter Ari 9 August 2011 16:7 – annualreviews.org*. Retrieved May 30, 2022, from [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-astro-081710-102545](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-astro-081710-102545)
+2. Pinkerton, B., & Hassenfeld, N. (2021, August 17).*Astronomers were skeptical about dark matter – until Vera Rubin came along*. Vox. Retrieved May 29, 2022, from https://www.vox.com/22576927/vera-rubin-dark-matter-astronomy-biography
+3. Siegel, E. (2019, July 23).*Happy birthday to Vera Rubin: The mother of our dark matter universe*. Forbes. Retrieved May 29, 2022, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/07/23/happy-birthday-to-vera-rubin-the-mother-of-our-dark-matter-universe/?sh=2d8542306135
+4. Neta A. Bahcall. Dark matter universe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(40):12243–12245, 2015. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516944112.
+5. Childers, T. (2019, June 11).*Vera Rubin: The astronomer who brought dark matter to light*. Space.com. Retrieved May 29, 2022, from https://www.space.com/vera-rubin.html
+6. *Vera Rubin on dark matter: A factor of ten: AMNH*. American Museum of Natural History. (n.d.). Retrieved May 29, 2022, from https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/vera-rubin-dark-matter
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+---
+title: "Carola Dobrigkeit: Unveiling Cosmic Rays from Brazil"
+description: "Carola Dobrigkeit was the first woman to hold a position at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics within the Department of Cosmic Rays and Chronology at Unicamp, where she dedicated her career to the exploration of the cosmic rays, the…"
+date: 2023-10-31
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Picture1.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the [“Building from Diversity” project.](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)
+
+Carola Dobrigkeit Chinellato, born in 1952, moved to Brazil from Germany as a child. She grew up in Campinas, Brazil, and was just 15 years old when her curiosity for physics was piqued. Inspired by a teacher who presented her with the challenging task of teaching her classmates who had failed final exams, Carola’s fascination with physics and teaching grew. During her school vacations, she dedicated her time to providing physics tutoring to her classmates, a venture that not only satisfied her love for the subject but also helped her earn some extra money.
+
+In considering her professional choices, she says “When you’re 15, you have no idea what you will do. You don’t have the imagination to know what a physicist does, mainly because in high school the teaching of physics is very basic. The opportunities I had led me to choose teaching and physics as a profession.”
+
+It was during this period that Carola made the pivotal decision to pursue physics at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). At the age of 21, she achieved a significant milestone by becoming the youngest woman to hold a position at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics within the Department of Cosmic Rays and Chronology at Unicamp. Her academic journey led her to a particular interest in the field of matter structure, a subject she explored under the mentorship of César Lattes, a highly respected Brazilian physicist known for his contributions to cosmic-ray physics. César Lattes played a pivotal role in the discovery of the pion (known as pi meson at that time) in 1947, a groundbreaking achievement that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics for Cecil Frank Powell [1]. It was under Lattes’ guidance that she took her initial steps into the world of cosmic-ray research.
+
+In 1974, she published as co-author a paper in collaboration between Brazil and Japan. This research focused on the detection of cosmic rays in the high-altitude region of Chacaltaya, nestled in the Bolivian Andes [2]. In 1982, Carola achieved her PhD, which focused on estimating the absolute vertical flux of the electromagnetic component of cosmic radiation at Chacaltaya. This estimation was based on meticulous measurements and an in-depth analysis of electromagnetic cascades detected in photoemulsion chambers and lead.
+
+In the 1980s, as a part of the Pamir, Mt. Fuji, and Chacaltaya Collaborations, she participated in numerous investigations that delved into the intriguing realm of nuclear interactions. These studies harnessed the power of joint emulsion chambers in mountain-based experiments and significantly expanded our comprehension of how cosmic rays interact with the Earth’s atmosphere [3] [4].
+
+Carola further advanced her academic journey with two postdoctoral studies in Germany. Her first postdoctoral stint took place at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1989, where she engaged in research and work related to the physics of elementary particles and fields. Following that, in 1996, she embarked on her second postdoctoral experience at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, where she continued her in-depth exploration of the fascinating world of elementary particles and fields. Later, Carola became an integral member of the Pierre Auger Collaboration at its inception, contributing to its construction and operation across various working groups. The Pierre Auger Observatory measures extremely high-energy cosmic rays, the parent population of the gamma rays observed by the CTAO.
+
+While Carola’s association with Unicamp as a professor dates back to 1974, she obtained the status of a full professor in 2016. Reflecting on this milestone, Carola says, “Our institute went many years without having a female full professor. Many female colleagues asked me to participate in the competition, as  a way to pave the path for women in physics at Unicamp.”
+
+It was a crucial moment in her career when she transitioned from student to colleague of her mentor, César Lattes. She fondly remembers one instance, in 1974, at the very beginning of her career “Professor Lattes  invited me to teach his classes. He was present in the room and in each one I learned new things, but it was also a great challenge. Teaching students is one thing, but teaching with Professor Lattes watching is another,” she recalls.
+
+In one of these classes, the young teacher made a deduction on the board and Professor Lattes said that that wasn’t the best way to deduce and asked her to do it in another way. “The class collapsed. I erased it and started again. I deduced everything he had asked me for and when I finished, he said: ‘I think your way is better.’ The class laughed and was very positive in terms of learning. I was able to show that there are several ways to arrive at a result,” she says.
+
+Professor Carola Dobrigkeit is still showing us that there is more than one way to obtain a result, both in life and in work. Her distinguished career is a testament to her unwavering determination and boundless passion for unravelling the Universe’s secrets. Her extensive contributions to high-energy cosmic rays and particle physics [5] have not only pushed the frontiers of human understanding but have also broken down barriers related to gender in the scientific realm. Carola Dobrigkeit’s work serves as a powerful reminder of humanity’s innate curiosity and our relentless pursuit of knowledge about the enigmatic cosmic wonders that encompass our planet.
+
+—
+
+*Written by Daniela Zigante, Journalist of the CTAndo Group, Insitute of Physics of São Carlos, University of São Paulo (Brazil). Article reviewed by Cibelle Celestino Silva, Institute of Physics of São Carlos, University of São Paulo (Brazil).*
+
+*References*
+
+[1] [https://www.nature.com/articles/159694a0](https://www.nature.com/articles/159694a0)
+
+[2] [https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4249511](https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4249511)
+
+[3] [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0550321381902832?via%3Dihub](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0550321381902832?via%3Dihub)
+
+[4] [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0370269387908719?via%3Dihub](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0370269387908719?via%3Dihub)
+
+[5] [https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=2AQtV4YAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate](https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=2AQtV4YAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate)
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+---
+title: "Enrique Pérez Montero: A Living Oxymoron"
+description: "“Enrique is blind and an astronomer, or rather, Enrique is a blind astronomer. A living oxymoron.” Enrique Pérez lost his sight years ago, but that didn’t stop him from exploring the Universe: he kept working in the field and became a…"
+date: 2023-07-31
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/EnriquePerezMontero_rocco-768x461.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the [“Building from Diversity” project.](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/) *Written by **Emilio García, Head of the Communication and Scientific Culture Unit at the IAA-CSIC*
+
+An oxymoron. A turn of phrase in which two contradictory concepts are used in a single expression. Cold fire, deafening silence, dark light or blind astronomer. Because how could one work in Astronomy without the ability to actually *see* the stars? How is it possible to do research in such a fundamentally visual science with a visual impairment? Enrique Pérez Montero is showing the world how.
+
+As astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Spain), Enrique progressively lost his vision until he became totally blind due to a genetic degenerative disease. Since 2011, he has been affiliated with the National Organization of the Blind (ONCE in Spanish) and requires Rocco, his guide dog, to help him navigate his daily life. So, yes, the seemingly impossible is possible. Enrique is blind and an astronomer, or rather, Enrique is a blind astronomer. A living oxymoron, who is proving he is highly skilled and respected in his quest to help us better understand the Universe. And he’s just getting started.
+
+Under the coordinated project “Star formation bursts in galaxies,” to which he has belonged since the defense of his PhD thesis at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2003, Enrique’s research has led him to publish more than 160 articles in high-impact journals, to supervise PhD and final master’s theses and to continue contributing scientifically at the highest level in the field of star formation and how it influences the environment of galaxies. His daily work and his participation in global conferences and meetings is breaking the stereotypes, proving, again, that people with a disability can contribute at the highest level. He has become a reference for other professionals with a seemingly limiting disability. Although, as Enrique, himself, reminds us: “We are all blind to 99.9% of the light that comes from the stars.”
+
+Beyond his research, Enrique has expanded his influence through astronomy outreach and education. His project, “[Astroaccesible](http://astroaccesible.iaa.es/),” is an initiative to bring astronomy and other sciences to the blind and visually impaired community in a more accessible way and to promote the adoption of inclusion criteria among other scientists, science communicators and teachers. He seems to have boundless energy in his charge: Countless talks and articles; workshops with tactile models to “touch” the firmament or walk through the Solar System; audio descriptions of astronomical objects; innovative uses of sonification; planetarium programs; inclusive visits; training and awareness courses; invitations to leading scientific communication conferences, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Add his continuous presence in the media and the publication of his recent book to the list of accomplishments, and one can see how Enrique has become a leader in the science communication community. And not only because he has taught us to adapt how we communicate with an audience with visual impairment, but because, with this, he has given us all a gift: the awareness and ability to transform our work into something that is more universal and inclusive, ensuring that we engage all the human senses in making science accessible and enjoyable for all. Not bad for an oxymoron.
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+---
+title: "Katherine Johnson: Human Calculator and Trailblazer"
+description: "The first article of the second edition of the Building from Diversity series features Katherine Johnson, an American mathematician whose work at NACA/NASA were fundamental to the success of several crewed spaceflights."
+date: 2023-04-29
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/featured-image-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the [“Building from Diversity” project.](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/) *Written by** **Cristina Fernández-Suárez, PhD Student at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) & Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT).*
+
+Can you imagine having a dream as a child that you are forbidden to pursue? That was the story of Katherine Johnson, an African American girl born in 1918 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. A girl who, since she was little, liked counting everything: the steps she took, the dishes she washed, the stars she saw [1]… Katherine demonstrated her talent and passion for mathematics from a very young age. However, she grew up in a time and place where there were laws of racial segregation, which prevented African Americans from studying beyond the eighth grade [2]. But this was not going to stop her. Her family decided to move to Institute, where the West Virginia Colored Institute for African Americans was located [3]. There, she graduated at just 14 years old and began her higher education at West Virginia State College, where she earned her degrees in mathematics and French at the age of 18. Regardless of her credentials, one of the only options available to Katherine as an African American woman was to teach [4]. Hence, once she finished her studies, she had no choice but to work under the racist and discriminatory restrictions of the time. As a teacher of mathematics, music and French, she earned less money than her white peers and had to hide her marriage, since married women were not allowed to teach [5].[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Sometime later, she learned that the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), predecessor of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was looking for African American women for calculation tasks in the Department of Guidance and Navigation, and decided to sign up [4]. At that time, African Americans were separated from white people: they had segregated cafeteria tables, bus seats, bathrooms and were prohibited from mixing whatsoever [5].
+
+Her job was to perform calculations and checks for aeronautical engineers, a quiet job done by a quiet group of women. However, she was curious and had questions, so she asked to be able to attend meetings with the engineers so that she could join the discussions. Initially they refused, to which she challenged whether there was a law that prohibited it. There was not, so she began attending those meetings [4] and, over time, her persistence, math skills and quality work built her a reputation at NACA/NASA. She participated in NASA’s Mercury Project, performing by hand the calculations that allowed Alan B. Shepherd, the first American in space, to make his space journey in 1961 [3]. Later, in 1962, when computers began to be used for these types of calculations, Katherine assumed a supervisory role. The same year, her skills helped John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth [3, 6]. Moreover, her calculations were key to the success of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, which landed humankind on the Moon [3]. She continued working on other missions until her retirement in 1986, receiving numerous awards and honors for her exceptional work and contributions to the U.S. space programme.
+
+Can you imagine having a dream, being forbidden to pursue it since you were a child, and still being able to achieve it? This is the true story of Katherine Johnson, a girl who counted everything that could be counted, a woman who fought for her dreams in spite of the racial and gender discrimination she faced. An inspiring story that should not be forgotten and that should remind us how much talent and progress the world may have missed out on by not letting a child fulfill her dream.
+
+—
+
+*Article reviewed by Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella, PhD at the UAM and IFT.*
+
+*References*
+
+1. https://www.eldiario.es/hojaderouter/ciencia/katherine-johnson-nasa-estados-unidos-matematicas 1 3986045.html
+2. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_kjohnson.html
+3. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count
+4. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/a-lifetime-of-html
+5. https://www.fablabsantcugat.com/blog/katherinejohnsonlamakerdelanasaquenosllevoalaluna
+6. https://www.nationalgeographic.es/historia/2020/10/matematica-katherine-johnson- labor-esencial-luna-recibe-medalla-hubbard
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+---
+title: "Marie Curie: The Strange Case of Cherenkov Radiation"
+description: "In this article of the second edition of the Building from Diversity series, we delve into a lesser-know story about Marie Curie: how she came across Cherenkov light, fundamental for the operation of the CTAO telescopes, albeit unknowingly."
+date: 2023-06-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/MarieCurie_FeatureImage-01-1600x837.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the [“Building from Diversity” project.](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/) *Written by **Laura Paganini, science communicator at the INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera*
+
+When you think about women that strongly impacted the history of science, Marie Curie will most likely come to your mind. Maria Salomea Skłodowska–Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the only woman to do so twice and the only person to obtain it in two different scientific disciplines: physics and chemistry [1]
+
+Marie and her husband, Pierre Curie, were two of the pioneers in the study of radioactivity. At the end of the 19th century, Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium emitted a type of radioactivity similar to X-rays, but its true nature was unknown. Fascinated by this new discovery, the Curies dedicated their life to studying radioactive elements and the origin of radioactivity, leading to a completely different comprehension of the atoms [2]. This is the part of the story we all know, and that made Marie Curie famous around the world. There is a lesser-known part of the story, documented in Marie’s laboratory notebooks and narrated by her daughter Eve in the book “Madame Curie. A biography” [3]. The story involves Cherenkov radiation – the same radiation used by the CTAO telescopes to study the high-energy gamma-ray Universe.
+
+But let’s start with some scientific context. The radioactive materials, as those studied by Marie Curie, are formed by heavy atoms with nuclei composed of a large number of protons and neutrons that tend to “decay” spontaneously. In such elements, the ratio between the number of protons and neutrons is not energetically optimal, and the nucleus cannot be held together anymore. At that point, the nucleus needs to release energy to go back to a stable status. This is the so-called radioactive decay. Since energy can neither be destroyed nor created, but it can be converted, the atom reaches that stable energy by emitting either a photon or a particle. Through her examination of uranium, Marie proposed that this emission originated naturally and inherently from the atoms themselves, rather than being caused by external interactions. This hypothesis played a significant role in supporting the idea that atoms were divisible, a concept that had not yet been firmly established.
+
+Today this is widely accepted, but, at the beginning of the 20th century, many of these physical mechanisms were not yet known, especially when involving atomic and subatomic phenomena and their interaction with light. When working with such a complex phenomenon, it is normal to be able to observe it without knowing how to explain it, especially if you are exploring the phenomenon for the first time ever, as in the case of the Curies!
+
+Two radioactive elements that undergo this decay are polonium and radium, discovered by the Curies [4]. Marie once said: “Prodigious radium! Purified as a chloride, it appeared to be a dull white powder, which might easily be mistaken for common kitchen salt” [3]. So powerful, so complex, and yet, the solution of radium was simply the powder dissolved in water.
+
+Today, we know that, in its decay, radium emits a helium nucleus (commonly known as “alpha particle”), giving rise to a chain of lighter nuclei and eventually electrons, which can move faster than light in the medium in which it is emitted (such as water). When this happens, a bluish light is emitted. Marie did not know it at the time, but she was looking at what years later would be known as the Cherenkov effect.
+
+In 1910, Marie Curie, in fact, noticed the strange blue light and wrote in her notebook: “Nor was this the end of the wonders of radium. It also gave phosphorescence to a large number of bodies incapable of emitting light by their own means” [3, 5]. She wrongly attributed this blue emission to phosphorescence, which was the only phenomenon known at that time. However, the truth was that she was observing Cherenkov radiation, which would be officially discovered in 1934. Therefore, Marie Curie was one of the first people to observe Cherenkov radiation, albeit unknowingly. There were several others who came across this elusive radiation. In 1888, Oliver Heaviside wrote about it in a scientific paper *(a)* that was mostly disregarded: “If the speed of the motion exceeds that of light, the disturbances are wholly left behind the charge, and are confined within a cone.” And, in 1904, Arnold Sommerfeld theoretically predicted Cherenkov radiation, as well. But, once again, the scientific community missed the clue. It was not until 1922 that Marie’s French colleague, Leon Mallett, began studying the phenomenon, albeit still without much fortune. We had to wait another decade for the studies of Tamm, Frank, Vavilov and Cherenkov in 1934 to finally establish the true nature of this radiation [6].
+
+And what was so overlooked in the 20th century has now opened a new window of science: astroparticle physics, the newest field in astronomy and astrophysics. Cherenkov light can also be produced in the air when a gamma ray (photons, or light, with extremely high energy) arrives in the Earth’s atmosphere and produces a particle shower. These particles move faster than the speed of light in the air of the atmosphere giving rise to this bluish flash of light: Cherenkov light. It lasts barely a billionth of a second, so we cannot see it with our eyes, but with Cherenkov telescopes we can. And the CTAO will use these telescopes to unravel the high-energy Universe. From a dim light in Marie’s lab to opening a new field of study.
+
+In Marie Curie’s own words *(b)*: “I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty.”
+
+—
+
+*Article reviewed by **Anna Wolter, researcher at the INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy).*
+
+*References*
+
+1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie)
+2. [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/facts/](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/facts/)
+3. [Madame Curie. A Biography, Eve Curie, 1947](https://archive.org/details/madamecurie035051mbp)
+4. [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium/](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium/)
+5. [Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis (Third Edition), Michael F. L’Annunziata, 2012](https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123848734/handbook-of-radioactivity-analysis)
+6. [APSNews (Volume 29, Number 11), 2020](https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/index.cfm)
+
+(a) The paper “Electromagnetic waves, the propagation of potential, and the electromagnetic effects of a moving charge” was published in “The Electrician”, in 1888
+
+(b) As quoted in Madame Curie: A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 341
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+---
+title: "Sandra Faber: A Luminous and Inspiring Scientific Career"
+description: "Despite the low representation of women in astronomy in the 60s, Sandra Faber pursued her deep interest in the field and became one of the most prominent figures of contemporary astronomy."
+date: 2023-10-04
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/sandrafaber-scaled-1-1600x1101.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+This article is part of the [“Building from Diversity” project.](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/building-from-diversity/)
+
+*Written by **Nicole Araneda, PhD Student at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid*
+
+In the world of science, figures like Galileo, Newton and Einstein tend to dominate the spotlight, but many other notable figures have contributed significantly to our understanding of the cosmos. One of them is American scientist, Sandra Faber.
+
+Her life and career are a testament to her dedication, curiosity and persistence. Through her passion for science, she has left a permanent mark on the exploration of the Universe, and her brilliant legacy lights the path for future generations.
+
+Sandra Moore Faber was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 28, 1944 [1]. From an early age, her interest in science and astronomy grew despite the low representation of women in this discipline in the 60s. Her deep interest in this subject led her to become one of the most prominent figures of contemporary astronomy.
+
+Sandra completed her bachelor’s degree in Astronomy at Swarthmore College in 1966 and subsequently earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1972 [1], specializing in Optical Observational Astronomy under the direction of I. John Danziger [2]. That same year, she joined the faculty at the Lick Observatory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, becoming the first woman to serve on the staff. Her research focused on using the lookback power of large telescopes to study the formation and evolution of galaxies [3].
+
+In 1976, one of Sandra’s investigations, which consisted of observing the relationship between the brightness and spectra of galaxies and the orbital velocities and movements of the stars within them, resulted in the discovery of the Faber-Jackson relationship. This relationship assumes a direct connection between the galaxy’s brightness and its stars’ dispersion speed [4]. This means that if we know the dispersion speed of stars in a galaxy, we can estimate their luminosity. The Faber-Jackson relationship is essential in astronomy since it allows us to measure the masses of galaxies more precisely. By knowing how massive galaxies are, we can better understand how they formed and evolved.
+
+In 1979, Faber and John S. Gallagher published a paper that presented a review of the evidence for the existence of dark matter [5]. This paper is regarded among astronomers as the turning point in the quest to determine whether 80 percent of the mass in the Universe is “missing”—mysterious, invisible and impervious to direct detection. This discovery of large amounts of dark matter (using indirect methods of detection) in a certain exotic species of galaxy led Sandra to conclude, in a paper of 1983 with UCSC astronomer Douglas Lin, that dark matter could not be neutrinos, subatomic particles that travels close to the speed of light (“hot,” in cosmological terms), but might be another species of subatomic particle, not yet known, that travels at a much slower rate (“cold”) [6].
+
+On the other hand, Sandra played a fundamental role in large-scale projects, such as her contribution to installing the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, one of the biggest optical telescopes in the world. Her involvement in projects with the Keck telescope includes research on galaxy dynamics, the detection of supermassive black holes and the evolution of galaxy clusters.
+
+Additionally, she is recognized in her field for her contributions to the design and use of large telescopes. For example, Sandra was part of the design team for the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide-Field Camera [7] and is the principal investigator of the DEIMOS (Deep-Imaging Multiobject Spectrograph) project [7]. She was also the co-principal investigator of the CANDELS Research Team [8], which used the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate galaxies in their initial stages of formation.
+
+As a result of her outstanding academic and professional career, Sandra has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the U.S. National Medal of Science (2013) [9], the Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2017) [7] and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of the UK (2020) [10].
+
+And Sandra has transmitted her wisdom and experience through teaching, too. She has been a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, teaching core subjects and guiding students in her research. She also holds the title of Professor Emerita at this university [3], where she has left an indelible mark on the academic and scientific community.
+
+Sandra Faber’s legacy transcends her gender and inspires us all, regardless of our circumstances or obstacles. Her story reminds us that with passion, perseverance and commitment we can reach for the stars, both figuratively and literally. Her life is a powerful reminder that there are no limits that cannot be overcome in the search for knowledge. Science is a world of infinite possibilities, and anyone can be part of it, contributing to expanding our understanding of the Universe.
+
+—
+
+*Article reviewed by **Viviana Gammaldi, researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).*
+
+*References*
+
+[1] [https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/9240/Sandra-Faber](https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/9240/Sandra-Faber)
+
+[2] [https://mlubos.eu/index.php?a=11111032f31111111010](https://mlubos.eu/index.php?a=11111032f31111111010)
+
+[3] [https://www.astro.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=smfaber](https://www.astro.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=smfaber)
+
+[4] [https://scientificwomen.net/women/faber-sandra-35](https://scientificwomen.net/women/faber-sandra-35)
+
+[5] [Faber, S. M., and J. S. Gallagher (1979), ARA&A 17, 135](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.aa.17.090179.001031)
+
+[7] [https://www.ucolick.org/~faber/](https://www.ucolick.org/~faber/)
+
+[8] [https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/05/faber-gruber-prize.html](https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/05/faber-gruber-prize.html)
+
+[9] [https://www.ucobservatories.org/cool_timeline/astronomer-sandra-faber-honored-in-white-house-ceremony/](https://www.ucobservatories.org/cool_timeline/astronomer-sandra-faber-honored-in-white-house-ceremony/)
+
+[10] [https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/leading-astronomers-and-geophysicists-honoured-ras-bicentenary-year-0](https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/leading-astronomers-and-geophysicists-honoured-ras-bicentenary-year-0)
+
+[6] [Lin, D. N.  C., Faber, S. M. Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 266, p. L21-L25 (1983)](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983ApJ...266L..21L/abstract)
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+---
+title: "Can You Hear Me? Un viaggio nel tempo con i messaggeri dell’Universo"
+description: "On 6 May 2019, the Bologna community is invited to partake in an evening of cosmic and Earthly pleasures at the public event of the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s First Science Symposium, which is taking place the same week at Teatro Duse in…"
+date: 2019-04-16
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FacebookBanner.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+**Bologna, Italy** – On 6 May 2019, the Bologna community is invited to partake in an evening of cosmic and Earthly pleasures at the public event of the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s First Science Symposium, which is taking place the same week at Teatro Duse in Bologna. The public event, called ‘Can You Hear Me?’ will take the audience on a fantastic journey through space and time to discover and experience some of the Universe’s greatest mysteries.
+
+Presenter, Stefano Sandrelli (INAF), will begin the journey in the age of the “father of observational astronomy,” Galileo Galilei, and continue through time to the present frontier of multi-messenger astrophysics, where the audience will hear from some of the greatest modern minds in the field: Nobel Laureates Takaaki Kajita and Rai Weiss and CTA pioneer and spokesperson, Werner Hofmann.
+
+And to be sure the ears and eyes are as stimulated as the mind, the audience will be treated to a series of entertainment interludes that will feature performances by theatrical group [Kepler 452](https://kepler452.it/) and one of Italy’s most popular music bands, [Lo Stato Sociale](http://lostatosociale.net/home/).
+
+### Event Details:
+
+[Teatro Duse](https://www.teatrodusebologna.it/), Via Cartoleria 42, 40124 Bologna
+
+Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Entrance is free, but seat reservations are required.
diff --git a/src/content/news/catching-gamma-ray-bursts-with-cta.md b/src/content/news/catching-gamma-ray-bursts-with-cta.md
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+---
+title: "Catching Gamma-Ray Bursts with CTA? Yes we can!"
+description: "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…"
+date: 2019-10-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/GRB.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/00a6b9b4cd4e/cta-newsletter-october2019-spanish-1474929)
+
+Originally published in the [October 2019 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/12cb6698d185/cta-newsletter-october2019-english).
+
+*Written by: Lara Nava*
+
+*
+
+*Very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays, like the ones that CTA will catch, are produced in many different astrophysical environments. They originate from very energetic particles and, as such, provide glimpses into extreme astrophysical phenomena. Among the most extreme sources in the Universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) lead the pack. They are produced following the formation of jets traveling with velocities close to the speed of light ejected by newly-born compact objects (such as neutron stars or black holes, see Figure 1). Thanks to observations from ground-based telescopes and space missions, we know that GRBs produce an emission over a wide range of frequencies, from the radio band up to gamma-ray energies. Most of this emission is thought to be synchrotron radiation from energetic electrons moving in spiral pattern around magnetic field lines. At very high energies (VHE, >100 GeV) synchrotron radiation is not expected to play a role, but other mechanisms have been theorised to produce a detectable amount of VHE radiation. The most important one is the Inverse Compton, where photons collide with the energetic electrons and gain energy in the process. This mechanism can be more or less relevant, depending on the conditions of the region where the radiation is produced, which in GRBs are still poorly understood.
+
+Curiously, even though GRBs are the most powerful sources in the Universe, all the efforts to detect VHE radiation arising from them have failed for many years. Considering that GRBs are cosmological sources located at an average redshift of z=2, the flux of VHE photons (if produced) will be strongly attenuated by the encounter with visible-IR light, making their detection on Earth very difficult. Thus, the question whether this radiation is produced or not, in what amount, how common it is, and which maximum energies can be attained remained unanswered for a long time. As a consequence of these uncertainties, the role of CTA on the study of GRBs was not easy to predict. On the one hand, CTA’s sensitivity down to 20 GeV assures that GRBs can be detected, since the existence of emission at these energies has already been proven by the satellites *Fermi* and AGILE. On the other hand, the detection rate and the energy up to which GRBs will be detected strongly depend on whether or not an emission component at VHE exists.
+
+Since January 2019, CTA predecessors MAGIC and H.E.S.S. have announced detections of radiation well above 100 GeV from three GRBs [1,2,3], finally proving that this kind of radiation is indeed produced and might be a quite common component in the radiative output of GRBs. Thus, the consequences on the prospects for GRB detections with CTA are enormous. In light of these recent discoveries, it is reasonable to expect that GRBs will be interesting targets both for the Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) and the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs), responsible for low and medium-energy sensitivities of CTA (from approximately 20 GeV to a few tens of TeV in total). The lower energy threshold assures that, compared to the GRBs detected by MAGIC and H.E.S.S. (located at z=0.0785, z=0.424 and z=0.653), CTA will be able to detect signals from even greater distances, where the GRB rate is higher. Finally, the long-lasting duration of the VHE emission (detected up to several hours [2]), coupled with CTA’s unprecedented sensitivity, implies that GRBs that can be pointed only several hours after the initial burst might still be well detectable. The GRB detection rate at VHE is then expected to largely increase with CTA, enabling researchers to fully exploit this new window of investigation on GRBs.
+
+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.
+
+In light of the MAGIC results on GRB 160821B [4], the prospects for detection of VHE radiation from short GRBs are also very promising. Because short GRBs are connected to the same sources that produce gravitational waves, there is a direct link between CTA science and gravitational waves, which strengthens the role of CTA in this exciting new era of multi-messenger astrophysics.
+
+[1] [Mirzoyan et al. Atel #12390](http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=12390)
+
+[2] Ruiz Velasco et al., CTA symposium, Bologna 2019
+
+[3] [Naurois et al., GCN #25566](https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/25566.gcn3)
+
+[4] [Inoue et al. 2019](https://pos.sissa.it/358/703/pdf)
diff --git a/src/content/news/chec-achieves-first-light-on-astri.md b/src/content/news/chec-achieves-first-light-on-astri.md
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+---
+title: "CHEC-S Camera Achieves First Light on the ASTRI-Horn Telescope"
+description: "On Monday 29 April, the Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) prototype camera, CHEC-S, was installed on the ASTRI-Horn telescope, a prototype Small-Sized Telescope (SST) for CTA. The following day, the camera was turned on and achieved first…"
+date: 2019-05-22
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/d2019-05-17_CHECS-on-ASTRI_EventMovie_001.gif
+draft: false
+---
+
+On Monday 29 April, the Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) prototype camera, CHEC-S, was installed on the ASTRI-Horn telescope (left), a prototype Small-Sized Telescope (SST) for CTA. The following day, the camera was turned on and achieved first light, recording thousands of Cherenkov events in the first evening of observations. No re-alignment of the telescope optics was required following the mounting of CHEC. Images appear clear and in-focus with the PSF of the telescope well-matched to the camera pixel size. A selection of these events can be seen below.
+
+The observations took place at the astronomical site of Serra La Nave (Mount Etna) in Sicily managed by INAF-Catania and involved both CHEC and ASTRI team members from DESY, INAF, University of Leicester, Liverpool University, [Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik](https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/mpi/en/hinton/projects/cta/chec/) (MPIK) and the University of Oxford. The team remained on site for two weeks to prove the viability of using CHEC with ASTRI – a goal that was readily met. Beyond capturing Cherenkov images from cosmic rays, the team briefly observed several gamma-ray sources, commissioned the internal camera calibration system, took data to verify the camera pointing system and completed work on reading out trigger patterns for each raw event.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
+
+This achievement comes not long after the ASTRI-Horn telescope became the first Cherenkov telescope in a dual-mirror configuration to detect the Crab Nebula at TeV energies using the ASTRI prototype Cherenkov camera. The CHEC is an alternative Cherenkov camera compatible with both SST dual-mirror telescopes, GCT and ASTRI. The latest prototype, CHEC-S (right) consists of 2048 silicon photo-multiplier pixels forming approximately a 9o x 9o field of view when installed on ASTRI-Horn.
+
+The CHEC is unique as an SST dual-mirror camera in its ability to capture Cherenkov light not as fixed images, but as movies consisting of hundreds of frames each lasting one billionth of a second. This can be seen clearly in the selection of Cherenkov events shown in the animated gif below. On the left, the time development of individual showers can be seen as they sweep across the camera, whilst, on the right, the resulting extracted charge for each pixel for the corresponding images is shown. The majority of these images result from showers initiated by cosmic rays of several hundred TeV landing several hundred metres from the telescope.
+
+Two things are immediately clear from such images. First, looking at the right, there is an ambiguity in the fixed image – it is not easy to tell from which direction it originated. Think of a perfectly symmetric train – how can you tell which end is the front? The answer is that you need to see it move. The same is true here, and this ambiguity is removed by the additional timing information evident in the images to the left – we can now tell without question from which direction the Cherenkov light came. Second, each of these images lasts 128 nanoseconds. That allows Cherenkov light to propagate across the full camera without truncation, something that has not been possible with previous generations of Cherenkov cameras.
+
+“The integration of CHEC-S on ASTRI has been extremely smooth. We have proved that the teams can work together efficiently and that CHEC works well on an ASTRI-style dual-mirror telescope,” said Richard White, Group Leader at MPIK and coordinator of the CHEC project. “We see clean, crisp Cherenkov images swimming across the camera, and results look to be almost exactly as expected from Monte Carlo simulations. Both teams have worked hard to make this a reality, and I am extremely grateful for their efforts.”
+
+A second campaign is planned for mid-June, when the CHEC and ASTRI teams will attempt moon light observations in an important step towards verifying some of the most stringent CTA requirements. In the meantime, analysis is underway on the wealth of data collected so far. Beyond this, an iteration of CHEC is planned to incorporate the latest in SiPM technology.
+
+Three classes of telescope are required to cover the full CTA very-high energy range (20 GeV to 300 TeV): Medium-Sized Telescopes (12 m diameter reflector) will cover CTA’s core energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV) while the Large-Sized Telescopes (23 m) and Small-Sized Telescopes (4 m) are planned to extend the energy range below 100 GeV and above a few TeV, respectively. The ASTRI telescope and CHEC camera are proposed SST designs being prototyped and tested for CTA’s southern hemisphere array.
+
+The ASTRI project ([http://www.brera.inaf.it/astri/](http://www.brera.inaf.it/astri/)) is led by the [Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF)](http://www.inaf.it/en?set_language=en) with the collaboration of a number of Italian universities, the [Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)](https://web2.ba.infn.it/index.php/en/), [Universidade de São Paulo](http://www.ifsc.usp.br/) in Brazil and [North-West University](http://www.nwu.ac.za/) in South Africa. The CHEC project, led by [MPIK](https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/mpi/en/hinton/projects/cta/chec/), is an international collaboration between the University of Adelaide, the University of Amsterdam, DESY Zeuthen, Durham University, the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), the University of Leicester, the University of Liverpool, Nagoya University, and the University of Oxford.
+
+The SSTs will outnumber all the other telescopes with 70 planned to be spread out over several square kilometres in the southern hemisphere array. Since the showers generated by very high-energy gamma-rays (between a few TeV and 300 TeV) produce a large amount of Cherenkov light, it is sufficient to build telescopes with small mirrors to catch that light. The SSTs’ wide coverage and large number, spread over a large area, will improve CTA’s ability to detect the highest energy gamma rays.
+
+Find more technical information on CHEC in:  White, R. et al. ([arXiv:1709.05799](https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05799))
+
+For more information on the ASTRI project, see: S. Scuderi et al. ([https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920901001](https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920901001))
+
+### Contacts
+
+Richard White – CHEC Project Coordinator
+
+Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
+
+[richard.white@mpi-hd.mpg.de](mailto:richard.white@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
+
++49-6221-516-141
+
+Salvatore Scuderi
+INAF – ASTRI Project Manager
+[Salvatore.scuderi@inaf.it](mailto:Salvatore.scuderi@inaf.it)
++39 347 0380166
diff --git a/src/content/news/chile-site-instruments-continue-multiply.md b/src/content/news/chile-site-instruments-continue-multiply.md
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+---
+title: "Chile Site Instruments Continue to Multiply"
+description: "On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre…"
+date: 2016-03-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/PB221085_web2-768x576.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+The number of site characterization instruments on the Armazones 2K site in Chile has grown significantly over the past few months as the start of construction draws closer.
+
+A 10-metre tower, the first tower installed on site in early 2014, hosts a weather station that measures temperature, humidity, pressure and wind characteristics. It also includes a Wi-Fi router to transmit data to Paranal via a microwave link.
+
+Thirty metres north of the first tower, a 30-metre tower (pictured to the left) includes three three-dimensional anemometers installed at different heights to measure the wind speed and profile. The goal of these wind velocity measurements is to estimate the full wind structure in order to be able to more precisely determine observing conditions. Even a modest increase in the observation time could result in significant rewards.
+
+The “ASC complex” is located 30 metres east of the 10-metre tower and hosts an all-sky camera (ASC), a seismometer and a Sun and Moon photometer. New ASCs were installed at the proposed CTA sites on La Palma and Armazones 2K in late 2015. These new ASCs are upgrades from the previous generation for appraising the sites and are equipped with special filters to provide fast and raw atmospheric characterization and standard cloud analysis. And as Chile is known to be seismically active, a small seismometer will estimate the number and magnitude of small, frequent earthquakes. The photometer will measure the atmosphere absorption and scattering of light from the Sun and Moon at the site to improve the quality of simulations.
diff --git a/src/content/news/critical-design-review-of-the-large-sized-telescope-successfully-approved-and-closed.md b/src/content/news/critical-design-review-of-the-large-sized-telescope-successfully-approved-and-closed.md
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+---
+title: "Critical Design Review of the Large-Sized Telescope Successfully Approved and Closed"
+description: "The CTAO LST Collaboration has reached a significant milestone with the successful approval and closure of the telescope’s Critical Design Review (CDR). The CDR is a thorough, multi-disciplinary evaluation of the telescope’s design to…"
+date: 2024-09-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/DJI_20240822122702_0114_D-1600x900.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+The [CTAO LST Collaboration](https://www.ctao.org/partners/in-kind-contributors/) has reached a significant milestone with the successful approval and closure of the telescope’s Critical Design Review (CDR). The CDR is a thorough, multi-disciplinary evaluation of the telescope’s design to ensure it meets all required specifications and functions for its proper operation. The completion was marked by the official release of the CDR document, signed by the CTAO Managing Director. This approval paves the way for the final acceptance and handover of the [Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/), which are currently under commissioning and construction at CTAO-North in La Palma (Spain), to the CTAO.
+
+The LST’s CDR process began in 2018 and involved the preparation of hundreds of documents by the LST Collaboration, culminating in a final review with the [CTAO Central Organisation](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/team/) during a face-to-face meeting in Munich in late 2019. During this meeting, missing deliverables and processes were identified and agreed upon. The first major milestone was the completion of the common elements assessment by the end of 2021. This was followed by the successful completion and approval of the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis in 2022, and with the reliability report and verification finalised a year later.
+
+This achievement represents a collective effort, requiring dedication and cooperation from the entire LST Collaboration. Successfully completing the CDR demonstrates that the LST design adheres to the requirements and guidelines set forth by the CTAO Central Organisation. Throughout this process, the trust and collaboration between the Central Organisation and the LST System Engineering teams have grown stronger, further enhancing the partnership.
+
+While this milestone marks significant progress, much work remains. With LST-1 currently under commission in La Palma, the LST Collaboration is also focused on constructing the remaining three LSTs for the site. Aiming for completion by the end of 2025, construction is progressing as expected, with the recent installation of the arch supporting the camera in one of the telescopes being the latest achievement.
+
+Congratulations to the entire LST Collaboration, with special recognition for those who played a direct role in overcoming this demanding challenge!
diff --git a/src/content/news/cta-around-the-world-bologna2019.md b/src/content/news/cta-around-the-world-bologna2019.md
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+---
+title: "First ‘CTA around the world’ Event to be Held in Bologna on 22 October"
+description: "A night of science, appetizers and friends … is there a better plan for a Tuesday after class or work? Join us for our “AstroChat Night” in Bologna at 19:30 on Tuesday, 22 October at Birreria Popolare (Via dal Luzzo 4a)."
+date: 2019-10-16
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FeaturedImage-2-768x380.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+A night of science, appetizers and friends … is there a better plan for a Tuesday after class or work? Join us for our “AstroChat Night” in Bologna at 19:30 on Tuesday, 22 October at Birreria Popolare (Via dal Luzzo 4a).
+
+Organized by the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), this event is your opportunity to chat with our panel of experts to resolve some of your curiosities about the Universe, learn about the latest advancements in science technology and find out what it takes to become a scientist in the exciting world of astronomy and astrophysics. Have you ever wondered what kinds of objects are in outer space? Do you know why astrophysics is useful for daily life? Have you ever wondered if what you see in movies about the Universe is real? Would you like to pursue a career in science but don’t know where to start? Come with all your questions and have a seat with our experts — the science and the appetizers are on us!
+
+CTA, whose headquarters is located in Bologna, is holding its bi-annual Consortium meeting in Bologna during the week of 21 October so we’re lucky to have four CTA members to answer your questions (in Italian or English): Carla Aramo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, INFN), Vito Conforti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, INAF), Rubén López-Coto (INFN) and Chiara Montanari (CTAO):
+
+### **Carla Aramo**
+
+I am in charge of the Naples group of CTA-INFN and work on the characterization of the photodetectors in the camera of the Medium-Sized Telescope prototype, pSCT, for CTA, which reveal the Cherenkov light emitted by the particles in the cascades that develop in the atmosphere. I also work in the characterization of the atmosphere with the use of the Lidar ARCADE, which I helped install on the CTA-North site in La Palma. I also take care of outreach and scientific communication, organizing many activities both for schools and for public events, such as the “European Researchers’ Night”.
+
+### **Vito Conforti
+
+**
+
+I’m a computer scientist. My adventure began at the age of 10 with my first Olivetti PC, without a hard disk and with a green monitor. At the age of 13 I attended the first Computer Science course where my passion for the subject was born. My adventure at INAF started with the goal of creating a generic Instrument Workstation supporting ground instrumentation and space telescopes. Over time I became responsible for the data acquisition system and software manager of the ASTRI-Horn telescope (Small-Sized Telescope proposed for CTA). I also participate in the implementation of the CTA Observatory telescope control system.
+
+### **Rubén López-Coto
+
+**
+
+I am a physicist, with a PhD in astroparticle physics. I have studied the most extreme gamma-ray Universe for more than nine years, investigating the physics behind the most exotic events in the Cosmos and trying to understand how particles can move almost at the speed of light and where they are produced. I also work in the software and hardware development of Cherenkov telescopes. All this allowed me to travel around the world to collaborate with groups from different countries and to live in very different cities. I currently work at INFN as Deputy Software Coordinator of the Large-Sized Telescope for CTA.
+
+### **Chiara Montanari**
+
+The only label I can accept is “Life Explorer”, and the reason is evident: we all are exploring life! I am an engineer with 15 years polar mission experience. I participated in five missions in Antarctica, leading the missions at the most extreme international research bases on the planet. In 2015, I published a book named “Cronache dai ghiacci” about my experience in the Antarctic Plateau, where I proposed the extreme environment as a metaphor of the current world. I am now working for the CTA construction project as the Interface Manager for the CTAO in Bologna.
+
+This event is part of the “CTA around the world” program created by CTAO with the aim of carrying out outreach events about the highest-energy Universe and CTA at different cities around the globe, where CTA meetings take place. Events performed under this program are conducted by CTA members in the local language.
+
+We look forward to seeing you in Bologna at Birreria Popolare on Tuesday, 22 October!
+
+**Contact**: [CTAO Outreach and Education Coordinator, Alba Fernández-Barral](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
+### More information:
+
+CTA is a large-scale, global project to build the world’s most powerful instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. It will be not only the largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory ever built, but also the first observatory open to the world-wide astronomy and physics communities as a facility devoted to high-energy astronomy. The observatory will be located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma (Spain), and near the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile). More than 1,500 scientists and engineers from 31 countries are engaged in the scientific and technical development of CTA. The preparation of the design and the implementation of the observatory is managed by CTAO.
diff --git a/src/content/news/cta-consortium-2-0.md b/src/content/news/cta-consortium-2-0.md
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+---
+title: "CTA Consortium 2.0: Preparing for Construction and Operations"
+description: "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)."
+date: 2019-10-07
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/DSCF2816_small-1600x731.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jürgen Knödlseder, Chair, CTA Consortium*
+
+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](https://www.ctao.org/partners/ctao-consortium/) is the group of scientists and engineers that devised the CTA concept more than a decade ago and have been the driving force behind its design. When the Consortium was formed in 2008, the primary goal was the design and promotion of a next generation Cherenkov telescope instrument that can address the many open questions that exist in high-energy astrophysics. At that time, issues like data access and data rights, writing observation proposals and dealing with commissioning and early operations were not the main focus.
+
+Today, the Consortium is composed of more than 1,500 members from 200 institutes in 31 countries. And with the construction of CTA on the horizon and the first Large-Sized Telescope prototype under commissioning on the CTA-North site on La Palma, all these issues need to be carefully addressed. For this reason, the CTA Consortium has been working since 2014 on a new MoU, which defines the vision for how scientists and engineers in CTA will work together moving forward.
+
+This new MoU was endorsed by the CTA Consortium Board during its 2nd semester meeting in Berlin in 2018, and the signature of the document was started in May this year. Now that the document has become effective, a transition period of approximately one year has begun and will be completed when Consortium members are admitted under the new rules and a new CTA Consortium management team is elected. When this is accomplished, the CTA Consortium 2.0 will be fully installed, operational and prepared for the exciting years to come, when the CTA Observatory will be built and  will commence its first science operations.
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+title: "CTA Consortium Holds its Biannual Meeting in Lugano, Switzerland"
+description: "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…"
+date: 2019-06-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/DSCF4008_small-768x453.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jürgen Knödlseder, Chair, CTA Consortium*
+
+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.
+
+The meeting started with two days of parallel sessions covering all aspects of Consortium and CTA Observatory activities, including site infrastructure, system engineering and AIV, calibration and test facilities, computing and software, data analysis and simulations, as well as science and outreach. The parallel sessions were followed by a one and a half day plenary session and concluded with a meeting of the Consortium Board, the governing body of the CTA Consortium.
+
+The plenary session was opened with an inspiring presentation given by Thomas Schulthess, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and professor for computational physics at ETH Zürich, who explained the convergence between High Performance Computing and Big Data, and the role of the CSCS. The session featured also a highlight talk by Matteo Balbo on Eta Carinae, summarising the science questions related to colliding wind binaries and demonstrating the science potential of CTA in this area. In his introductory talk, Werner Hofmann, Spokesperson of the CTA Consortium, also underlined the eagerness of the community to get CTA data. This was attested by the great success of the first CTA Science Symposium that took place in Bologna in May, which illustrated the many links that exist between CTA science and evolutions in other fields.
+
+The Consortium was also informed about the status and outcomes from the various telescope prototypes. Highlights included the exciting progress of the LST-1 commissioning on La Palma, the first light of the NectarCAM Qualification Model on the Medium-Sized Telescope prototype in Berlin Adlershof and the detection of the Crab nebula by the ASTRI-Horn telescope on Mount Etna. Abelardo Moralejo and Johan Bregeon, respectively Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator of the Analysis and Simulations Working Group, showed interesting comparisons of prototype data with data from Monte Carlo simulations, illustrating the good understanding of the hardware. The understanding will even improve, thanks to a dedicated and impressive effort to refine the Monte Carlo model in collaboration with the telescope teams. Progress was also reported on the development of the software pipeline that processes CTA data from levels DL0 to DL3 and also produces the Instrument Response Functions. A reference analysis, including analysis benchmarks, is being established so that improved algorithms can be evaluated and subsequently proposed for integration into the pipeline.
+
+The Science Working Groups also made impressive progress, as summarised in the presentation of Emma de Oña Wilhelmi, Science Coordinator of the CTA Consortium. The group worked intensively on the identification of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger needs for the Key Science Projects, which now have to be prioritised to develop a suitable strategy. Substantial progress was also made on the Consortium Publications, with the first papers being scheduled for submission within the next months. Details on the two most advanced Consortium papers, relating to searching for dark matter in the Galactic Centre and the propagation of very high-energy gamma rays across intergalactic space, were given in dedicated plenary talks.
+
+Significant progress was also observed on the side of the CTA Observatory (CTAO). Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of the CTAO gGmbH, informed the Consortium about the progress in the transformation of the current CTAO gGmbH into a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), about the kick-off of the activities for the implementation of CTA-South, and about the establishment of the CTA cost book that will serve as a reference for the future in-kind contributions to the project. In his presentation, Wolfgang Wild, Project Manager of CTA, summarised the progress on the implementation of CTA-North, CTA-South and the Science Data Management Centre (SDMC). Furthermore, he covered various project related topics, including project management and systems engineering activities, construction milestones and the SST harmonisation process. Finally, he took the occasion to thank the outgoing Project Scientist Jim Hinton for his important contributions to CTA and welcomed the new Project Scientist Roberta Zanin, who joined CTAO on 1 June 2019. Roberta gave a short presentation about the Project Science activities, including progress on requirements and science operations, as well as plans on the second Data Challenge and science verification.
+
+Additional plenary presentations by CTAO personnel covered systems engineering, infrastructure, computing, communication and outreach. Systems engineering is finalising the design for CTA-North, of which many results will be directly applicable to the design of CTA-South. Also, Critical Design Reviews for the LST and the MST structure are scheduled. Infrastructure planning for the short project in the North that includes three LSTs and one MST are progressing well, with start of the civil work expected in the first half of 2020. In addition, with Paolo Calisse for CTA-North and Volker Heinz for CTA-South, site managers are now installed who are already quite active with the preparation of the site activities. The CTAO computing department, which is now led by the computing coordinator Stefan Schlenstedt, has the challenging task to get software and computing infrastructure ready for the first telescope acceptance in 2020 and the planned start of early science in 2022. A lot of work still needs to be done concerning the detailed system definition, requirement and interfaces, but formal development of the array control software (now called ACADA) will start soon. The outreach and communications office is also very active, and CTA is getting steadily increasing reach on the web, in social media, but also in the press and during conferences. Outreach and communications planning is also well under way, and a plan exists now covering the construction phase of CTA.
+
+In its meeting on Friday, the Consortium Board discussed among other items the transition towards the new CTA Consortium. A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was agreed upon at the last Consortium meeting in Berlin, and its signature has started on 24 May 2019. While the current MoU is based on the admission of institutes, the new MoU is based on the admission of individuals and their commitments on fulfilling CTA Consortium duties, such as contributions to the Science and Analysis and Simulations Working Groups, but also contributions to the development and construction of CTA elements and the development of analysis methods and tools. The new CTA Consortium is expected to be kicked-off by the time of the next Consortium meeting, but the completion of the transition to the new Consortium is expected to take probably more than one year.
+
+The meeting featured also visits to the impressive CSCS, where attendants could have a look on Piz Daint, the most powerful supercomputer in Europe. A press event was furthermore organised during the meeting that highlighted the Swiss contribution to the exploration of the high-energy Universe, and the Swiss involvement in CTA. A relaxing conference dinner was organised on Wednesday near the lake at the foot of Monte San Generoso, where besides an excellent dinner, the attendants could benefit from a spectacular view on the mountains around Lugano.
+
+The Lugano Consortium meeting was an excellent event, and in the name of the entire Consortium, I would like to warmly thank the organisers and sponsors for their hospitality and the seamless organisation of an unforgettable week.
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+title: "CTA Consortium Holds its Bi-annual Meeting in Orsay, France"
+description: "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…"
+date: 2018-05-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/DSCF2816_small-1600x731.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jürgen Knödlseder, Chair, CTA Consortium*
+
+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. The event concluded with two hands-on sessions on software tools and the meeting of the Consortium Board.
+
+The picture above shows the happy crowd of CTA Consortium members during the sunny gathering in Orsay. This was the first meeting that was attended by Federico Ferrini, the new managing director of the CTAO gGmbH, who presented together with the Project Manager Wolfgang Wild a clear path forward towards the construction of CTA. This path goes through a harmonisation and simplification process of all CTA systems, ensuring that CTA can be effectively built and efficiently operated. All CTA Consortium members are looking forward to moving quickly through this process, entering the construction phase as soon as possible and realising the dream of a unique astronomical observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays that was initiated more than a decade ago.
+
+Exciting progress was reported during the meeting from the various CTA telescope prototypes. All Small-Sized Telescope prototypes have had their first light, and first measurements of a celestial gamma-ray source were reported during the meeting. Also the single-reflector Medium-Sized Telescope prototype has seen first light, and the double-reflector prototype that is currently being built in Arizona, United States, is nearing completion (see left picture below). The assembly of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype is also progressing impressively at the CTA North site in La Palma, Spain, and the first light from the completed telescope is expected before the end of the year.
+
+Important progress was also reported on the development of software tools, and the results of the first analyses of prototype telescope data using a prototype of the CTA processing pipeline were presented during the meeting. Tests of the existing software tools for end-user science analysis, using data from the first CTA Data Challenge were also discussed, showing that the tools live up to expectations.
+
+The Analysis and Simulations Working Group reported about their important efforts in updating the Monte Carlo model, preparing for the verification of the telescope and camera designs. Further priorities for this year presented at the meeting include the use of the prototype CTA processing pipeline for the production of Instrument Response Functions, the development of analysis benchmarks and the study of systematic uncertainties. In addition, the divergent pointing mode, the use of Machine Learning in the processing pipeline, and the overall data reduction are also under study.
+
+The Science Working Groups presented the progress on the analysis of the first Data Challenge, with a highlight talk on the production of source catalogues from the Galactic Plane Survey, which is one of the Key Science Projects of CTA. Further priorities for this year include the writing of Consortium publications, the fostering of the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger connections, and a re-assessment of the Key Science Projects.
+
+Besides all the interesting scientific and technical discussions during the meeting, the meeting attendees also gathered for two social events in special locations: a welcome cocktail in a decommissioned nuclear reactor at CEA in Saclay, which also provided the opportunity to visit the NectarCAM prototype camera, and a Consortium dinner on the first floor of the Eiffel tower in Paris.
+
+Visit out [Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/albums/72157670525544004) for photos from the event.
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+---
+title: "CTA Consortium Meeting Comes to a Close in Bologna"
+description: "During the week of 24 October 2016, nearly 250 CTA Consortium members from 25 of its 32 member countries from around the world came together in Bologna, Italy to discuss the science and construction of CTA."
+date: 2016-10-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/IMG_9836_web-768x438.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+During the week of 24 October 2016, nearly 250 CTA Consortium members from 25 of its 32 member countries from around the world came together in Bologna, Italy to discuss the science and construction of CTA. The CTA Consortium includes 1,350 members from 210 institutes in 32 countries. This group of institutions is currently responsible for directing the science goals of the Observatory and is involved in the array design and supplying components (as in-kind contributions). The meeting consisted of a mix of parallel and plenary sessions with topics ranging from reports from the project work packages and CTA Project Office to Observatory operations and detailed science goals of CTA.
+
+The meeting was hosted by [INAF/IASF-Bologna](http://www.iasfbo.inaf.it/en) at the Conference Centre of the Bologna [CNR-INAF Research Area](http://www.bo.cnr.it/index-eng.html), which is the location of CTA’s new headquarters (estimated to open in 2017). Special thanks to Pino Malaguti (INAF/IASF-Bologna Director) and Vito Conforti for meeting coordination and organisation.
+
+Left, in addition to the daily meetings, the attendees were treated to a traditional Bolognese dinner on 26 October at the Palazzo Re Enzo in Bologna’s historic city centre.
+
+The internal authority of the Consortium, the Consortium Board, also met twice during the week. The Board includes representatives from each of the Consortium institutes and is responsible for endorsing all major Consortium decisions. Some of the highlights from their meeting in Bologna, include:
+
+Two new member institutes were admitted to the CTA Consortium: The Warsaw University of Technology in Poland and the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium in Northern Ireland. In addition, the Liverpool John Moores University was promoted from associated to regular CTA Consortium member.
+
+Jean-Pierre Ernenwein from CPPM (France) was nominated as the new Chair of the Speaker’s And Publication Office (SAPO) and will begin 1 January 2017.
+
+The 2nd semester 2017 Consortium meeting will be held in La Palma, Spain in November.
+
+The Consortium meets bi-annually. The next meeting will be 15-19 May 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
+
+For more images from the event, visit our [Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/albums/72157670525544004).
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+---
+title: "The Cherenkov Telescope Array Hosts its First Science Symposium"
+description: "The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will host its first CTA Science Symposium 6-9 May 2019 in Bologna, Italy. The symposium will focus on the novel investigations CTA will bring to the field and its synergies with other wavebands and…"
+date: 2019-02-06
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/SM_Ad_open_small_cropped-2-768x385.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will host its first [CTA Science Symposium](http://www.cta-symposium.com/) 6-9 May 2019 in Bologna, Italy. The symposium will focus on the novel investigations CTA will bring to the field and its synergies with other wavebands and messengers. It will also cover instrument characteristics, analysis tools and opportunities for guest investigators and how coordinated observations with CTA will have a significant impact on the exciting new era of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics. Among the field of highly-accomplished [speakers](https://www.cta-symposium.com/invited-speakers) that will be in attendance are CTA Spokesperson and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Werner Hofmann, as well as two Nobel Laureates in Physics, Takaaki Kajita and Rainer Weiss.
+
+CTA will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. As the construction phase of CTA’s two arrays (one in La Palma and one in Chile) nears, the excitement for CTA’s scientific potential continues to grow. The potential is extremely broad: from understanding the role of relativistic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter. CTA will explore the extreme Universe, probing environments from the immediate neighbourhood of black holes to cosmic voids on the largest scales. With its ability to cover an enormous range in photon energy from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, CTA will improve on all aspects of performance with respect to current instruments. And its wider field of view and improved sensitivity will enable CTA to survey the sky hundreds of times faster than previous TeV telescopes.
+
+“The CTA Science Symposium is really our opportunity to bring a wide-range of experts together to discuss the future of high-energy astrophysics and particle physics from the viewpoint of many different wavelengths,” said Stefan Funk, Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee. “We see this as our chance to engage the users and the future users of CTA data now in the hopes that we can serve a variety interests and scientific needs.”
+
+The event will be held in the historic centre of Bologna, Italy at the Teatro Duse. Registration and the call for contributed talks are now open. If you register before 5 April, the fee is 300 euro (200 for students). After 5 April, the fee will be raised to 350 and 250 euro respectively.  This covers all lunches, coffee breaks and dinner at the beautiful [Palazzo Re Enzo](http://www.palazzoreenzo.com/en/).
+
+Talks may cover the following areas: cosmic particle acceleration, compact objects and relativistic shocks, role of cosmic particles in galaxy evolution and star-forming systems, gamma rays as cosmic probes, fundamental physics, multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations and, additionally, any topic connected to the scientific possibilities of CTA. Submit your abstract to [http://www.cta-symposium.com/abstract-submission/](http://www.cta-symposium.com/abstract-submission/) (deadline: 10 March 2019).
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+---
+title: "CTA-North Film to Premiere on 10 June via Live Streaming Event on Sky-Live.TV"
+description: "On 10 June 2020 at 20:00 CEST, the next release in our series of films about CTA — “The CTA-North Site: Our Northern Eye on the High-Energy Universe” — will premiere on a live streaming event hosted by Sky-Live.TV and the IAC."
+date: 2020-06-05
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTA_streaming01_friomonday-1600x900.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 10 June 2020 at 20:00 CEST, the next release in our [series of films](https://youtu.be/Teyjh-KJ1aE) about CTA — “The CTA-North Site: Our Northern Eye on the High-Energy Universe” — will premiere on a live streaming event hosted by [Sky-Live.TV](https://www.youtube.com/c/skylivetv_es) and the IAC. The event (in Spanish) will include presentations by CTAO Outreach and Education Officer, Alba Fernández-Barral, and CTA-North Site Manager, Paolo Calisse.
+
+Capturing particle showers from a gamma ray that interacts with the Earth’s atmosphere is a pretty big challenge. That’s why CTA will use two arrays of telescopes to explore the entire night sky: one in the northern hemisphere (CTA-North) and one in the southern hemisphere (CTA-South). In this new film, CTA-North Site Manager, Paolo Calisse, will introduce you to the northern site, which is located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, a Spanish island in the Canary Islands.
+
+This is the second film in a series being released by the CTAO in 2020. The first release “[CTA Science: Emission to Discovery](https://youtu.be/5gRHFQP_SjU)” takes you through the process – from the emission of gamma rays by extreme sources and the collection of Cherenkov light by CTA on Earth to data analysis and discovery. Future releases include a film about the CTA-South site in Chile and a film that includes interviews with some of CTA’s project team and scientists.
+
+Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow the series here: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa)
+
+—
+
+El 10 de junio a las 20:00 CEST, el próximo vídeo de [nuestra serie sobre CTA](https://youtu.be/Teyjh-KJ1aE), *“CTA-Norte: Nuestros Ojos desde el Norte hasta el Universo de Altas Energías”, *se estrenará en directo en un evento co-organizado con [Sky-Live.TV](https://www.youtube.com/c/skylivetv_es) y el IAC. El evento (en español) incluirá las presentaciones de la Coordinadora de Divulgación y Educación de CTAO, Alba Fernández-Barral, y del Administrador de la Sede CTA-Norte, Paolo Calisse.
+
+Capturar las cascadas de partículas producidas por rayos gamma que interactúan con la atmósfera terrestre es un gran desafío. Por ello, CTA albergará dos conjuntos de telescopios para explorar todo el cielo nocturno: uno en el hemisferio norte (CTA-Norte) y otro en el hemisferio sur (CTA-Sur). En este nuevo vídeo, Paolo Calisse presentará el emplazamiento norte, localizado en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos en la isla española de La Palma, en las Islas Canarias.
+
+Este es el segundo vídeo de una serie lanzada por CTAO en el 2020. El primer lanzamiento “[La Ciencia de CTA: Desde la Emisión hasta el Descubrimiento](https://youtu.be/5gRHFQP_SjU)” te lleva a través de todo el proceso – desde la emisión de rayos gamma en fuentes extremas y la captura de luz Cherenkov por CTA en la Tierra, hasta el análisis de datos y el descubrimiento. Los futuros lanzamientos incluyen un vídeo sobre el emplazamiento CTA-Sur en Chile y un vídeo con entrevistas a algunos de los equipos y científicos del proyecto CTA.
+
+No te olvides de suscribirte a nuestro canal de YouTube y sigue la serie de vídeos aquí:
+
+[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa)
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+---
+title: "CTA Promoted to Landmark Status on the 2018 ESFRI Roadmap"
+description: "In early July, the European Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) made the decision to promote the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) from the Project status to Landmark status on its 2018 ESFRI Roadmap."
+date: 2018-07-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/esfri_roadmap_photo_article-768x384.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+In early July, the European Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) made the decision to promote the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) from the Project status to Landmark status on its [2018 ESFRI Roadmap](http://roadmap2018.esfri.eu/). CTA was one of eight projects promoted to the current list of 37 Landmarks.
+
+CTA was first included on the roadmap in 2008 and subsequently put under review for the 2018 update. In 2017, CTA responded to a questionnaire and provided supporting documentation to report on the project’s status and progress toward fulfilling key requirements and addressing the recommendations made by ESFRI in a 2015 assessment. After the evaluation of CTA submission by the ESFRI Working Group on Implementation and the Strategy Working Group for CTA’s research infrastructure, CTA was granted the status of ESFRI Landmark in the ESFRI Roadmap 2018 at its 65th Plenary Forum Meeting in Corfu, Greece.
+
+“We are delighted and honoured to be granted the Landmark status by ESFRI,” said CTAO Managing Director, Federico Ferrini. “This high level of support is just further confirmation for everyone involved in CTA that we are building a world-class facility that will revolutionize what we know about the Universe.”
+
+According to the [ESFRI website](http://www.esfri.eu/about), ESFRI “is a strategic instrument to develop the scientific integration of Europe and to strengthen its international outreach. The competitive and open access to high quality Research Infrastructures supports and benchmarks the quality of the activities of European scientists, and attracts the best researchers from around the world.”
+
+“I am very pleased to see the recognition by the ESFRI evaluation committee of the progress achieved by CTAO. And with the confirmation of commitments by several members, we are progressing towards CTAO-ERIC, expected to be launched at the very beginning of 2020,” said Gabriel Chardin, Chair of the CTAO Council. “This will coincide with the start of construction of a gamma-ray observatory that will be a world reference at very-high energies for the next 30 years.”
+
+The ESFRI Roadmap 2018 will be officially presented to the public in a dedicated event, under the Austrian Presidency, on 11 September 2018 at Aula der Wissenschaften in Vienna.
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype Telescope Achieves First Light"
+description: "On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre…"
+date: 2015-11-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/cta42-1600x1067.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 26 November 2015, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCTFigure1), recorded CTA’s first ever Cherenkov light while undergoing testing at l’Observatoire de Paris in Meudon, France. The GCT is proposed as one of CTA’s [Small-Size Telescopes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/) (SSTs), covering the high end of the CTA energy range, between about 1 and 300 TeV (tera-electronvolts). Another SST prototype, the ASTRI telescope, captured the first optical image in May 2015 with its diagnostic camera.
+
+In the two weeks leading up to the GCT prototype inauguration event on 1 December, the GCT team battled poor weather to install and begin testing the GCT camera. On the evening of Thursday, 26 November, they turned the telescope away from a nearly full moon and the bright lights of Paris towards a clear patch of sky. After 20 seconds, a single event triggered the camera, then another – in just over 300 seconds 12 events were captured. These triggers could have been caused by fluctuations in the bright night sky, but it was instantly clear that they were, in fact, what the team was looking for – images of air showers created in the atmosphere by cosmic rays.
+
+The animation below is one of the events captured by the team. It shows the maximum amount of light captured in each of the camera’s 2048 pixels over 100 frames. CTA astronomers will use images like this to determine the incoming direction and energy of the particle that created the air shower.
+
+“With the tough weather conditions, we only had about an hour-long window to gather as much data as we could,” said GCT Camera Coordinator Dr. Richard White. “We look forward to clearer, darker skies so we can test the camera’s performance in more ideal conditions.” “This is a major milestone for the GCT and we hope for CTA.” said GCT Spokesperson Prof. Tim Greenshaw. “Our design for the CTA telescopes that will detect the highest energy light hitting the earth’s atmosphere from space has been proven to work; we are one step closer to developing a deeper understanding of where and how that light is produced.”
+
+Hélène Sol, Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and GCT Deputy Spokesperson added: “I would like to congratulate all the GCT team who have made this possible, especially the group who worked day and night over the last couple of weeks to get these pictures.”
+
+In order to detect the short flashes of light produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays as they hit the earth’s atmosphere, the telescope’s camera has to be about a million times faster than a DSLR camera. To do this, it uses high-speed digitisation and triggering technology capable of recording images at a rate of one billion frames per second and sensitive enough to resolve single photons.
+
+These first pictures are just the beginning for the GCT. The prototype telescope and camera will undergo rigorous testing over the next year, then the team intends to build 35 cameras and telescopes for the CTA Observatory based on the results of the testing process. “We’re extremely pleased with the progress and performance of the GCT prototype and all of the CTA prototypes,” said CTA Project Manager Christopher Townsley. “We look forward to seeing the results of further testing as we near the construction phase of the project.”
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Achieves First Light"
+description: "During the nights of 25 and 26 May, the camera of the ASTRI telescope prototype recorded its first ever Cherenkov light while undergoing testing at the astronomical site of Serra La Nave (Mount Etna) in Sicily managed by INAF-Catania. This…"
+date: 2017-06-14
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/15354061055_c2311325a0_k_small-768x513.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+During the nights of 25 and 26 May, the camera of the ASTRI telescope prototype (pictured to the left) recorded its first ever Cherenkov light while undergoing testing at the astronomical site of Serra La Nave (Mount Etna) in Sicily managed by INAF-Catania. This comes not long after its optical validation was achieved in November 2016. This accomplishment was the first optical demonstration for astronomical telescopes using the novel Schwarzschild Couder dual-mirror design. The ASTRI telescope is a proposed [Small-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/) design for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
+
+Although the camera was not fully configured, the ASTRI team was still able to capture its first Cherenkov light and produce beautiful images of the showers generated by cosmic rays in the Earth’s atmosphere. The image below shows one of the events captured by the team. This information will allow scientists to reconstruct the direction of gamma-ray photons emitted from celestial sources (indicated by the yellow line on the image on the left). The camera is based on novel SiPM small pixel sensors (7 mm x 7 mm) and CITIROC ASICS peak-finder front-end electronics. The camera was specifically designed to fit on the dual mirror ASTRI telescopes for covering a large field of view of 10O x 10O.
+
+“The results gathered from the images are very much in line with the performance expectations established in the lab, proving the functionality of the camera for the ASTRI telescopes,” said Osvaldo Catalano, astronomer at the INAF-Palermo Institute and leader of the ASTRI camera development program. “The ASTRI team’s achievement is an important milestone and a big step toward the pre-production phase of ASTRI and CTA,” said Giovanni Pareschi, astronomer at the INAF-Milano and principal investigator of the ASTRI project.
+
+Three classes of telescope types are required to cover the full CTA very-high energy range (20 GeV to 300 TeV): Medium-Sized Telescopes (12 m diameter dish) will cover CTA’s core energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV) while the Large-Sized Telescopes (23 m) and Small-Sized Telescopes (4 m) or SSTs are planned to extend the energy range below 100 GeV and above a few TeV, respectively. The ASTRI telescope is one of three proposed SST designs being prototyped and tested for CTA’s southern hemisphere array. It uses an innovative dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration with a 4.3 m diameter primary mirror and a 1.8 m monolithic secondary mirror.
+
+The ASTRI project ([http://www.brera.inaf.it/astri/](http://www.brera.inaf.it/astri/)) is led by the [Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF)](http://www.inaf.it/en?set_language=en) with the collaboration of a number of Italian universities, the [Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)](https://web2.ba.infn.it/index.php/en/), [Universidade de São Paulo](http://www.ifsc.usp.br/) in Brazil and [North-West University](http://www.nwu.ac.za/) in South Africa.
+
+The SSTs will outnumber all the other telescopes with 70 planned to be spread out over several square kilometres in the southern hemisphere array. Since the showers generated by very high-energy gamma-rays (between a few TeV and 300 TeV) produce a large amount of Cherenkov light, it is sufficient to build telescopes with small mirrors to catch that light. The SSTs’ wide coverage and large number, spread over a large area, will improve CTA’s ability to detect the highest energy gamma rays.
+
+For an Italian version of the press release, please go to: [http://www.media.inaf.it/2017/06/14/prima-luce-camera-astri/](http://www.media.inaf.it/2017/06/14/prima-luce-camera-astri/)
+
+Find more technical information on the camera for the ASTRI telescope prototype in the following paper:
+
+[The ASTRI SST-2M Prototype: Camera and Electronics, Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference](https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5142) (ICRC 2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
+
+***Dedication:**** We would like to dedicate this achievement to the memory of our close colleague and friend, **Prof. Giovanni (Nanni) Bignami** (1944-2017). In addition to his numerous accolades and contributions to the field of gamma-ray astronomy, he was a crucial supporter and contributor to CTA and the ASTRI program, for which he invented the acronym*. *We are so grateful for his unwavering encouragement and insight, and we offer our sincerest condolences to his wife, Patrizia Caraveo, his family, colleagues and friends.*
diff --git a/src/content/news/cta-prototype-telescope-astri-demonstrates-viability-novel-schwarzschild-couder-design.md b/src/content/news/cta-prototype-telescope-astri-demonstrates-viability-novel-schwarzschild-couder-design.md
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Demonstrates Viability of Novel Schwarzschild-Couder Design"
+description: "In October 2016, the ASTRI telescope prototype, a novel dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder telescope design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), passed its biggest test yet by demonstrating a constant point-spread function of a…"
+date: 2016-11-11
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/cta40-1600x1050.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+In October 2016, the ASTRI telescope prototype (pictured below), a novel dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder telescope design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), passed its biggest test yet by demonstrating a constant point-spread function of a few arc minutes over a large field of view of 10 degrees.
+
+Three classes of telescope types are required to cover the full CTA very-high energy range (20 GeV to 300 TeV): [Medium-Size Telescopes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/mst/) will cover CTA’s core energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV) while the [Large-Size Telescopes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) and [Small-Size Telescopes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/) (SSTs) are planned to extend the energy range below 100 GeV and above a few TeV, respectively.
+
+The ASTRI telescope is one of three proposed SST designs being prototyped and tested for CTA’s southern hemisphere array. The ASTRI telescope uses an innovative dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration with a 4.3 m diameter primary mirror and a 1.8 m monolithic secondary mirror. In 1905, the German physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild proposed a design for a two-mirror telescope intended to eliminate much of the optical aberration across the field of view. This idea, enhanced in 1926 by André Couder, lay dormant for almost a century because it was considered too difficult and expensive to build. It was in 2007 that a study by Vladimir Vassiliev and colleagues at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) demonstrated the design’s usefulness for atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes.
+
+The ASTRI prototype, the first Schwarzschild-Couder telescope to be built and tested, was inaugurated in September 2014 and has been undergoing testing at the Serra La Nave observing station on Mount Etna in Sicily ever since. The technical challenges of the design were overcome by recent advances, particularly in dual-mirror technology, making it a feasible implementation for the observation of Cherenkov light.
+
+Pictured below, Polaris, the North Star, as observed by ASTRI with different offsets from the optical axis of the telescope. The recorded images have approximately the same angular size, each one from a different observational direction in the field of view (from 0 to 4.5 degrees from each side with respect to the central optical axis). These images show that the optical point-spread function of the telescope is approximately constant across the full field of view. This information will allow scientists to reconstruct the direction of gamma-ray photons emitted from celestial sources.
+
+“This is also the first time that a Cherenkov telescope with two focusing mirrors has been completely characterized from the opto-mechanical point of view,” said Giovanni Pareschi, astronomer at the INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory and principal investigator of the ASTRI project. “This is an important result because it allows us to move immediately to the next step: to mount a Cherenkov camera by December 2016 with the aim to observe the first gamma-ray light with ASTRI.”
+
+The ASTRI project is led by the [Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF)](http://www.inaf.it/en?set_language=en) with the collaboration of a number of Italian universities, the [Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)](https://web2.ba.infn.it/index.php/en/), [Universidade de São Paulo](http://www.iag.usp.br/) in Brazil and [North-West University](http://www.nwu.ac.za/) in South Africa.
+
+The SSTs will outnumber all the other telescopes with 70 planned to be spread out over several square kilometres in the southern hemisphere array. Since very high-energy gamma-ray showers (between a few TeV and 300 TeV) produce a large amount of Cherenkov light, it is sufficient to build telescopes with small mirrors to catch that light. The SSTs’ wide coverage and large number, spread over a large area, will improve CTA’s chances of detecting the highest energy gamma rays. The Schwarzschild-Couder design is being used in two additional CTA prototypes (the SST-2M GCT and the SCT), but the ASTRI is the first to conclusively demonstrate the viability of the system.
+
+For more information, including Italian language content, go to: [http://www.inaf.it/en/inaf-news/astri-telescope-2020-vision](http://www.inaf.it/en/inaf-news/astri-telescope-2020-vision).
diff --git a/src/content/news/cta-prototype-telescope-sst-1m-catches-first-glimpse-sky.md b/src/content/news/cta-prototype-telescope-sst-1m-catches-first-glimpse-sky.md
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype Telescope, the SST-1M, Catches its First Glimpse of the Sky"
+description: "On Thursday, 31 August, 2017, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the SST-1M, recorded its first events while undergoing testing at the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ-PAN)…"
+date: 2017-09-07
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/SST1M_event-1-768x366.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On Thursday, 31 August, 2017, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the SST-1M, recorded its first events while undergoing testing at the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ-PAN) in Krakow, Poland. The SST-1M is proposed as one of CTA’s [Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/), which will cover the high end of CTA’s energy range, between about 1 and 300 TeV (tera-electronvolts).
+
+A crew in Krakow worked for two days to install the camera on the telescope and spent another two days monitoring it to ensure it could be safely switched on in the high humidity conditions. Watch the camera installation in the video below.
+
+On the night of 31 August, another crew in Geneva, Switzerland, sent remote control commands to the telescope to start tracking two gamma-ray emitters (two black holes) with its camera. Within seconds, the coordinates of the first source were set and the telescope slewed into the observation position, allowing the telescope to track the source and the data to flow. Even with the moonlight and lights from the city, more than 5 million events and 330 GB of data were acquired with the camera in less than 1.5 hours of operation.
+
+“Additional tuning and hours of operation are needed before the SST-1M performance can be clearly assessed, but this is a major milestone for the project and its participants, who have worked hard through five years of design and laboratory testing to make this accomplishment a reality,” said Prof. Teresa Montaruli, project leader of the SST-1M.
+
+The SST-1M project team includes 12 institutes from 5 countries (Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine). The project is led by the University of Geneva (project leader: Prof. T. Montaruli, project manager: Dr. D. della Volpe, camera coordinator: M. Heller). The quality assurance engineer is M. Stodulska, IFJ-PAN. The Polish partners designed and built the telescope structure, its control and the fully-digitizing readout electronics of the camera (mainly developed by Eng. K. Zietara). The Czech parties are responsible for the optical system, while the Swiss partners designed and realized the camera mechanics and photosensor plane based on a new technology in high-energy gamm-ray astronomy, silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs).
+
+The SST-1M is one of three proposed SST designs being prototyped and tested for CTA’s southern hemisphere array. It uses a single-mirror design with a 4 m diameter (focal length of 5.6 m) reflector that uses hexagonal facets. The camera (pictured to the right) uses SiPMs and about 1,300 ultra-fast (time resolution of the order of 500 picoseconds) light-sensitive pixels to convert the light into an electrical signal that is then digitized and transmitted to record the image of the cascade.
+
+The SSTs will outnumber all the other telescopes with 70 planned to be spread out over several square kilometres in the [southern hemisphere array](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/). Since the showers generated by very high-energy gamma rays (between a few TeV and 300 TeV) produce a large amount of Cherenkov light, it is sufficient to build telescopes with small mirrors to catch that light. The SSTs’ wide coverage and large number, spread over a large area, will improve CTA’s ability to detect the highest energy gamma rays.
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+---
+title: "CTA Releases its Updated Science Case"
+description: "On 27 September 2017, the latest iteration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s (CTA’s) science case, Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, was released via the CTA Library and arXiv. The work includes more than 200 pages that…"
+date: 2017-09-27
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/cover_news-768x362.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+*
+
+*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](https://www.ctao.org/for-scientists/library/) and [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07997) and will be published as a book by World Scientific. The work includes more than 200 pages that introduce and elaborate on CTA’s major science themes and place CTA in the context of other major observatories.
+
+“The release of this document represents a major milestone for CTA, and it details the breadth and the richness of the science that will be done with the observatory over the next decade,” says CTA Co-Spokesperson Prof. Rene Ong. “The document would not have been possible without the hard work of literally hundreds of CTA Consortium members over a period of many years.”
+
+CTA will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. The scientific potential of CTA is extremely broad: from understanding the role of relativistic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter. CTA will explore the extreme Universe, probing environments from the immediate neighbourhood of black holes to cosmic voids on the largest scales. With its ability to cover an enormous range in photon energy from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, CTA will improve on all aspects of performance with respect to current instruments. And its wider field of view and improved sensitivity will enable CTA to survey hundreds of times faster than previous TeV telescopes.
+
+CTA will seek to address a wide range of questions in astrophysics and fundamental physics that fall under three major study themes: understanding the origin and role of relativistic cosmic particles, probing extreme environments and exploring frontiers in physics (Chapter 1).
+
+“The Key Science Projects described in the document – surveys and deep observations of key objects – will provide legacy data sets of lasting value and will provide important input for the planning of CTA’s user programme,” said CTA Spokesperson Prof. Werner Hofmann.
+
+Some of the most promising discoveries will come from a survey of our Milky Way galaxy, which should discover more Galactic sources for improved population studies and for advancing our understanding of the origin of cosmic rays (Chapter 6); the search for the elusive dark matter with models not accessible by other experiments (Chapter 4); and the detection of transient phenomena like gamma-ray bursts and gravitational wave events associated with catastrophic events in the Universe (Chapter 9).
+
+“For me, the most exciting aspect of CTA is the potential for truly unexpected discoveries,” says CTA Project Scientist, Prof. Jim Hinton. “CTA pushes to shorter timescales, higher energies and more distant objects. Pushing back the frontiers in astronomy always leads to something truly new and exciting, and now we’re all just itching to get started.”
+
+It has been a decade since science planning for CTA started, resulting in a series of publications in a special edition of [Astroparticle Physics](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09276505/43) in 2013. The current work began that same year with an organized effort by the CTA Consortium to develop CTA’s Key Science Projects (KSPs) in 2013. After three years of development and refinement that included internal and external reviews, the KSPs were incorporated into a single document: *Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array*.
diff --git a/src/content/news/cta-representatives-meet-local-officials-la-palma-discuss-northern-hemisphere-array.md b/src/content/news/cta-representatives-meet-local-officials-la-palma-discuss-northern-hemisphere-array.md
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+---
+title: "CTA Representatives Meet with Local Officials in La Palma to Discuss Plans for Northern Hemisphere Array"
+description: "During the week of 17 July, representatives from the CTAO gGmbH and its Project Office visited the Canary Islands (Tenerife and La Palma) to meet with its hosting partner, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), and local…"
+date: 2017-07-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/IMG_7254-copy2.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+During the week of 17 July, representatives from the CTAO gGmbH and its Project Office visited the Canary Islands (Tenerife and La Palma) to meet with its hosting partner, the [Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias](http://www.iac.es/index.php?lang=en) (IAC), and local authorities to establish and build relationships, and to discuss the strategy and technical plans for CTA’s [northern hemisphere array](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/) on La Palma.
+
+After meetings in Tenerife with the IAC and the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) and Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) teams earlier in the week to discuss the overall strategy for site infrastructure and construction, the CTAO team (Managing Director Ulrich Straumann, Infrastructure Coordinator David Bristow, Power and Data Network Planner Carla Crovari and CAD technologist Stephen Brown) visited the site of the LST prototype on La Palma. During their visit, the LST prototype’s center pin to support the superstructure of the LST was placed at the center of the foundation (pictured to the left), signifying the beginning of the next phase of construction.
+
+The CTAO, IAC, LST and MST representatives spent the remainder of the week meeting with the local authorities on La Palma with the aim to establish a working relationship with the groups, to gather feedback on current plans, to better understand the local construction planning processes and permit laws, and to identify opportunities to engage the community in the social, economic and scientific benefits CTA will provide. On Wednesday, 19 July, the teams held working meetings with the Minister of Planning for the [Cabildo de la Palma](http://www.cabildodelapalma.es/portal/contenedor_tema.jsp?seccion=cuerpo_contenedor_tema.jsp&language=es&codResi=1&codMenuPN=457&codMenu=486&layout=contenedor_tema.jsp&ca=19&layout=contenedor_tema.jsp), Gonzalo Pascual and technical staff (pictured below), to introduce the project and discuss some of the technical aspects of the infrastructure planning and construction for the array. On Thursday, 20 July, a similar meeting was held with representatives of the [Villa de Garafia](http://www.garafia.es/), including the Deputy Mayor Yeray Rodriguez, Council of Culture Glemis Rodriguez and Municipal Technician Miguel Quesada.
+
+Both meetings with the local officials helped to establishing a long-term working relationship between the  groups. The CTAO, IAC and CTA telescope teams will continue to foster these relationships for ongoing collaboration to help support CTA and the local communities throughout the construction and life of the array.
+
+Cabildo article: [http://www.cabildodelapalma.es/portal/contenedor_ficha.jsp?seccion=s_fnot_d4_v1.jsp&contenido=12007&nivel=1400&tipo=8&codResi=1&language=es&codMenu=486&codMenuPN=457&ca=19](http://www.cabildodelapalma.es/portal/contenedor_ficha.jsp?seccion=s_fnot_d4_v1.jsp&contenido=12007&nivel=1400&tipo=8&codResi=1&language=es&codMenu=486&codMenuPN=457&ca=19)
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+---
+title: "Estreno del vídeo de CTA-Sur el 17 de marzo en un evento online en directo"
+description: "El 17 de marzo del 2021 a las 17:30 CLST/21:30 CET, se estrenará “CTA-Sur: Nuestros ojos en el sur hacia el Universo de altas energías”, que forma parte de la serie de vídeos creados por CTAO. Se hará a través de un evento online en…"
+date: 2021-03-10
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Web_Cover-768x402.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+### Conéctate al evento a través de estos canales:
+
+[Canal de YouTube de CTAO](https://youtu.be/30iP0bIE0CA)
+
+[Canal de Facebook de ESO Chile](https://www.facebook.com/ESO.Chile)
+
+[Canal de YouTube de PUC](https://www.youtube.com/c/AstrofísicaUC)
+
+[Canal de Facebook de PUC](https://www.facebook.com/AstrofisicaUC)
+
+El 17 de marzo del 2021 a las 17:30 CLST/21:30 CET, se estrenará “CTA-Sur: Nuestros ojos en el sur hacia el Universo de altas energías”, que forma parte de [la serie de vídeos](https://youtu.be/Teyjh-KJ1aE) creados por el Observatorio CTA (CTAO). Se hará a través de un evento online en directo co-organizado por CTAO, el Observatorio Europeo Austral (ESO) y la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), como parte de las iniciativas llevadas a cabo en el [Día de la Astronomía](https://diadelaastronomia.cl/).
+
+Capturar las cascadas de partículas procedentes de los rayos gamma que interactúan con la atmósfera de la Tierra es un gran desafío. Por ello, CTAO usará dos conjuntos de telescopios para explorar todo el cielo nocturno: uno en el hemisferio norte (CTA-Norte) y otro en el hemisferio sur (CTA-Sur). En este nuevo vídeo, el Administrador de la Sede CTA-Sur, Volker Heinz, presentará el emplazamiento sur, localizado cerca del Observatorio de Paranal de ESO en el Desierto de Atacama al norte de Chile.
+
+El evento (en español) incluirá presentaciones a cargo del Administrador de la Sede CTA-Sur, Volker Heinz; la Coordinadora de ESO para CTAO, Lieselotte Jochum; y los representantes del consorcio de CTA en Chile, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Profesor asistente en el Departamento de Astronomía de la Universidad de Chile, y Claudio Dib, Profesor titular del Departamento de Física de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. Lesly Albornoz y Gioser Salazar, de la Fundación Intérpretes para Chile, proporcionarán interpretación en lengua de señas chilena.
+
+Este es el tercer vídeo de una serie sobre CTAO. Los dos primeros lanzamientos son: “[La ciencia de CTA: Desde la emisión hasta el descubrimiento](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRHFQP_SjU)”, una animación sobre el funcionamiento de CTA, y “[CTA-Norte: Nuestros ojos desde el norte hasta el Universo de altas energías](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZx--MqstMo)”, un recorrido por el emplazamiento CTA-Norte. El último vídeo, todavía por estrenar, cubrirá el total de la iniciativa global para construir CTA e incluirá entrevistas con algunos de los científicos y equipos del proyecto CTA.
+
+No te olvides de suscribirte a nuestro canal de YouTube y sigue la serie de vídeos aquí:
+
+[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa)
+
+### Watch via these feeds:
+
+[CTAO YouTube Channel](https://youtu.be/30iP0bIE0CA)
+
+[ESO Chile Facebook Feed](https://www.facebook.com/ESO.Chile)
+
+[PUC YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/AstrofísicaUC)
+
+[PUC Facebook Feed](https://www.facebook.com/AstrofisicaUC)
+
+On 17 March 2021 at 17:30 CLST/21:30 CET the next release in our [series of films](https://youtu.be/Teyjh-KJ1aE) about CTA — “The CTA-South Site: Our Southern Eye on the High-Energy Universe” — will premiere on a live streaming event co-hosted by the CTA Observatory (CTAO), European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), as part of the activities carried out for the [Astronomy Day](https://diadelaastronomia.cl/).
+
+Capturing particle showers from a gamma ray that interacts with the Earth’s atmosphere is a pretty big challenge! That’s why CTAO will use two arrays of telescopes to explore the entire night sky: one in the northern hemisphere (CTA-North) and one in the southern hemisphere (CTA-South). In this new film, CTA-South Site Manager, Volker Heinz, will introduce you to the southern site, which is located near ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
+
+The event (in Spanish) will include presentations by CTA-South Site Manager, Volker Heinz; ESO Coordinator for CTAO, Lieselotte Jochum; and representatives from the CTA Chile consortium: Walter Max-Moerbeck, Assistant Professor at the Department of Astronomy of Universidad de Chile, and Claudio Dib, Full Professor of the Department of Physics of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. Chilean sign language interpretation will be provided by Lesly Albornoz and Gioser Salazar from Fundación Intérpretes para Chile.
+
+This is the third film in a series about the CTAO. The first two releases: “[CTA Science: Emission to Discovery](https://youtu.be/5gRHFQP_SjU),” an animation about how CTA works and “[The CTA-North Site: Our Northern Eye on the High-Energy Universe](https://youtu.be/tZx--MqstMo),” a tour of the CTA-North site. The final release will cover the full spectrum of the global initiative to build CTA and will include interviews with some of CTA’s project team and scientists.
+
+Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow the series here: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqd_CmPv1afbktxl7gq5ehCaec-O-NVUa)
diff --git a/src/content/news/cta-spanish-day-2022.md b/src/content/news/cta-spanish-day-2022.md
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+---
+title: "Spanish Scientific Community Gathers to Discuss the Latest Progress on the CTA Project"
+description: "On 20 September, nearly 60 representatives from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Project and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), as well as from the broader Spanish astronomical community, participated in a conference…"
+date: 2022-09-22
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/09.20_CTA_018-1-scaled-1-1600x1068.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 20 September, nearly 60 representatives from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Project and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), as well as from the broader Spanish astronomical community, participated in a conference called “CTA Spanish Day” to share and analyze the latest project news and advances from the different Spanish groups. It was hosted by the Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) in Madrid, Spain, and was attended by scientific and institutional representatives, such as Nicanor Colino (Director of the CIEMAT Fundamental Research Department), Domenec Espriu (Director of the State Research Agency), Inmaculada Figueroa (Deputy General Director of Internationalization of Science and Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Innovation), Juan Cortina (Coordinator of the CTA Project in Spain) and Federico Ferrini (Managing Director of CTAO).
+
+The event, which was sponsored by the Astronomy Infrastructure Network and the Spanish Astroparticle Network, received scientists and engineers from the different groups that represent “CTA-Spain.” In addition to presenting and discussing the latest results, attendees were able to visit the camera of a future Large-Sized Telescope (LST), one of the three types of telescopes that CTAO will use to cover its broad energy range and that will be responsible for detecting the lowest energy gamma rays. CIEMAT participates in the design and construction of these cameras within the LST Collaboration and was responsible for the design and integration of the mechanics of the camera and the signal distribution system of the LST-1, the prototype of the LST that is located on the CTAO Northern Array Site on La Palma (Canary Islands), where it is under commission until its formal acceptance by CTAO.
+
+Spain, member country and host of the CTAO Northern Array, plays a fundamental role in the progress of the project, both within the LST Collaboration and the Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) group. For the former, Spanish contributions focus on key elements like the camera or the azimuth system, as well as on the software analysis and data storage for the LST-1. For the latter, the Spanish research community has contributed to the development of NectarCam. Additionally, Spanish members work on the development of instruments for monitoring the atmospheric conditions at the CTAO Northern site and collaborate as active members in the different scientific and data analysis working groups of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC), where they represent 10% of the community.
+
+CTA-Spain is formed by members of (in alphabetical order): CIEMAT, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE-CSIC), Instituto de Física de Altas Energías (IFAE), Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT-CSIC), Port d’Informació Científica (PIC), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (UAH), Universidad de Barcelona (UB) y Universidad de Jaén.
+
+[Read the announcement by CIEMAT](https://www.ciemat.es/portal.do?IDM=61&NM=2&identificador=2576).
diff --git a/src/content/news/cta-telescope-prototype-gamma-ray-cherenkov-telescope-inaugurated-1-december.md b/src/content/news/cta-telescope-prototype-gamma-ray-cherenkov-telescope-inaugurated-1-december.md
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+---
+title: "CTA Telescope Prototype, the Gamma-Ray Cherenkov Telescope, Inaugurated on 1 December"
+description: "On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre…"
+date: 2015-12-01
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/img_3730_23354500732_small_web-768x513.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 1 December 2015, l’Observatoire de Paris hosted the inauguration of the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) prototype. The GCT will detect very high-energy gamma rays for the world’s largest gamma ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
+
+The event was held at the Observatory’s Meudon site with speeches and presentations by representatives from l’Observatoire de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Region Ile-de-France, the CTA and GCT consortia. Following the presentation, attendees were given a tour of the telescope and its camera, which captured CTA’s first Cherenkov light during testing just days before the event. The telescope is one of the very first to use the Schwarzschild-Couder dual-mirror optical design, which has recently been recognized as well-suited to ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, providing good image quality over a large field of view and allowing the construction of telescopes and cameras that are more compact than the single-mirror systems that are currently in use.
+
+The GCT is one of CTA’s [small size telescopes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/) (SSTs) and will cover the high end of the CTA energy range, between about 1 and 300 TeV (tera-electronvolts). Around 70 SSTs are needed to make sure CTA is sufficiently sensitive at these enormous energies. The GCT is one of three different SST implementations being prototyped and tested around the world. Current expectations are that the array will include approximately 35 GCTs. They will be built by an international collaboration with contributions from institutes and universities in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
diff --git a/src/content/news/ctao-adopts-the-gammapy-software-package-for-science-analysis.md b/src/content/news/ctao-adopts-the-gammapy-software-package-for-science-analysis.md
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+---
+title: "CTAO Adopts the Gammapy Software Package for Science Analysis"
+description: "On 1 June 2021, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) announced that it is adopting the Gammapy package as the Science Analysis Tools for the Observatory. The CTA Science Analysis Tools is a software package for the scientific analysis of CTA data.…"
+date: 2021-06-10
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Screenshot-2021-06-03-at-09.12.43-768x409.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 1 June 2021, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) announced that it is adopting the [Gammapy](https://gammapy.org/) package as the Science Analysis Tools for the Observatory. The CTA Science Analysis Tools (hereafter Science Tools) is a software package for the scientific analysis of CTA data. It is one of the core products that the CTA Observatory will provide to the world-wide science community during the lifetime of the observatory. The Science Tools are the interface to that community and are envisioned as a set of the highest quality software tools with documentation and tutorials that are rich in functionality and allow any user to create flexible and interoperable analysis workflows that enable the science analysis of CTA data. In addition to the science community’s use of the Science Tools, the software plays an integral role in the science operation workflows of the CTA Observatory, itself. The tools are part of the pipelines for science verification, both in the automated on-line and off-line analysis workflows, and of the CTA science platform for interactive access to results by the science users.
+
+For the implementation of the Science Tools, two independent packages were developed over the years by two different teams: [ctools](http://cta.irap.omp.eu/ctools/) and Gammapy. However, due to their implementation details and philosophy, the two packages cannot be merged.
+
+To decide between the two proposed solutions, the CTAO worked with the CTAO Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), which is a group of independent experts formed to advise the CTAO Council and provide advice and recommendations based on the assessment of the scientific and technical activities carried out for the CTA project. The CTAO issued a Request for Information (RFI) to both teams for their written input. At a virtual meeting in May 2021, the groups presented their proposals and responded to questions from the STAC members together with the CTAO Managing Director Federico Ferrini, Project Manager Wolfgang Wild, and Computing Coordinator Stefan Schlenstedt. The STAC made its final deliberations in a closed session, and, in line with the STAC recommendation, the CTAO decided to adopt the Gammapy package as the Science Analysis Tool for the Observatory.
+
+“Once again we have been faced with making a difficult decision between more than one viable solution for the observatory,” says CTAO Project Manager Wolfgang Wild. “We are grateful for the immense amount of work both teams put into developing their products, but we are also excited that we are finally at the point in the project where we are finalizing major decisions that move us closer to constructing and operating the Observatory.”
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+---
+title: "“CTA Observatory: Connecting Minds Worldwide to Unravel the Mysteries of the Extreme Universe” at the Expo 2020 Dubai"
+description: "On Friday, 22 October 2021 at 11:00 Dubai time (9:00 CEST), the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) will host the event “CTA Observatory: Connecting Minds Worldwide to Unravel the…"
+date: 2021-10-19
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FeatureImage-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On Friday, 22 October 2021 at 11:00 Dubai time (9:00 CEST), the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the [Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)](http://www.inaf.it/en?set_language=en) will host the event “CTA Observatory: Connecting Minds Worldwide to Unravel the Mysteries of the Extreme Universe” at the Italy Pavilion of the Expo 2020 Dubai (United Arab Emirates). The international event will serve as an introduction to the CTAO’s state-of-the-art technology, its enormous scientific potential and the extensive global network contributing to its development to all nations participating in the Expo 2020 Dubai. Among the renowned speakers and representatives that will participate in the event are Nobel Laureate in Physics 2015, Prof. Takaaki Kajita, and the Ambassador of Italy at the United Arab Emirates, Ambassador Nicola Lener. The event will be live streamed on the CTAO, INAF and Expo 2020 Dubai social media channels.
+
+Links to Live Streaming:
+
+CTAO: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ctaobservatory/), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0IHTTfgiiyCFLp-SH8egMw)
+
+INAF: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/inaftv)
+
+Expo 2020 Dubai: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ItalyExpo2020), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/italyexpo2020)
+
+Watch it back:
+
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+
+The goal of the event is to communicate to the large audience of the Expo 2020 Dubai that will be in attendance and will join remotely about the uniqueness of the CTAO, which will be the first ground-based gamma-ray observatory and the world’s largest and most sensitive instrument for the detection of gamma rays. High-accomplished speakers in the field will participate in three discussion panels driven by questions: Science, Technology and Opportunities. The first is dedicated to the broad scientific potential of the observatory that spans from understanding the role of relativistic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter. The second, focused on the technology, will delve into the innovative three types of CTAO telescopes, which will cover an unprecedented energy range, as well as the calibration systems and the novelty analysis tools based on machine learning. Finally, the Opportunity panel will explore the opportunities of collaboration and data usage for new partners that are not members of CTAO at the present and will bring the Italian and international competence of all nations involved in this prestigious project to Dubai.
+
+“We are very excited to participate in the Expo 2020 Dubai and to bring CTAO, the future of high-energy astrophysics and particle physics, to a broad international audience”, says Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director. “Global cooperation is fundamental: CTAO’s ongoing success would not be possible without worldwide support from a mounting number of agencies and organizations.”
+
+The theme of the Italian Pavilion is “Beauty connects people – celebrating beauty as the connecting element between creativity and knowledge.” The pavilion itself is constructed from the hulls of three ships: “Inspired by the connecting routes of the Mediterranean, it will take visitors on a journey through history to the future.” Throughout history, the splendor of the night sky has inspired artists, philosophers and scientists. Thus, following this theme, the “CTA Observatory: Connecting minds worldwide to unravel the mysteries of the Extreme Universe” event will tap into the excitement of exploration and the bond that we all share in our quest to push beyond the boundaries of our understanding of the Universe.
+
+“CTAO will be a very powerful observatory accessible by scientists of the international community. It will open a new window in the observations of the high-energy Universe”, says Marco Tavani, President of INAF. “With CTAO we will study in an unprecedented way the most extreme cosmic sources including black holes, neutron stars, supernova remnants, and other mysterious objects. We will unveil their secrets with the aim of learning about physical processes that can be useful to mankind.”
+
+The event, which will be carried out in English, will be held in the Auditorium of the Italian Pavilion. Registration to attend is required and can be done through the Expo 2020 Dubai App and website, as well as through the Italian Pavilion App. The event will be also live streamed on the CTAO, INAF and Expo 2020 Dubai Facebook and YouTube channels.
+
+The Expo 2020 Dubai is an a World Expo. It was initially expected to be performed between October 2020 and March 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was delayed and will be open from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022. This World Expo, whose topic is “Connecting Minds, Creating Future,” expects to gather more than 25 million visitors.
+
+#### Speakers
+
+![](/uploads/expo_speakers.png)
+
+#### Links to Live Streaming
+
+CTAO: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ctaobservatory/), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0IHTTfgiiyCFLp-SH8egMw)
+
+INAF: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/inaftv)
+
+Expo 2020 Dubai: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ItalyExpo2020), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/italyexpo2020)
+
+#### Contacts
+
+CTAO: [Alba Fernández-Barral](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org), CTAO Outreach & Education Coordinator
+
+INAF: [Marco Galliani](mailto:marco.galliani@inaf.it), INAF Communication Officer
diff --git a/src/content/news/ctao-gender-equality-plan.md b/src/content/news/ctao-gender-equality-plan.md
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+---
+title: "The CTAO Publishes its Gender Equality Plan"
+description: "On 17 June, the CTAO gGmbH published its Gender Equality Plan (GEP), which implements actions within the CTAO to reduce gender inequalities and to enhance diversity regarding sex, gender, age, culture, different physical and mental…"
+date: 2022-06-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/diversity_header-1600x1068.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 17 June, the CTAO gGmbH published its Gender Equality Plan (GEP), which implements actions within the CTAO to reduce gender inequalities and to enhance diversity regarding sex, gender, age, culture, different physical and mental capacities and multilingualism, among others. The document includes an evaluation of existing initiatives and policies, as well as an analysis of an anonymous survey that gathered CTAO employees’ opinions on gender, inclusion and discrimination. Based on these results and sex/gender-disaggregated available data, an action plan was created with measures to achieve various inclusive goals that affect the organisation.
+
+As described by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), gender equity is understood as the “provision of fairness and justice in the distribution of benefits and responsibilities between women and men,” which means that rights, responsibilities and opportunities must be the same for everyone, independent of gender or sex. As an international Observatory and world-class project, the CTAO is committed to cultivating an environment for all staff and associated members that is free from prejudices and stereotypes, where individuality and originality are valued.
+
+A team of CTAO representatives elected by the staff was charged with the creation of the GEP based on guidelines defined by the European Commission. At this stage, the group limited its focus to the CTAO’s internal organization, basing their analysis on current initiatives and policies, available personnel data and the findings from the dedicated employee survey. Their findings confirmed that the majority of the CTAO staff considers gender equity a paramount topic and thinks that equality, diversity and inclusion are equally important, too.
+
+The resulting GEP is a tool designed to encourage a cultural shift: its action plan is meant to overcome the identified obstacles and enhance diversity, taking inspiration from other organizations with similar characteristics and objectives. In particular, with input from the CTAO staff, the GEP identifies measures and objectives that include, but are not limited to, three macro-areas: internal and external communication (inclusive language), activities (trainings and outreach events), organisation and policies (work-life balance and recruitment).
+
+The CTAO’s GEP is a living document and will be regularly reviewed and updated. With the establishment of the CTAO ERIC, a full revision and evaluation of the action items will be performed to adapt and improve the document.
+
+[Read the CTAO Gender Equality Plan here.](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAO_GEP2022.pdf)
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+---
+title: "CTAO’s Growth Defines the First Quarter of 2025"
+description: "Strengthened by the establishment of the ERIC this past January, the CTAO Central Organisation has continued the rigorous recruitment campaign it launched last year, resulting in a significant increase in new hires and career opportunities…"
+date: 2025-03-27
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/StaffZeuthen2024-1600x1192.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Strengthened by the [establishment of the ERIC](https://www.ctao.org/news/the-ctao-becomes-an-eric/) this past January, the [CTAO Central Organisation](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/team/) has continued the rigorous recruitment campaign it launched last year, resulting in a significant increase in new hires and career opportunities across the organisation.
+
+In the first quarter of 2025, the Observatory has already welcomed 10 new team members, onboarding, on average, three to four people each month. The expertise of the professionals hired span many of the technical and operational demands needed to make the CTAO a reality: computing, IT, project coordination, science, system engineering, and telescope construction and operations. The diversity of the new recruits, with nationalities from Bangladesh, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK and USA, is a reflection of the Observatory’s international reach. And the global reach is needed, as it seeks to hire more experienced and skilled staff to support the rapid development of the CTAO, which is now in its full construction phase.
+
+As of March 27, [multiple open-term positions are available](https://www.ctao.org/opportunities/career/) across the CTAO’s facility sites, with many more expected: Deputy Project Manager, System Engineers and a Finance Specialist to strengthen the Project Office and Administration teams at the CTAO Headquarters in Bologna, Italy; and an Office Coordinator to support operations at CTAO-North on La Palma, Spain.
+
+Beyond staff positions, the Observatory is offering additional professional opportunities. On March 19, the CTAO Central Organisation launched a call for [Personnel Support Agreements](https://www.ctao.org/career/call-for-personnel-support-agreements/) from research organisations and institutes worldwide to fulfil temporary full- or part-time computing and project science positions. Additionally, with a focus on industry collaborations, new [procurement opportunities](https://www.ctao.org/opportunities/procurement/) have been announced, with more expected soon from the Central Organisation and its partners.
+
+Building a world-class research infrastructure like the CTAO requires a team of talented professionals across multiple fields. If you’re interested in contributing to the development of the world’s largest and most powerful gamma-ray observatory, check our [Career and Procurement pages](https://www.ctao.org/opportunities/) regularly and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ctao-universe/).
diff --git a/src/content/news/ctao-joins-the-starmus-festival-2025-in-la-palma.md b/src/content/news/ctao-joins-the-starmus-festival-2025-in-la-palma.md
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+---
+title: "The CTAO Joins the STARMUS Festival 2025 in La Palma"
+description: "From April 25 to 28, the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) became the epicentre of science and culture with the celebration of the STARMUS Festival 2025. A unique global event, STARMUS blends astrophysics, space exploration, art,…"
+date: 2025-05-07
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTAO_STARMUS-1600x1205.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+From April 25 to 28, the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) became the epicentre of science and culture with the celebration of the [STARMUS Festival 2025](https://www.starmus.com/). A unique global event, STARMUS blends astrophysics, space exploration, art, and music to inspire and ignite curiosity about the Universe. This year’s edition in La Palma included the participation of the CTAO, bringing very high-energy astrophysics and the latest news of the Observatory to the heart of the community that hosts its [northern hemisphere site, CTAO-North.](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/)
+
+For the first time, the festival featured two public “Camps” in the cities of Santa Cruz de La Palma and Los Llanos de Aridane. Each camp offered a full four-day programme divided between an Expo Zone and a Stage Zone, where science met creativity and engagement.
+
+The CTAO contributed to both Camps with exhibits that welcomed hundreds of visitors, including school groups from across the island. With a team of CTAO experts and a virtual reality experience, attendees explored CTAO’s science and virtually toured its two sites, showcasing what the Observatory will look like once construction is complete.
+
+On Friday and Saturday, the [5 Sigma science podcast](https://www.instagram.com/5sigmapodcast/), hosted by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), featured two CTAO voices: Alba Fernández-Barral (Chief Communications Officer), who introduced the Observatory and its key scientific objectives, and Patricia Márquez (Telescope Manager of the [CTAO LST Collaboration](https://www.ctao.org/partners/in-kind-contributors/)), who explained the engineering challenges and innovations involved in building the [Large-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) (LST), one of the three types of CTAO telescope. Their interviews will soon be available on 5 Sigma’s official channels.
+
+Sunday’s highlight was a high-altitude excursion to the CTAO-North site at 2,200 meters, organised by STARMUS for VIP guests and festival companions. More than 100 visitors toured the interior of LST-1, the prototype [Large-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) inaugurated in 2018 and now in commissioning, and learned about the three additional LSTs under construction by the LST Collaboration.
+
+A particularly special moment was the visit of renowned primatologist and UN Messenger of Peace Dr. Jane Goodall, who toured the LST-1 facilities and learned about the Observatory’s mission and scientific goals from the CTAO team. Dr. Goodall, known for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees, has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Príncipe de Asturias Award, the Kyoto Prize, and the Legion of Honor from France. She founded the [Jane Goodall Institute](https://janegoodall.org/) in 1977 and launched the Roots & Shoots programme to empower youth in environmental and humanitarian efforts. During the festival, she was also honoured with a medal on La Palma’s Walk of the Stars of Science.
+
+The last day of the festival concluded with a public talk by Patricia Márquez, who presented the latest updates on the CTAO-North’s construction progress, as well as some interesting engineering facts about the LSTs.
+
+All activities were made possible thanks to the dedication of CTAO Central Organisation and LST Collaboration members (in alphabetical order): Alice Donini, Alba Fernández-Barral, Antonia Flores, Patricia Márquez, Daniel Mazin, Javier Méndez, Antonio José Peñuela, and Viktoria Pinter. The virtual reality experience was created by INAF within the framework of the CTA+ project, funded by the Italian Resilience Recovery Plan (PNRR).
+
+![](/uploads/CTAO_STARMUS_Stand-1600x900.jpg)
+
+![](/uploads/CTAO_STARMUS_Podcast.jpg)
+
+![](/uploads/CTAO_STARMUS_Visit-1600x900.jpg)
+
+![](/uploads/CTAO_STARMUS_LST1Visit-1600x900.jpg)
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+---
+title: "CTAO Releases the Layout of its Arrays for the Alpha Configuration"
+description: "The CTAO released the final layouts that define the geographical position of the elements (telescopes, calibration systems and atmospheric characterization devices) that will compose the two CTAO arrays according to the approved Alpha…"
+date: 2022-07-15
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTAO_North_Alpha_Final_2024-768x432.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+The CTAO recently released the layouts that define the geographical position of the elements (telescopes, calibration systems and atmospheric characterization devices) that will compose the two CTAO arrays according to the approved Alpha Configuration. Obtained in a joint work between CTAO and CTAC, the particular configuration is the result of a thorough optimization process meant to maximize the scientific performance of the two CTAO arrays: the CTAO Northern array, on the existing Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias’ (IAC’s) Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the Canary island of La Palma (Spain), and the CTAO Southern array, at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile).
+
+The layout of the CTAO Northern array (Figure 1) includes the location of 13 telescopes distributed over an area of about 0.5 km2: four [Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) and nine [Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/mst/), in addition to the calibration and atmospheric characterization equipment. The array, which is optimized for the CTAO’s low- to medium-energy range (20 GeV – 5 TeV), will specialize in extragalactic sources. The elements and their corresponding locations in this array are contingent on the approval of the construction permits released by the local authorities on La Palma, which is being managed by the IAC.
+
+Figure 1. Layout of the CTAO Northern array on La Palma (Spain), including the elements defined in the Alpha Configuration.
+
+The CTAO Southern array includes 51 telescopes over a ~3 km2 area (Figure 2), consisting of 14 MSTs and 37 [Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/), as described in the Alpha Configuration, as well as calibration and atmospheric characterization systems. This telescope configuration allows the southern array to focus on Galactic targets, optimizing its capabilities on the CTAO’s medium- and high-energy range (150 GeV – 300 TeV). The Alpha Configuration does not consider LSTs in the CTAO Southern array, but it includes the preparation of the foundation for four of them, as well as the foundation for three more SSTs, to allow for the construction of these telescopes in a future enhancement of the array. The positions of these telescopes are also included in the layout.
+
+Figure 2. Layout of the CTAO Southern array in the Atacama Desert (Chile), according to the Alpha Configuration.
+
+The released layout coordinates correspond to the so-called “*as-requested coordinates*,” which positions the elements in a configuration that ensures the most outstanding scientific performance. Small modifications may occur based on local geophysical constraints and other factors revealed during the engineering design and construction. However, any shift in the final positions would be limited to less than ten metres, preventing any relevant difference in terms of performance. This guarantees that both arrays will achieve 5 to 10 times better sensitivity than any current instrument.
+
+Read more about [the CTAO arrays](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/) and the [corresponding performance](https://www.ctao.org/for-scientists/performance/) on our website.
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+---
+title: "Calling All Early-Career Scientists: New “CTAO School” Launches in June 2024"
+description: "In June 2024, the CTAO gGmbH, in cooperation with the LST Collaboration, will inaugurate the first CTAO School."
+date: 2023-11-23
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTAO-School-2023-Instagram-Post-LinkedIn-Post-1920-x-1080-px-1600x900.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+In June 2024, the CTAO gGmbH, in cooperation with the LST Collaboration, will inaugurate the first CTAO School. This two-week workshop is aimed at early-career scientists who want to begin or delve deeper into CTAO science, technology and data analysis. As an international, enriching experience, the first week will take place in Bertinoro, Italy, 16-19 June, while the second will be carried out in La Palma, Spain, 22-29 June.
+
+During the two-week school, participants will have the opportunity to develop hard and soft skills with experts in the field, including:
+
+- -Learning about current hot topics in Very High-Energy (VHE) Astrophysics from international experts;
+- -Learning how to write a successful scientific proposal;
+- -Performing real observations with the LST-1, the prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST);
+- -Performing data analysis both on real and simulated data;
+- -Presenting their current scientific projects to peers and leading the discussion.
+
+Additionally, students will also attend scicomm workshops to learn how to present their results to a general, non-expert audience and will visit several facilities located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, site of the CTAO Northern Array.
+
+“Our goal is to create a comprehensive school, where participants can develop their skills in each phase of the scientific process, from understanding a source and making an observation proposal, to taking that data and analyzing it,” explains Roberta Zanin, CTAO Project Scientist and Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee. “All of this would not be possible without the support of our international partners, who are working very hard to make this a fulfilling and successful experience for the participants.”
+
+To ensure an interactive educational experience, both in theoretical and hands-on sessions, the school will accept a maximum of 25 participants. As part of the selection process, applicants will be asked to submit a one-page statement about the research work they have carried out so far, as well as a one-page reference letter from advisors or supervisors.
+
+The fee for the two-week school is 900 euro, which covers accommodation, meals, coffee breaks and local transportation at both sites, as well as the plane ticket from Bologna, Italy, to La Palma. In alignment with the Observatory’s commitment to inclusion and equal opportunity, the CTAO will offer fellowships that will cover the fees for participants from resource-limited groups. Selection criteria will be based on scientific merit, evaluated through the one-page cover letter and a demonstration of the group’s financial need.
+
+[Learn more about the CTAO School and apply on our website.](https://www.school.cta-observatory.org/)
+
+### Funding
+
+The CTAO School is organized by the CTAO gGmbH in cooperation with the LST Collaboration. The first week of the school in Bertinoro is funded by the Cherenkov Telescope Array Plus project (IR0000012; CUP C53C22000430006) within the Italian Resilience and Recovery Plan (PNRR), as an activity led by the University of Bologna. The second week is supported by funds from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the Japanese Institute for Cosmic Ray Research.
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+---
+title: "CTAO Science Data Management Centre Inauguration on 14 October 2024, Zeuthen (Germany)"
+description: "On September 23, the CTAO ACADA Collaboration achieved yet another milestone when the CTAO Central Organisation officially approved and closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) system.…"
+date: 2024-10-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/4_building_side2-DESY-UlrikeBehrens-1600x1033.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+> [CTAO SDMC Live Streaming in English](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-K8hcsvQr0)
+
+> [CTAO SDMC Live Streaming in German](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6HT8Vxj5Q)
+
+On 14 October 2024, more than 250 guests from around the world will gather in Zeuthen, Germany, to celebrate the inauguration of the CTAO Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) building, [one of the Observatory’s four core facilities](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/facilities/).
+
+Located on the [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY](https://desy.de/) campus, near Berlin, the CTAO SDMC serves as the scientific gateway for the CTAO, coordinating the software and computing work, as well as the science operations of the Observatory and making CTAO‘s data products available to the worldwide community. The new building will be the home of the [CTAO Computing Department](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/data-and-computing/) and also host DESY offices and a new canteen. Aligning with the regional importance of DESY, this is the first time an international research project will be co-hosted on the DESY Zeuthen campus, fostering top international research in Brandenburg and attracting scientist worldwide to work on its premises.
+
+To celebrate this milestone, Mario Brandenburg, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and Tobias Dünow, State Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg (MWFK), will participate in the ceremony on campus. They will be joined by Dr. Stuart McMuldroch, CTAO Managing Director; Prof. Beate Heinemann, DESY Director for Particle Physics; Prof. Otmar Wiestler, President of the Helmholtz Association, and Prof. Christian Stegmann, Head of DESY Zeuthen.
+
+The CTAO SDMC inauguration will be held in English, with simultaneous translation in German, and live streamed in both languages on the DESY YouTube channel ([English version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-K8hcsvQr0) and [German version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6HT8Vxj5Q)).
+
+For further information and interview inquiries (both in person and online), please contact:
+
+Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral
+
+CTAO Chief Communications Officer
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
+Ulrike Behrens
+
+Head of Communications at DESY Zeuthen
+
+[ulrike.behrens@desy.de](mailto:ulrike.behrens@desy.de)
+
+Learn more about the CTAO and the SDCM with the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, available in [English](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAO_SDMC_FAQ.pdf) and [German](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAO_SDMC_FAQ_German.pdf).
+
+Meet some of the CTAO and DESY members available for Interviews: [Link](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/Interviewees_CTAO-DESY.pdf)
+
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+---
+title: "The CTAO Science Symposium Returns in April 2024 for its Second Edition"
+description: "The CTAO will host the second edition of its CTAO Science Symposium 15-18 April 2024 in Bologna, Italy."
+date: 2023-11-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Featured-Image-Still-1600x900.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+The CTAO will host the second edition of its [CTAO Science Symposium](https://www.ctao-symposium.org/) 15-18 April 2024 in Bologna, Italy. The Symposium will assemble scientists from around the world to learn about and discuss the Observatory’s current phase of development and growth and its subsequent scientific impact.
+
+During the symposium, participants will learn about the beginning of the construction of the CTAO’s Alpha Configuration, the expected performance and data access of said layout, and the upcoming Data Challenge. Additionally, speakers will take an account of the status of gamma-ray astronomy and beyond, emphasizing the latest results from other instruments and observatories, as well as the biggest unresolved questions puzzling the field and how to address them. Representatives from the LST Collaboration will present the first scientific results of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype, the LST-1, built on the CTAO’s northern array site in La Palma, Spain.
+
+The agenda covers a variety of science topics, such as the study of cosmic rays, compact objects, new science, fundamental physics and future instruments. Highlight talks will provide insights into hot topics within the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger panorama. Renowned speakers will join throughout the week to discuss the CTAO science case and fostering synergies, especially within multi-messenger astronomy.
+
+“We are very excited to host the CTAO Science Symposium again, a conference that aims to become a meeting point for researchers worldwide interested in very high-energy astrophysics,” says Roberta Zanin, CTAO Project Scientists and Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee. “It is the perfect opportunity to gather with the future users of CTAO data and work together on the synergies that will shape multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astronomy in the upcoming decades.”
+
+The event will be held in the historic centre of Bologna, Italy at the Teatro Duse. Registration and abstract submission are now open. The regular fee is 350 euro, reduced to 250 euro for students, and includes all lunches, coffee breaks and the gala dinner. Significant time is allocated for contributed talks, with reserved time for early-career researchers. Moreover, the Symposium will have “Poster Spark” sessions, where the authors of the posters will have the opportunity to briefly present their contribution to the audience. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 14, 2024.
+
+Register, submit an abstract and learn more about the CTAO Science Symposium on its dedicated website: [https://www.ctao-symposium.org/](https://www.ctao-symposium.org/)
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+---
+title: "New Hub for High-Energy Astrophysics – CTAO Science Data Management Centre Opens at DESY in Zeuthen"
+description: "On September 23, the CTAO ACADA Collaboration achieved yet another milestone when the CTAO Central Organisation officially approved and closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) system.…"
+date: 2024-10-14
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/1_building_front-DESY-SusannNiedworok-1600x920.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+> [CTAO SDMC Live Streaming in English](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-K8hcsvQr0)
+
+> [CTAO SDMC Live Streaming in German](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6HT8Vxj5Q)
+
+Zeuthen, Germany – On October 14, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), along with hosting partners and shareholders [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY](https://desy.de/), celebrated the official inauguration of the Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) on the DESY campus in Zeuthen.
+
+The ceremony, chaired by Prof. Christian Stegmann, Head of DESY Zeuthen, was opened by Mario Brandenburg, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and Tobias Dünow, State Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg (MWFK), followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Stuart McMuldroch, CTAO Managing Director; Prof. Beate Heinemann, DESY Director for Particle Physics; and Prof. Otmar Wiestler, President of the Helmholtz Association. The event brought together members of the CTAO Council, key figures from the international CTAO community, political representatives, regional partners and CTAO and DESY staff to celebrate an important milestone in the exploration of the high-energy Universe.
+
+Speaking about the importance of the new facility, Brandenburg states: “The opening of the Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) in Zeuthen marks a milestone on the way to the CTAO. With the SDMC we are not only making a significant contribution to managing and processing the immense amounts of data generated by the CTAO observations. We also strengthen Germany’s position as a location for innovation. The SDMC impressively demonstrates how international co-operation in research and the use of state-of-the-art data management technologies can enable future scientific breakthroughs.”
+
+![](/uploads/4_building_side2-DESY-UlrikeBehrens-1600x1033.jpg)
+
+*CTAO SDMC in Zeuthen, Germany. Credit: DESY*
+
+The CTAO is an international observatory with telescope array sites located on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, and in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Its Headquarters are located in Bologna, Italy. Located on the [DESY](https://desy.de/) campus, near Berlin, the CTAO SDMC coordinates the software and computing work of the Observatory, making CTAO‘s data products available to the worldwide community.
+
+Tobias Dünow, State Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, said: “If you want to know why science and research are so immensely important and why every Euro invested there is an investment in the future, you just have to go to DESY in Zeuthen. DESY conducts research into questions of the future, from astroparticle physics to projects in the field of cancer therapy with accelerators and quantum computing, the answers to which will make our lives better and healthier. That is why we are delighted to have supported the construction of the Science Data Management Centre. The decision to locate the SDMC of the international gamma-ray observatory CTAO in Zeuthen is impressive proof of DESY’s excellence in research.”
+
+The new €14 million building will accommodate 60 people and will be the home of the [CTAO Science Data Management](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/data-and-computing/) Centre and also host DESY offices and a new canteen.
+
+“The opening of the SDMC represents a significant success and major milestone for the Observatory,“ explained Stuart McMuldroch during the inauguration. “The SDMC is a critical and essential part of our international effort to explore the high-energy Universe. It will provide essential data processing, software, and computing capabilities that significantly advance our mission. We are grateful to DESY and all those who made the SDMC a reality.”
+
+Aligning with the regional importance of DESY, this is the first time an international research project will be co-hosted on the DESY Zeuthen campus, fostering top international research in Brandenburg and attracting scientist worldwide to work on its premises.
+
+“We are very pleased that the CTAO is locating its SDMC on the DESY campus in Zeuthen, and we look forward to even closer co-operation with the Observatory, in particular the Headquarters of the CTAO in Bologna,” commented Christian Stegmann**, **during the moderation. “The decision underlines the positive development of DESY in Zeuthen into a centre for astroparticle physics.”
+
+The sources the CTAO will study, like supermassive black holes and supernova remnants, are the most energetic objects in the Universe. The CTAO will provide a very wide energy range, excellent angular and energy resolution and sensitivity in comparison to any existing gamma-ray detector. With its ability to detect energies between 20 GeV and 300 TeV and its unprecedented resolution, the CTAO will be able to observe further than ever before, providing a completely new view of the sky.
+
+“As one of Germany’s largest research centres, DESY carries out fundamental research that creates new knowledge and new conceptual approaches,” Beate Heinemann, DESY Director in charge of Particle Physics said. “DESY has a long tradition of performing research in international collaborations, not only to foster scientific progress but also to enable exchanges between people from many nations. I am delighted that DESY continues this tradition by hosting the SDMC of the CTAO. The large competence of DESY in data management and analysis will be pivotal to fully exploit the CTAO data, and to learn more about some of the most mysterious and violent objects in our Universe.”
+
+Otmar Wiestler adds from the perspective of the President of the Helmholtz Association: “The CTAO enables groundbreaking discoveries in astrophysics and opens new pathways for our understanding of the universe. At the Helmholtz Association, we are proud to make another important contribution to this remarkable international research project with the opening of the CTAO’s Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) at the German Electron Synchrotron DESY site in Zeuthen. The SDMC will be an excellent addition to the CTAO, serving as a central hub for processing and analyzing vast amounts of data, fostering long-term international collaboration, and thus making a significant contribution to the overall success of the project.”
+
+###
+
+For further information and interview inquiries (both in person and online), please contact:
+
+Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral
+
+CTAO Chief Communications Officer
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
+Ulrike Behrens
+
+Head of Communications at DESY Zeuthen
+
+[ulrike.behrens@desy.de](mailto:ulrike.behrens@desy.de)
+
+The CTAO will be the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. The Observatory’s unique capabilities will help us to address some of the most perplexing questions in astrophysics, falling under three major themes: understanding the origin and role of relativistic cosmic particles; probing extreme environments, such as black holes or neutron stars; and exploring frontiers in physics, searching for dark matter or deviations from Einstein’s theory of relativity.
+
+The CTAO is an international observatory with facilities located in Europe and South America: two arrays of telescopes in each hemisphere, CTAO-North in La Palma (Spain) and CTAO-South in the Atacama Desert (Chile), as well as the Headquarters in Bologna (Italy) and its Science Data Management Centre in Zeuthen (Germany).
+
+The CTAO requires the collaboration and investment of a wide international network of countries and contributors. The Observatory is supported financially by a growing list of shareholders, which includes more than ten countries and an intergovernmental organisation. More than 1,500 people working in different international teams contribute to the implementation of the CTAO, as well as to its scientific, software and hardware development.
+
+The CTAO was included in the 2008 roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and promoted to a Landmark project in 2018 and is a top-ranked priority amongst new ground-based infrastructure projects in ASTRONET’s “Roadmap 2022-2035: A Strategic Plan for European Astronomy.”
+
+The CTAO SDMC is one of the Observatory’s four facilities. Located on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY campus in Zeuthen, Germany, it serves as the scientific gateway for data received from the two telescope arrays and will coordinate both software and computing efforts, making CTAO’s data products available to the worldwide community. This approach stems from CTAO’s commitment to Open Science, making it the first observatory of its kind to operate as an open, proposal-driven observatory providing public access to its high-level science data and software products.
+
+The CTAO SDMC will be the home of the CTAO Computing Department. From handling the proposal submissions to the dissemination of data to scientists, the computing team is working to develop a package of hardware and software products to support the flow of data. Operating from the CTAO SDMC, they will coordinate with several off-site data centre partners for the Observatory’s data processing and simulation needs and are directly responsible for the installation of the on-site data centres and control rooms at the two array sites.
+
+Learn more about the CTAO and the SDCM with the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, available in [English](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAO_SDMC_FAQ-1.pdf) and [German](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAO_SDMC_FAQ_German.pdf).
+
+Meet some of the CTAO and DESY members available for Interviews: [Link](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/Interviewees_CTAO-DESY.pdf)
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+---
+title: "The CTAO Signs Cooperation Agreement with the Square Kilometre Array Organisation"
+description: "The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) will engage in closer collaboration under a new agreement signed by the two research infrastructures. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…"
+date: 2020-01-29
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/SKA.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+29 January 2020 – The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the [Square Kilometre Array Organisation](https://www.skatelescope.org/) (SKAO) will engage in closer collaboration under a new agreement signed by the two research infrastructures. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will facilitate greater sharing of knowledge and expertise in areas including engineering, science, technology and administration.
+
+The CTAO and SKAO are both large international collaborations and have several member countries in common, including many European countries but also astronomy organisations in Australia and South Africa. Like CTA, which will have two arrays of telescopes on different continents observing gamma rays, one in Chile and one on La Palma in the Canary Islands (Spain), the SKA will also have radio telescopes in Australia and South Africa. The two observatories are due to begin delivering science within just a few years of each other.
+
+Both have also begun transitions on the governance front; the CTAO is becoming a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), while the SKA is becoming an intergovernmental organisation or IGO.
+
+“In this age of multi-messenger astronomy, building alliances with observatories across the spectrum is critical to achieving our common missions to expand our view and understanding of the Universe,” says Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director. “The CTAO-SKAO partnership was an obvious fit due to our vast similarities, and we are looking forward to the collaboration.”
+
+“Both the SKA and CTA are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible technically, scientifically and logistically, and some of the challenges that brings are common to both projects,” says Simon Berry, Director of Strategy for the SKA. “This MOU formalises our relationship, so we can keep learning from each other’s experiences and share expertise for the benefit of both observatories.”
+
+While the respective telescopes will observe opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, there are exciting areas of scientific synergy between them. Both radio and gamma rays are a probe of the violent and variable Universe, including the study of active galactic nuclei, transient events such as gamma-ray bursts and fast radio bursts, accretion into compact objects and gravitational wave counterparts.
+
+As the world’s largest radio telescope, SKA is one of several next-generation facilities targeting cosmic sources by detecting other wavelengths or messengers (such as neutrinos or gravitational waves) that will be complementary to CTA. Coordinated observations between such facilities can give a more complete picture of astronomical sources and phenomena, resulting in greatly enhanced scientific discoveries.
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+---
+title: "The CTAO Will Double its Staff as Major Infrastructure Development Begins In 2024"
+description: "On 6 September 2023, the CTAO’s two governing bodies, the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR) and the CTAO gGmbH Council, gathered to agree on the significant forthcoming measures to advance the Observatory to its construction…"
+date: 2023-09-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Chile_V04_Final-scaled-1-1600x901.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+**Bologna, Italy –** On 6 September 2023, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory’s (CTAO’s) two governing bodies, the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR) and the CTAO gGmbH Council, gathered to agree on the significant forthcoming measures to advance the Observatory to its construction phase. During the meeting, both bodies unanimously certified their commitment to the progress of the CTAO, including a foreseen endorsement of up to approximately 30 million euro for 2024. This represents a significant increase in annual funding, which will enable the Observatory to not only move forward with substantial infrastructure development but also to double its workforce.
+
+The CTAO is in the process of a two-step application to transition from a gGmbH (under the German law) to a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC, under the European law). While the first step has been completed, discussions with the European Commission concerning the second step are still ongoing. The agreement between the BGR, comprised of representatives of the future legal entity’s member countries, and the CTAO gGmbH Council, allows the project to proceed in the meantime.
+
+“While we continue to work towards obtaining the ERIC status, the member countries and organisations within the BGR are prepared to advance the project to its next phase,” explains Aldo Covello, Chair of the BGR. Markus Schleier, Chair of the CTAO gGmbH Council, stated: “The pledge of the BGR and the agreement we have reached in the Council will not only ensure the stability of the project but will undoubtedly help the CTAO attract new talent and investment as it continues to grow.”
+
+The current legal entity of the CTAO, the CTAO gGmbH, and its partners have carried out extensive design and pre-construction activities, including the advancement of telescopes, such as the LST-1, the prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope under commissioning on the CTAO-North site in La Palma, Spain. In 2024, the Observatory plans to open at least 30 new positions and start major infrastructure development including building roads, power systems, and foundations for its southern array site in the Atacama Desert (Chile). Together with the very important developments in the northern array site, this represents a major milestone for the project.
+
+These steps will bring the Observatory closer to realizing its planned 64 telescopes, which will deliver an unprecedented sensitivity in the quest to unveil new discoveries in the high-energy gamma-ray Universe.
+
+![](/uploads/53205280483_59bde1f9e6_k-1600x901.jpg)
+
+*Rendering of CTAO-North array site.*
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the first open ground-based gamma-ray observatory and the world’s largest and most sensitive instrument for the exploration of the high-energy Universe. The CTAO’s unparalleled accuracy and broad energy range (20 GeV- 300 TeV) will provide novel insights into the most extreme and powerful events in the Cosmos, addressing questions in and beyond astrophysics falling under three major themes: Understanding the origin and role of relativistic cosmic particles, probing extreme environments (such as black holes and neutron stars) and exploring frontiers in physics (such as the nature of dark matter). To do so, the CTAO has two telescope array sites: CTAO-North in the northern hemisphere at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias’s (IAC’s) Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Spain), and CTAO-South in the southern hemisphere near the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The headquarters is hosted by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Bologna (Italy), and the Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) is hosted by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Zeuthen (Germany). The CTAO will also be the first observatory of its kind to be open to the worldwide scientific communities as a resource for data from unique, high-energy astronomical observations.
+
+The Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR) is the committee preparing for the CTAO’s legal status transition, formed by 12 countries and one intergovernmental organisation: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, European Southern Observatory (ESO), France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. The CTAO gGmbH Council is the gGmbH’s governing body, composed of shareholders from 11 countries and one intergovernmental organisation, as well as associate members from two countries.
+
+The CTAO gGmbH works in close cooperation with partners from around the world toward the development of the Observatory. Major partners include In-Kind Contribution teams, such as the telescope teams that are developing essential hardware and software, in addition to the science collaboration, an international group of researchers who have provided scientific guidance since the project’s inception.
+
+The CTAO was promoted to a “Landmark” on the [European Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) Roadmap 2018,](https://www.cta-observatory.org/cta-promoted-to-landmark-status-on-2018-esfri-roadmap/) and was ranked as the main priority among the new ground-based infrastructures in the [ASTRONET Roadmap 2022-2035](https://www.cta-observatory.org/strategic-plan-for-european-astronomy-ranks-ctao-as-priority/).The CTAO has a [Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/) with images and photography for public use with appropriate credit. See our [Media Usage](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/media-library/media-usage/) page for further guidance on how to credit the material on this site and our Flickr page.
+
+Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral
+
+CTAO Chief Communication Officer
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
++39-051-6357-270
+
+(English, Spanish and Italian)
diff --git a/src/content/news/ctas-galactic-plane-survey-will-provide-unprecedented-view-galaxy.md b/src/content/news/ctas-galactic-plane-survey-will-provide-unprecedented-view-galaxy.md
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+title: "CTA’s Galactic Plane Survey Will Provide Unprecedented View of Our Galaxy"
+description: "At the highest photon energies that will be explored by CTA, our knowledge about the Milky Way is still incomplete, and to fill this gap, CTA will conduct a complete and deep survey of the Galactic Plane during its first decade of…"
+date: 2017-01-02
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/GP_Simulation-1-1600x940.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by * *Jürgen Knödlseder**, CTA Consortium Board Chair*
+
+Astronomical surveys of our Milky Way present a fundamental means to discover and understand the objects that populate our local neighbourhood in the Universe. Surveys of the Milky Way have been conducted at nearly all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, revealing the stars and the matter between them that form our Galaxy. At the highest photon energies that will be explored by CTA, our knowledge about the Milky Way is still incomplete, and to fill this gap, CTA will conduct a complete and deep survey of the Galactic Plane during its first decade of operations. The plan is to dedicate more than 1,600 hours of observing time to scrutinizing our Galaxy, which will provide an unprecedented legacy dataset that will form the basis for countless follow-up studies.
+
+The above image represents what CTA may observe during its Galactic Plane Survey. It is based on a simulation of the events that will be recorded by both CTA arrays, which, when combined, will provide an unprecedented view of our Milky Way. The simulation reflects our current knowledge about the population of very-high-energy sources in our Galaxy and comprises objects such as the remnants of supernova explosions, the nebulae created by young energetic pulsars and diffuse emission components arising from the interaction of energetic particles with the interstellar medium and radiation fields. In total, we expect to be able to detect about 500 individual sources of gamma-ray emission in the course of the survey. An important fraction of these sources will be spatially resolved by CTA, providing insights into the physics that accelerate particles to the highest energies and how these particles leave their accelerating sources.
+
+It also is expected that the survey will lead to the discovery of new and unexpected phenomena in our Galaxy, such as new source classes and new types of transient phenomena. The detection of hundreds of new very-high-energy gamma-ray sources will substantially increase the galactic inventory and permit high statistics population studies for the first time. The survey also will be fundamental to unveiling sources that are capable of accelerating particles to PeV energies, which is key to understanding the origin of the cosmic rays that permeate our Milky Way.
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+title: "The Astronomical Infrastructures of the Future Meet in Granada"
+description: "On Wednesday, 5 October, the heads of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) met at the headquarters of the Institute of Astrophysics of…"
+date: 2022-10-06
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Instituto-Astrofisica-5-10-22-A-135-de-169-scaled-1-1600x1004.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Re-play the event [on YouTube](https://youtu.be/4-90-PjQvts).
+
+More photos [on our Flickr channel.](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/albums/72177720302769042)
+
+On Wednesday, 5 October, the heads of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) met at the headquarters of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) in Granada, Spain to participate in the round table “El Universo que veremos” (“The Universe that we will see,” in English). Xavier Barcons (Director General of ESO), Philip Diamond (Director General of SKAO) and Wolfgang Wild (CTAO Project Manager) discussed the science, technology, impact and governance of these three major astronomical infrastructures, in a session moderated by Isabel Márquez (Deputy Director of the IAA-CSIC) and organized jointly between the IAA-CSIC and the CTAO. Held in tandem with the Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) conference that is being held this week in Granada, the event was the first time that these institutions, which will lead astrophysics in the coming decades, publicly assembled in Spain.
+
+SKAO, ESO and CTAO will open new windows to the Universe across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio and optical waves to high-energy gamma rays, respectively. Building and managing the largest observatories on the planet involves great technological and scientific challenges that increasingly require international collaboration.
+
+“It will be more and more common to combine many ranges of wavelengths to obtain a complete picture of an object or process in the Universe: multi-wavelength astronomy is the future, and it is what will allow us to fully understand these phenomena,” explained Wolfgang Wild during the round table.
+
+Among the technological challenges, Wild and Barcons highlighted technical challenges, such as “moving a hundred-ton telescope in twenty seconds to any part of the sky” in the case of CTAO, or “getting 798 segments of one and a half meters to work as a single mirror” in the case of the ESO’s ELT (Extremely Large Telescope), the world’s largest optical telescope that is currently being built in Chile. Diamond, for his part, emphasized the challenges that a Big Data project like SKAO must face, such as the storage, processing and conversion of the immense volume of data that the Radio Observatory will generate.
+
+Likewise, the speakers discussed the socio-economic impact and governance of these international infrastructures and agreed on the need to create sustainable, diverse and inclusive projects. Among other activities, Barcons and Diamond highlighted the use of solar energy: recently, ESO inaugurated a photovoltaic plant in Chile, and SKAO’s antennas will work with this type of energy in Australia and mostly in South Africa. On the other hand, Wild explained the environmental care that any construction requires, like the detailed environmental studies conducted prior to CTAO’s activities on the Spanish island of La Palma, which will be the site of the Observatory’s northern hemisphere array of telescopes. Furthermore, as active members of society, these three infrastructures understand the special importance of participating in the local community, by engaging and partnering with the people and businesses in the areas where they will operate.
+
+“El Universo que veremos” was a unique opportunity to discuss multiple important aspects of the astronomical infrastructures of the present and the future. The successful collaboration of these three projects is an example of how international cooperation continues to strengthen and diversify science. There is no doubt that they will provide answers to many current scientific unknowns and even, as the speakers themselves pointed out, to questions that have not yet been raised.
+
+[Read IAA-CSIC press release on their website.](https://www.iaa.csic.es/noticias/astronomia-futuro-sera-colaborativa-multionda-mas-diversa-y-verde)
+
+Alba Fernández-Barral, CTAO Outreach, Education and Communication Officer.
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
+The [Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO)](https://www.ctao.org) will be the leading very high-energy gamma-ray astronomical observatory for decades to come, and its scientific potential is extremely broad: ranging from understanding the role of particles relativistic cosmic to the search for dark matter. With more than sixty telescopes located in the northern and southern hemispheres (on the island of La Palma and in Chile), CTAO will be the first ground-based gamma-ray observatory and the most sensitive instrument in the world for the detection of high-energy radiation.
+
+The [Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)](https://www.iaa.csic.es/) is an institute of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Higher Council for Scientific Research, in English) located in Granada (Spain). The activities of the IAA-CSIC are related to research in the field of Astrophysics and the development of instrumentation for telescopes and space vehicles. Their research groups are actively involved in the CTA Project, as members of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC) and the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration, as well as the SKA Project.
+
+The [European Southern Observatory (ESO)](http://www.eso.org) is an intergovernmental organization established in 1962 supported by 16 Member States, the host country Chile and strategic partners. ESO is a member of the CTAO gGmbH Council and hosts the CTAO Southern Array site in Chile. During the session, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) project, which will operate from Chile, was discussed. Its objective is to observe the Universe in optical and infrared with greater detail even than that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Its 39-meter-diameter segmented mirror will allow the study of extrasolar planets and their atmospheres, planet-forming disks beyond our Solar System, dark energy and the formation of galaxies.
+
+The [Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO)](http://www.skao.int), the largest scientific infrastructure planned to date, is an international effort to build the most powerful radio telescope in the world, consisting of a telescope with 197 parabolic antennas in South Africa and another with more than 130,000 low-frequency antennas in Australia. It will allow, among other things, to make a movie of the universe since the Big Bang, to observe the first stars and galaxies, to study ultra-compact objects such as pulsars, to detect (if they exist) signs of extraterrestrial life and even to detect the traces of black hole collisions. SKAO and CTAO signed a collaboration agreement in 2020, with the aim of sharing experience and knowledge in areas such as engineering, science, technology or administration
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+title: "“ESCAPE to the Future” Event Recommits CTAO and ESCAPE Partners in Collaboration for Open Science"
+description: "The CTAO, in partnership with many of Europe’s biggest facilities in physics-related disciplines, has just recommitted to a long-term deal to build synergies and work on Open Science topics. This agreement was signed at the “ESCAPE to the…"
+date: 2022-10-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/GiovanniLamanna_ESCAPEtotheFuture-768x512.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), in partnership with some of Europe’s biggest facilities in physics-related disciplines, has just recommitted to a long-term deal to collaborate on Open Science topics, from science data management to developing science tools, services and research software, among others. The agreement was signed at the “[ESCAPE to the Future](https://projectescape.eu/events/escape-future)” conference on October 25-26, 2022, where partners of the [European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructure (ESCAPE) project](https://projectescape.eu/), as well as members of the scientific community and the European Commission, gathered at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science in Brussels (Belgium).
+
+ESCAPE, which began in 2019, has brought together a [cluster of ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) projects and other world-class research organizations](https://projectescape.eu/science-projects) with the aim of implementing a section of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to foster Open Science in astrophysics and particle physics. As the ESCAPE project, funded by the H2020 grant, is coming to its end, the members of the cluster came together at the conference to share their results and achievements and to discuss the next challenges and their outlook for the future. The “ESCAPE to the Future” event is also the starting point of a new era: after the successful experience of the ESCAPE project, the CTAO and a further eight core ESCAPE Research Infrastructure partners signed a new Open Collaboration Agreement, which consolidates their cross-border action towards Open Science, the implementation of the EOSC and the establishment of new collaborations on common topics in the area of data management and research software. These actions benefit the [European Strategy for data and excellence in science,](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/strategy-data) as well as the data management approaches of the ESFRIs, themselves.
+
+During the implementation period of the ESCAPE project, the CTAO worked with [partners from the astronomy, astroparticle, particle  and nuclear physics communities](https://projectescape.eu/partners) on the development of software for Open Data management, in a cross-border and multi-disciplinary open environment, according to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles.
+
+“As an open observatory, the CTAO has the responsibility to provide high-quality data as a service to the community and to work closely with other observatories,” says Prof. Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director, who participated in the discussion panel of the event with representatives from other ESFRI projects and landmarks. “Thus, the ESCAPE project is well-aligned with the CTAO’s overarching goal of providing scientists worldwide easy access to the CTAO data products and high-quality science software to analyse the data.”
+
+The CTAO’s participation in the ESCAPE Project has helped the Observatory gain experience and knowledge in key aspects of cutting-edge data management systems, such as data lake technologies and software repositories, as well as understanding how to build a science platform and developing links to the Virtual Observatory. The CTAO has also been able to test several of its use cases on ESCAPE systems, whilst also implementing example analysis workflows. The outcome of CTAO’s work within the ESCAPE project was presented during the conference by Matthias Füßling, CTAO SUSS (Science User Support System) Coordinator, and Gareth Hughes, CTAO Science Platform Developer.
+
+“Beyond providing an excellent framework to test technologies, workflows and use cases in the real world, which is invaluable for the CTAO, ESCAPE also presents the perfect opportunity to collaborate with other ESFRIs that share some of our challenges,” says Dr. Matthias Füßling. “Thus, the CTAO looks forward to continuing the ESCAPE partnership to enhance technologies and solutions, increase interoperability, improve software and user experience, and to find new ways to collaborate in order to make that happen.”
+
+The new Open Collaboration Agreement, publicly announced during the “ESCAPE for the Future” event and signed by the Directors of all the research infrastructure partners, will take effect in January 2023 and will also help continue the synergies and joint work of all five domain-based Science Clusters involved in the implementation of EOSC. This agreement, also open to further research infrastructures to join, is expected to maintain the collaborative and human experience represented by the Science Cluster and strengthen the role and impact of astronomy and nuclear/particle physics in the field of open science and, more broadly, in the European Research Area.
+
+“Scientific research is progressing towards the new paradigm of Open Science for more open, transparent, collaborative and inclusive scientific practices to enhance the impact of science in our society, fostered by the expansion of information and communication technologies. This is the fundamental motivation of the ESCAPE scientific community and it is also the challenge shared by pan-European Research Infrastructures (RIs) that are members of the ESCAPE science cluster,” explains Dr. Giovanni Lamanna, Coordinator of the ESCAPE project.
+
+[Read the ESCAPE announcement.](https://projectescape.eu/news/escape-future-event-recommits-escape-partners-collaboration-open-science)
+
+Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral, CTAO Outreach, Education and Communication Officer.
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
++39-051-6357-270
+
+Dr. Giovanni Lamanna, Director of the [LAPP](https://lapp.in2p3.fr/) Laboratory, CNRS-IN2P3/USMB and ESCAPE Coordinator.
+
+[giovanni.lamanna@lapp.in2p3.fr](mailto:giovanni.lamanna@lapp.in2p3.fr)
+
++33 (0) 4 50 09 16 00
+
+ESCAPE ([https://projectescape.eu/](https://projectescape.eu/)) brings together the astronomy, astroparticle and particle physics communities. With this, ESCAPE puts together a cluster with ESFRI projects with aligned challenges of data-driven research, with demonstrated capabilities in addressing various stages of data workflow and concerned with fundamental research through complementary approaches.
+
+ESCAPE aims to produce versatile solutions, with great potential for discovery, to support the implementation of EOSC thanks to open data management, cross-border and multi-disciplinary open environment, according to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles. The ESCAPE foundations lay on the capacity building of the [ASTERICS project](https://www.asterics2020.eu/) work towards enabling interoperability between the facilities, minimising fragmentation, encouraging cross-fertilisation and developing joint multiwavelength/multi-messenger capabilities in astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities.
+
+European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a cloud for research data in Europe allowing for universal access to data; a single online platform where all European researchers will be able to: (i) find, access and re-use data produced by other scientists; (ii) deposit, analyse and share data they have been paid to produce. EOSC will help increase recognition of data intensive research and data science. Its architecture is developed as a data infrastructure common serving the needs of scientists, providing both common functions and localised services delegated to community level. EOSC will federate existing resources across national data centres, European e-infrastructures and research infrastructures by gradually opening up its user base to the public sector and industry.
+
+Research Infrastructures have strong links with research communities and projects, manage significant data volumes and develop innovative data analytics tools, ensuring effective research data exploitation. Five ESFRI cluster projects were launched in 2019, within the H2020 framework of the European Union, providing a gathering point for various ESFRI projects and landmarks to connect to the EOSC. The five Science Clusters are ENVRI-FAIR for environmental research, EOSC-Life for life sciences, ESCAPE for astronomy, particle physics and nuclear physics, PaNOSC for multidisciplinary scientific analysis based on light and neutron sources facilities and SSHOC for social sciences and humanities. The ESFRI science cluster projects implement interfaces to integrate computer and data management solutions to create cross-border, interdisciplinary and open cooperation spaces for European researchers.
+
+The first RIs that have signed the ESCAPE Open Collaboration agreement include ESFRI projects/landmarks and research infrastructures such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (**CERN**), the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (**CTAO**), the KM3NeT Research Infrastructure (**KM3NeT**), the European Gravitational-Wave Observatory (**EGO-Virgo**), the European Southern Observatory (**ESO**), the European Solar Telescope (**EST**), the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (**FAIR**), the Joint Institute for VLBI-ERIC (**JIV-ERIC**) and the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (**SKAO**). The following institutes contribute actively to the ESCAPE Project on behalf of the CTAO (in alphabetical order by country):
+
+France: LAPP/Observatory of Paris
+
+Germany: MPIK
+
+Spain: IFAE-BIST, IFAE-PIC and UCM
+
+The following CTAO and CTAC member participate actively in the ESCAPE Project on behalf of the CTAO (in alphabetical order by surname):
+
+Catherine Boisson
+
+Agustin Bruzzese
+
+Daniel Nieto Castaño
+
+Jose Luis Contreras
+
+Nuria Álvarez Crespo
+
+Axel Donath
+
+Matthias Füssling
+
+Enrique García
+
+Frederic Gillardo
+
+Gareth Hughes
+
+Jordi Delgado Mengual
+
+Gonzalo Merino
+
+Nadine Neyroud
+
+Cosimo Nigro
+
+Quentin Remy
+
+Javier Rico
+
+Mathieu Servillat
+
+Berkay Turk
+
+Thomas Vuillaume
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+title: "ESO Becomes Shareholder of Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory"
+description: "Effective 1 March 2019, Stefan Schlenstedt will join the CTA Observatory (CTAO) as its Computing Coordinator. As a member of the CTA Project Office and part of the construction project, he will play a key role in coordinating software…"
+date: 2019-03-07
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/eso17xx_ctaa_small-768x507.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 7 March 2019, ESO officially became a shareholder of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO). The necessary formal steps were concluded during the meeting of the CTA Council on 7–8 March at ESO’s headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany, after ESO had participated in the project for some time as an observer.
+
+ESO already signed an agreement on 19 December 2018 to host the southern site of the CTA in the Atacama desert near the ESO Paranal Observatory in Chile. The Paranal site, home of the Very Large Telescope, offers excellent viewing conditions and well-established infrastructure, making it an attractive location for new facilities such as CTA–South. The northern site of the CTA will be based on La Palma in the Canary Islands.
+
+As a shareholder, ESO will be represented at the [CTA Council](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/governance/), which shall govern the observatory, joining shareholders from 11 countries and associate members from another two. The current legal entity is the CTAO gGmbH, a German non-profit limited liability company. The participating countries are currently in the process of establishing the CTAO European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CTAO ERIC) which will construct, commission and operate for an intended period of 30 years the immense observatory.
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+---
+title: "ESO Technical Analysis Confirms Planned Industrial Complex Will Have Extensive Impact on Paranal Observatory"
+description: "In January, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) publicly raised the alarm about the threat that the industrial megaproject INNA posed to the world’s darkest and clearest skies for astronomy, those of ESO’s Paranal Observatory and the…"
+date: 2025-03-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Chile_nightsky-1600x622.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+In January, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) publicly [raised the alarm](https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/news/eso2501/?lang) about the threat that the industrial megaproject INNA posed to the world’s darkest and clearest skies for astronomy, those of ESO’s Paranal Observatory and the site of the [CTAO’s southern hemisphere array (CTAO-South)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/). The project — by AES Andes, a subsidiary of the U.S. power company AES Corporation — includes multiple energy and processing facilities, spread over an area of more than 3,000 hectares, the size of a small city. Its planned location is just [a few kilometers from the Paranal telescopes](https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/INNA-map-EN/). A preliminary analysis revealed that, due to its size and proximity to Paranal, the INNA project posed significant risks to astronomical observations. Now, an in-depth technical analysis by ESO has confirmed that INNA’s impact on the facilities at Paranal Observatory, Chile would be devastating and irreversible.
+
+ESO’s technical report focuses on those site characteristics that are most critical for the performance of the observatories and that could be impacted by the INNA project, concluding that the construction and operation of this project will cause artificial light contamination (“light pollution”) and an increase in ground motions or vibrations, atmospheric turbulence and dust contamination of optical surfaces.
+
+“ESO has done an outstanding job in conducting this thorough technical analysis, providing valuable insights into the potential impacts of the planned INNA project,” says Stuart McMuldroch, CTAO ERIC Director General. “The findings are very concerning, and we support their efforts to achieve a relocation of the planned facility.”
+
+According to ESO’s analysis, the industrial complex would increase light pollution above the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which is about 11km from the planned INNA location, by at least 35% above the current artificial-light baseline levels. Another of the Paranal facilities, ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), would see the light pollution above it increase by a minimum of 5%. This increase already represents a level of interference incompatible with the conditions required for world-class astronomical observations. The impact on the skies above the CTAO-South, located just 5km from INNA, would be the most significant, with light pollution going up by at least 55%.
+
+“Any loss in the quality of the Chilean night skies over Paranal — no matter how small — should not be tolerated, as any science lost will be gone forever and can never be recovered,” states Roberta Zanin, CTAO Project Scientist.
+
+For its technical analysis, a team of experts led by ESO Director of Operations Andreas Kaufer joined forces with Martin Aubé, a world-leading expert on sky brightness at astronomical sites, to run simulations using the most advanced light-pollution models. As input, the simulations used publicly available information provided by AES Andes when submitting the project for environmental assessment, which states the complex will be illuminated by over 1,000 light sources.
+
+“The light-pollution figures we are reporting assume that the project will install the most modern available luminaries in a way that minimises light pollution. However, we are concerned that the inventory of light sources planned by AES is not complete and fit for purpose. In that case our already alarming results would underestimate the potential impact of the INNA project on the Paranal sky brightness,” explains Kaufer.
+
+In addition to the dark and clear skies, Paranal Observatory is the world’s top site for astronomy thanks to its exceptionally steady and stable atmosphere – it has what astronomers call excellent seeing conditions or very low “twinkling” of astronomical objects caused by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere. With INNA, the best seeing conditions could deteriorate by up to 40%, in particular due to the air turbulence caused by the project’s wind turbines.
+
+Another worry is the impact of the vibrations caused by INNA on the VLT Interferometer (VLTI) and the ELT, which are both extremely sensitive to micro-seismic noise. The technical analysis reveals that INNA’s wind turbines could produce an increase in these micro-vibrations of the ground that is large enough to impair the operations of these two world-leading astronomical facilities. Dust during construction is also problematic as it settles on the telescope mirrors and obstructs their view.
+
+Furthermore, INNA’s infrastructure is likely to encourage the development of an industrial hub in the area, which could turn Paranal into an unusable site for top-level astronomical observations.
+
+“ESO and its Member States are fully supportive of energy decarbonisation. For us, Chile should not have to make a choice between hosting the most powerful astronomical observatories and developing green-energy projects. Both are declared strategic priorities by the country and are fully compatible — if the different facilities are located at sufficient distances from one another,” says ESO Director General Xavier Barcons.
+
+The full technical report will be submitted to the Chilean authorities later this month as part of the Citizen Participation Process (PAC) in INNA’s environmental impact assessment and made public at that time. In addition to their press release, ESO is making an executive summary of the report public in advance.
+
+[Read ESO’s full press release.](https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2506/)
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+---
+title: "EU Particle Physics & Astronomy Commit to the Research Data Revolution Making the European Open Science Cloud a Reality"
+description: "In 2019, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will get a €16 million boost by the European Commission for its implementation."
+date: 2018-11-20
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/03-Escape-logo-1600x1131.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+First quarter 2019, sees the exciting launch of one out of the five successfully retained INFRA-EOSC-04-2018 Cluster projects, which the European Commission supports with €16 million to boost the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
+
+**About EOSC:**
+
+European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a cloud for research data in Europe allowing for universal access to data; a single online platform where all European researchers will be able to:
+
+(i) find, access and re-use data produced by other scientists;
+
+(ii) deposit, analyse and share data they have been paid to produce.
+
+EOSC will help increase recognition of data intensive research and data science. Its architecture is developed as a data infrastructure commons serving the needs of scientists, providing both common functions and localised services delegated to community level. EOSC will federate existing resources across national data centres, European e-infrastructures and research infrastructures by gradually opening up its user base to the public sector and industry.
+
+**ESCAPE** – « The European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures » answers the EOSC ambition in bringing People, Data, Services, Training, Publications, Projects & Organisations, all together in an integrated and federated environment. The project is led by the IN2P3, the national institute of nuclear and particle physics within CNRS, the French public research organisation, with a consortium of 31 partners including 27 European partner institutions, two pan-European research organisations, and two SMEs.
+
+Multi-messenger astronomy and accelerator-driven particle physics are two pillars of the ESCAPE project. Through the combination of the experimental investigations of the two extremes, from the largest-scale structures in the observable Universe to the most fundamental particles, the astronomy-related projects and the accelerator-based particle physics facilities will open together new paths towards the understanding of the Universe. A deluge of data is expected in the next years by the next generation facilities prioritised in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) – the major facilities identified in the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures – and other world-class projects. This €16 million funding boost will help Europe’s world-leading research infrastructures work together to find common solutions to their data challenges, their data interoperability, their data access and to accentuate the openness of Fundamental Science research to the full international community, from professionals to the public.
+
+“It is the first time that many of the greatest European scientific facilities in physics and astronomy have combined forces to make their data and software interoperable and open, committing to make the European Science Cloud a reality. This is an important milestone for European scientific research,” said Dr. Giovanni Lamanna, Director of the IN2P3 laboratory LAPP (Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules) and Principal Investigator of the ESCAPE project.
+
+**People:** European astronomers and particle physicists are celebrating the €16 million boost for Open Science today, through ESCAPE. ESCAPE is not just about providing tools for the expert European science community. Members of the public will be able to access world-class data and participate in science discovery, through citizen science mass participation experiments.
+
+**Data:** Many of Europe’s greatest laboratories and research infrastructures are combining forces to make all their data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Users are invited to contribute to define the main common functionalities of EOSC and the needs of their own community. European astronomers and particle physicists are committing to build EOSC through ESCAPE.
+
+**Training:** ESCAPE’s work-plan emphasises a strong component of training – the aim is to attract and educate young scientists towards Open Science and data stewardship, in using the newly developed tools and methodologies. The EOSC will be developed to serve the needs of scientists and to respond to the global cultural change recognising research data as a significant output of research that needs appropriately curated throughout and after the period conducting the research.
+
+**Services:** ESCAPE will extend the concepts of the astronomical Virtual Observatory seamlessly into the domains of solar physics, particle physics and astroparticle physics. ESCAPE will leverage the long-standing expertise of the particle physics community in large-scale distributed computing and data resources, building new tools to deal with the data avalanche from the next generation of facilities to create a giant “data lake” of up to multi-Exabytes federating national and regional data centres. A new science analysis platform will be built, so users of the EOSC can tap into existing software and bring their own, using the power of high-performance and high-throughput computing. Finally, ESCAPE will create a new open source software repository, to maximise software re-use and co-development, to identify open standards for software release, to investigate data mining tools and new analysis techniques. The ESCAPE domain-based repository will be part of the global EOSC catalogue of scientific software.
+
+**Projects:** ESCAPE builds on the successes of an earlier EU-funded cluster project, ASTERICS2, which built some of the fundamental infrastructure, data management and scientific software solutions as well as policies for interoperability and joint scheduling.
+
+The funding was made through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, which is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding over 7 years (2014 to 2020).
+
+**Organisations:** ESCAPE’s domain expert and skilled consortia of facilities is broad, and knowledgeable. It includes ESFRI projects/landmarks such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the European Solar Telescope (EST), the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR), the High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the cubic-kilometre-sized Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Two pan-European International Organizations, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), are also members of the ESCAPE cluster. The European Virtual Observatory (EURO-VO) is also actively engaged in this endeavour. ESCAPE also brings on board other world-class established astronomical observatories, such as those operated by ESO (e.g. APEX ALMA, the Paranal and La Silla observatories), research infrastructures such as the European Gravitational-Wave Observatory (EGO-Virgo) and the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIV-ERIC).
+
+**The complete list of ESCAPE partners**
+
+Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), ASTRON, CWI and NIKHEF institutes of the Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten (NWO-I), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), European Southern Observatory (ESO), The Square Kilometre Array Organization (SKA), Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR GMBH), Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van Belgie (ORB), Università degli Studi di Roma Torvergata (UNITOV), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Istituto Nazionale d’Astrofisica (INAF), Instituto de Fisica de Altas Energias (IFAE), Stiftung Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften EV (MPG), Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Stiftung Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (UHEI), GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung Gmbh (GSI), The University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (JIV-ERIC), European Gravitational Observatory / Osservatorio Gravitazionale Europeo (EGO), The Open University (OU), Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial Esteban Terradas (INTA), HITS GGMBH (HITS), Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory GGMBH (CTAO GGMBH), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), Surfsara BV, TRUST-IT Services (TRUST-IT), OROBIX Srl (OROBIX).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Contact Person: [Dr Giovanni Lamanna](http://lappweb.in2p3.fr/~lamanna/giovannilamanna.html), Director of the [LAPP](https://lapp.in2p3.fr/) Laboratory, CNRS-IN2P3/USMB, ESCAPE Coordinator.
+
+Email: giovanni.lamanna@lapp.in2p3.fr
+
+Phone: +33 (0) 4 50 09 16 00
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+title: "Evento en Granada el 27 de Abril para Explorar la Ciencia Abierta y Oportunidades con el CTAO"
+description: "El jueves 27 de abril a las 12:00 CEST, el CTAO y el IAA-CSIC celebrarán un evento gratuito y abierto para investigadores interesados en la Ciencia Abierta y posibles sinergias con el CTAO, así como para estudiantes de grado, máster y…"
+date: 2023-04-12
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/featureimage_CTAOevento-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+El jueves 27 de abril a las 12:00 CEST, el Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) y el [Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)](https://www.iaa.csic.es/) celebrarán un evento gratuito y abierto para investigadores interesados en la Ciencia Abierta y posibles sinergias con el CTAO, así como para estudiantes de grado, máster y doctorado que deseen desarrollarse profesionalmente en el campo de la Astrofísica de muy altas energías. El seminario, que tendrá lugar en la sede del IAA-CSIC (Granada, España), reunirá a Roberta Zanin (Responsable Científica del CTAO), Juan Cortina (Coordinador de CTA-España), Rubén López-Coto (Co-Investigador Principal del Proyecto CTA en el IAA-CSIC) y Francisco Colomer (Coordinador de la Presidencia Española del Consejo de la UE en el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) para hablar sobre las últimas novedades en el desarrollo de la Ciencia Abierta con el CTAO, incluyendo el uso innovador de la inteligencia artificial aplicada a la Astrofísica, y salidas profesionales y sinergias con el proyecto de construcción y operación del CTAO.
+
+El CTAO será el primer observatorio terrestre de rayos gamma y el instrumento más sensible para explorar el Universo a muy altas energías. Lo hará con más de 60 telescopios situados en dos emplazamientos: CTAO-Norte, situado en el hemisferio norte en la isla de La Palma (España), y CTAO-Sur localizado en el hemisferio sur en el Desierto de Atacama (Chile). Como instrumento líder para la astronomía de rayos gamma durante los próximos 30 años, el CTAO abordará algunas de las principales cuestiones científicas dentro y fuera de la astrofísica, divididas en tres temas principales: comprender el origen y el papel de las partículas cósmicas relativistas; estudiar los entornos más extremos del Cosmos, como la vecindad de agujeros negros o estrellas de neutrones; y explorar las fronteras de la física, buscando desvelar grandes misterios como la naturaleza de la materia oscura. Y lo más importante, como observatorio comprometido con la Ciencia Abierta, el CTAO será el primer instrumento de este tipo en proporcionar herramientas de análisis y datos astronómicos abiertos para toda la comunidad científica siguiendo los principios FAIR (del inglés, encontrabilidad, accesibilidad, interoperabilidad y reutilización).
+
+El CTAO, que pronto se convertirá en un Consorcio Europeo de Infraestructuras de Investigación (CTAO ERIC), cuenta con países miembro y socios globalmente para su despliegue científico y tecnológico (hardware y software). Entre ellos se encuentra España, país miembro y anfitrión del emplazamiento CTAO-Norte, que juega un papel fundamental en el avance del proyecto. Las contribuciones españolas se centran en el desarrollo del hardware para el Large-Sized Telescope (LST) y el Medium-Sized Telescope (MST), así como en el análisis del software y el almacenamiento de datos para el prototipo del LST, denominado LST-1, actualmente en fase de puesta en marcha en La Palma (Islas Canarias). Además, los miembros españoles trabajan en el desarrollo de instrumentos para la monitorización de las condiciones atmosféricas en el CTAO-Norte y colaboran como miembros activos en los diferentes grupos de trabajo científicos y de análisis de datos del Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC), donde representan el 10% de la comunidad.
+
+Los diferentes equipos internacionales comprometidos con el avance del CTAO trabajan a favor de la Ciencia Abierta en múltiples frentes, que serán discutidos por los ponentes durante el evento. Entre otros temas, los participantes podrán profundizar sobre las [perspectivas científicas del CTAO](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/science/study-themes/) y sus datos, el CTAO Science Data Challenge, el papel del CTAO como miembro activo en proyectos internacionales como [ESCAPE](https://projectescape.eu/), el papel de los Centros de Datos en el procesamiento, y el uso de redes neuronales para mejorar el análisis de datos. Además, los ponentes destacarán posibles sinergias y oportunidades profesionales con el CTAO para físicos e ingenieros en España y otros países.
+
+El evento tiene lugar durante la semana de la Asamblea General del CTAO/CTAC que reunirá a cientos de científicos e ingenieros de todo el mundo remota y presencialmente en Granada para debatir sobre los avances científicos y tecnológicos del CTAO.
+
+[Alba Fernández-Barral](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org), Responsable de Divulgación, Educación y Comunicación de CTAO.
+
+La precisión incomparable y el rango de energía sin precedentes (20 GeV-300 TeV) del CTAO proporcionarán nuevos conocimientos sobre los eventos más extremos y poderosos del Universo. Para ello, el CTAO tiene dos emplazamientos que albergarán los telescopios: [CTAO-Norte en el hemisferio norte en La Palma (España)](https://www.cta-observatory.org/about/array-locations/la-palma/) y [CTAO-Sur en el hemisferio sur en el Desierto de Atacama (Chile)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/). La sede central del CTAO está alojada en Italia en el Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) en Bolonia, y el Centro de Gestión de Datos Científicos (SDMC por sus siglas en inglés) se encuentra en Alemania en el campus de Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) en Zeuthen.
+
+Se requieren tres clases de telescopios para cubrir todo el rango de energía del CTAO, desde 20 GeV hasta 300 TeV: [el Large-Sized Telescope (LST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/), el [Medium-Sized Telescope (MST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/mst/) y el [Small-Sized Telescope (SST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/). El proyecto para construir CTAO está muy avanzado: existen prototipos de trabajo para todos los diseños de telescopios propuestos y se ha llevado a cabo un trabajo significativo de caracterización y diseño del sitio. Además, en octubre de 2018, se inauguró el prototipo Large-Sized Telescope, el LST-1, en CTAO-Norte, y actualmente se encuentra en proceso de puesta en servicio. El Observatorio se beneficia de una configuración modular: si bien se espera que finalmente incluya hasta 118 telescopios repartidos entre ambos sitios de telescopios, durante la primera fase de construcción se construirá una instalación parcial con más de 60 telescopios, lo que ya será una mejora excepcional en comparación a las infraestructuras actuales. Esta configuración incluye 4 LST y 9 MST para el conjunto del hemisferio norte y 14 MST y 37 SST para el hemisferio sur. La [definición de esta configuración](https://www.ctao.org/for-scientists/performance/) es el resultado de un minucioso proceso de optimización de las capacidades científicas de cada conjunto, lo que implica la especialización del emplazamiento norte en fuentes extragalácticas (rango de energía del CTAO bajo-medio) y el del sur en objetos galácticos (rango de energía del CTAO medio-alto).
+
+La preparación del diseño e implementación del CTAO está gestionada por CTAO gGmbH, entidad legal interina hasta que se establezca la entidad final como CTAO ERIC (Consorcio Europeo de Infraestructuras de Investigación), a cargo de la construcción y operación del Observatorio. CTAO gGmbH está gobernado por el Consejo de CTAO, compuesto por accionistas de 11 países y una organización intergubernamental (ESO), así como miembros asociados de dos países. El CTAO gGmbH trabaja en estrecha colaboración con el Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC), grupo de más de 1500 físicos e ingenieros que contribuyen a la definición del diseño del instrumento y el programa científico desde 25 países. Asimismo, el CTAO cuenta como socios con los denominados equipos de contribución en especie (IKC, por sus siglas en inglés), que proporcionan bienes y servicios para el desarrollo y la construcción de software y hardware del Observatorio, entre los que se encuentras las Colaboraciones del LST, MST y SST.
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+---
+title: "Federico Ferrini Begins Tenure as CTA Managing Director"
+description: "On 1 March 2018, Prof. Federico Ferrini became CTA’s new Managing Director, succeeding Prof. Ueli Straumann who has served since 2016. Beyond his deep experience in the field of astrophysics, Ferrini brings extensive knowledge in the…"
+date: 2018-03-01
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 1 March 2018, Prof. Federico Ferrini became CTA’s new Managing Director, succeeding Prof. Ueli Straumann who has served since 2016.
+
+Beyond his deep experience in the field of astrophysics, Ferrini brings extensive knowledge in the management of large international scientific projects. After dedicating more than 30 years to astrophysics research and teaching at the University of Pisa, which included directing the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, Ferrini was named Director of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in 2011. As director, he fostered the collaboration and technical advancement of the VIRGO interferometric antenna – one of the three largest gravitational detectors in the world. Some of his other professional positions have included Scientific Attaché at the Permanent Mission of Italy in Geneva and Chair of both the CERN Pension Fund Governing Board and Investment Committee.
+
+“At this critical point of the CTA project, we look forward to Federico bringing his long-standing experience on the VIRGO project to build on the progress made by Ueli in the construction of what will be the world’s preeminent observatory for studying the high-energy Universe,” said Gabriel Chardin, Chair of the CTA Council.
+
+During his three-year tenure, Ferrini intends to apply his leadership and enthusiasm to the CTA construction project with the goal of bringing its vast scientific potential closer to reality.
+
+“It is an honour to be selected to help lead CTA as it prepares for construction and begins building telescopes on site,” said Ferrini. “CTA is a major pillar for the future of astro-particle physics, and I look forward to collaborating with the highly-motivated people who have contributed to bringing CTA to this exciting point in its development. My predecessor, Ueli, is one of those people — he has done outstanding work forging a path to achieving CTA’s ambitious objectives, and I plan to continue following that path.”
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+---
+title: "Final Agreements Signed for CTA’s Southern Hemisphere Site in Chile"
+description: "On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) will sign the final agreements needed for CTA’s southern hemisphere array to be hosted near ESO’s Paranal Observatory in…"
+date: 2018-12-19
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/composition_cta_paranal_4K_sct_small-768x324.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+**Santiago, Chile** – On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) signed the final agreements needed for CTA’s [southern hemisphere array](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/) to be hosted near ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
+
+A total of three agreements were signed over the course of the week: between the Chilean government and ESO; between ESO and CTAO; and between the [Chilean National Commission for Science and Technology](https://www.conicyt.cl/) (CONICYT) and CTAO. With these three agreements in place, the CTAO will be able to begin construction on the southern site. The hosting agreement with the [Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias](http://www.iac.es/) (IAC) is already in place to host CTA’s northern hemisphere array at the [Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos](http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en) in La Palma, Spain. Construction on both the northern and southern arrays is expected to begin in 2020.
+
+CTA will be the next generation ground-based instrument in the detection of gamma rays, which are very high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by the hottest and most powerful objects in the Universe — such as supermassive black holes, supernovae and possibly remnants of the Big Bang. To provide access to the whole sky, the CTA Observatory will have two sites, with 19 telescopes in the northern hemisphere and 99 in the southern hemisphere.
+
+The southern site of CTA is 11 kilometres southeast of the location of the [Very Large Telescope](http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/) at [ESO’s Paranal Observatory](http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/) in the Atacama Desert and only 16 kilometres from the construction site of the upcoming [Extremely Large Telescope](https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/elt/). This is one of the driest and most isolated regions on Earth — an astronomical paradise. In addition to the ideal conditions for year-round observation, installing CTA at the Paranal Observatory brings the advantages of ESO’s infrastructure. The existing infrastructures and facilities, and ESO’s long-lasting experience spearheading international astronomical projects in Chile, will all support the construction and operation of the new telescope array. ESO will operate the facility on behalf of the CTA Observatory and its Members.
+
+Current gamma-ray telescope arrays only consist of a handful of individual telescopes, but CTA — with its larger collecting area and wider sky coverage — will be the largest and most sensitive array of gamma-ray telescopes in the world, with unprecedented accuracy and 10 times more sensitive than existing instruments.
+
+Although the Earth’s atmosphere prevents gamma rays from reaching the surface, CTA’s mirrors and high-speed cameras will capture the short-lived flashes of eerie blue Cherenkov radiation produced when gamma rays interact with the atmosphere. By detecting this Cherenkov light, scientists will be able to trace the gamma ray back to its cosmic source.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
+
+On 19 December 2018, Ferrini met with ESO’s Director General, Xavier Barcons, at the ESO offices in Santiago, Chile. In the presence of ESO’s Director for Operations, Andreas Kaufer, and other ESO personnel, they signed the agreement for the construction and operation of CTA’s southern array within ESO’s Paranal site in northern Chile.
+
+Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations of Chile Carolina Valdivia Torres and ESO’s Director General also signed [an agreement](https://minrel.gob.cl/chile-suscribe-convenio-para-instalacion-del-conjunto-de-telescopios-de/minrel/2018-12-19/170922.html) that enables ESO to host CTA-South at the Paranal Observatory site, as an ESO Programme.
+
+“Operating CTA at Paranal will open a new window on the Universe for astronomers in the ESO Member States, Chile, and worldwide,” commented Barcons. “ESO’s rich experience of maintaining and operating fleets of telescopes in remote areas will be invaluable for the CTA project.”
+
+“Thanks to the agreements signed today, CTAO will not only benefit from Chile’s spectacular night sky but also from ESO’s facilities and deep experience, which will be an invaluable contribution to the realisation of this ambitious system of telescopes” said Ferrini. “Furthermore, the synergies between ESO and CTAO will mark this new, fast-growing era of multi-messenger astrophysics for decades to come as we explore potential collaborations with other large infrastructures such as ALMA, SKA and gravitational wave interferometers.”
+
+On 17 December 2018, CTAO’s Managing Director, Federico Ferrini, met CONICYT’s Executive Director, Christian Nicolai Orellana to sign a scientific collaboration agreement, which aims to foster astronomical research in Chile, capitalising on the opening of a new observational window as enabled by CTA-South.
+
+“The installation of this new observatory will bring the study of the most extreme phenomena in the Universe to Chile,” explained Orellana. “The project will be complemented with the installation of another array of telescopes in the northern hemisphere, which will foster scientific collaboration between both sides of the globe. In this way, Chile will be hosting the greatest concentration of technology observing phenomena from Earth. Thus, reaffirming Chile and its spectacular sky, the natural astronomical laboratory par excellence, as a world leader in astronomy.”
+
+“The scientific collaboration agreement with CONICYT was an important first step in strengthening the confidence of the Chilean Government in scientific collaboration and to achieve the installation of CTA telescopes in Chile, with ESO’s involvement,” commented Ferrini. “We are looking forward to collaborating with CONICYT to develop a brilliant community of Chilean scientists and engineers that will become an important part of both Chile’s future and the future activities of CTA.”[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The scientific scope of CTA is extremely broad: from understanding the role of relativistic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter. CTA will explore the extreme Universe, probing environments from the immediate neighbourhood of black holes to cosmic voids on the largest scales. It may even lead to brand new physics as it studies the nature of matter and forces beyond the [Standard Model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model).
+
+More than 1400 scientists and engineers from 31 countries across five continents are engaged in the scientific and technical development of CTA. The shareholders of the current legal entity — CTAO gGmbH — are the representatives of ministries and funding agencies from Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom [1]. They are currently preparing for the establishment of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium — the CTAO ERIC — which will then construct the immense observatory. The ERIC will be composed of CTAO’s Member States and associated countries.
+
+Notes
+
+[1] The Netherlands and South Africa attend as observers.
+
+This project is receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programs under agreement No 676134.
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+---
+title: "First Meeting of New IAC and CTAO Directors Marks Next Phase of Collaboration"
+description: "(English/Spanish) This week, CTAO Managing Director, Stuart McMuldroch, and Construction Programme Manager, Volker Heinz, traveled to the Canary Islands for a productive visit with the hosting partners at the Instituto de Astrofísica de…"
+date: 2024-11-15
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Photo1-768x576.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+(English/Spanish)
+
+This week, CTAO Managing Director, Stuart McMuldroch, and Construction Programme Manager, Volker Heinz, traveled to the Canary Islands for a productive visit with the hosting partners at the [Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)](https://iac.es/en) and colleagues from the [CTAO Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration](https://www.ctao.org/partners/in-kind-contributors/). The team was warmly welcomed at the IAC Headquarters in Tenerife by IAC Director, Valentín Martínez, marking the first official meeting between the two directors since Valentín recently assumed this role.
+
+Hosted by Ramón García López, Principal Investigator of the CTAO group at the IAC, the visit was thoughtfully coordinated with a full schedule of meetings and tours to maximise its outcome. Alongside Juan Cortina (Chair of the Institutional Board of the LST Collaboration) and Javier Herrera (Department Head at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, ORM), the group met to discuss key issues for the site’s development and toured the IACTEC building, a state-of-the-art facility where the CTAO telescopes’ cameras are tested before installation.
+
+The visit continued beyond Tenerife, with the team traveling to the CTAO-North site at the ORM on La Palma. There, they joined Patricia Márquez (LST Telescope Manager) to see the current status of the telescopes and align on a unified approach to advance the shared goals.
+
+It is an exciting time for all involved, as the array on La Palma progresses and the global partnership behind the CTAO continues to strengthen.
+
+—
+
+Esta semana, el Director General de CTAO, Stuart McMuldroch, y el Gerente del Programa de Construcción, Volker Heinz, viajaron a las Islas Canarias para una visita productiva con los socios anfitriones del [Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)](https://iac.es/) y compañeros de la [Colaboración del Large-Sized Telescope (LST)](https://www.ctao.org/partners/in-kind-contributors/) del CTAO. El equipo fue cordialmente recibido en la sede del IAC en Tenerife por el Director del IAC, Valentín Martínez, lo que representó la primera reunión oficial entre ambos directores desde que Valentín asumió recientemente este cargo.
+
+La visita, organizada por Ramón García López, Investigador Principal del grupo CTAO en el IAC, contó con una agenda completa de reuniones y visitas guiadas para maximizar los resultados del encuentro. Junto a Juan Cortina (Presidente de la Junta Institucional de la Colaboración LST) y Javier Herrera (Jefe del Departamento en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM), el grupo discutió temas clave para el desarrollo del emplazamiento y recorrió el edificio IACTEC, una instalación de vanguardia donde se prueban las cámaras de los telescopios del CTAO antes de su instalación.
+
+La visita continuó más allá de Tenerife, con el equipo trasladándose a CTAO-Norte en el ORM en La Palma. Allí, se unieron a Patricia Márquez (Gerente del Telescopio LST) para revisar el estado actual de los telescopios y coordinar un enfoque unificado para avanzar en los objetivos compartidos.
+
+Es un momento emocionante para todos los involucrados, a medida que progresa el conjunto de telescopios en La Palma y la colaboración global detrás del CTAO continúa fortaleciéndose.
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+---
+title: "First ‘Women of CTA’ Meeting to be Held in Bologna, Italy on 11 February"
+description: "In recognition of the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will host its first Women of CTA meeting on 11 February 2019 in Bologna, Italy."
+date: 2019-01-18
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/WoC_web-3-768x402.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+In recognition of the United Nations’ [International Day of Women and Girls in Science](https://www.womeninscienceday.org/), the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will host its first *Women of CTA* meeting on 11 February 2019 in Bologna, Italy. The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 16:00 in the [Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna](http://www.pinacotecabologna.beniculturali.it/it/) (Via delle Belle Arti 56) and will feature three experts from the astrophysics and engineering fields that will share their broad experience from their academic and professional careers and contributions to CTA: Prof. Patrizia Caraveo (INAF, Milan), Dr. Emma de Oña-Wilhelmi (IEEC-CSIC, Barcelona; DESY, Zeuthen) and Chiara Montanari (CTAO, Bologna). Following their presentations, the speakers will be available for questions in English and Italian. No reservations necessary, but seating is limited.
+
+## Meet the speakers:
+
+## **Prof. Patrizia Caraveo**
+
+Prof. Caraveo earned her degree in physics in 1977 at the University of Milan. She has the rank of Research Director (since 2002) at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Milano and is a contract professor at Pavia University. She has taken part in several international space missions dedicated to high-energy astrophysics, starting from the European mission COS-B. Currently, she is involved in the exploitation of ESA’s Integral, of NASA’s Swift, of the Italian Agile and of the NASA Fermi missions, all fully operational in orbit. She also represents INAF within the CTA Consortium Board and has served on the CTAO Council. She is a recognized leader in the study of neutron stars behavior at different wavelengths. Her work lead to the discovery (and to the understanding) of Geminga, the first radio-quiet pulsar. Owing to such results, she won the Premio Nazionale Presidente della Repubblica in 2009. Moreover, she shared with her Swift, Fermi and Agile colleagues the Bruno Rossi prize of the American Astronomical Society in 2007, 2011 and 2012. In 2014, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Women in Aerospace European Society and was included by Thomson Reuters in the list of Highly Cited Researchers for Space Science. In 2017 she was awarded the title of Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.
+
+## **Dr. Emma de Oña Wilhelmi**
+
+Emma is a doctor in astrophysics with almost 20 years of experience in the field. Her research activity focuses on the understanding of the non-thermal processes and very high-energy emission of sources located in our own Galaxy, such as Supernova Remnants (SNRs), Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) and binary systems. She has been an active member and held leadership positions with several former and present gamma-ray instruments, such as HEGRA, H.E.S.S., MAGIC and CTA. Among others, she has been Convener of the Galactic Working Group in MAGIC and CTA, Convener of SNRs, PWNe and pulsars Working Group in H.E.S.S. and she is the current Science Coordinator for CTA. Her activities in the gamma-ray regime are complemented with multi-wavelength developments in X-rays and in radio, and was PWNe Coordinator for the X-rays satellite XIPE. In 2012, she obtained a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (Spanish tenure-track) at the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC) in Barcelona, whom she represents for CTA-Spain and the Large-Sized Telescope consortium. She currently holds a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researcher at DESY in Zeuthen, Germany.
+
+## **Chiara Montanari**
+
+Chiara is an engineer with 15 years polar mission experience that defines herself as a “Life Explorer.” As a five-time expedition leader to Antarctica, she has traveled to the most extreme stations on the planet. In addition to her polar missions, she also has worked in the United Kingdom with the broadcast industry, information and communications technology, as well as the energy efficiency and educations sectors and has been conducting research in organisational theories at Politecnico di Milano and the International Research Centre on Epistemology and Anthropology of Complexity (Bergamo). In 2014, Chiara was awarded by the city of Milan with “Ambrogino d’oro” (civic medal) for her engagement in boosting technological transfer, entrepreneurship and innovation. In 2015, she published the book “CRONACHE DAI GHIACCI, 90 GIORNI IN ANTARCTICA.” Chiara is now putting her skills to work for the CTA construction project as the new Interface Manager for the CTAO Project Office. [Read more.](http://www.chiaramontanari.net/en/about-me/)
+
+This event is part of a global effort to raise awareness and find solutions to gender inequality and the overall under-representation of women, especially in leadership roles, in science. One of the foundations of the movement is that equality is fundamental to developing a healthy and productive environment to achieve social and scientific goals. However, despite the global efforts, there is still a lot of work to do. According to a study in 14 countries around the world presented by the UN, the probabilities of graduating with a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree or Doctorate degree in science are 18%, 8% or 2%, respectively, for female students against the 37%, 18% and 6% for male students [1]. Worldwide, women represent less than 30% of the total researchers [2].
+
+These disparities persist in many different ways, one of which is called the “Leaky Pipeline.” This metaphor is used to illustrate how women enter the field at a higher percentage (sometimes exceeding men) but drop off as they move “up the ladder” to the higher stages of their career. And at an even more fundamental level, girls run into gender stereotypes before starting undergraduate degrees, deterring them from pursuing scientific/technological careers compared to degrees in humanities.
+
+As one of the important factors that gives rise to these disparities is the reduced visibility of female leaders and their achievements in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers, we hope that highlighting women who are leading and contributing to CTA will create a spark for girls and women interested in or pursuing a STEM career. CTA is an international institution proud of its diversity, which aims to be a reference of equity and respect in science as well as to work internationally to help to achieve gender equality, empowering women of CTA and their professional accomplishments, which will hopefully inspire future generations of researchers.
+
+This first edition of Women of CTA, which we expect to become an annual event, is just one of the projects we will pursue to promote diversity in our “astrodiversity” program.
+
+We look forward to seeing you in Bologna on 11 February!
+
+[1] [http://www.un.org/en/events/women-and-girls-in-science-day/index.shtml](http://www.un.org/en/events/women-and-girls-in-science-day/index.shtml)
+
+[2] [http://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/women-science](http://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/women-science)
+
+Contact: [Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
diff --git a/src/content/news/gammapy-receives-open-science-european-award.md b/src/content/news/gammapy-receives-open-science-european-award.md
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+---
+title: "Gammapy Receives the Jury Prize at the Open Science Awards for Open-Source Research Software"
+description: "On 5 February 2022, the open-source Gammapy software package, on which the official CTAO’s science analysis tools are based, was awarded by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation with the Jury Prize during the…"
+date: 2022-02-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FeatureImage_Gammapy-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 5 February 2022, the open-source [Gammapy](https://gammapy.org/) software package, on which the official Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory’s (CTAO’s) science analysis tools are based, was awarded by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation with the Jury Prize during the first Open Science Awards for Open-Source Research Software. The award, which made part of the Open Science European Conference ([OSEC](https://osec2022.eu/)), highlights Gammapy as an exemplary project for its technical quality, available documentation and leadership within the community.
+
+In the past years, researchers and large-scale infrastructures from all science fields, including astrophysics, have been promoting open-source software and driving towards the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principle to allow users worldwide free access to source codes and to support open science globally. To recognize projects and research teams that contribute to this major common good and serve as examples for the next generations, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in France, [in collaboration with other prestigious partners from France](https://osec2022.eu/partners/), presented the first Open Science Awards for Open-Source Research Software. Among the 129 candidate projects, Gammapy, an open-source Python package used for the gamma-ray astronomy data analysis on which the official Science Tools for CTAO will be based, received the Jury Prize in this first edition of the awards.
+
+“This prize is a wonderful recognition of the quality of the work done over the years by all Gammapy developers, as well as of the fruitful connection with users and the community working behind the scenes on a common data format shared by many gamma-ray experiments,” says Bruno Khélifi, Gammapy Project Manager at APC/CNRS. “We are happy to be selected for the award among so many other great open-source projects. It is a recognition of both our work and the work of the scientific open-source software community in general,” adds Axel Donath, Gammapy Lead Developer at Cfa/Harvard. “Gammapy could not be successful without the other open-source projects we build on, collaborate with and share the common vision of a more transparent and reproducible science for the future.”
+
+The prizes, [awarded by a jury composed of ten renowned experts in the field](https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/open-science-free-software-award-ceremony/), were divided into four categories: Scientific and Technical, considering the quality of the software; Community, based on the contribution to an active environment; Documentation, attending to the efforts to provide appropriate documentation to the users; and the Jury Prize, awarded to Gammapy, which rewards projects that stands out in all aforementioned categories.
+
+“We are very glad that all these years of hard work carried out by the Gammapy team are recognized through this award,” says Matthias Füssling, CTAO SUSS (Science User Support System) Coordinator. “From CTAO, we will continue to work together and support the development and improvement of Gammapy as a key element for the CTAO’s operation and data analysis.”
+
+In June 2021, [Gammapy was selected as the CTAO Science Tools](https://www.cta-observatory.org/ctao-adopts-the-gammapy-software-package-for-science-analysis/), a software package for the scientific analysis of the CTAO data. It is one of the core products that the CTAO will provide to the worldwide science community during the lifetime of the Observatory, as the interface to that community and a set of the highest quality software tools with documentation and tutorials that will allow any user to analyse CTAO data. Moreover, Gammapy plays an integral role in the science operation workflows of the CTAO itself, as part of the pipelines for science verification.
+
+[Read the full OSEC Press Release.](https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/open-science-free-software-award-ceremony/)
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+---
+title: "Hadrons or Leptons? That is the question!"
+description: "Extragalactic jets shine across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, emitting radiation from radio waves up to very high-energy gamma rays. In the past decades, astrophysicists have been able to grasp several aspects of the functioning of…"
+date: 2017-10-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/cena_croppednews.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Extragalactic (from outside our galaxy) jets shine across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, emitting radiation from radio waves up to very high-energy gamma rays. In the past decades, astrophysicists have been able to grasp several aspects of the functioning of these structures, thought to be launched by rotating magnetic fields close to the horizon of supermassive black holes.
+
+One of the most basic questions about jets is the one related to the nature of the radiating particles and the mechanisms at the base of the emission that we observe. While there is wide consensus on the fact that the radiation at the lowest frequencies (from radio up to soft X-rays) originates from electrons spiraling in the jet magnetic field (synchrotron radiation), more debated is the source of the photons detected as gamma rays. It is often assumed that the main emitters are electrons (leptons), producing gamma rays through the scattering of low-energy photons (inverse Compton emission). On the other hand, there are also several supporters of the alternative idea, the hadronic scenario, which envisions gamma rays as the by-product of reactions initiated by protons (or other nuclei) smashing into other nuclei or low-energy photons. The idea is quite appealing: the discovery of the presence of protons accelerated to the highest energies could also open the way to the identification of the still mysterious sources of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays that bombard the Earth’s atmosphere.
+
+The difference between the properties of the radiation deriving from the two processes is quite minute. Only with very accurate measurements of the spectrum at TeV energies can one hope to firmly identify the underlying emitters (see below figure). Current Cherenkov telescopes do not have the sensitivity required for this difficult task. CTA, with its improved sensitivity, will be able to provide a definite answer to the question. In fact, this is one of the goals of CTA’s active galactic nuclei (AGN) key science project, which foresees the accurate spectral measurement of blazars, hosting powerful jets pointing at the Earth.
+
+![](/uploads/kspfig_models-1024x639-1.png)
+
+The figure above (extracted from *Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array*, arXiv:1709.07997; see also A. Zech, M. Cerruti, D. Mazin, 2017, A&A, 602, A25 for a recent update) shows the spectrum expected for the hadronic (left) and the inverse Compton (right) scenarios for the gamma ray emission of the blazar PKS 2155-304. The black symbols show the data currently available from Fermi/LAT (below 1025 Hz) and H.E.S.S. Detailed simulations with CTA (red points) show how the combination of the large energy band coverage with the excellent energy resolution and high event statistics up to the highest energies will allow us to discriminate between the hadronic and the leptonic emission scenarios in these types of sources.
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+---
+title: "CTA Headquarters and Science Data Management Centre Sites Selected"
+description: "On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre…"
+date: 2016-06-13
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/BolognaHQ-768x412.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) from five site candidates.
+
+The Council, composed of shareholders from nine countries (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) in consultation with associate members (Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden), made the decision after careful consideration of the proposals against criteria that included infrastructure, services and access requirements.
+
+“We are grateful for all of the proposals put forward by the applicants. While each of the candidate sites were suitable options, the Council is confident that Bologna and Zeuthen will be well-equipped to support CTA’s long-term operations,” said Ulrich Straumann, Managing Director of the CTAO gGmbH.
+
+The CTA Headquarters will be the central office responsible for the overall administration of Observatory operations. Approximately two dozen personnel will provide technical coordination and support, and the main administrative services for the governing bodies and users of the Observatory. The headquarters will be located within the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) premises in a new building shared with the Bologna University Department of Physics and Astronomy. This location gives CTA a home in a word-class scientific environment with state‐of‐the-art facilities, in one of Italy’s most attractive and historic cultural centres.
+
+The Science Data Management Centre will coordinate science operations and make CTA’s science products available to the worldwide community. An estimated 20 personnel will manage CTA’s science coordination including software maintenance and data processing for the Observatory, which is expected to generate approximately 100 petabytes (PB) of data by the year 2030. (One PB is equal to 1015 bytes of data or one million gigabytes.) The SDMC will be located in a new building complex on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus in Zeuthen, which is conveniently located just outside Berlin – one of Europe’s primary capital cities. This location provides extensive access to well-established infrastructure services and a powerful computing centre.
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+---
+title: "High-Energy Neutrino Transients with CTA"
+description: "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…"
+date: 2019-05-20
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/BlazarNeutrino2_1920x1080_M__1_.0-768x429.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/c5e62e3745e5/cta-newsletter-may2019-espanol-1407189)
+
+Originally published in the [May 2019 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/d1b97d007914/cta-newsletter-may2019-english).
+
+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, the next generation ground-based gamma-ray detector, which is anticipated to provide a wealth of new information with unprecedented precision.
+
+Especially important for multi-messenger astronomy was the detection of gamma rays associated with a high-energy neutrino, IceCube-170922A, attributed to the Blazar TXS 0506+056 [1]. More than twenty instruments reacted to the neutrino alert and contributed to disclosing its astrophysical nature (see Fig. 1).
+
+![](/uploads/fig2-1.png)
+
+*Figure 1: Timeline of the multi-messenger Astronomer’s Telegram announcing some of the follow-up observations triggered by the IceCube-170922A event alert. Credit: IceCube Collaboration*
+
+The event was a breakthrough in multi-messenger synergy, combining information from different types of particles and waves to reveal the physical processes behind extreme astrophysical phenomena. High-energy neutrinos with energies larger than a few GeV are the products of protons or ions (hadronic cosmic rays) interacting with surrounding matter or radiation. A fraction of those cosmic rays may escape their astrophysical sources, but, since they are charged particles, they will be deflected during their propagation by intergalactic magnetic fields. Neutrinos, as neutral particles, keep memory of their source’s direction and, hence, their detection have become crucial to unraveling the origin of this type of cosmic ray.
+
+Nevertheless, capturing cosmic neutrinos is a difficult task. Large-scale detectors are needed to detect these weakly interacting particles, like the current [IceCube](https://icecube.wisc.edu/) at the South Pole, [ANTARES](http://antares.in2p3.fr) in the Mediterranean Sea and Baikal at Lake Baikal. Despite being instrumented at important depths with enormous volume, such instruments are challenged by weak signals and strong foregrounds induced by cosmic-ray interactions in the Earth’s atmosphere. Still, in 2013, the discovery of a diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos was reported by the IceCube Collaboration [2]. This result is a clue towards finding the long-sought sources of hadronic cosmic rays, but long-exposure neutrino sky maps do not yet show significant indications of individual sources. So far, only the object class of a single high-energy neutrino source, the aforementioned Blazar TXS 0506+056, was identified. Thus, the origin of the bulk of cosmic neutrinos remains a mystery.
+
+The chances to capture the faint source of neutrinos can be increased by observing transient phenomena, simultaneously with other high-energy messengers like gamma rays. Since gamma rays and neutrinos can be produced in connection to each other at the same source, by catching the electromagnetic signals emitted quasi-simultaneous to neutrinos, the time- and space-coincidence of both messengers significantly removes the cosmic-ray atmospheric foregrounds that challenge the neutrino detectors. Gamma rays, like neutrinos, do not have a charge so their trajectory can be traced back to their origin, as well. They are much easier to detect, allowing gamma-ray detectors to provide more accurate information about the source’s location in the sky, but they are produced by different physical processes involving different types of particles. In this regard, neutrinos serve as smoking guns for high-energy hadronic cosmic rays. Their combined study, also along with other wavelengths, provide a unique view on high-energy sources, as happened in the case of the IceCube-170922A event [see e.g. 2].
+
+The CTA Key Science Projects include a dedicated program to investigate neutrino transients to expand our knowledge in this field. Along with current and future neutrino observatories (such as the next generation [IceCube-Gen2](https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/beyond) and Baikal-GVD), CTA’s detection of very high-energy gamma rays associated with cosmic neutrinos will play a key role in unveiling possibly new neutrino-emitting sources, as well as helping to reveal the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. With a sensitivity that is about 10 times better than any existing gamma-ray instrument, reaching energies up to 300 TeV, CTA will address the origin of TeV-PeV cosmic neutrinos beyond the edge of the known electromagnetic spectrum. This will open the window to the study of different transient events, like tidal disruption events, in which a star is swallowed by a supermassive black hole, low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts or supernovae with strong interactions with circumstellar material. The program is tailored to address transient phenomena and respond to alerts issued by neutrino observatories, such as IceCube, in a modern version of the so-called Neutrino Triggered Target of Opportunity (NToO) program.
+
+CTA will also employ a real-time analysis to search for unexpected gamma-ray signals, which will allow CTA to generate and release alerts to other observatories to avoid missing any interesting cosmic event (Fig. 2). This will strengthen the multi-messenger cooperation in the upcoming years and ensures new discoveries that will increase the understanding of our Cosmos and the physical processes therein.
+
+![](/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-07-at-13.09.02-1600x753.png)
+
+*Figure 2: CTA dataflow from the data acquisition on-site, including the real-time analysis and alerts between observatories. Credit: CTAO*
+
+[1] IceCube Coll., *Fermi*-LAT Coll., MAGIC Coll., et al., Science 361, 1378 (2018)
+[2] IceCube Coll., Science, 342, 1242856 (2013)
+[3] MAGIC Coll. et al., ApJ Lett. 863, 10A (2018)
diff --git a/src/content/news/il-ctao-organizza-levento-pubblico-e-gratuito-dm-dalluniverso-il-16-aprile-a-bologna.md b/src/content/news/il-ctao-organizza-levento-pubblico-e-gratuito-dm-dalluniverso-il-16-aprile-a-bologna.md
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+---
+title: "Il CTAO Organizza L’Evento Pubblico e Gratuito “DM dall’Universo” il 16 Aprile a Bologna"
+description: "L’Universo sta inviando un direct message al CTAO per condividere i suoi segreti, e tu sei invitato alla conversazione! Martedì 16 aprile alle ore 19.30 presso il Teatro Duse di Bologna (Via Cartoleria 42), il CTAO organizzerà l’evento…"
+date: 2024-03-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+**Bologna, Italia **– L’Universo sta inviando un direct message al CTAO per condividere i suoi segreti, e tu sei invitato alla conversazione! Martedì 16 aprile alle ore 19.30 presso il Teatro Duse di Bologna (Via Cartoleria 42), il CTAO organizzerà l’evento pubblico gratuito “[DM dall’Universo](https://www.ctao-symposium.org/dm-dall-universo)”. Un’entusiasmante serata volta a esplorare e scoprire i misteri dell’Universo più violento, in compagnia di un gruppo dinamico di ricercatori, artisti e influencer scientifici.
+
+Scopri alcuni messaggeri cosmici, come le onde gravitazionali e i raggi gamma, guidati da Marica Branchesi, ricercatrice del Gran Sasso Science Institute e una delle 100 persone più influenti al mondo secondo il TIME Magazine, e da Roberta Zanin, la Responsabile Scientifica del CTAO. Oltre alle due rinomate ricercatrici italiane, interverranno Luca Perri ([@astrowikiperri](https://www.instagram.com/astrowikiperri/)), divulgatore scientifico di fama nazionale, l’influencer scientifica Virginia Benzi ([@quantum_girl_vivi](https://www.instagram.com/quantum_girl_vivi/)) e il famoso cantautore e comico Lorenzo Baglioni ([@lorenzobaglioni1](https://www.instagram.com/lorenzobaglioni1/)) che renderanno la scienza ancora più divertente e coinvolgente. A condurre l’evento sarà Stefano Sandrelli, ricercatore e divulgatore scientifico dell’INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera. L’evento sarà interattivo, permettendo al pubblico di partecipare al programma e fare domande agli oratori. Porta le tue domande sull’Universo più estremo!
+
+L’evento è gratuito e aperto a tutta la cittadinanza. Tuttavia, per motivi organizzativi, è obbligatorio prenotarsi tramite il [sistema di biglietteria Viva Ticket](https://www.vivaticket.com/it/ticket/dm-dall-universo/232593) del Teatro Duse.
+
+In particolare, incoraggiamo gli studenti di tutte le età a partecipare all’evento. Nel caso in cui una classe, o una sua parte, desiderasse partecipare, il professore o professoressa può inviare un’email all’indirizzo [symposium@cta-observatory.org](mailto:symposium@cta-observatory.org) e gli organizzatori forniranno loro i biglietti per sedersi insieme vicino al palco (il numero di posti riservati per le classi è limitato).
+
+L’evento “DM dall’Universo” si terrà in concomitanza con il [CTAO Science Symposium](https://www.ctao-symposium.org/), la conferenza scientifica organizzata dal CTAO che riunisce a Bologna scienziati da tutto il mondo impegnati nella ricerca astrofisica nelle alte energie. Il [CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory)](https://www.ctao.org/), la cui sede si trova a Bologna, è il più grande osservatorio astronomico per l’osservazione dei raggi gamma ad energia molto elevata, che cambierà la conoscenza dell’Universo nei prossimi anni, con una vasta rete di telescopi situati in Spagna e in Cile.
+
+[Visita il nostro sito web](https://www.ctao-symposium.org/dm-dall-universo) per ulteriori informazioni e per accedere al sistema di prenotazione dei biglietti. Vi aspettiamo tutti al Teatro Duse il prossimo 16 aprile!
+
+**Informazioni di Biglietteria:**
+TEATRO DUSE
+
+Via Cartoleria 42 Bologna
+
+051 231836 | [biglietteria@teatroduse.it](mailto:biglietteria@teatroduse.it)
+
+[TEATRODUSE.IT](http://teatroduse.it/)
+
+Orari di apertura: dal martedì al sabato dalle ore 15 alle 19 e da un’ora prima dell’inizio degli spettacoli
+
+### Evento:
+
+[Teatro Duse](https://www.teatrodusebologna.it/), Via Cartoleria 42, 40124 Bologna
+
+Le porte aprono alle 19:00. L’ingresso è gratuito, ma sono necessarie prenotazioni per i posti a sedere.
+
+Prenotazioni e ulteriori informazioni: [https://www.ctao-symposium.org/dm-dall-universo](https://www.ctao-symposium.org/dm-dall-universo)
+
+Con il contributo di
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+---
+title: "Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and CTA Observatory Sign Agreement on Hosting CTA’s Northern Hemisphere Array"
+description: "On 19 September 2016, the Council of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) concluded negotiations with the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) to host CTA’s northern hemisphere array at the Roque de los Muchachos…"
+date: 2016-09-19
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/29478039984_d623c2a43e_o-768x512.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 19 September 2016, the Council of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) concluded negotiations with the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) to host CTA’s northern hemisphere array at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Spain.
+
+To provide access to the whole sky, the CTA Observatory will have two sites, with 19 telescopes in the [northern hemisphere](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/) and 99 in the [southern hemisphere](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/) planned.
+
+CTA’s northern hemisphere site will be located on the existing site of the IAC’s Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma, the fifth largest island in the Canary Islands. At 2,200 m altitude and nestled on a plateau below the rim of an extinct volcanic crater, the site currently hosts the two Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC) telescopes. This location offers excellent conditions for astronomical observations.
+
+“This is a big step, which allows CTAO to start work on the ground,” said CTAO gGmbH Managing Director Ulrich Straumann. Rafael Rebolo, Director of the IAC, was very positive about the future: “We are looking forward to a great partnership with CTA and expect exciting discoveries with these telescopes.”
+
+The agreement allows the construction of the CTA northern array to proceed at the Roque de los Muchachos site and ensures access to the infrastructure and common services needed for the operation of the Observatory, including the digital connection of the CTA network with the rest of the world. In return, Spain will receive 10 percent of the observation time at the northern site, with part of this transferable to the southern hemisphere. Beyond provision of the northern site, Spain plans to make major contributions to the construction of CTA.
+
+“The full sky coverage and excellent conditions provided by the IAC site, together with the ESO site in Chile, are crucial for achieving CTAs ambitious science goals,” said CTA Spokesperson Werner Hofmann.
+
+Negotiations with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) for the southern hemisphere site near ESO’s existing Paranal Observatory in Chile are expected to conclude before the end of 2016. If all goes as planned, construction will begin in 2017, with first telescopes on site in 2018.
diff --git a/src/content/news/interview-with-ctao-eric-council-chair-dr-francisco-colomer.md b/src/content/news/interview-with-ctao-eric-council-chair-dr-francisco-colomer.md
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+---
+title: "Interview with CTAO ERIC Council Chair, Dr. Francisco Colomer"
+description: "On February 12, 2025, Dr. Francisco Colomer was elected as the first CTAO ERIC Council’s Chair, bringing with him a wealth of experience in both astronomy and the management of international scientific projects. Currently serving as…"
+date: 2025-02-20
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FranciscoColomer_Feb2025-1600x836.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On February 12, 2025, Dr. Francisco Colomer was elected as the first [CTAO ERIC Council](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/governance/)’s Chair, bringing with him a wealth of experience in both astronomy and the management of international scientific projects.
+
+Currently serving as Programs Director for the Spanish Deputy Directorate General for International Consortia, Organisms and Research Infrastructures, under the [Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU)](https://www.ciencia.gob.es/), Dr. Colomer has played a key role in shaping European research policy. In 2023, he coordinated the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the fields of Scientific Research, Innovation, and Space.
+
+During 2018-2022, he served as Director of the [Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE ERIC)](https://www.jive.eu/), hosted by ASTRON in The Netherlands, where he obtained valuable experience in leading ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) organisations. Committed to the deployment of research infrastructures, his leadership extended to chairing the Executive Board of the ERIC Forum in 2021 and 2022.
+
+With a strong interest in management, strategy, sustainability, and leadership, Dr. Colomer has been deeply involved in European Commission discussions on the definition of the European Research Area (ERA) and the European Pact for Research and Innovation. From 2021 to 2022, he represented scientific infrastructures in the ERA Stakeholders Forum, helping shape the future of research collaboration in Europe.
+
+Beyond management, his scientific contributions in radio astronomy over three decades have resulted in more than 100 publications, significantly advancing our understanding of stellar structure, evolution, and mass loss mechanisms.
+
+And passionate about science communication, Dr. Colomer actively participates in public outreach events and conferences. He also founded and served as the first president of the “Quart es Ciencia” Association, dedicated to bringing scientific knowledge to his hometown, Quart de Poblet in Valencia, Spain.
+
+In this interview, Dr. Colomer delves into the importance of the [CTAO ERIC establishment](https://www.ctao.org/news/the-ctao-becomes-an-eric/), the next steps for the [newly formed Council](https://www.ctao.org/news/the-ctao-eric-council-is-officially-established-and-elects-francisco-colomer-as-its-chair/), and provides his vision for the future of the Observatory.
+
+### The CTAO became an ERIC on January 7, a fundamental milestone for the Observatory to ensure its expected 30 years of operations. What are the main changes brought by the new legal entity?
+
+The establishment of the CTAO as an ERIC comes after many years of work of many enthusiastic people, who recognised the scientific value and opportunity of investing in this rising observatory. The ERIC label adds commitment and credibility to the project, also at the highest level by engaging the ministries and the European Commission, which is essential for its long-term success.
+
+### Based on your experience, what are the biggest opportunities of operating as an ERIC?
+
+There are now 30 operational ERICs in all fields of science, three in astronomy: JIVE, LOFAR, and now the CTAO. Being a legal entity under the ERIC regulation gives stability but also great flexibility, allowing us to define policies and procedures that are well suited to the Observatory’s mission.
+
+### How do you see the evolution of international collaboration under this new context?
+
+With the ERIC, Europe has a great tool to attract the establishment of global research infrastructures. The CTAO ERIC is a good example since partners around the world support the construction and operation of this astronomical observatory with headquarters in Italy, data management centre in Germany, and telescope sites in Spain (Canary Islands) and Chile. There are, however, still some challenges to smoothly incorporate non-EU partners, which have been identified and are being addressed by the European Commission. Hopefully, soon, it will become a much easier process, not just for our benefit but for the European and international research communities.
+
+### Following the creation of the CTAO ERIC, we now celebrate the establishment of its Council. Can you explain what this achievement means for the Observatory and, personally, for you to be Chair?
+
+The Council of the CTAO ERIC is the body where the investors of the research infrastructure meet, and make the most important decisions on strategies but also operations. There are two delegates per ERIC member, but also representatives from strategic partners, observers, and third-party organisations. This ensures that all opinions are heard, and all interests are considered. Being the first chair is an honor but also a great responsibility — I aim to build trust, so consensus is achieved on the essential issues.
+
+### What are the key first steps the CTAO ERIC Council will focus on in the coming months?
+
+In the coming months, we expect to move all assets and activities from the CTAO gGmbH (former legal entity of the Observatory) to the CTAO ERIC, so the whole project runs under one umbrella. The team at the CTAO Central Organisation will also transition and continue to grow as the construction of some of the telescopes will advance at a rapid pace. While this is ongoing, we also need to start planning for operations and early science. There is a lot to do!
+
+### The CTAO ERIC was initially formed with the commitment of 11 countries and one intergovernmental organisation, but there is an increasing international interest in the CTAO. Can we already anticipate participation of new countries at governmental level?
+
+The support of the founding countries and ESO is a demonstration of the interest in the CTAO, which extends to other partners around the world. We are already in talks with additional countries so we are certain that our membership will continue to grow. There are many ways to engage in the project, to serve different communities and their circumstances, ensuring that we are as inclusive as possible.
+
+### As the CTAO is now entering fully into the construction phase, what are the key priorities from a strategic perspective?
+
+Our priority is to ensure the maximum quality in the construction of the telescopes and data centres, while respecting the timing and availability of resources in an always complex and quickly changing scenario. Not less important, to attract more partners and funding needed for the CTAO ERIC to be a sustainable organisation for many years to come.
+
+### Looking toward the future, what long-term impact do you hope the CTAO will have on astrophysics and beyond?
+
+We are building the most advanced and powerful instrument to study gamma rays in the Universe. I hope its discoveries will expand and change our understanding of the most energetic processes in astrophysics.
+
+### Finally, what message would you share with the global technical and scientific communities that are eagerly awaiting to explore the extreme Universe with the CTAO?
+
+Scientists are eager to receive data from the CTAO ERIC which will certainly bring new discoveries. We share this enthusiasm and will work hard to complete the construction of the facilities and reach early science as soon as possible. There are great challenges in this project, which we can only overcome with the involvement of the best technical and scientific experts, and the CTAO is fortunate to have such a strong professional community. Soon, the global scientific community will have an unprecedented tool to explore the extreme Universe, opening new frontiers of the Cosmos. We stand at the threshold of a new era in astrophysics.
diff --git a/src/content/news/kick-off-of-the-astrophysics-centre-for-multimessenger-studies-in-europe-acme.md b/src/content/news/kick-off-of-the-astrophysics-centre-for-multimessenger-studies-in-europe-acme.md
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+---
+title: "Kick-Off of the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME)"
+description: "On September 16 and 17, the kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) was held in Paris, France. ACME is a EU-funded project coordinated by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique…"
+date: 2024-10-03
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/ACME_photo_kick_off_2-e1727941597652-1600x946.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On September 16 and 17, the kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) was held in Paris, France. [ACME is a EU-funded project](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101131928) coordinated by the [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://www.cnrs.fr/fr) (CNRS) that aims to realize an ambitious coordinated European-wide optimization of the accessibility and cohesion between multiple leading astroparticle and astronomy research infrastructures, offering access to instruments, data and expertise focused on the new science of multi-messenger astrophysics.
+
+“The CTAO will participate in the project leading the development of the Center of Expertise on gamma-ray astronomy,” explains Roberta Zanin, CTAO Project Scientists and CTAO contact for the project. “The centre will coordinate different nodes distributed around Europe where gamma-ray astronomers will provide support to the whole astronomical community in terms of both data analysis and proposal preparation, as well as by offering specialized knowledge and resources for gamma-ray research within the broader context of multi-messenger astrophysics.”
+
+With 40 world-class collaborating institutions from 14 countries, ACME objectives are to implement the [Astroparticle Physics European Consortium’s (APPEC)](https://www.appec.org/roadmap/) and the Planning and Advisory Network for European Astronomy’s ([ASTRONET](https://www.astronet-eu.org/?page_id=521)) roadmaps’ recommendations and act as a pathfinder to broaden and improve access to the respective research infrastructures services and data.
+
+Read CNRS press release [here](https://www.in2p3.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/lancement-dacme-un-projet-construit-par-et-pour-les-communautes-des-astroparticules-et-de).
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+---
+title: "La Palma Consortium Meeting Wrap-up"
+description: "During the week of 24 October 2016, nearly 250 CTA Consortium members from 25 of its 32 member countries from around the world came together in Bologna, Italy to discuss the science and construction of CTA."
+date: 2017-11-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Pano-grupo_web.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jürgen Knödlseder, Chair, CTA Consortium Board*
+
+During the week of 6 November, 230 CTA Consortium members gathered on the beautiful island of La Palma (Spain) for its bi-annual, in-person meeting.
+
+Topics covered during the parallel and plenary sessions of the meeting included progress reports on the CTA prototypes, the Science Working Groups and Analysis and Simulations Working Group activities, as well as the preparation work for CTA construction. One of the highlights of the meeting was the presentation of results from the first CTA Data Challenge, which is a Consortium-wide activity that consists of the analysis of simulated CTA data that are similar to those that will later be delivered to Observatory users.
+
+*Photo Credit: Elena Mora (IAC)*
+
+During the meeting, the CTA Consortium Board, which is the governing body of the CTA Consortium, re-elected Rene Ong (USA) as the Co-Spokesperson of the CTA Consortium for a further period of three years. The Board also elected Emma de Oña Wilhelmi (Spain) as new Deputy Science Coordinator and Abelardo Moralejo (Spain) as Analysis and Simulation Working Group Co-Coordinator, and it appointed Vitor de Souza (Brazil) as Deputy Chair of the Speaker’s and Publication Office. Additionally, the Board voted to admit new institutes from Croatia, Italy, Spain and the USA as members to the Consortium.
+
+Following the meeting, some of the attendees participated in an organised visit to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory and the site of CTA’s northern hemisphere array. For many, it was the first occasion to visit the site and to witness the construction of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype. The photo below shows Consortium members inspecting the light weight carbon fibre elements of the telescope’s optical support structure that will hold the mirrors of the 23 metre diameter telescope.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3852″ onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]We would like to thank our generous island hosts from the [Cabildo de La Palma](https://cta-observatory.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=210fce6b4b86d5c2d532c5a60&id=c7ac3af4ab&e=09478e40ce) and the [City of Santa Cruz de La Palma](https://cta-observatory.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=210fce6b4b86d5c2d532c5a60&id=dff7db7cc1&e=09478e40ce) and the organizing committee from the [Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)](https://cta-observatory.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=210fce6b4b86d5c2d532c5a60&id=dc4d65b0ff&e=09478e40ce) for hosting a very successful event! The next CTA Consortium meeting will be in May 2018 in Orsay, near Paris.
+
+To see more photos and updates from the event, search #CTALaPalma2017 on [Facebook](https://cta-observatory.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=210fce6b4b86d5c2d532c5a60&id=39898171fe&e=09478e40ce) and [Twitter](https://cta-observatory.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=210fce6b4b86d5c2d532c5a60&id=013632d4f2&e=09478e40ce). Read more about the event on the [IAC website](https://cta-observatory.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=210fce6b4b86d5c2d532c5a60&id=2cacf0331f&e=09478e40ce) (en español).
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+---
+title: "Raman LIDAR Pathfinder on CTA-North Site Achieves First Light"
+description: "On the evening of the 25 March, the Barcelona Raman LIDAR Pathfinder installed on the CTA-North site at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Spain) achieved first light."
+date: 2021-03-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/20210325_194553_small-768x346.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On the evening of the 25 March, the Barcelona Raman LIDAR Pathfinder installed on the CTA-North site at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Spain) achieved first light.
+
+In spite of windy conditions, the LIDAR team, after a laborious laser alignment, was able to operate the instrument smoothly and, as scheduled, produce data. Built in Barcelona and installed at the CTA-North site inside the LST-1 construction area in mid-February 2021, the LIDAR will play a fundamental role in characterizing the atmospheric properties and calibrating the data acquired by the CTA telescopes. It will be tested for about a year, then returned back to Barcelona for updates and improvements based on the data collected. A final instrument based on the pathfinder will be installed at CTA-North. A similar instrument, built by the University of Montpellier, France, will be installed at the CTA-South site. Now that the team has achieved first light, regular data collection for commissioning of the instrument will follow.
+
+“This is a major milestone for our project and an important step toward demonstrating that the LIDAR will be incremental to reducing the systematic uncertainties of CTA at an unprecedented level in our field,” said the project’s principal investigators Manel Martinez and Markus Gaug.
+
+A LIDAR is a remote sensing instrument used to measure the vertical profiles of aerosol and water vapor within the atmosphere. It works similarly to a RADAR (LIDAR stands for Light Detection And Ranging) but at much shorter visible or ultraviolet wavelengths rather than radio. It features a powerful laser and a telescope: the laser shoots a series of meter-long pulses into the atmosphere, each with the power of several megawatts, while the telescope collects the radiation backscattered by various atmospheric components.
+
+From the time required for light to travel back to the telescope, it is possible to derive the exact content of aerosol and water vapor at each altitude. Using this information, vertical profiles can be created for both components to determine the so-called “extinction coefficient” –  a measure of how radiation coming from sky sources is altered as it passes through the atmosphere, a parameter of paramount importance for calibrating CTA telescopes.
+
+The Barcelona Raman LIDAR pathfinder for CTA-North is a joint project between CTA members from IFAE-BIST (Institute of High Energy Physics – Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology), UAB & IEEC-CERES (Autonomous University of Barcelona & Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia-Center of Space Studies and Research), Center of Astrophysics and Cosmology of the University of Nova Gorica and Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova. Paolo Calisse, the CTA-North Site Manager, serves as the on-site project manager for the instrument.
diff --git a/src/content/news/lst-1-discovers-the-most-distant-agn-at-very-high-energies.md b/src/content/news/lst-1-discovers-the-most-distant-agn-at-very-high-energies.md
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+---
+title: "LST-1 Discovers the Most Distant AGN at Very High Energies"
+description: "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."
+date: 2023-12-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/LST1_MW-768x432.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+La Palma, Spain – On 15 December, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration announced through an [Astronomer’s Telegram (ATel)](https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16381) [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 prototype’s exceptional performance while it is being commissioned on the CTAO-North site on the island of La Palma, Spain.](https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16381)
+
+Read the [ATel issued](https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16381) by the LST Collaboration.
+
+OP 313 is what is known as a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar or FSRQ, a type of AGN. These are very luminous objects found in the centres of some galaxies, where a supermassive black hole devours material from its surroundings, creating powerful accretion disks and jets of light and relativistic particles.
+
+The LST-1 observed this source between December 10 and 14, after receiving [an alert from the *Fermi*-LAT satellite](https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16356) that showed unusually high activity in the low-energy gamma-ray regime, [confirmed also in the](https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16360) [optical range](https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16360)  with different instruments. With just four days of data, the LST Collaboration was able to detect the source above 100 Gigaelectronvolts (GeV), an energy level a billion times higher than the visible light humans can perceive.
+
+Only nine quasars are known at very high energies, and OP 313 is now the tenth. In general, quasars are more difficult to detect at very high energies than other types of AGN. This is not only because the brightness of their accretion disk weakens the emission of gamma rays, but because they are further away. In this case, OP 313 is located at a redshift of 0.997 or ~8 billion light years away, making it the most distant AGN and the second most distant source ever detected at very high energies.
+
+The more distant the source, the more difficult it is to observe at very high energies due to the so-called Extragalactic Background Light or EBL. The EBL is the collective light emitted by all objects outside the Milky Way that expands across multiple wavelengths, from visible, infrared and ultraviolet. The EBL interacts with very high-energy gamma rays, attenuating their flux and, thus, making their observation challenging. The characteristics of the LST-1, with an optimized sensitivity for the CTAO’s low energy range, between 20 and 150 GeV, where gamma rays are less affected by the EBL, enabled the LST Collaboration to extend the study of this source to tens of GeV for the first time.
+
+The LST Collaboration will continue to observe this source with the LST-1 to expand the dataset and, thus, obtain a more precise analysis that allows scientists to improve their understanding of the EBL, study the magnetic fields within this type of source or delve into fundamental intergalactic physics.
+
+### About the LST
+
+The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) is one of three types of telescope that will be built to cover CTAO’s full energy range (20 GeV to 300 TeV). The approved Alpha Configuration of the CTAO includes four LSTs arranged at the centre of the northern hemisphere array. An enhancement plan of such layout includes also two LSTs in the southern array, which are funded. These telescopes are optimized to cover the low-energy sensitivity between 20 and 150 GeV. Each LST is a giant 23 metre diameter telescope with a mirror area of about 400 square metres and a fine pixelized camera made of 1855 light sensors capable of detecting individual photons with high efficiency. Although the LST stands 45 metres tall and weighs around 100 tonnes, it is extremely nimble, with the ability to reposition within 20 seconds to capture brief, low-energy gamma-ray signals. Both the fast repositioning speed and the low energy threshold provided by the LSTs are critical for CTAO’s studies of transient gamma-ray sources in our own Galaxy and for the study of active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts at high redshift. The prototype of the LST, the LST-1, is located at CTAO-North and is currently under commissioning. It is expected to become the first CTAO telescope once its commissioning is complete and it has been officially accepted.
+
+### About the LST Collaboration
+
+The LST Collaboration is made up of over 400 scientists and engineers from 67 different institutions across twelve countries. The telescope operations and maintenance as well as the data-taking, analysis, and technical and scientific publications are only made possible with the collaborative effort of the entire LST Collaboration members from the following list of institutes:
+
+### Brazil
+
+Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
+
+### Bulgaria
+
+Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
+
+### Croatia
+
+Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Physics
+
+University of Rijeka, Department of Physics
+
+University of Split, FESB
+
+### Czech Republic
+
+Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
+
+Charles University, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics
+
+FZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
+
+Palacky University Olomouc, Faculty of Science
+
+### France
+
+Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM
+
+LAPP, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS-IN2P3
+
+### Germany
+
+Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University
+
+Institut für Theoretische Physik, Lehrstuhl IV: Plasma-Astroteilchenphysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
+
+Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Universität Würzburg
+
+Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
+
+Universität Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik
+
+### India (dormant)
+
+Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
+
+### Italy
+
+Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica ‘E. Segrè’ Università degli Studi di Palermo
+
+INAF
+
+INFN and Università degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente (DSFTA)
+
+INFN Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche – Università degli Studi dell’Aquila and Gran Sasso Science Institute
+
+INFN Sezione di Bari and Politecnico di Bari
+
+INFN Sezione di Bari and Università di Bari
+
+INFN Sezione di Catania
+
+INFN Sezione di Napoli
+
+INFN Sezione di Padova and Università degli Studi di Padova
+
+INFN Sezione di Pisa
+
+INFN Sezione di Roma La Sapienza
+
+INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata
+
+INFN Sezione di Trieste and Università degli Studi di Trieste
+
+INFN Sezione di Trieste and Università degli Studi di Udine
+
+University of Torino and INFN Sezione di Torino
+
+### Japan
+
+Chiba University
+
+Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
+
+Department of Physical Sciences, Aoyama Gakuin University
+
+Department of Physics, Konan University
+
+Department of Physics, Tokai University
+
+Department of Physics, Yamagata University
+
+Division of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
+
+Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
+
+Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University
+
+Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University
+
+Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
+
+Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University
+
+Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University
+
+Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
+
+Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
+
+Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
+
+Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute (KMI) for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University
+
+Physics Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University
+
+RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
+
+School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University
+
+Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
+
+### Poland
+
+Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, University of Lodz
+
+### Spain
+
+CIEMAT
+
+Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, IEEC-UB
+
+EMFTEL department and IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
+
+Escuela Politécnica Superior de Jaén, Universidad de Jaén
+
+Grupo de Electronica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
+
+Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
+
+Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), and Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), and Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
+
+Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC
+
+Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna
+
+Port d’Informació Científica
+
+University of Alcalá UAH
+
+### Switzerland
+
+Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva
+
+Laboratory for High Energy Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale
+
+University of Geneva – Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire
+
+### About the CTAO
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the first open ground-based gamma-ray observatory and the world’s largest and most sensitive instrument for the exploration of the high-energy Universe. The CTAO’s unparalleled accuracy and broad energy range (20 GeV- 300 TeV) will provide novel insights into the most extreme and powerful events in the Cosmos, addressing questions in and beyond astrophysics falling under three major themes: Understanding the origin and role of relativistic cosmic particles, probing extreme environments (such as black holes and neutron stars) and exploring frontiers in physics (such as the nature of dark matter). To do so, the CTAO will use three types of telescopes: the Large-Sized Telescopes (LST), the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MST) and the Small-Sized Telescopes (SST). More than 60 telescopes will be distributed between two telescope array sites: CTAO-North in the northern hemisphere at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias’s (IAC’s) Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Spain), and CTAO-South in the southern hemisphere near the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The headquarters of the CTAO is hosted by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Bologna (Italy), and the Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) is hosted by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Zeuthen (Germany). The CTAO will also be the first observatory of its kind to be open to the worldwide scientific communities as a resource for data from unique, high-energy astronomical observations.
+
+The CTAO Central Organisation works in close cooperation with partners from around the world toward the development of the Observatory. Major partners include In-Kind Contribution teams, such as the Telescope teams that are developing essential hardware and software, in addition to the CTAC, an international group of researchers who have provided scientific guidance since the project’s inception.
+
+The CTAO was promoted to a “Landmark” on the [European Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) Roadmap](https://www.cta-observatory.org/cta-promoted-to-landmark-status-on-2018-esfri-roadmap/) [2018](https://www.cta-observatory.org/cta-promoted-to-landmark-status-on-2018-esfri-roadmap/) , and was ranked as the main priority among the new ground-based infrastructures in the [ASTRONET Roadmap 2022-2035](https://www.cta-observatory.org/strategic-plan-for-european-astronomy-ranks-ctao-as-priority/).
+
+### Contact
+
+Prof. Masahiro Teshima
+
+LST Principle Investigator (PI)
+
+[mteshima@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp](mailto:mteshima@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
+
+(English, Japanese)
+
+LST Outreach Team
+
+[lst-outreach@cta-observatory.org](mailto:lst-outreach@cta-observatory.org)
+
+(English)
+
+Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral
+
+CTAO Chief Communication Officer
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
++39-051-6357-270
+
+(English, Spanish and Italian)
diff --git a/src/content/news/lst-1_inauguration.md b/src/content/news/lst-1_inauguration.md
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+---
+title: "LST-1 Inauguration: 10 October 2018, La Palma"
+description: "On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from around the world will gather on the northern array site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to celebrate the inauguration of the first prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST). The…"
+date: 2018-10-05
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Dani07_small-768x432.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+>>[LST-1 Construction Video](https://youtu.be/hIqmYf63m6Q)
+
+>>[LST-1 Photo Album](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/albums/72157671493684827/with/30134151267/)
+
+### **The First Telescope on a ****Cherenkov Telescope Array Site Makes its Debut **
+
+**La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain –** On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from around the world gathered on the northern array site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to celebrate the inauguration of the prototype [Large-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) (LST). The telescope, named LST-1, is intended to become the first of four LSTs on the CTA-North site, which is located on the existing site of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias’ (IAC’s) [Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos](http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en) located in the municipality of [Villa de Garafia](http://www.garafia.es/) on the island of La Palma. The plan for the site also includes 15 Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs).
+
+It was on 9 October 2015 that the first stone-laying ceremony took place for the LST-1. After the telescope foundation was completed in January 2017, the team moved swiftly and steadily toward its next major milestones: installation of the center pin and rails (September 2017), mounting of the dish (December 2017). In 2018, the LST-1 structure was completed in February and the camera support structure was installed in June. The final step, the camera installation, was completed on 25 September 2018.
+
+The LST team consists of more than 200 scientists from ten countries: Brazil, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain and Sweden. In this truly international effort, the design and management leadership was shared among LAPP, Annecy, France; Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany; INFN, Italy; ICRR, University of Tokyo, Japan; and IFAE, Barcelona and CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain.
+
+In addition to the LST, two other classes of telescope are required to cover CTA’s full energy range from 20 gigaelectronvolt (GeV) to 300 teraelectronvolt (TeV): Medium-Sized Telescopes and Small-Sized Telescopes. Because gamma rays with low energies produce a small amount of Cherenkov light, telescopes with large mirrors are required to capture the images. Four LSTs will be arranged at the centre of both the northern and the southern hemisphere arrays of the Observatory to cover the low-energy sensitivity of CTA between 20 and 150 GeV.
+
+The LST has a 23-metre diameter parabolic reflective surface, which is supported by a tubular structure made of reinforced carbon fibre and steel tubes. A reflective surface of 400 m2 collects and focuses the Cherenkov light into the camera, where photomultiplier tubes convert the light in electrical signals that can be processed by dedicated electronics. Although the LST-1 stands 45 metres tall and weighs around 100 tonnes, it is extremely nimble, with the ability to re-position within 20 seconds to capture brief, low-energy gamma-ray signals.
+
+The LSTs will expand the science reach to cosmological distances and fainter sources with soft energy spectra. Both the re-positioning speed and the low energy threshold provided by the LSTs are critical for CTA studies of transient gamma-ray sources in our own Galaxy and for the study of active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts at high redshift. The prototype is foreseen to become the first LST telescope of CTA, and, in fact, the first telescope on a CTA site, to be operated by the CTA Observatory (CTAO). As any other technical delivery in the large, multinational CTA project, the LST-1 will need to undergo a critical design review to verify that the design complies with CTA science goals, operational needs, safety standards, etc. before it is formally accepted by CTAO.
+
+Go to the LST-1 Inauguration webpage (https://www.cta-observatory.org/lst-1_inauguration) on the CTA website for more information in other languages and links to supporting materials, images and video.
+
+**Notes for Editors:**
+
+CTA (www.cta-observatory.org) is a global initiative to build the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory with about 120 telescopes split between two sites: one in the northern hemisphere at the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory in the municipality of Villa de Garafia on the island of La Palma, Spain, and the other in the southern hemisphere near the existing European Southern Observatory site at Paranal, Chile. More than 1,400 scientists and engineers from 31 countries are engaged in the scientific and technical development of CTA. The planning for the construction of the Observatory is managed by the CTAO gGmbH, which is governed by Shareholders and Associate Members from a growing number of countries.
+
+CTA will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond and will be the first ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory open to the world-wide astronomical and particle physics communities. The scientific potential of CTA is extremely broad: from understanding the role of relativistic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter. With its ability to cover an enormous range in photon energy from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, CTA will improve on all aspects of performance with respect to current instruments. CTA’s latest science case (published in 2017), Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, is available via the CTA website [library](https://www.ctao.org/for-scientists/library/).
+
+CTA was recently promoted to a landmark on the 2018 roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). This project is receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programs under agreement No 676134. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013] [FP7/2007-2011]) under Grant Agreement 262053.
+
+**LST Project Team Contacts:**
+
+Prof. Dr. Masahiro Teshima, LST Work Package Leader
+
+Max Planck Institute for Physics, ICRR (University of Tokyo)
+
++49-89-32354301; mteshima@mpp.mpg.de
+
+Barbara Wankerl, MPP Press Officer
+
++49-151-40028770 (mobile), +49 89 32354-292 (Institute);
+
+barbara.wankerl@mpp.mpg.de
+
+**General CTA Contacts:**
+
+Prof. Federico Ferrini, CTAO gGmbH Managing Director
+
++39-348-8966787; federico.ferrini@cta-observatory.org
+
+Prof. Werner Hofmann, CTA Spokesperson
+
++49-6221-516330; werner.hofmann@mpi-hd.mpg.de
+
+Wolfgang Wild, CTA Project Manager
+
++ +39 (051) 6357-220; wolfgang.wild@cta-observatory.org
+
+Megan Grunewald, CTA Communications Officer
+
++49-6221-516471; mgrunewald@cta-observatory.org
diff --git a/src/content/news/lst-camera-installation-signals-end-of-construction.md b/src/content/news/lst-camera-installation-signals-end-of-construction.md
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+---
+title: "LST Prototype Camera Installation Signals End of Construction"
+description: "On 25 September 2018, the team constructing the LST prototype telescope, achieved the final major milestone of the construction project when they successfully installed the camera. The prototype, named LST-1, is intended to become the…"
+date: 2018-09-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/IMG_9927_small-768x500.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 25 September 2018, the team constructing the [Large-Sized Telescope (LST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) prototype telescope, achieved the final major milestone of the construction project when they successfully installed the camera. The prototype, named LST-1, is intended to become the first of four LSTs on the north site of the CTA Observatory, which is located on the existing site of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias’ (IAC’s) [Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos](http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en) (ORM) located in the municipality of [Villa de Garafia](http://www.garafia.es/) on the island of La Palma.
+
+It was on 9 October 2015 that the first stone-laying ceremony took place for the LST-1. After the telescope foundation was completed in January 2017, the team moved swiftly and steadily toward its next major milestones: installation of the center pin and rails (September 2017), mounting of the dish (December 2017). In 2018, the LST-1 structure was completed in February and the camera support structure was installed in June.
+
+The camera, which covers a field of view of around 4.3 degrees, is composed of 1855 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) – devices that transform the light into an electrical signal.  After a complete performance review at the Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE) in Barcelona (Spain), performed with LST members from Madrid (CIEMAT, UCM) as well as France (CPPM, LAPP) and Japan (ICRR, Kyoto University), the camera was shipped to La Palma at the end of the summer, but it was not until 24 September that it was finally transported up to the ORM and then successfully installed on 25 September.
+
+The LST team consists of more than 200 scientists from ten countries: Brazil, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain and Sweden. In this truly international effort, the design and management leadership was shared among LAPP, Annecy, France; Max Planck Institute for physics, Munich, Germany; INFN, Italy; ICRR, University of Tokyo, Japan; and IFAE, Barcelona and CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain.
+
+The LSTs will cover the lowest end of the CTA energy range, between 20 and 150 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). An additional four LSTs are planned for the Observatory’s southern hemisphere site located at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile).
+
+The LST-1 will now undergo rigorous testing to ensure it complies with CTA’s science goals, operational needs, safety standards, etc. before it can become the first LST telescope of CTA, and, in fact, the first telescope on a CTA site.
+
+On 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from both local and international stakeholders of the LST-1 construction project, will attend an inauguration ceremony on ORM. This is a very exciting time for everyone involved, and we are looking forward to celebrating this impressive achievement!
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+---
+title: "LST Prototype Nears Completion with Camera Support Structure Installation"
+description: "During 21 and 22 June, the LST1 prototype, which is under construction at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, hit another structural milestone when its camera support structure (CSS) was installed. With the addition of the…"
+date: 2018-06-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/c3eacc00-086e-463f-8118-bdfa77a110b0-768x432.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+During 21 and 22 June, the [Large-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) prototype, the LST1, which is under construction at the [Roque de los Muchachos Observatory](http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en) on La Palma in [Villa de Garafia](http://www.garafia.es), hit another structural milestone when its camera support structure (CSS) was installed. With the addition of the CSS – the parabolic arc holding the camera on the mirror dish – the LST is taking its final, spectacular form.
+
+The CSS was designed and produced by [LAPP](https://lapp.in2p3.fr/?lang=fr), France, and is made of carbon fibres to keep the large structure stable, light-weight and to reduce the amount of shadowing on the telescope camera. The tube and camera frame were produced by [Lorima](http://www.lorima-carbon-mast.com/en/index/), a french company specialising in masts for racing boats. A large crane reaching 70m high was brought in from Tenerife for the installation, which required securing and stabilizing the CSS on the mirror with 26 carbon-fibre ropes. The ropes were procured by [INFN Padova](https://www.pd.infn.it/eng/home_en/) from [Future Fibres](https://www.futurefibres.com/), which specializes in cables for racing boats.
+
+The trickiest part of the installation was releasing the crane from the CSS, which had to be done about 50m above the ground. Because this was out of range of the articulated boom available on site, the LAPP team spent several years training in climbing to complete the operation. After the CSS was installed and the tension ropes fixed and slightly pre-tensioned, two of the engineers carefully climbed along the CSS like spiders on a web to release the crane.
+
+In the next step, the telescope will receive its engine – azimuth and elevation motors – and then it will be turned back to the park position to allow for the installation of the remaining mirrors and the active mirror control system (July/August). In September, the telescope camera will be installed and final preparations will be made for the LST1’s inauguration on 10 October.
+
+More photos available on our [Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/with/26624530498/).
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+---
+title: "The LST Collaboration Publishes its first Scientific Paper with Data from the LST-1"
+description: "On March 6, the LST Collaboration published its first scientific paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A), focused on a multi-wavelength study of the unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source known as LHAASO J2108+5157, and using data…"
+date: 2023-03-16
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/LST1_annoucement_featuredimage-01-1600x621.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[“Multiwavelength study of the galactic PeVatron candidate LHAASO J2108+5157” on A&A Journal.](https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202245086)
+
+On March 6, the LST Collaboration published its first scientific paper in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal. The paper focuses on a multi-wavelength study of the unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source known as LHAASO J2108+5157. For the analysis, the LST Collaboration used 49 hours of data obtained with the LST-1, the prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) currently under commissioning at CTAO-North on La Palma (Spain). While the analysis did not result in any significant detection, the multi-wavelength approach, combining data from the LST-1 and other instruments, allowed the team to set strict upper limits on the source’s emission that help shed light on its nature.
+
+In 2021, several new ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray sources, capable of emitting gamma rays above petaelectronvolts (PeV; thousands of trillions the energy of visible light), were discovered in the Milky Way by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). This represented a step forward in the search for PeVatrons, enigmatic sources in our Galaxy that can accelerate cosmic rays up to PeV energies and give rise to gamma rays at the highest energies. Under this new context, the LST Collaboration used the LST-1 to observe the source LHAASO J2108+5157, one of the PeVatrons seen by LHAASO without a known TeV counterpart, from June to September 2021 for a total of 49 nights.
+
+“When the LHAASO Collaboration discovered that our Galaxy hosted multiple PeVatrons, it came as a huge surprise – we immediately decided to explore these sources and observed one of them with the LST-1 to find a counterpart at lower energies,” explains Jakub Jurysek, researcher at the institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Science (FZU) and University of Geneva, and principal investigator of this study. “We could not confirm a detection, but we could set strong limits on the emission of the source and, thus, improve the understanding of this object’s nature compared to the scenario originally assumed by the scientific community.”
+
+![](/uploads/SED_LST1_LHAASOJ21085157.png)
+
+Emission of the source at different energy ranges. The blue arrows represent the upper limits on the source’s emission at TeV energies as established by the LST-1. The orange points correspond to the higher-energy emission detected by LHAASO in 2021. The green and blue bands correspond to the best fit of the data assuming a source’s emission described by a power law and a power law with cut off scenario, respectively. Credit: LST Collaboration
+
+Even though a confirmed detection of the very high-energy emission would require deeper observations, the LST-1 data, complemented by a multi-wavelength study using public data from the XMM-Newton and Fermi-LAT satellites, already provide important information about the source. Contrary to previous assumptions, the low magnetic field and spectral properties obtained by the LST Collaboration are compatible with the hypothesis that the source is a Pulsar Wind Nebula or a TeV halo that can accelerate electrons to relativistic energies. Nonetheless, this scenario is challenged by the lack of a known pulsar in the surroundings. Another hypothesis that could explain this unidentified UHE gamma-ray source is that its emission is caused by the interaction between the gas of nearby molecular clouds and protons accelerated in the past by a Supernova Remnant, a leftover from the death of a massive star.
+
+Despite the lack of a significant detection, the results show the LST-1’s extraordinary level of performance and its capability to provide robust observational constraints to test theoretical frameworks, which foretells the excellent results that will be obtained once the full CTAO array is operational.
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+---
+title: "The LST Collaboration Publishes the LST-1 Performance Paper"
+description: "On 14 July 2023, the performance paper of the LST-1 was accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)."
+date: 2023-07-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/48629242378_5cb352496e_o-768x512.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 14 July, the performance paper of the LST-1, the prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) currently under commissioning at CTAO-North on La Palma (Spain), was accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). The study, carried out by the LST Collaboration, describes the telescope’s capabilities, including key parameters such as its sensitivity and its angular and energy resolution, and validates the simulations required for data analysis. This paper is fundamental to the upcoming science publications as it sets a performance baseline for the instrument and ensures its reliability.
+
+“In simple words, a performance paper is a handbook for how the telescope works: it shows its capabilities and limitations,” explains Abelardo Moralejo, LST-1 Analysis Software Coordinator and author of the paper. “It allows us to evaluate potential systematic errors of the instrumentation that could affect the interpretation of data. Thus, a deep understanding of the telescope’s performance, towards which this paper is an important step, ensures that the scientific results with the LST-1 are reliable and reproducible.”
+
+In order to evaluate the LST-1’s performance, the LST Collaboration made use of a comprehensive data set from observations of the Crab Nebula spanning from November 2020 to March 2022. The Crab Nebula is the standard candle in very high-energy astronomy, a source whose luminosity is well-known and steady at those energies. Such observations allowed the team to also verify that the simulations needed during the scientific data analysis were correct.
+
+“Analyzing data from the Crab Nebula provides valuable insights into its emission behaviour and evolution with energy and time. By comparing the results to what we expect from the source as a standard candle, we can determine the instrument’s sensitivity and precision, and correct our simulations, if necessary,” says Rubén López-Coto, LST-1 Analysis Software Deputy Coordinator and author of the paper. “The study shows that the telescope not only performs exceptionally well overall, as expected, but it also narrows the gap with other instruments at lower energy levels, thanks to its proven low-energy threshold.”
+
+The low-energy threshold is a fundamental parameter of the LSTs, as these telescopes are responsible to cover the sensitivity of the CTAO at the lowest energies by capturing gamma rays down to 20 GeV. The performance study is complemented by observations of the Crab pulsar, the neutron star at the centre of the Crab Nebula.
+
+“Pulsars are very challenging sources to detect due to their weak signal,” says Masahiro Teshima, Principal Investigator of the LST Collaboration. “The LST-1 can detect the two pulses of the Crab pulsar in record time. This is not only an extraordinary result, but it also demonstrates the LST-1’s capabilities in detecting faint sources at low energies, as described in the paper.”
+
+This is the first performance paper of a telescope prototype on a CTAO site. While the LST-1’s observing capabilities as a single telescope are already remarkable, these results will only improve once more telescopes are built and begin to operate together, thus expanding our current understanding of the gamma-ray Universe.
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+---
+title: "The LST Prototype’s Dish is Mounted"
+description: "The Large-Sized Telescope prototype reached a major milestone on 4 December 2017 when its dish was successfully mounted to its lower structure."
+date: 2017-12-05
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Foto-de-Javier-Herrera-Llorente-768x422.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 4 December, The LST prototype, under construction at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, reached an important milestone when its 18-ton mirror dish, mostly made of reinforced carbon fiber tubes, was lifted to the lower structure successfully. After careful preparation, the dish was lifted 18 meters above the ground and secured using a 200-ton crane. The whole operation only took four hours. A big congratulations to the team for bringing the telescope one step closer to operation!
+
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+
+*Video Credit: Giovanni Ceribella*
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+---
+title: "Large-Sized Telescope Prototype Records its First Light"
+description: "On the night of 14-15 December 2018, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype recorded its first Cherenkov light on the northern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), located at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias’ (IAC’s)…"
+date: 2018-12-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FirstLight-2-768x406.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On the night of 14-15 December 2018, the [Large-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) (LST) prototype recorded its first Cherenkov light on the northern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), located at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias’ (IAC’s) [Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos](http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en) (ORM), on the Canary island of La Palma.
+
+The prototype, named LST-1, is expected to become the first telescope of the CTA Observatory after a design review to ensure it complies with performance requirements. The LST-1 will be one of four LSTs to be built on La Palma that will cover the low-energy sensitivity of CTA between 20 and 150 GeV. An additional four LSTs are planned for the Observatory’s southern hemisphere site located at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile).
+
+Thirty-seven institutes from ten countries (Brazil, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain and Sweden) worked on the different subsystems that form the LST-1 and make it run. Construction on-site started with the foundation in January 2017 and continued throughout the year with the installation of the rail and bogie, necessary for the azimuth movement of the telescope, as well as the dish that holds the mirror. In 2018, the final structure came together with the installation of the mirrors, which form a reflective surface of 400 square meters, and the camera structure installation. The final component to be installed, the camera, is the “brain” of the telescope responsible for detecting the incoming light.
+
+“It has been amazing. We have managed to deploy a really state-of-the-art 23 m Cherenkov telescope in only 15 months. This was only possible because the collaboration has pulled together, with a real team spirit. We hope this new telescope will be equally successful in exploring the extreme events in the very high-energy gamma-ray sky,” said Juan Cortina, physicist at CIEMAT (Madrid) and LST Co-Work Package Leader.
+
+“I think we have the right to be very proud about this telescope, it really turned out well. At the same time, there’s still a lot of work ahead: now it’s time to learn how it works and what we can do better,” added Daniel Mazin, physicist at MPI for Physics (Munich) and University of Tokyo and Work Package Manager of the LST.
+
+Now, the prototype needs to undergo a rigorous design review, which is expected to last around a year. This commissioning phase will allow scientists to verify that the design parameters of the structure and camera fulfill CTA requirements to achieve science goals, operational needs, safety standards, etc.
+
+Congratulations to the LST team!
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+---
+title: "LST Prototype Sheds Icy Shell Before Structure Completion"
+description: "In February, a bad cold weather front hit the island of La Palma, causing spectacular ice formations on the LST prototype. After the weather cleared and the ice melted, the prototype team was able to successfully complete the LST prototype…"
+date: 2018-02-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/DSC00308_2-1600x923.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Things got a bit icy at the Roque de los Muchachos earlier this month! During the second week of February, a bad cold weather front with strong winds, low temperatures and rain hit the island of La Palma. Once the storm passed and the clouds cleared, spectacular ice formations were left behind. The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype, parked during the construction towards high elevation angles, acted as a perfect collector of these ice formations. After a careful inspection, the LST team was happy to learn that no damage was found in the telescope structure during the extreme conditions.
+
+After the weather cleared and the ice melted, the team was able to successfully complete the LST prototype structure when the dummy counterweight was put into place on 17 February. The counterweight structure resembles the camera support structure but is somewhat shorter and heavier, allowing the dish to turn toward the park position. In this position, 198 segmented mirrors will be mounted in the coming months. The dummy counterweight will be removed before the installation of the proper camera support structure in June 2018.
+
+More photos available on our [Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/with/26624530498/).
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+---
+title: "Season’s Greetings from the CTA Observatory!"
+description: "With contributions from: LST-1: Armand Fiasson, LAPPSCT: Deivid Ribeiro, Columbia UniversitySST: Jason Watson, Oxford/MPIKMST: CEA/Irfu for the NectarCAM collaborationConsortium Photo: Tiziana Abegg, CTAO“Can You Hear Me?” Photo:…"
+date: 2019-12-20
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Screenshot-2019-12-12-at-11.08.10-1600x899.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+You are currently viewing a placeholder content from **Default**. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.
+
+With contributions from:
+
+LST-1: Armand Fiasson, LAPP
+SCT: Deivid Ribeiro, Columbia University
+SST: Jason Watson, Oxford/MPIK
+MST: CEA/Irfu for the NectarCAM collaboration
+Consortium Photo: Tiziana Abegg, CTAO
+“Can You Hear Me?” Photo: Massimiliano Donati
+AMANAR Group Photo: Antonio Glez, cielos-lapalma.com
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+---
+title: "The LST-1 Detects its First Gamma-Ray Signal"
+description: "In its first attempt to detect a gamma-ray source, the Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) successfully detected its first gamma-ray signal on 23 November 2019 when it pointed to the Crab Nebula."
+date: 2019-12-05
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/48629242378_3e41fc7647_menu-1-768x392.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Above: the two-dimensional excess map of the gamma-ray excess from the direction of the Crab Nebula at an exposure of 269 min. (Credit: Rubén López-Coto, LST Collaboration)
+
+In its first attempt to detect a gamma-ray source, the [Large-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) prototype (LST-1) successfully detected its first gamma-ray signal on 23 November 2019 when it pointed to the Crab Nebula, which is considered the standard candle in very  high-energy  astronomy. Preliminary analyses show a very clear detection of a gamma-ray signal coming from the source, reassuring the team’s expectations that the telescope is performing as designed. These results are being discussed at the LST General Meeting that is taking place this week in Marseille, France.
+
+The LST team (consists of more than 200 scientists from 11 countries: Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain and Switzerland. The LST-1 was [inaugurated in October 2018](https://www.cta-observatory.org/lst-1_inauguration/) and has been undergoing commissioning testing ever since. Soon after the inauguration, the prototype detected its ‘first light’ on the evening of 14-15 December, but this is the first detection from a gamma-ray source. *Credit: Dirk Hoffmann, LST Collaboration*
+
+The LST-1 will be one of four LSTs located on the CTA-North array situated on the existing site of the [Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias’](http://www.iac.es/index.php?lang=en) (IAC’s) [Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos](http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en) in [Villa de Garafía](http://www.garafia.es/) on the island of La Palma, Spain. The four LSTs arranged at the centre of both the northern and southern hemisphere arrays will cover the low-energy sensitivity of CTA between 20 and 150 GeV. Although the LST-1 has a 23-metre diameter reflective surface, stands 45 metres tall and weighs around 100 tonnes, it is extremely nimble, with the ability to re-position within 20 seconds to capture brief, low-energy gamma-ray signals. Both the fast re-positioning speed and the low energy threshold provided by the LSTs are critical for CTA studies of transient gamma-ray sources in our own Galaxy and for the study of active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts at high redshift.
+
+The prototype is foreseen to become the first CTA telescope once the LST-1 has completed its critical design review and is formally accepted by the CTA Observatory (CTAO).
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype LST-1 Detects Very High-Energy Emission from the Crab Pulsar"
+description: "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 commissioned on the CTA-North site on the…"
+date: 2020-06-22
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/multiWcrab_lg2048_menu-768x500.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+#### **22 June 2020**
+
+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 commissioned on the CTA-North site on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, was conducting engineering runs to verify the telescope performance and adjust operating parameters.
+
+Pulsars are very rapidly rotating and strongly magnetized neutron stars that emit light in the form of two beams, which can be observed from Earth only when passing our line of sight. While detecting the strong and steady emission or outbursts of gamma-ray sources with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) has become routine, pulsars are much more challenging to detect due to their weak signals and the typical dominance of the foreground gamma-ray signal from the surrounding nebulae. Despite hundreds of observations hours by IACTs around the globe, only four pulsars emitting signals in the very high-energy gamma-ray regime have been discovered, so far. Now that the LST-1 has shown that it can detect the Crab pulsar, it joins the field of telescopes capable of detecting gamma-ray pulsars, validating the timestamping system and the low-energy performance of the telescope.
+
+“This milestone shows us that the LST-1 is already performing at an extraordinary level, detecting a challenging source in record time,” says Masahiro Teshima, Director of Max-Planck-Institute for physics in Munich and Principal Investigator of LST. “Pulsars are one of the key scientific targets of the LSTs, and it’s exciting to imagine what we’ll be able to achieve when the telescope is fully commissioned and operational.”
+
+The data set collected includes 11.4 hours from eight observation nights. Figure 2 shows the resulting phasogram, plotting the gamma-ray events as a function of the pulsar rotation phase. In the phase regions marked as P1 and P2, more gamma rays are expected as the Crab pulsar emits towards the Earth. The emission detected in all phases (marked green in Figure 2) is a mixture of different background contributions, including the irreducible steady emission from the Crab Nebula. The signal detected with the LST-1 (marked red in Figure 2) is undeniably significant for phase P2, while the signal during P1 is still marginal. The animation in Figure 3 highlights the pulse behaviour of the source during the different phases.
+
+![](/uploads/Phaseogram_filled-1600x1067.png)
+
+*Figure 2: Phasogram of Crab Pulsar as measured by the LST-1. The pulsar is known to emit pulses of gamma rays during phases P1 and P2. The shown significance is calculated considering source emission from those phases (in red) and background events from phases in grey. Credit: LST Collaboration*
+
+![](/uploads/Pulsar_movie-1600x1200.gif)
+
+Figure 3: Animation of Crab pulsar’s emission as seen by the LST-1 along its different phases. Credit: Rubén López-Coto; Pulsar gif: Michael R. Gallis
+
+### About the LST
+
+The [Large-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) (LST) is one of three types of telescope to be built to cover CTA’s full energy range (20 GeV to 300 TeV). LSTs arranged at the centre of both the northern and southern hemisphere arrays will cover the low-energy sensitivity between 20 and 150 GeV. Each LST is a giant 23 metre diameter telescope with a mirror area of about 400 square metres and a fine pixelized camera made of 1855 light sensors capable of detecting individual photons with high efficiency. Although the LST stands 45 metres tall and weighs around 100 tonnes, it is extremely nimble, with the ability to re-position within 20 seconds to capture brief, low-energy gamma-ray signals. Both the fast re-positioning speed and the low energy threshold provided by the LSTs are critical for CTA’s studies of transient gamma-ray sources in our own Galaxy and for the study of active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts at high redshift.
+
+The LST collaboration, consists of more than 200 scientists from 11 countries: Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain and Switzerland. The LST-1, the first telescope constructed on a CTA site, was inaugurated in October 2018 and has been undergoing commissioning testing ever since. Soon after the inauguration, the prototype detected its ‘first light’ on the evening of 14-15 December 2018, and it detected its first gamma-ray signal from the Crab Nebula in November 2019 on its first attempt.
+
+The LST-1 recently passed the Critical Design Review (CDR) by the CTA Observatory (CTAO), the first CTA element to pass such a review. The telescope is foreseen to become the first CTAO telescope once the CDR is closed out and it is formally accepted by the CTAO, which is expected in 2021.
+
+### About CTA
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a global initiative to build the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory with tens of  telescopes planned on two sites: one in the northern hemisphere on the island of La Palma, Spain, and the other in the southern hemisphere near Paranal, Chile. CTA will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond and will be the first ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory open to the world-wide astronomical and particle physics communities. CTA will address some of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics, detecting gamma rays with an unprecedented sensitivity and expanding the cosmic source catalogue tenfold. CTA is a unique, ambitious large-scale infrastructure that will expand observations up to a region of the spectrum that has never been seen, opening an entirely new window to our Universe. The CTAO gGmbH serves to prepare the design and implementation of the CTA Observatory. The CTAO works in close cooperation with the CTA Consortium composed of 1500+ members from 31 countries, which is responsible for directing the science goals of the Observatory and is involved in the design and supply of instrumentation. The CTAO is governed by a council of shareholders from 11 countries and one intergovernmental organization, as well as associate members from two countries.
+
+### Contacts:
+
+Masahiro Teshima
+
+LST Principal Investigator
+
+MPP Munich and ICRR University of Tokyo
+
+[mteshima@mpp.mpg.de](mailto:mteshima@mpp.mpg.de)
+
+Juan Cortina
+
+LST Co-Principal Investigator
+
+CIEMAT, Madrid
+
+[juan.cortina@ciemat.es](mailto:juan.cortina@ciemat.es)
+
+Daniel Mazin
+
+LST Project Manager
+
+ICRR University of Tokyo and MPP Munich
+
+[mazin@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp](mailto:mazin@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
+
+Manel Martinez
+
+LST Steering Committee Chair
+
+IFAE, BIST, Bellaterra
+
+[martinez@ifae.es](mailto:martinez@ifae.es)
+
+Megan Grunewald
+
+Outreach and Communications Officer
+
+CTAO gGmbH
+
+[mgrunewald@cta-observatory.org](mailto:mgrunewald@cta-observatory.org)
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+---
+title: "Large-Size Telescope Prototype Lays ‘First Stone’"
+description: "On Friday, 9 October 2015, the first stone-laying ceremony for the Large Size Telescope (LST) prototype took place at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the island of La Palma."
+date: 2015-10-09
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/prensa992_1607_small-768x424.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On Friday, 9 October 2015, the first stone-laying ceremony for the Large Size Telescope (LST) prototype took place at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the island of La Palma. To commemorate the event, Fernando Clavijo, President of the Autonomous Regional Government of the Canary Islands, unveiled a plaque with the design and main features of the telescope. Other attendees included Rafael Rebolo, director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC); Takaaki Kajita, director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR Tokyo); Martín Taño, the Mayor of Garafía; Anselmo Pestana, President of the Cabildo of La Palma; Carmen Vela, Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation; and Kazuhiko Koshikawa, ambassador of Japan.
+
+The LST project leader, Masahiro Teshima (ICRR Tokyo and director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich) and Manel Martínez (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies and chair of the LST steering committee) explained the telescope’s main characteristics and its importance in the research of cosmic gamma rays.
+
+Takaaki Kajita, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, shared some thoughts about CTA, saying it will be “the key scientific project in the field of high-energy astrophysics and cosmic rays.”
+
+The [LST](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/) prototype telescope is scheduled to be installed in the ORM site before the end of 2016 with the commissioning phase until mid 2017. The main goal of the prototype is to verify the design parameters of the structure and the camera.
+
+For more details and photos/video from the event, visit the [IAC website](http://www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=992).
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+---
+title: "The LST-1 Passes its Critical Design Review"
+description: "During the week of 8 June 2020, at the remote biannual general meeting of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) consortium, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) announced that the LST prototype, the LST-1, passed its Critical Design Review (CDR)., bring…"
+date: 2020-06-12
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/48629242378_3e41fc7647_menu-1-768x392.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+During the week of 8 June 2020, at the remote biannual general meeting of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) consortium, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) announced that the LST prototype, the LST-1, passed its Critical Design Review (CDR). It is the first CTA element to pass such a review and is one important step toward closing out the CDR and starting the process for the acceptance and handover of the first LST to the observatory, which is planned to occur in 2021 after the CTA ERIC has been established.
+
+The CTAO Project Office held the CDR for the LST-1, beginning with the LST team’s submission of review documentation at the beginning of August 2019 and culminating in the review meeting in Munich in October. A CDR will be conducted for all CTA subsystems to verify that the detailed design has been successfully completed and satisfies the specified requirements.
+
+The LST team submitted more than 700 documents to the review panel, which was comprised of nine external experts and 17 from the CTAO systems engineering and software teams. The CDR was held in a very collaborative atmosphere, and the panel congratulated the LST team for the large amount of work they accomplished to prepare for the review and for promptly responding to the approximately 950 questions, comments and discrepancies the panel submitted before the meeting.
+
+The review identified both major and minor issues to be addressed by the CTAO and/or LST teams. The CTAO and LST project managers agreed that to pass the review, certain critical items needed to be addressed and a plan established to work on the remaining issues—that milestone has now been achieved. The work to close out all of the major action items will continue and, once all are addressed, the CDR will be declared closed before moving to acceptance by the CTAO.
+
+.
+
+### El LST-1 Supera su Revisión Crítica de Diseño
+
+Esta semana, durante la reunión general bianual del consorcio del Large-Sized Telescope (LST) que se llevó a cabo online, el CTA Observatory (CTAO) anunció que el prototipo del LST, el LST-1, había superado su Revisión Crítica de Diseño (CDR, en inglés). Este es el primer elemento de CTA que supera dicha revisión y un paso adelante importante para cerrar finalmente la CDR y comenzar el proceso de aceptación y entrega del primer LST al observatorio, lo cual está previsto para 2021 tras establecerse el CTA ERIC.
+
+La Oficina del Proyecto CTAO llevó a cabo la CDR del LST-1, cuyo punto de partida fue la presentación de la documentación para la revisión por parte del equipo LST en agosto del 2019 y que culminó con la reunión de revisión en octubre del mismo año en Múnich. Se realizará una CDR para todos los subsistemas de CTA con el objetivo de verificar que el diseño detallado se haya completado con éxito y que satisface todos los requisitos requeridos.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
+
+El equipo del LST presentó más de 700 documentos al comité de revisión, que estaba compuesto por nueve expertos externos y 17 expertos de los equipos de ingeniería de sistemas y software de CTAO. La CDR se realizó dentro de una atmósfera muy colaborativa, y el comité felicitó al equipo del LST por la gran cantidad de trabajo realizado en la preparación de la revisión, así como por su rápida respuesta a las aproximadamente 950 preguntas, comentarios y discrepancias que el comité envió antes de la reunión.
+
+Con la revisión se identificaron problemas menores y mayores que abordar por parte de los equipos de CTAO y/o LST. Los directores de los proyectos CTAO y LST acordaron que, para superar la revisión, ciertos elementos críticos necesitaban ser atendidos y se estableció un plan de trabajo para las acciones pendientes – este objetivo se ha alcanzado ahora. El trabajo para finalizar todas las acciones principales continuará y, una vez abordadas, la CDR se declarará cerrada antes de pasar a la aceptación por parte de CTAO.
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+title: "June 4 Press Event to be Held in Lugano, Switzerland in Conjunction with CTA Consortium Meeting"
+description: "The Swiss press is invited to attend an event on 4 June 2019 at 18:00 at the Palazzo Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland highlighting the Swiss contribution to the exploration of the high-energy Universe."
+date: 2019-05-15
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/lugano-2831362_1920-1600x1067.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*The Swiss press is invited to attend an event on 4 June 2019 at 18:00 at the Palazzo Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland highlighting the Swiss contribution to the exploration of the high-energy Universe.*
+
+### About CTA
+
+During the week of 3 June, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will hold its CTA Consortium meeting at the Lugano Convention Centre. More than 1,400 scientists and engineers from [31 countries](https://www.cta-observatory.org/about/cta-consortium/) across five continents and more than 200 research institutes are participating in the CTA project.  Hosted by CTA Consortium members the [University of Geneva](https://www.unige.ch/),  [ETH Zurich](https://www.ethz.ch/en.html) and the [University of Zurich](https://www.uzh.ch/en.html), as well as the [Swiss National Computing Centre (CSCS)](https://www.cscs.ch/), the event is expected to attract hundreds of scientists from around the world. CTA is a global initiative to build the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory with 118 telescopes split between two sites: one in the northern hemisphere on the island of La Palma, Spain, and the other in the southern hemisphere near Paranal, Chile. CTA will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond and will be the first ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory open to the world-wide astronomical and particle physics communities. CTA will probe cosmic particle accelerators reaching energies inaccessible to man-made accelerators. It will seek to understand the impact of high-energy particles to the evolution of cosmic systems and to gain insight into the most extreme and unusual phenomena in the Universe: remnants of supernova explosions, rapidly spinning neutron stars, black holes and normal stars in binary systems or large clusters, gamma-ray bursts, star-forming galaxies, supermassive black holes and whole clusters of galaxies. CTA will also search for annihilating dark matter particles and deviations from Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
+
+### CTA and Switzerland
+
+After more than a decade of design studies of the Cherenkov Telescope Array led by a Consortium of scientists, the CTAO gGmbH was established in 2014 to direct the design and implementation of CTA with the University of Zurich, representing Switzerland, as a founding member. Today, the CTAO is composed of [shareholders](https://www.cta-observatory.org/about/governance/) from 11 countries, one intergovernmental organisation (the European Southern Observatory), as well as associate members. Activities related to the study of the high-energy Universe started in the 1990s at the University of Geneva and at ETH Zurich. Swiss scientists have been actively pursuing the development of CTA since 2007, in particular in the construction of novel solid-state Cherenkov cameras (pioneered by ETH Zurich and developed at UniGe), a [Small-Sized Telescope](https://www.cta-observatory.org/project/technology/sst/) protoype (UniGe), mirror actuators (pioneered at ETH Zurich and continued at UZH), camera housing and electronics (UZH), and in data processing activities (UniGe and ETH Zurich) and the study of the high-energy Universe (UniGe, ETH Zurich, UZH), permitting Swiss scientists to participate in the core of CTA science and contribute to the success of CTA as an open observatory. From 2016 to 2017 the CTAO was managed by Prof. U. Straumann (UZH) and became a landmark on the roadmap of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures). CTA was also identified on the Swiss roadmap for research infrastructure in 2015 and 2019, and the Swiss parliament opened a credit line for CTA in 2016. Lugano was chosen as the site of the next CTA consortium meeting to showcase Switzerland’s world-class capabilities in the handling of large amounts of scientific computation and data.
+
+### About the Event
+
+This event will feature presentations from the chairs and members of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC), the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), the State Secretariat for Education Research and Innovation (SERI), Polythechnical schools and from CTA.
+
+### Please RSVP and ****direct all questions to:
+
+Roland Walter
+
++41223792128
+
+[lugano2019@unige.ch](mailto:lugano2019@unige.ch)
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+title: "Major Telescope Operations Milestone Achieved with ACADA Software Integration"
+description: "In September and October, two teams of scientists and engineers traveled to the CTAO-North site in La Palma, Spain, to conduct pivotal tests of ACADA system on the LST-1."
+date: 2023-12-20
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/LST1_3-1600x900.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Over two separate weeks in September and October, two teams of scientists and engineers traveled to the CTAO-North site in La Palma, Spain, to conduct pivotal tests of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) system on the LST-1, the prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope. ACADA will be the central software in charge of operating the CTAO’s two arrays of telescopes in La Palma and in Chile. These tests are instrumental in assessing the software’s functionality on an individual telescope, a prerequisite for extending its application to a broader range. After almost two years of preparations by the ACADA team in cooperation with the LST Collaboration, the integration campaign and its successful outcome marked a significant milestone for the development of ACADA.
+
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+
+Over several months, the ACADA integration and testing campaign was orchestrated with a specific objective: to validate the seamless integration of the software with the LST-1. The two testing missions focused on establishing flawless bidirectional communication between ACADA and the telescope, enabling functions such as remote commands for the LST-1’s movement or real-time data analysis. Additionally, the system was tested under unpredictable scenarios like simulating alerts from a cosmic source’s transient activity, which requires a swift response from the joint ACADA/LST-1 system.
+
+Igor Oya, ACADA Coordinator, explained the rationale behind the separate testing missions: “The initial phase concentrated on individual tasks, such as ACADA’s ability to make the LST-1 move, monitor its status or comprehend the data coming from the telescope. The second phase was an ‘end-to-end’ test to demonstrate that the system could perform standard operations for a full night of observation.”
+
+Results from the campaign yielded positive outcomes that confirm the software’s ability to execute critical tasks. On the first day of observations, the team successfully detected the Crab Nebula, which is the “standard candle” for instruments in gamma-ray astronomy.
+
+“This is a very important step for everyone involved in the CTAO,” says Daniel Mazin, LST-1 Programme Manager. “It is a big step that the ACADA software development is meeting the real-life, the telescope here in La Palma, so we can see how the different software parts work together to operate this telescope and take scientific data.”
+
+While celebrating these accomplishments, the teams also identified areas for optimization and potential enhancements. “We will revisit and rectify minor issues and explore improvements,” says Bernhard López, ACADA Deputy Coordinator. “Next year, we will develop and test updated versions of ACADA, collaborating with different teams to create a robust system capable of managing not only one telescope, but a full array of telescopes simultaneously.”
+
+The testing campaign exemplified the collaborative efforts between the LST Collaboration and the ACADA team, which is made up of around 60 people from the CTAO and its partners from nine institutes from six countries: Centrum Astronomicznego im. Mikołaja Kopernika (CAMK), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Ciències de l’Espai/ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICE/CSIC), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), University of Geneva, University of Perugia and University of Potsdam.
+
+Tune into the CTAO’s social media channels in 2024 for a series of videos that will take a closer look at the importance of ACADA to the Observatory and the individuals driving its success!
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+---
+title: "Update from the Managing Director: Planning, Funding and Paperwork"
+description: "While the summer is traditionally characterized as a period of slower rhythms and some relaxation, the CTAO management took advantage of this lull in activity to continue the development of the concepts and documents that will drive a…"
+date: 2019-10-09
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+Originally published in the [October 2019 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/12cb6698d185/cta-newsletter-october2019-english).
+
+*By: Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director*
+
+It was Wernher von Braun who said, “Our two greatest problems are gravity and paperwork. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” Building CTA may not be as difficult as defying the laws of gravity, but it does take a lot of planning (and paperwork) to achieve!
+
+To this end, while the summer is traditionally characterized as a period of slower rhythms and some relaxation, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) management took advantage of this lull in activity to continue the development of the concepts and documents that, in our view, will drive a well-conceived and solid approach to the construction of the observatory. Among the many documents that were on the table were: the Cost Book (finalising the version that will be sent to an external panel); the Medium-Term Plan (conceiving its structure and starting to organise the content of chapters); the Management Plan (advancing its redaction); the Business Plan (modifications to reflect the current project conditions); and the Science Data Management Centre Hosting Agreement (negotiations with DESY concluded and awaiting final approvals for signature).
+
+Additionally, in September, the CTAO shareholders ratified their strong support of the CTA project by finalising their contributions at an extraordinary meeting of the CTAO Council. The final 2020 budget to prepare the design and implementation of the observatory is being considered (with recommendations from the Administrative and Finance Committee) for approval at the November Council meeting. The Council also approved the panel for the Cost Book analysis and validation and expressed its consensus on the Phase I objective for the CTAO-ERIC: to construct the threshold configuration of the observatory (with the promised funding of about 310 MEuro).
+
+It is my intention to conclude all the matters posed on the table by the end of November (although approval by our governing bodies may arrive later), including implementing an efficient, transparent and fully integrated CTAO on the CTA-North site in La Palma. And, in the not-so-distant future, we will target the end of March 2020 for the ERIC Step 2 Application, organise the gGmbH to ERIC transition, advance the risk management plan, promote a sound proposal for the Medium-Sized Telescope harmonisation, recruit more staff and revise the documentation system.
+
+Perhaps it may be too much (work and paperwork), but, clearly, we are at a turning point of the CTA project, and I am grateful to the CTAO staff and our CTA Consortium partners in their continuing efforts to realise this program.
+
+Finally, we are in the beginning stages of a very promising collaboration – the CTAO recently met with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation and discussed possible joint activities. There is more to come on this topic, but I am confident that in the next few months we will announce significative progress. As the CTAO must create the ideal conditions for the global science community to collaborate with and access our Earth-based gamma-ray observatory, this partnership will serve as the cornerstone for future collaborations with astronomical facilities.
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+---
+title: "Update from the Managing Director: Turning the Page"
+description: "While the summer is traditionally characterized as a period of slower rhythms and some relaxation, the CTAO management took advantage of this lull in activity to continue the development of the concepts and documents that will drive a…"
+date: 2020-03-20
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/60f13a07ae21/cta-newsletter-march2020-spanish-2)
+
+Originally published in the [March 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/71658f0225bd/cta-newsletter-march2020-english).
+
+The 2019-2020 biennium is without a doubt a crucial period for the CTA project. From the political point of view, we expect the final legal framework (the fabled ERIC) to be in place this year thanks to the official commitment of the members, via the ratification at ministerial level. From the financial point of view, we will adjust and finalize the Cost Book to align with available funding, with the condition that we will maintain excellent science results from the sustainable configuration of telescopes that can be realized. From the technical and scientific point of view, we will prepare and critically revise the system engineering design, and, after more than a decade of development, we will make the final decisions about what will be installed (from telescope structures and cameras, to mirrors and software). From the managerial point of view, we will establish the service structure and overall organization to be prepared to immediately satisfy the requests and needs of the scientific community as soon as we begin operations, ensuring there is no delay in accessing the ground-breaking science that will be produced by CTA infrastructures.
+
+This (and other aspects that I do not quote for brevity) involves dozens of institutions at the highest level, hundreds of persons, requiring loops for convergence, modifications of former engagements, differentiation of resources, redefinition of funding, … All in all, it is the perfect example of a “complex” system that could be best described mathematically by a set of non-linear coupled differential equations. Unfortunately, there are interactions that cannot be unambiguously formulated, due to unpredictable events, unknown hidden inputs, stochastic behaviours of variables. This is an elegant way to say that the situation is a little bit difficult, but not impossible. But as any visionary or champion of progress would say: “Nothing worth doing is easy.”
+
+In the end, the main objective is always crystal clear: to establish the formal/financial/technical framework that will allow us to begin the construction of CTA in 2021. Toward this objective, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) staff is working with the highest dedication.
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+title: "Update from the Managing Director: Staying the Course – Navigating & Adapting in Turbulent Times"
+description: "COVID-19, the pandemic that in the last few months has so dramatically struck the world, has, naturally, affected the CTA project activities. CTAO is distributed over four countries (Chile, Germany, Italy and Spain), hence, I have…"
+date: 2020-08-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/0c4d832c5ccd/cta-newsletter-august2020-spanish)
+
+Originally published in the [August 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/ff946ec16843/cta-newsletter-august2020-english).
+
+*By: Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director*
+
+COVID-19, the pandemic that in the last few months has so dramatically struck the world, has, naturally, affected the CTA project activities. CTAO is distributed over four countries (Chile, Germany, Italy and Spain), hence, I have instructed CTAO personnel to respect the directives and recommendations in force by the respective country and hosting institutions to maintain their health and well-being during this trying time. As a consequence, CTAO personnel have been working remotely since 24 February and will continue to do so until 15 September, when we hope conditions will be stable enough to return to our offices and to begin a new, safe standard for life and work.
+
+Regardless of the challenging circumstances, I want to underline that, notwithstanding the unusual and sometimes difficult conditions under which the CTAO staff had to work and react to the “normal” complexity of the CTA project, the project activities have not been delayed, the major objectives of the period have been achieved and our attention and focus are maintained, confirming the dedication and passion of CTAO personnel.
+
+During this period we have conducted several important meetings via teleconference: Council (x2), Administrative and Finance Committee (AFC), Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, ERIC Board of Governmental Representatives (x2) and Transition Working Group (x2), Cost Book external review panel (x5), ACADA Preliminary Design Review, Project Committee and Small-Sized Telescope Engineering Review. And while meeting in person to discuss important and complicated topics is always ideal, we have found these meetings to be focused and effective in continuing to advance and meet the goals of the project. For example, a major milestone for the project, the Cost Book, which provides investors a solid valuation for investments in CTA Observatory construction, has been approved unanimously by the CTAO Council.
+
+In conclusion, and metaphorically speaking, the CTA project is now like a grand river that has finally amassed the flow of all its precious and independent tributaries, taking a united, determined course toward a common destination. Several obstacles may still be encountered, but the power of our course makes progress unavoidable. Further complex work and, of course, difficulties are still ahead, but the strength and focus of the telescope consortia, software teams and other in-kind contributor teams, supported by the competence and dedication of CTAO staff, allow me to confidently glimpse the final destination from afar.
+
+Read more project updates in the [August 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/ff946ec16843/cta-newsletter-august2020-english).
diff --git a/src/content/news/masahiro-teshima-elected-new-spokesperson-of-the-ctao-consortium.md b/src/content/news/masahiro-teshima-elected-new-spokesperson-of-the-ctao-consortium.md
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+---
+title: "Prof. Dr. Masahiro Teshima Elected New Spokesperson of the CTAO Consortium"
+description: "On July 18, Prof. Dr. Masahiro Teshima was appointed as the new Spokesperson of the CTAO Consortium for the next three years. Prof. Teshima succeeds Prof. Werner Hofmann, one of the founding figures of the CTAO, who served as Spokesperson…"
+date: 2024-07-19
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/51748413826_91b3dcbd8f_o-1600x1067.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On July 18, Prof. Dr. Masahiro Teshima was appointed as the new Spokesperson of the [CTAO Consortium](https://www.ctao.org/partners/ctao-consortium/) for the next three years. Prof. Teshima succeeds Prof. Werner Hofmann, one of the founding figures of the CTAO, who served as Spokesperson of the CTAO Consortium for more than 15 years. Prof. Hofmann’s tenure was distinguished by a strong spirit of collaboration and unwavering dedication to the advancement of the Observatory. We extend our profound gratitude to Prof. Hofmann for his significant and indispensable contributions to the CTAO during his tenure.
+
+Prof. Teshima has been the Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) in Munich, Germany, since 2003 and a Professor of the University of Tokyo, Japan, since 1987. With over 35 years of experience in Astroparticle Physics, primarily focused on (ultra-)high-energy cosmic and gamma-ray experiments, he has not only made significant contributions to the CTAO since its inception, but to various international projects throughout his extensive career.
+
+He began his work in Japan with the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA), EUSO and the Telescope Array (TA; Cherenkov gamma-ray astronomy in the early phases). His contributions to the study of cosmic and gamma rays earned him the prestigious Shakti P. Duggal Award in 1993.
+
+In 2003, when he moved to Germany as Director of the MPP, Prof. Teshima joined the MAGIC Collaboration, which operates the two MAGIC Telescopes, a predecessor of the CTAO, currently operative in La Palma. Upon his arrival, the first telescope was still under construction, but Prof. Teshima promptly initiated discussions to build a second telescope to create a more powerful stereo array. From 2005 to 2011, he not only contributed substantially to the development of MAGIC-I and MAGIC-II, but also assumed the roles of Spokesperson and Chair of the MAGIC Collaboration Board. In these positions, he helped consolidate the collaboration, where many young scientists were involved and trained in the emerging field of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy.
+
+It was in 2005 that Prof. Teshima was instrumental in the proposal submission that led to the CTAO becoming an ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) project. And, in 2010, he officially shifted his focus to the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray instruments and became an active member of the CTAO. He is currently Delegate for Japan on the CTAO Board of Governmental Representatives and has been primarily engaged in the construction of the [Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/).
+
+As the CTAO LST Collaboration’s Principal Investigator, Prof. Teshima oversaw the construction of the LST prototype, the LST-1, following years of research, development, and prototyping telescope elements and subsystems. Completed and inaugurated in 2018, the LST-1, currently undergoing commissioning on the CTAO-North site in La Palma, Spain, [has already demonstrated exceptional performance](https://www.ctao.org/news/lst-1-discovers-the-most-distant-agn-at-very-high-energies/). Building on this success, Prof. Teshima and his colleagues from the LST Collaboration have advanced to the construction of the remaining three LSTs for the CTAO-North, which are expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
+
+Prof. Teshima will now assume the role of Spokesperson for the [CTAO Consortium](https://www.ctao.org/partners/ctao-consortium/), a collaboration of 1,500 scientists from more than 150 institutes across 25 countries. The Consortium conceived the Observatory’s concept over a decade ago and the initial definition of its key science goals.
+
+We wish you all the best in this new role at the CTAO, Prof. Teshima!
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+---
+title: "Maurizio Miccolis Joins the CTAO as its New Project Manager"
+description: "We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Maurizio Miccolis as CTAO’s new Project Manager. With more than 25 years of expertise in engineering and project management, Maurizio brings a wealth of experience in leading complex,…"
+date: 2024-11-11
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/MaurizioMiccolis-e1731324973146-768x750.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Maurizio Miccolis as CTAO’s new Project Manager. With more than 25 years of expertise in engineering and project management, Maurizio brings a wealth of experience in leading complex, high-profile scientific projects.
+
+Maurizio holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a PMP certification from the Project Management Institute. He has played instrumental roles in multiple international initiatives. He contributed to the LFI instrument aboard the Planck satellite and the ALMA radio telescopes located in Chile as a systems engineer. He also served as the Manager of Integration and Verification for the NEON project in the USA. Most recently, Maurizio held the position of Senior Project Manager for Computing and Software at the SKAO, contributing significantly to the development of the next-generation observatory for radio astronomy.
+
+His extensive experience and leadership will be invaluable as the CTAO advances into a new phase of growth and innovation as the world’s largest and most powerful gamma-ray observatory. In his new role as CTAO Project Manager, and as a member of the senior management team, Maurizio will lead the [Central](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/) [Organisation](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/team/)‘s Project Office and work closely with the [In-Kind Contribution Collaborations](https://www.ctao.org/partners/in-kind-contributors/) to build and commission the CTAO. He will also focus on preparing the Observatory for operations, ensuring that the project’s technical, budget and schedule objectives are successfully met. Additionally, he will be the Chair of the CTAO Configuration Control and Risk Management Boards.
+
+Maurizio officially assumed the role of CTAO Project Manager on November 1, succeeding Wolfgang Wild, who retired last year.
+
+Welcome to the team, Maurizio!
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+---
+title: "May 2020 Consortium Meeting Wrap-up"
+description: "For its biannual meeting the CTA Consortium gathered virtually from 13-22 May. This is a summary of the major news and proceedings from the meeting."
+date: 2020-07-09
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTARemote2020_small-768x513.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jürgen Knödlseder, Chair, CTA Consortium*
+
+Originally the CTA Consortium had planned to meet for its biannual meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it moved to a virtual gathering to share information and results. For the first time in history, the CTA Consortium meeting was organised as a full online meeting. The meeting was expanded to almost two weeks, from 13 to 22 May, so that sessions were limited to a few hours per day. In total, about 500 Consortium members registered for the online meeting with a peak attendance of about 270 people for a single session (see screen shot below that was taken during one of the plenary sessions).
+
+As usual, the meeting started with parallel sessions during the first few days, followed by plenary sessions and closed by a Consortium Board meeting on the last day. While feedback on the online meeting format was very positive, people regretted the lack of informal gatherings during the coffee breaks and evenings that usually foster the interactions between colleagues. All plenary sessions were recorded, providing those who could not connect the possibility to replay the meeting. This is particularly useful for a world-wide Consortium such as CTA, with members distributed over many different time zones.
+
+On the technical side, a highlight of the meeting was the announcement of the detection of TeV emission from the Crab nebula with the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope prototype (pSCT). The pSCT is a prototype of a mid-sized telescope that is being developed by an international team under the leadership of our U.S. colleagues. The detection of the Crab nebula presents an important milestone for the project and demonstrates the feasibility of an innovative concept that has the potential to significantly improve the angular resolution of CTA. Other highlights of the meeting were the status reports of the Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) and Small-Sized Telescope (SST) sub-consortia that have organised to provide the MSTs and SSTs for CTA. Together with the already existing sub-consortium for the Large-Sized Telescopes, all telescope classes are now covered, and the provision of telescopes as in-kind contributions to CTAO is being organised.
+
+Excellent progress was also reported by the Science Working Groups. The development of Consortium papers is progressing well, with two papers currently under final review by the Consortium. The multi-wavelength and multi-messenger coordination is also taking shape, moving now from the identification of CTA’s needs to the securing of access to data. The Analysis and Simulations Working Group reported on the development of analysis pipelines and their application to first real data from prototype telescopes. To improve the performance of event reconstruction and classification, the use of deep learning methods is also being explored. The planning of the next large-scale Monte Carlo simulation dubbed “Prod5” is basically finished, and the production recently began. Finally, a new task group was set up to address the still open questions related to the Instrument Response Functions of CTA.
+
+The project also reported important progress during the meeting, with the cost book review completed and its approval now achieved during the June CTAO Council meeting. The CTAO Council has furthermore approved the deployment of five MSTs on the CTA-North site as pathfinder telescopes, paving the way for a gradual build-up of the array. Critical Design Reviews (CDRs) for the MST telescope and cameras are planned later this year, and an engineering review for the SST is scheduled for this summer. First steps towards the definition of a science plan for the construction phase were also presented.
+
+During its meeting, the Consortium Board discussed issues related to Consortium publications, the improvement of the IT support for the Consortium activities, a low-carbon charter for Consortium members, and future Consortium meetings. Due to the uncertain situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided to also hold the next Consortium meeting in the second semester of 2020 as an online meeting. Hopefully, the situation resumes to normal in 2021 allowing again for in-person meetings. The decisions on the meetings next year will be taken once the evolution of the COVID-19 situation has become more clear.
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+---
+title: "Meet the CTA-North Site Manager, Paolo Calisse"
+description: "On 1 July 2019, Volker Heinz joined the CTAO as the CTA-South Site Manager. As a member of the CTA construction project, and later CTA operations, based in Chile, Volker has a key role in building up the CTA-South site team and leading and…"
+date: 2019-01-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/AkiraOkumura.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+![](/uploads/Calisse_Paolo-scaled-e1713943149846-1600x1300.jpg)
+
+Paolo Calisse joined the CTAO in January 2019 as the CTA-North Site Manager. Before CTA, he spent his career participating in leading-edge projects involving balloon- ground- and air-borne experiments for astronomy and atmospheric science in Antarctica, the Atacama Desert and other remote sites all over the world. This included commissioning the ALMA antennas and the development of instrumentation for atmospheric science, site testing and operation of instrumentation at many remote stations in Antarctica. Most recently, he was the Site Manager of the Simons Observatory, an experiment dedicated to cosmology currently under construction at 5,200 m altitude in Chile.
+
+Paolo will now have a key role in supervising CTAO activities at the CTA-North site at Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. He will supervise the integration and commissioning of the four Large-Sized and fifteen Medium-Sized Telescopes at the site. He will also provide the link between the site and the CTAO Project Office in Bologna, as well as the interface between the local project stakeholders and the hardware and software contributors. Once the array is operational, he will be responsible for the on-site management of science and technical operations.
+
+## Conoce al Administrador de la sede CTA-Norte, Paolo Calisse
+
+Paolo Calisse se unió en enero de este año a CTAO como Administrador de la sede CTA-Norte. Antes de CTA, participó en proyectos de vanguardia que incluían experimentos con globos, experimentos terrestres o aéreos para la astronomía y ciencias de la atmósfera en la Antártida, el Desierto de Atacama y otros sitios remotos distribuidos por todo el mundo. Su trabajo abarcó desde la puesta en marcha de las antenas ALMA hasta el desarrollo de la instrumentación para las ciencias atmosféricas, así como la caracterización del emplazamiento y la operación de la instrumentación en diversos lugares remotos de la Antártida. Más recientemente, fue Administrador del Observatorio Simons, un experimento dedicado a cosmología actualmente en construcción a 5,200 m de altitud en Chile.
+
+Paolo tendrá ahora un papel clave en la supervisión de las actividades de CTAO en el emplazamiento CTA-Norte en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos en La Palma. Supervisará la integración y puesta en marcha de los cuatro Large-Sized Telescopes (telescopios grandes) y de los quince Medium-Sized Telescopes (telescopios medianos) en el observatorio. También actuará como enlace entre el emplazamiento y la Oficina del Proyecto CTAO en Bolonia, así como de conexión entre las partes interesadas locales del proyecto y los contribuyentes de hardware y software. Una vez que la red de telescopios esté operativa, Paolo será el responsable de la administración de las operaciones científicas y técnicas en el observatorio.
diff --git a/src/content/news/meet-cta-south-site-manager-volker-heinz.md b/src/content/news/meet-cta-south-site-manager-volker-heinz.md
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+---
+title: "Meet the CTA-South Site Manager, Volker Heinz"
+description: "On 1 July 2019, Volker Heinz joined the CTAO as the CTA-South Site Manager. As a member of the CTA construction project, and later CTA operations, based in Chile, Volker has a key role in building up the CTA-South site team and leading and…"
+date: 2019-07-11
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Heinz_Volker_slider-1600x1399.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Artículo en español más abajo.*
+
+On 1 July 2019, Volker Heinz joined the CTAO as the CTA-South Site Manager. As a member of the CTA construction project, and later CTA operations, based in Chile, Volker has a key role in building up the CTA-South site team and leading and coordinating the on-site construction and operation of the observatory. Working closely with the CTAO Project Office, the ESO Project Coordination Office and external contributors involved in CTA, he will be responsible for a broad range of construction, logistics and operations matters.
+
+After graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz as a Mechanical Engineer in 1993, Volker worked in industry for eight years, mainly in the area of commissioning and field service for complex mechanical presses for automotive applications and steam turbines. In 2001, Volker joined ESO as the team lead of the mechanical group on Paranal in Chile, performing assembly, integration and verification work and organizing the telescope and facility maintenance. Following assignments for ALMA in Garching, Germany and as engineering team lead for the APEX project, Volker was in charge of the ALMA antenna station subproject, where he was responsible for 192 antenna foundations at the 5,000-meter altitude site in Chile. From there, he moved to the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) as its project manager for technical infrastructure, where he managed transport and handling, mirror coating, power backup and distribution, cryogenics infrastructure and mirror in-situ cleaning.
+
+## **Conoce al Administrador de la sede CTA-Sur, Volker Heinz**
+
+El 1 de julio del 2019, Volker Heinz se unió a CTAO como Administrador de la sede CTA-Sur. Como miembro del proyecto de construcción CTA en Chile, y en un futuro de su operación, Volker tiene un papel clave creando el equipo para la sede CTA-Sur y liderando y coordinando la construcción y operación del observatorio en dicho emplazamiento. Trabajará en estrecha relación con la Oficina del Proyecto CTAO, con la Oficina de Coordinación de Proyectos de ESO y con colaboradores externos involucrados en CTA, siendo el responsable de una amplia gama de asuntos relacionados con la construcción, logística y operación.
+ 
+Tras graduarse como Ingeniero Mecánico en la Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas de Coblenza (Alemania) en 1993, Volker trabajó en la industria durante ocho años, especialmente en el área de puesta en marcha y servicio externo para complejas presas mecánicas para aplicaciones automotrices y turbinas de vapor. En 2001, Volker se unió a ESO como líder del grupo de mecánica en Paranal (Chile), realizando trabajos de ensamblaje, integración y verificación y organizando el mantenimiento del telescopio y las instalaciones. Siguiendo con sus designaciones para ALMA en Garching (Alemania) y como líder del grupo de ingenieros en el proyecto APEX, Volker estuvo al cargo del subproyecto de la estación de antenas ALMA, donde fue responsable de los cimientos de 192 antenas a 5000 metros de altitud en Chile. Desde allí, se trasladó al Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) como Director de Proyecto para la infraestructura técnica, donde dirigió su transporte y tratamiento, revestimiento de espejos, distribución y reserva de energía, infraestructura criogénica y limpieza de los espejos in-situ.
diff --git a/src/content/news/meeting-ctao-emilia-romagna-region-bologna.md b/src/content/news/meeting-ctao-emilia-romagna-region-bologna.md
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+---
+title: "Meeting Between the CTAO, Emilia-Romagna Region and the University of Bologna Paves the Way for Future Collaborations"
+description: "On February 20, 2025, CTAO Director General Stuart McMuldroch, Emilia-Romagna Region Vice-President Vincenzo Colla, and University of Bologna Vice-Rector for Research Stefano Fanti, met in Bologna, Italy."
+date: 2025-02-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTAO_ERregion_Meeting-768x558.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+In a significant step towards fostering local and regional cooperation, CTAO Director General Stuart McMuldroch, [Emilia-Romagna Region](https://www.regione.emilia-romagna.it/) Vice-President Vincenzo Colla, and [University of Bologna](https://www.unibo.it/it) Vice-Rector for Research Stefano Fanti, met on February 20 in Bologna, home of the CTAO’s Headquarters. The meeting focused on exploring collaboration opportunities, leveraging the Observatory’s expertise and international scope, and the region’s strong industrial, educational and scientific network.
+
+The CTAO Headquarters, hosted by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), is located in Bologna within the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy, in a building shared with the Bologna University Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Headquarters is the central office responsible for the overall management of Observatory operations, where the Director’s, Project, Project Science and Administration Offices are located.
+
+“As a world-class international organisation, the CTAO is committed not only to achieve groundbreaking scientific discoveries, but also to creating positive societal impacts in the countries where we operate,” said McMuldroch. “We value this opportunity to engage with the Emilia-Romagna Region, and look forward to fostering synergies with the regional government.”
+
+“The presence of the CTAO in Bologna strengthens the role of Emilia-Romagna as a center of scientific and technological excellence at an international level. This will also encourage the growth of local skills and collaboration with universities and other research institutes,” added Colla.
+
+The meeting reinforced the spirit of collaboration and laid a strong foundation for future joint actions that support scientific and technological development while benefiting local and regional communities.
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+---
+title: "In Memory of Dr. Berrie Giebels (1971 – 2023)"
+description: "With great sadness, we share the news of the passing of Berrie Giebels, Deputy Director of IN2P3, member of the CTAC, and former CNRS Delegate of the CTAO Council."
+date: 2023-12-15
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Berrie-NectarCAM2-scaled-e1702627337587-1600x978.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+With great sadness, we share the news of the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Berrie Giebels. Berrie left us at the age of 52 on the 20th of November 2023.
+
+Berrie undertook his PhD from 1995 to 1998 in Bordeaux on the Cherenkov experiment CELESTE. After a year at Collège de France and three years at SLAC, he joined the gamma-ray astronomy group at Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet (LLR) to work on H.E.S.S. and *Fermi*-LAT. At LLR, Berrie led the development of the mechanical structure of the LAT calorimeter, and worked on the early beam tests of the calorimeter at SLAC and CERN. His astrophysical interests converged around Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) physics, and he became an expert on AGN variability. He was an enthusiastic advocate of “GeV-TeV” astronomy, and pushed hard to improve the connection between the *Fermi* satellite and the TeV ground-based instruments. Berrie was instrumental in the development of the NectarCAM at LLR, the Medium-Sized Telescopes’ camera for the CTAO-North, assembling the team and securing the financing needed to develop the mechanics of the first camera at LLR. In later years, Berrie became the scientific director for astroparticle physics and cosmology at IN2P3/CNRS, where he was an unwavering supporter of the CTAO. He played a crucial role in getting national funding for the project in France. He served as CNRS Delegate in the CTAO Council, and was Deputy Director of IN2P3 from 2021 until his death.
+
+Berrie was always eager to share his enthusiasm for and knowledge of astronomy and physics, seeking out opportunities to work with undergraduate and master’s students at École Polytechnique. He cared and took the time to organize enriching educational experience: on one occasion, he led a project to develop a cloud chamber at LLR, pushing the undergraduate students to think seriously about the project, treating it as if it were to be launched into space. He accomplished this by having them defend their design to a product assurance engineer and by engaging in extensive GEANT4 simulations. Berrie was the PhD advisor of a number of current CTAC members, such as David Sanchez and Jonathan Biteau. He was a mentor and friend to many junior physicists at LLR, including ourselves.
+
+Berrie was highly regarded and respected by his colleagues for his extensive expertise. He was generous in the sharing of his knowledge and skills. In addition to the qualities that made him an outstanding scientist, Berrie was also a great friend to many. His kind and gentle nature, combined with his wonderful sense of humour and his sincerity, made people feel at ease around him. This contributed to his many friendships and his success in leading and managing teams of scientists. We will always remember Berrie for his kindness, his sense of humour, and his enthusiasm, aptitude and passion for science. We will remember him for the smaller things too, such as his fondness of the Dutch Goose bar in Menlo Park, and his love of orange clothing, as a way of celebrating his native Netherlands.
+
+You will be missed, Berrie.
+
+*In memoriam written by Stephen Fegan and Deirdre Horan.*
diff --git a/src/content/news/memory-prof-giovanni-bignami.md b/src/content/news/memory-prof-giovanni-bignami.md
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+---
+title: "In Memory of Prof. Giovanni Bignami (1944-2017)"
+description: "It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our colleague and friend, Prof. Giovanni Bignami. Beyond his pioneering work in high-energy astrophysics, Prof. Bignami was crucial in promoting CTA – both as President of INAF and…"
+date: 2017-05-29
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Prof-Giovanni-Bignami-1.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+It is with deep regret that we acknowledge the passing of our dear colleague and friend, Prof. Giovanni (Nanni) Bignami on 24 May 2017. Prof. Bignami performed pioneering work in astrophysics, in particular in X-ray astronomy and gamma-ray astronomy, where he was deeply involved in many key projects including the COS-B, SAS-2, XMM-Newton, Fermi, INTEGRAL and AGILE missions. Among many other duties, he served as Director of the Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in Toulouse, as President of COSPAR – the Committee on Space Research, as President of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and as Chairman of the Board of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). His numerous prizes and honours include the Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Blaise Pascal Medal for Astrophysics of the European Academy of Sciences, the Von Karman Award of the International Academy of Astronautics and the esteemed recognition as an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur de la République Francaise.
+
+Prof. Bignami also played a crucial role in CTA. He served as Vice-Chair of CTA’s international Scientific and Technical Committee (pictured below), advising the project over many years of design and prototyping. As President of INAF, he initiated the strong and highly visible Italian participation in CTA, and he catalysed and supported the ASTRI Project to build a demonstrator array of CTA’s small-sized telescopes. He was one of the signatories founding the CTAO GmbH, which serves as the legal framework for the development of CTA, and contributed to welcoming CTA’s Headquarters to Bologna. Prof. Bignami also stipulated a programme to support large-scale telescope development and production by industry, as a crucial element towards realizing CTA.
+
+We are deeply affected by the loss of our colleague and friend. All of CTA owes Prof. Bignami a great deal of thanks for his significant contributions – we will miss his charisma, advice and kind guidance. Our thoughts are with his wife, Patrizia Caraveo, and with his family, colleagues and friends in Italy and around the world.
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+---
+title: "In Memory of Prof. Nicolò D’Amico"
+description: "We are deeply saddened to hear of the untimely death of Professor Nicolò D’Amico, President of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)."
+date: 2020-09-15
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/brknews_nichi.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+We are deeply saddened to hear of the untimely death of Professor Nicolò D’Amico, President of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF). Professor D’Amico has left behind a profound legacy in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics. It was his interest in high-energy astrophysics that led to his strong support of the Italian participation in CTA, pushing to establish the future headquarters of the CTA Observatory ERIC at the new INAF building in Bologna. We are grateful for his contributions and will miss his support and leadership. Our sincerest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.
+
+[Read the INAF dedication.](https://www.media.inaf.it/2020/09/16/ricordo-nichi/?fbclid=IwAR1DJyvSpdkTk3L7VT58JbrdXZV3stOqZXjfWnJShVt-PMndHMqxyx7oIPg)
diff --git a/src/content/news/memory-prof-ronald-shellard.md b/src/content/news/memory-prof-ronald-shellard.md
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+---
+title: "In Memory of Prof. Ronald Cintra Shellard (1948 – 2021)"
+description: "It is with deep sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our dear colleague Prof. Ronald Cintra Shellard on 7 Dec 2021. Prof. Shellard was a member of the CTAC, where he participated since the early stages of the project, strongly…"
+date: 2021-12-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/foto_ronaldshellard-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+It is with deep sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our dear colleague Prof. Ronald Cintra Shellard on 7 Dec 2021. Prof. Shellard was a pioneering and leader in Very High-Energy Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics in Brazil. He was strongly involved in many projects for the exploration of cosmic and gamma rays, including the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Southern Wield-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO). Since 2015, Prof. Shellard was Director of the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF, in Portuguese), where he worked as a researcher for almost 30 years. Among his duties, he was also member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Astroparticle Physics Forum (APIF) and the Board of Directors of the Latin American Centre for Physics (CLAF).
+
+Prof. Shellard was a member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, where he participated since the early stages of the project, strongly promoting the Brazilian engagement in CTA. He served as member of the CTA Resource Board, participating in the CTAO site negotiations, and as Country Representative for Brazil in the CTA Outreach Committee.
+
+Prof. Shellard will be remembered by his friends and colleagues for his natural leadership and tireless dedication to the Brazilian scientific development. We will miss his positivity, support and constructive character. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues in Brazil and all over the world.
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+---
+title: "Update from the Managing Director: Closing the Book on 2020 & Moving Toward Construction"
+description: "The famous song “Money, Money makes the world go round…” from the film Cabaret has been playing through my head as we near the end of 2020…"
+date: 2020-12-22
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/017503426ad1/cta-newsletter-december2020-spanish) Originally published in the [December 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/7ad7b9e94efa/cta-newsletter-may2021-english).
+
+*By: Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director*
+
+The famous song “Money, Money makes the world go round…” from the film Cabaret has been playing through my head as we near the end of 2020. It may sound a bit indecent to talk of money in the context of our ambitious, grand and splendid scientific project, but I hope you will agree that it is only honourable and honest to raise this theme, with the objective to ensure the necessary funding to sustain the construction of the Observatory.
+
+And as our (multiple) governing bodies are now faced with what we can feasibly realise from our grand scheme with the available funding, it has not come as a negative signal, but vice versa, as a strong incentive! With the cost book in place and the ERIC on the horizon, we have come to the point where our shareholders are faced with the urgency of committing funds for construction, signaling that the project is mature and that the conditions for its realisation are, finally, well assessed.
+
+For now, this means we will not get everything we want – the full baseline design of 118 telescopes – but that we will take a phased approach with up to nine telescopes on the northern array and around 65 telescopes in the south. We are working hard with our Project Scientist and the CTA Consortium (CTAC) to ensure that the configurations we build now will have the greatest potential for achieving CTA’s scientific goals. Even with these initial arrays, CTA will be larger and more advanced than anything we have now, but, rest assured, we will not be deterred from continuing to seek funding for the full baseline array.
+
+Fortunately, the CTAO staff, CTAC Board Chair and Spokespersons and the telescope management teams are working diligently, together, to support this effort. Naturally, this stage involves everyone related to the CTA project and, after more than a decade of brilliant work by hundreds of scientists and engineers, we will begin our transformation from a population of independent tribes into a compact and well-structured army, moving from guerrilla warfare to military campaign!
+
+Forza e Coraggio.
diff --git a/src/content/news/message-from-md-from-a-united-effort-brings-construction-within-reach.md b/src/content/news/message-from-md-from-a-united-effort-brings-construction-within-reach.md
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+---
+title: "From Footrace to Convergence: A United Effort Brings Construction Within Reach"
+description: "I am happy to report that the year 2021 started quite positively for the CTA Observatory (CTAO). In spite of the pandemic accompanying us and showing no clear signs of when it will leave, progress for the CTAO has been tangible on various…"
+date: 2021-05-07
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/0c4d832c5ccd/cta-newsletter-august2020-spanish)
+
+Originally published in the [December 2021 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/7ad7b9e94efa/cta-newsletter-may2021-english).
+
+*By: Federico Ferrini, CTAO Managing Director*
+
+I am happy to report that the year 2021 started quite positively for the CTA Observatory (CTAO). In spite of the pandemic accompanying us and showing no clear signs of when it will leave, progress for the CTAO has been tangible on various fronts. From the political side, the advancement of funds that will allow us to launch the South site infrastructural work is a strong, positive message from our shareholder countries that so generously took this initiative. From the technical side, civil engineering studies are preparing for the realization of the sites’ infrastructure, while ongoing or concluded reviews are paving the road toward the mass construction of telescopes and cameras. From the managerial point of view, key new recruits are reinforcing the CTAO team.
+
+As for the ERIC, the process that shall lead to the final application of CTAO’s legal entity to the European Commission, which started in the spring of 2018, is advancing through the numerous complex issues that should be fixed before the final step. We are moving closer to finalizing the preparation of policies and regulations that will conclude the transition from the present legal entity to the new one.
+
+Even though we are progressing at a steady pace, the frequent challenges and bumps in the road bring out the philosopher in me. I am passionate about philosophy and like to refer to its wisdom often, especially the teachings of the early Greek philosophers. Among them, I find Parmenides and his school particularly interesting, including its most important representative: Zeno of Elea, who was well-known for the paradoxes he conceived to support monism, the Parmenides’ approach to interpret the physical world.
+
+The most famous and interesting is the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise, who contrived to have a footrace. Achilles, sure to be much quicker, gave the tortoise a hundred-metre head start. In the time that it took Achilles to travel the hundred metres, the tortoise moved ten, so that when Achilles got there, he found the tortoise still had a lead. No matter how many times Achilles advanced to the tortoise’s last position, the tortoise had moved forward a bit more by the time he got there. Zeno’s conclusion was that the slowest runner in the race, the tortoise, will never be overtaken by the fastest runner, Achilles.
+
+Fortunately, Carl Friedrich Gauss developed a mathematical theory for the problem (the series converges, luckily!) and demonstrated the inconsistency of Zeno’s conclusion. I do not need to say now who, in our own scenario, is the tortoise and who is Achilles, but it is reassuring that the convergence of the groups and the process involved in our new legal structure is on the horizon so that we can, finally, put the full force of the CTAO and its resources behind building this spectacular observatory!
diff --git a/src/content/news/microquasars-the-elusive-gamma-ray-emitters.md b/src/content/news/microquasars-the-elusive-gamma-ray-emitters.md
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+---
+title: "Microquasars: The “Elusive” Gamma-Ray Emitters"
+description: "Understanding the origin of cosmic rays using direct measurements is an impossible task due to the presence of interstellar magnetic fields that deviate the path of these charged particles before they reach Earth. Neutral messengers…"
+date: 2021-01-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/MQ-768x432.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/017503426ad1/cta-newsletter-december2020-spanish)
+
+Originally published in the [December 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/892f3f0c743d/cta-newsletter-december2020-english)
+
+*Written by: Giovanni Piano
+*Microquasars are Galactic binary systems composed of a star and a compact object (a black hole or a neutron star) that eats up matter from its companion, usually via an accretion disk, giving rise to relativistic jets, i.e. beams of particles moving almost at the speed of light. These jets, which can be either intermittent or persistent structures depending on the specific state of the system, emanate from the vicinity of the compact object and can expand light years away from the binary system.
+
+The word “microquasar” was used for the first time in 1992 to describe the Galactic binary system 1E1740.7–2942, characterized by radio-emitting double-sided jets [1]. The jets resembled the relativistic collimated outflows launched by quasars (active galaxies with supermassive black holes at the centre that devour its surrounding material), although, in the latter case, the powerful jets reach distances of up to millions of light years. Thus, we can say that microquasars, as their name suggests, are the little siblings of the quasars, sharing multiple similarities. One of the advantages of studying microquasars is that, given their smaller size, processes inside the system and jets happen on a shorter timescale, allowing scientists to analyze rapid variabilities in their emission.
+
+Microquasars’ outflows are efficient sites of extreme particle acceleration and are responsible for transient and persistent non-thermal radiation, spanning from radio to gamma-ray energies. Nevertheless, the emission at GeV and TeV energies from microquasars has only been sporadically observed up to this point, making these systems a class of non-thermal emitters that is actually “elusive” in the gamma-ray energy range. With its improved sensitivity compared to the current gamma-ray instruments, CTA will be fundamental to the study of these systems and the physical processes inside the jets. In particular, two microquasars, SS 433 and Cygnus X-1, have been drawing attention over the past few years.
+
+Prolonged observations of SS 433 with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory were able to resolve two lobes at energies of ~20 TeV related the terminal parts of its jets, where the relativistic outflows interact with the surrounding environment [2]. According to the authors, to produce such a TeV signal, the system needs to accelerate particles up to PeV energies along the jets and, therefore, SS 433 might be a so-called Galactic PeVatron. Furthermore, a recent study with the *Fermi*-LAT has reported sub-TeV persistent emission from a site lying in the proximity of the eastern lobe [3]. Still some mysteries remain: What is the maximum energy to which the particles are accelerated in the jets? Does gamma-ray emission occur near or inside the binary system? What are the exact acceleration sites and mechanisms? CTA’s excellent angular resolution will play a key role in answering these questions.
+
+In the Cygnus region, three microquasars have been observed above 50 MeV: Cygnus X-1, Cygnus X-3 and V404 Cygni (see e.g. [4,5]). The case of Cygnus X-1 is intriguing. At GeV energies, short-time transient emission [6] and persistent emission coming from the jets [7] have been detected, while at TeV energies, only a hint during a short hard X-ray flare has been reported by MAGIC [8]. Therefore, even though theoretically predicted, a clear TeV component has not yet been detected. According to recent simulations, the CTA-North array, located in La Palma (Spain), would detect a short transient event, similar to the hint reported by MAGIC, in just a few minutes, and would be able to characterize the TeV persistent emission from the jet with a set of prolonged observations (see Figure 1).
+
+![](/uploads/Fig1_v3_b-1600x1099.png)
+
+With CTA, we expect to unveil the timing of a possible TeV flare in a multi-wavelength context, the maximum limit of acceleration along the jets, the nature of the emission mechanisms (leptonic/hadronic) responsible for the very high-energy gamma-ray radiation and more.  Particularly, CTA’s unprecedented sensitivity between 20 GeV to 300 TeV will allow us to delve into these sources like never before: at the lowest energies, we will be able to comprehend the physics mechanisms between the GeV and TeV gamma-ray component (e.g., in Cygnus X-1) and, at the highest energies, we will be able to open a new window at the high end of the electromagnetic spectrum to study the jet-medium interaction (e.g., in SS 433). Thanks to CTA’s improved angular resolution, lower energy threshold and fast telescope repositioning to respond to external triggers for transient events, a better understanding of the physics of extreme particle acceleration in microquasars will finally be well within our grasp.
+—
+[1] Mirabel, I. F. et al., Nature 358, 215 (1992)
+[2] Abeysekara, A. U. et al. (HAWC Collaboration), Nature 562, 82 (2018)
+[3] Li, Jian et al., [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1164-6](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1164-6), Nat Astron (2020)
+[4] Tavani, M. et al., Nature 462, 620 (2009)
+[5] Piano, G. et al., ApJ 839, id. 84 (2017)
+[6] Sabatini, S. et al., ApJL 712, L10 (2010)
+[7] Zanin, R. et al., A&A 596, id. A55 (2016)
+[8] Albert, J. et al., ApJ 665, L51 (2007)
+[9] Zdziarski, A. A. et al., MNRAS 471, 3657 (2017)
+[10] Ahnen, M. L. et al., MNRAS 472, 3474 (2017)
diff --git a/src/content/news/mst-prototype-records-first-light.md b/src/content/news/mst-prototype-records-first-light.md
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+---
+title: "Medium-Sized Telescope Prototype Records First Cherenkov Light with the FlashCam Camera"
+description: "On Thursday, 31 August, 2017, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the SST-1M, recorded its first events while undergoing testing at the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ-PAN)…"
+date: 2017-10-27
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/170920_FlashCam_Adlershof_Foehr_1702_3_4_Web-768x576.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+In September 2018, the [Medium-Sized Telescope](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/mst/) structure (MST-STR) and FlashCam teams started a joint test campaign in Berlin-Adlershof that resulted in the capture of the MST prototype’s first Cherenkov light. The integration of the camera with the telescope structure took place on 18 September. Thanks to advanced planning, the teams quickly completed the next steps of installing and testing the camera. Just 36 hours after the arrival of the camera from Heidelberg, it was ready for observation and data collection.
+
+The next night, the MST directed its powerful eye towards the sky and successfully recorded its first Cherenkov light from air showers. The test campaign proceeded, verifying the interfaces and integration procedure of the telescope and camera, mirror alignment procedures, and the routine and remote operation of the telescope and camera. In addition, an unexpected visit of the massive storm Xavier to the region helped to confirm the telescope’s and camera’s durability in extreme environmental conditions.
+
+“Everything performed as expected and the system integration went even smoother than anticipated, due to the very professional preparation of the technical teams from MST-STR and FlashCam – we couldn’t be happier,” said German Hermann (MPIK), project leader of FlashCam. “A big thank you to both the FlashCam and MST-STR teams for the very efficient cooperation,” added Markus Garczarczyk (DESY), project leader of MST-STR.
+
+After six successful weeks, the camera was unmounted and returned to Heidelberg for further lab testing, while the MST structure will be operated and tested for another year in Berlin to verify its performance in preparation for the pre-production readiness review.
+
+The MSTs are planned for both the northern and southern hemisphere arrays (25 in the south and 15 in the north) to cover the middle of CTA’s energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV). An international collaboration of institutes and universities from Brazil (Universidade de Sao Paulo) and Germany (DESY, Humboldt University, University of Erlangen, University of Tübingen), are involved in designing and building the MST structure, and institutes from France (CEA Saclay), Italy (INAF) and Poland (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej Polskiej Akademi Nauk) will provide the mirrors. The universities of Zurich, Erlangen, Tübingen and Innsbruck and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg are executing the FlashCam project.
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+---
+title: "The MST Structure Successfully Undergoes its Critical Design and Manufacturing Review"
+description: "From 8-10 November 2022, a panel of CTAO and external experts conducted the Critical Design and Manufacturing Review (CDMR) of the Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) structure in Berlin (Germany). The panel were impressed by the dedication and…"
+date: 2022-11-11
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FeaturedImage_MST_CDMR_1200x628px-01-1600x837.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+From 8-10 November 2022, a panel of CTAO and external experts conducted the Critical Design and Manufacturing Review (CDMR) of the Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) structure in Berlin (Germany). After the evaluation, the panel concluded that the MST structure has successfully undergone the review and that the CDMR will be considered officially passed after completing a few high-priority action items. This technical gate review ensures that the design of the MST meets the CTAO specifications and requirements.
+
+The CDMR, jointly organized by the CTAO Project Office and the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) group, began in May 2022 with the preparation of the review documentation by the MST team that was submitted to the panel in July/August. The submission included an extensive data package covering 29 topical areas, as defined in the review plan published beforehand. A panel of independent external experts and members of the CTAO revised the documentation and participated in the face-to-face meeting this week in Berlin, led by Stefano Stanghellini, CTAO Telescope Coordinator, and Nick Whyborn, CTAO Lead Systems Engineer. Among the experts were those with expertise in science and scientific performance, mechanical engineering and structural analysis, systems engineering, control systems, software, RAM, quality assurance, safety, electrical systems EMC, and civil engineering and management.
+
+The panel were impressed by the dedication and work of the MST team, and did not find any obstacles that would prevent the MST structure for passing the review. As agreed with the MST team, a few high-priority action items will be addressed, after which the CDMR will be considered officially passed.
+
+The MST will be the CTAO’s “workhorse,” optimized to detect the CTAO’s core energy range, from about 150 GeV to 5 TeV. The approved Alpha Configuration for the CTAO includes 23 MSTs – 14 in the southern hemisphere and 9 in the northern hemisphere. Read more about the MST in [the dedicated webpage](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/mst/).
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+---
+title: "CTA in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics"
+description: "After years of preparation, a fundamentally new domain of astronomy and astrophysics has shown its first results: multi-messenger astrophysics. Throughout the past decade, several new astrophysical messengers have provided us with new…"
+date: 2018-01-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Fabian1_cropped-768x378.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+After years of preparation, a fundamentally new domain of astronomy and astrophysics has shown its first results: multi-messenger astrophysics. Throughout the past decade, several new astrophysical messengers have provided us with new insights into the most violent phenomena in the Universe: starting with high-energy gamma rays, the detection of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos and the first direct detection of gravitational waves. Building on these significant breakthroughs, many high-energy astrophysics observatories and groups started to work towards a dream that is now coming true: multi-messenger astrophysics, which, via the exchange and combination of data from very different observatories and messengers, opens new windows and provides unprecedented insights into the most violent phenomena ever observed.
+
+The most striking example illustrating the viability of this approach is the detection of electromagnetic signals complementing gravitational waves from the merger of a binary neutron star system. This event, named GW170817, is probably the best-covered astrophysical phenomenon in recent history. Thanks to the huge effort by observatories around the world, it provides for the first time an observational link between binary mergers, short gamma-ray bursts and optical emissions known as kilonovae, and resolves the origin of heavy elements in the Universe [1]. As a hint for the expected CTA performance, H.E.S.S. was the first ground-based instrument to observe the region covering the source region, including the kilonova named SSS17a/AT2017gfo. No high-energy gamma-ray emission could be detected during an extensive observation campaign covering timescales from a few hours to several days after the gravitational wave event [2].
+
+The image below illustrates the simulated response of CTA follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event GW170817. Thanks to the large field-of-view of CTA, only two individual pointings would be necessary to cover most of the localization region provided by the LIGO and VIRGO gravitational wave interferometers (coloured region). Combined with its high sensitivity, CTA will therefore be able to efficiently search for associated high-energy gamma-ray emission.
+
+![](/uploads/Fabian2.png)
+
+*Credit: F. Schüssler, IRFU/CEA Paris-Saclay*
+
+This very recent example just scratches the surface of the enormous potential of these searches. It is all made possible through the rapid exchange of information across very different instruments and the subsequent joint data analyses. These collaborations build on a long history in astronomy of telescopes at far corners of the Earth jointly monitoring variable objects as the globe rotates. The real-time exchange of information in the study of gamma-ray bursts was introduced in the late 1990s. It is this culture of open data and fast information exchange that will ensure the success of multi-messenger astrophysics.
+
+CTA, with its large field-of-view, extremely fast reaction to alerts and very-high sensitivity, is well suited to lead this revolution. The follow-up observations of gravitational wave events have been assigned the highest priority in CTA’s key science project on transient phenomena. Based on the significant experiences gained with H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS, preparations for these technically challenging observations are well underway.
+
+[1] B.P. Abbott, et al., Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger, Astrophys. J. Letters 848 (2017) L12.
+[2] H. Abdalla et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration), TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with H.E.S.S., Astrophys. J. Letters 850 (2017) L22.
diff --git a/src/content/news/nadia-defrancesco-promoted-to-director-of-administration-of-the-ctao-central-organisation.md b/src/content/news/nadia-defrancesco-promoted-to-director-of-administration-of-the-ctao-central-organisation.md
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+---
+title: "Nadia Defrancesco Promoted to Director of Administration of the CTAO Central Organisation"
+description: "On 15 October, Nadia Defrancesco was named the new Director of Administration for the CTAO Central Organisation, which is responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of the Observatory and managing its construction and…"
+date: 2024-10-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Defrancesco_Nadia_article-1600x1147.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 15 October, Nadia Defrancesco was named the new Director of Administration for the [CTAO Central Organisation](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/), which is responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of the Observatory and managing its construction and operation. In this position, she will be responsible for a broad range of administrative activities such as Human Resources, IT, Finance and Procurement. She will also have a key role in establishing the Central Organisation’s administrative and organisational framework when it transitions to its final legal entity.
+
+Nadia joined the CTAO in 2019 as the Head of Finance, where she demonstrated her aptitude for the management of the finance team and the Observatory’s complex budgeting needs in a challenging international environment. When the Director of Administration position opened in early 2024, she served as the interim Director where she proved her aptitude, leadership and skill in that role. The Observatory Director, therefore, enthusiastically welcomed her into senior management on a permanent basis much to the delight of her colleagues.
+
+Nadia comes from the private sector, having worked first as a CPA and then for many years in a German Financial Institution based in Bologna, where she was responsible for the finance, compliance and legal efforts of the company. Her years of experience and extensive knowledge of the CTAO make Nadia an essential and valued leader of the Central Organisation as it moves into the next exciting phase of its development in the coming years!
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+---
+title: "November 2021 CTA Consortium Meeting Wrap-up"
+description: "For its biannual meeting the CTA Consortium gathered virtually for the fourth time in a row between November 22 and December 2. This is a summary of the major news from the meeting, which includes the election of Vitor de Souza as the new…"
+date: 2021-12-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/ctac-1600x1006.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Werner Hofmann, CTAC Spokesperson*
+
+Almost 400 members of the CTA Consortium met between November 22 and December 2, for the fourth time in a row in an online format. The first week was dedicated to parallel sessions, which covered central calibration facilities, discussions of the Analysis and Simulations Working Group (ASWG) and of the Science Working Groups (SWG), as well as sessions dedicated to the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope and outreach.
+
+Highlights from the parallel sessions were reported the second week during the plenary sessions, where the SWG highlighted progress in the Consortium papers on PeVatrons, Galaxy Clusters and Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB), with solid estimates of GRB detection rates becoming available.
+
+A central topic covered during the CTAO plenary session was the layouts of the Alpha Configuration. Owing to the collaboration between the Project Scientist, ASWG and SWG, the appropriate instrument response functions were derived and used for science benchmarks to compare different configurations. The Project Scientist also reported on the formation of a CTAO simulation team and its specific objectives. Additional updates from the CTAO Managing Director and Project Manager are included throughout this newsletter.
+
+In the ASWG plenary, impressive progress was reported both on the analysis of the LST-1 data, where 500 h of data were logged so far, and on the development of analysis pipelines. The Gammapy team reported consolidation of the interface, aiming for a V1.0 release in the near future. The plenary meeting concluded with reports from the telescope teams, with steady progress in all groups, but hardware and commissioning efforts somewhat impacted by Covid restrictions and, in case of the LST-1, by the dramatic volcano eruption on La Palma.
+
+Meetings of the Collaboration Board (CB) took place on December 1 and 2. During these meetings, EPFL/Lausanne was admitted as new Consortium party, SAPO reported on the latest publications and news, and the future evolution of the Consortium as well as steps to organize and support early career scientists were discussed. The next CTAC meeting in Spring 2022 will hopefully return to a hybrid format.
+
+A key point of the agenda was the election of a new CB chair, with Jürgen Knödlseder stepping down of this position by the end of the year. The election of the new CB chair was carried out electronically, and on December 15 the result was announced: Vitor de Souza will serve as the new CB chair.
+
+We would like to use this opportunity to thank Jürgen Knödlseder for 9 years of service as CB chair. Elected in 2013, Jürgen chaired over 30 CB meetings, and guided discussions in the CB over a wide range of topics, including CTA science goals & performance requirements; site evaluation and selection; optimization of array layouts; staging scenarios; data rights and data policies; the evolution of the Consortium towards CTAO construction and operation; or the relation between CTAC and CTAO. Recurrent CB topics concerned the SWG and ASWG coordinator appointments, assembling list of candidates, asking and sometimes convincing the persons to stand for the election, and organizing the election as well as discussion of dates, locations and formats of Consortium meetings. During Jürgen’s term, the number of country members in the Consortium increased considerably, the SAPO mandate and organization were refined, along with the publication policy, as well as the SWG and ASWG and the rotation schemes for coordinators.
+
+In his role as CB Chair, Jürgen was extremely engaged, ensuring that the CB is properly informed and involved, that the votes and discussions are properly documented, and that well-defined procedures are established through governance documents. Jürgen has truly shaped the way how the CB works, and with that of course how the Consortium works. An important and lasting achievement is that Jürgen raised awareness regarding the environmental footprint of the Consortium, and the Carbon footprint in particular of in-person Consortium meetings; even beyond Covid, his arguments and concerns will have a strong impact on the way we organize meetings. CTAC owes great thanks to Jürgen for his many contributions.
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+---
+title: "October 2019 Consortium Meeting Wrap-up"
+description: "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…"
+date: 2019-12-19
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/48956180223_da00179fe9_w.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jürgen Knödlseder, Chair, CTA Consortium*
+
+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. The meeting was organised by our colleagues from the CTAO in Bologna and hosted by the CNR conference centre.
+
+Compared to former meetings, more emphasis was put on the parallel sessions where Consortium Working Groups could meet and Consortium members could directly interact with staff from the CTAO to together push the project ahead. The parallel sessions were followed by a plenary session and a meeting of the Consortium Board.
+
+Highlights from the meeting included the excellent progress by the Science Working Groups, with two more Consortium publications coming close to journal submission. The first one investigates the detectability of Galactic PeVatrons with CTA, while the second one studies the science prospects of a CTA survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. A big step forward was also taken in the identification of the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger needs for CTA science, and efforts of writing White Papers on synergies with the Athena X-ray satellite and the SKA radio observatory are underway. Also the Analysis and Simulations Working Group reported good progress, gearing up for the next large scale Monte Carlo simulation dubbed “Prod5” which will include a detailed model that is based on the measured performances of CTA prototype telescopes and cameras.
+
+The project has also reported important progress during the meeting. The most important message conveyed was the need for a reduction in the construction cost of about 20% to allow for the implementation of the CTA threshold array in the Phase 1 of the project. Good progress was also reported on the setting up of the CTA SST project, and with the organisation of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the LST, an important milestone was reached.
+
+An important milestone was also reached on Friday, when the Consortium Board met for the first time under the new Consortium Memorandum of Understanding. The Consortium Board adopted transition regulations that define the process of setting up the new Consortium without disturbing the activities of the current Consortium members. The transition period will be concluded by the admission of members to the new Consortium and the election of the chairs of the Consortium Board and the Consortium Spokespersons. In the meantime, the current Consortium Board chair and Spokespersons continue their activities.
+
+The Consortium Board also discussed measures to reduce the environmental footprint of the CTA Consortium and agreed to reduce the number of Consortium meetings, to promote and facilitate remote participation in meetings and to adopt low carbon-footprint measures. The first steps into this direction will be adopted for the next Consortium meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, which will take place the week of 18 – 22 May 2020.
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+---
+title: "October 2019 CTA Project Update"
+description: "The latest news from the project office…"
+date: 2019-10-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/lstcamera-768x432.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/00a6b9b4cd4e/cta-newsletter-october2019-spanish-1474929)
+
+Originally published in the [October 2019 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/12cb6698d185/cta-newsletter-october2019-english).
+
+*By: Wolfgang Wild, CTAO Project Manager*
+
+We continue to build up the Project Office, filling essential positions over the past few months and the next few months. This includes the CTA Project Scientist (Roberta Zanin started 1 June), the CTA-South Site Manager (Volker Heinz started 1 July), Documentation Specialist (Ulrike Hautmann, started 1 October), and Senior Data Management Specialist (Nektarios Benekos, starts 15 October).
+
+We are still in need of staff, including in the areas of quality assurance, configuration management, computing and infrastructure work, for the Science Data Management Centre and coordinators for telescopes and array common elements so keep an eye out for those positions and more on our website. We expect to advertise further positions after the budget approval by the CTA Observatory (CTAO) Council in November.
+
+Recognizing the current CTA construction cost estimate, as laid down in the updated Cost Book, and the most likely funding reality, the CTAO Project Office has initiated an evaluation of CTA configurations which seems affordable during Phase 1 of the CTA construction project (Phase 2 is foreseen to complete CTA construction while operating the Phase 1 configuration). This evaluation has been and is being done in close cooperation between the CTA Project Scientist and the CTA Consortium and will be discussed at the upcoming CTA Consortium Meeting in Bologna in October. The goal is to start constructing a scientifically convincing instrument as soon as possible, keeping the likely cost and funding in mind. Possible Phase 1 array configurations have also been discussed within Council at its extraordinary meeting on 11 September, where the Council reaffirmed the consensus on the threshold array scenario to begin CTA construction.
+
+On 16 and 17 July, the CTAO Project Office held the first CTAO-internal “CTA-North Operations Workshop” to collect information and begin discussing the CTA-North operations concept, focusing on the broad outlines of processes, functions, interactions, strategies and models related to operations on the North site. This meeting resulted in a collection of topics and issues, including decisions to be made, and will be followed by more in-depth meetings defining the CTA-North operations concept.
+
+### CTA-North Site Update
+
+The CTA-North Site Manager, Paolo Calisse, has been busy with setting up the CTAO office in La Palma. The office space has been rented and the refurbishment is being finalized with a local technical architect with the goal to realize a cost-effective solution. Moreover, preparations for the first stage of infrastructure design and construction of the CTA-North site are well under way ([see separate article](https://www.ctao.org/news/preparations-begin-for-cta-north-site-construction/)). An agreement between the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) team and the CTAO has been created to provide the framework for CTAO staff to support the LST-1 commissioning and to get better acquainted with the telescope. Paolo attended his first commissioning shift in August.
+
+### CTA-South Site Update
+
+On 1 July 2019, the CTA-South Site Manager Volker Heinz started his activities, while still transitioning from his previous assignment with ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The first step to prepare the site is to develop the overall layout of the site’s supporting facilities (buildings, power substation, warehouse, etc.) and the required infrastructure, as well as to conduct an analysis of the current telescope positions by marking them in the field and re-evaluating their construction feasibility. The first preparatory procurements (vehicle, generator set, refurbishment of office containers) have been performed or are in preparation. In addition, the power connection to the public electricity grid is being investigated to find the correct strategy and technical solution. It is CTAO’s intention to begin building the CTA-South access road, data and power connections to the array as soon as the funding becomes available.
+
+### Project Reviews
+
+In the next few months and until the end of 2019, the following project reviews will be held:
+
+Large-Sized Telescope Critical Design Review: 15-17 October, Munich
+
+Medium-Sized Telescope Structure Critical Design Review: 10-12 December, Zeuthen
+
+CTA-North Definition Review: 17-19 December, Bologna
+
+These reviews are organized by the Project Office Systems Engineering Group in collaboration with the relevant teams.
+
+### SST Harmonization Update
+
+The Small-Sized Telescope  (SST) harmonization process is still underway. [Read my separate article on this topic.](https://www.ctao.org/news/small-sized-telescope-harmonization-process-and-status/)
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+---
+title: "October 2020 Consortium Meeting Wrap-up"
+description: "For its biannual meeting the CTA Consortium gathered virtually from 22-23 October. This is a summary of the major news and proceedings from the meeting."
+date: 2020-11-12
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/50519923797_35393527b5_c-768x483.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jürgen Knödlseder, Chair, CTA Consortium*
+
+As the on-going Covid-19 pandemic prevents the organisation of in-person meetings, the CTA Consortium meeting was again organised as an online meeting. Similar to the last meeting, the event was organised over two weeks, from 12 to 23 October, with parallel sessions scheduled over the first week and until 19 October, plenary sessions scheduled from 20 to 22 October, and a meeting of the Consortium Board on 23 October. In total, 460 Consortium members registered for the online meeting.
+
+The meeting sessions were organised jointly between the CTA Consortium and the CTA Observatory for the benefit of CTA. Specifically, CTAO organised dedicated parallel sessions on Outreach, Science Tools software, the Science Data Challenge, and satellite constellations as well as plenary sessions on Project Science and Project Activities. The CTA Consortium focused in the parallel and plenary sessions on Consortium Working Groups activities.
+
+Consortium publications are still a major focus of the Science Working Groups. Two publications were submitted since the last Consortium meeting, one on the sensitivity of CTA for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation and a second on estimates of the CTA sensitivity to a dark matter signal from the Galactic Centre. Both papers are rigorous and comprehensive pieces of work, highlighting the enormous science potential of CTA. Many more Consortium publications are in the makings, some in a pretty advanced state.
+
+During the meeting, the creation of a joint CTAC-CTAO task force for the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger coordination was announced. Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger aspects are crucial for reaching the CTA science goals, and some of those will directly impact the design and the operations of the Observatory. This includes establishing contacts with the relevant science communities and networks, defining operations requirements and assuring the embedding of CTA in the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger environment.
+
+An increasingly tight collaboration has also been reported between the Analysis and Simulations Working Group, the CTAO computing department and the CTA Project Scientist. Topics that are addressed by this collaboration include for example the definition of the Instrument Response Functions or the provision of reference data sets and data from prototypes that are needed for software testing. Furthermore, the Analysis and Simulations Working Group also presented first results of the “Prod5” Monte Carlo simulations during the meeting.
+
+Federico Ferrini, the CTAO Managing Director, reported during the meeting on the current challenge of matching the construction needs of CTA with the available resources. Finding a match is at the focus on the current CTAO activities, and a close collaboration between CTAO and CTAC will be more important than ever to respond to this challenge.
+
+While the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down the CTA project, important progress was nevertheless reported during the meeting. The LST-1 Critical Design Review and the ACADA Preliminary Design Review were declared as “PASSED”, the SST Engineering Review was organised and held, and the NectarCAM Critical Design Review is under preparation. In addition, the Hosting Agreement for the SDMC in Zeuthen was signed, and a cooperation agreement with CERN that will give access to CERN resources and services is under preparation. Preparation of the array sites in the North and the South is continuing, including the conceptual design of the Operations building and a site survey in the North, and the construction planning in the South.
+
+The telescope teams have also reported good progress. The LST-1 commissioning proceeds well despite the Covid-19 pandemic, with as recent highlights the detection of pulsations from the Crab pulsar and the detection of the blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501. The MST and SST Consortia are getting organised, formalising multi-lateral agreements between the contributing institutes that will deliver complete telescopes and camera systems to CTA.
+
+During its meeting, the Consortium Board discussed a variety of topics, including the Rules of Procedure of the Membership Committee, the support of the Schwarschild Couder Telescope (SCT) project and the signature of a Diversity Charter. Furthermore, the Consortium Board also approved the nomination of Soebur Razzaque as new Co-Chair of the Speaker’s and Publication Office (SAPO) and of four new SAPO members, starting all their mandates on 1 January 2021. Due to the uncertain situation related to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Consortium Board also decided to organise the next Consortium meeting in the 1st semester of 2021 as an online meeting.
diff --git a/src/content/news/paranal-la-palma-sites-chosen-final-negotiations-host-worlds-largest-array-gamma-ray-telescopes.md b/src/content/news/paranal-la-palma-sites-chosen-final-negotiations-host-worlds-largest-array-gamma-ray-telescopes.md
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+---
+title: "Paranal and La Palma Sites Chosen for Final Negotiations to Host World’s Largest Array of Gamma-Ray Telescopes"
+description: "On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre…"
+date: 2015-07-16
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CDRSiteMap3_cropped-1600x1070.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 15 and 16 July 2015, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Resource Board decided to enter into detailed contract negotiations for hosting CTA on the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal grounds in Chile and at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Spain.
+
+The Board, composed of representatives of ministries and funding agencies from Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Namibia, the Netherlands, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, decided after months of negotiations and careful consideration of extensive studies of the environmental conditions, simulations of the science performance and assessments of construction and operation costs to start contract negotiations with ESO and Spain. The Namibian and Mexican sites will be kept as viable alternatives.
+
+“All sites considered in this final round were of high quality, and the enthusiasm and strong support of CTA by the site proponents made this a very difficult decision for the Resource Board,” said CTA Spokesperson Werner Hofmann. “This decision is an important step towards realization of CTA,” said Chair of the CTA Resource Board Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph. Vice-Chair Giampaolo Vettolani added, “We hope our supporters and scientists from Namibia and Mexico will continue to contribute scientifically and technically to CTA, driven by the common interest to build the best possible instrument for the entire community.”
+
+In order to optimize the coverage of the night sky, the CTA Observatory will consist of about 100 telescopes on the [southern site](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/) and about 20 telescopes on the [northern site](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/).
+
+“This is a significant step towards realizing CTA as the most advanced instrument on the planet for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy and towards making CTA’s full power available to the science community early in the next decade,” said CTA Co-Spokesperson Rene Ong.
+
+The southern site is less than 10 km southeast of ESO’s existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert, which is considered one of the driest and most isolated regions on earth – an astronomical paradise. In addition to the ideal conditions for year-round observation, collaboration with ESO offers CTA the opportunity to take advantage of existing infrastructure (roads, accommodation, water, electricity, etc.) and access to established facilities and processes for the construction and operation of the observatory.
+
+The northern site is located on the existing site of the Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma, the fifth largest island in the Canary Islands. At 2,200 m altitude and nestled on a plateau below the rim of an extinct volcanic crater, the site currently hosts the two Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC) telescopes. This location offers an ideal atmosphere that is mostly free and clear of pollution and turbulence for year-round observation.
+
+Currently in its pre-construction phase, determining the array sites is a critical factor in the CTA construction project. “The selection of array sites is crucial to the progress of CTA and has many implications for the project plans and designs,” said CTA Project Manager Christopher Townsley.
+
+This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 676134.
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+---
+title: "PeVatrons: The Hunt for the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays with CTA"
+description: "Understanding the origin of cosmic rays using direct measurements is an impossible task due to the presence of interstellar magnetic fields that deviate the path of these charged particles before they reach Earth. Neutral messengers…"
+date: 2020-08-18
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/ScienceArticle_WH_RO_AFB.docx-1600x1331.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/0c4d832c5ccd/cta-newsletter-august2020-spanish)
+
+Originally published in the [March 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/ff946ec16843/cta-newsletter-august2020-english).
+
+*Written by: Heide Costantini and Ekrem Oğuzhan Angüner 
+*
+
+Cosmic rays are charged particles, mainly protons and helium nuclei, that arrive isotropically (i.e. exhibiting the same behaviour in all directions) from space and continuously bombard Earth’s atmosphere. They were discovered by Victor Hess in 1912, when he measured an increasing radiation level in the atmosphere with altitude, using his balloon to reach a height of 5.3 km. He rightly postulated the extraterrestrial origin of cosmic rays and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery.
+
+Decades of measurements helped to construct the energy spectrum of cosmic rays observed from Earth. It is one of the most famous plots of modern physics, exhibiting a remarkable power law in energy over several orders of magnitude (see inset in Figure 1). This power law has a break in energy at a few Peta-electronvolts (PeV,
+
+1015 eV), which is referred to as the *knee*. Below the *knee*, cosmic rays are believed to be of Galactic origin, but the sources where they are produced are still unknown. Sources capable of accelerating particles up to at least PeV energies are called PeVatrons, and astronomers are actively on the hunt for these extreme accelerators within our Galaxy.
+
+Several strong arguments suggest that the fast shock wave in the remnants of exploding stars (Supernova Remnants; SNRs), could be the acceleration site of cosmic rays and thus, the PeVatrons, too. Thus far, an emission detected by HAWC associated to SNR G106.3+2.7 suggests cosmic-ray proton acceleration up to PeV, but other scenarios related to electron acceleration cannot be ruled out [1]. Therefore, SNRs have not been established as a Galactic PeVatron yet, leaving this hypothesis still open.
+
+![](/uploads/ScienceArticle_WH_RO_AFB.docx-1024x852-1.png)
+
+*Figure 1: The origin of cosmic rays is explored with neutral messengers, such as gamma rays. The inset shows the cosmic-ray energy spectrum observed from Earth with the main spectral features. Credit: HAP/A. Chantelauze*
+
+Understanding the origin of cosmic rays using direct measurements is an impossible task due to the presence of interstellar magnetic fields that deviate the path of these charged particles before they reach Earth. Neutral messengers generated by cosmic-ray interactions, such as gamma rays and neutrinos, are used to determine the origin of cosmic rays (Figure 1).
+
+The gamma-ray energy is approximately a factor 10 lower than the parent cosmic-ray energy [2]. Thus, we can probe PeVatrons by searching for gamma-ray emission at energies up to 100 TeV and above. Current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have limited sensitivity above a few tens of TeV, which hampers measurements of the most interesting energy range for PeVatron investigation. Besides the putative SNR G106.3+2.7, so far, the discovery of only one PeVatron in our Galaxy has been reported by the H.E.S.S. Collaboration, located within the Galactic Center region, possibly connected to past active phases of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* [3]. This source is not powerful enough to explain the total amount of cosmic rays arriving on Earth; however, its detection has opened up new possibilities for the acceleration of PeV cosmic rays in our Galaxy, indicating that other types of astrophysical sources besides SNRs can be Galactic PeVatrons.
+
+CTA, the next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, will include up to 70 [Small-Sized Telescopes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/) (SST) in its [southern array](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/) (CTA-South), located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SSTs will be responsible for the high end of the observatory’s sensitivity between ~5 and 300 TeV. The large detection area of the SSTs improves by several orders of magnitude the gamma-ray sensitivity at TeV energies with respect to current IACTs and opens a new window to the unexplored Universe up to 300 TeV, boosting the probability of detecting PeVatrons.
+
+![](/uploads/SNR.png)
+
+*Figure 2: Simulated images of the bright SNR RX J1713.7-3946, one of the main targets of CTA to study cosmic-ray acceleration, which illustrate different gamma-ray emission scenarios [6]. Credit: CTA Consortium*
+
+As part of its core scientific objectives, CTA will perform PeVatron searches using two strategies. The first is to observe known potential PeVatron candidates, provided by current IACTs and water Cherenkov detectors like HAWC [4,5], showing emission above a few tens of TeV together with no significant suppression in their gamma-ray spectrum. An ideal target is the SNR RX J1713.7-3946, due to its high brightness and many existing multiwavelength studies, whose CTA simulated emission under different theoretical scenarios is shown in Figure 2. The second strategy is to perform deep follow-up observations of new PeVatron candidates discovered during CTA’s Galactic Plane survey, which will provide an unprecedented dataset of new sources owing to the improved CTA sensitivity and angular resolution.
+
+CTA will therefore be a unique instrument for PeVatron hunting, capable of detecting with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy TeV gamma rays produced by PeV cosmic rays, which will significantly increase our chance to solve an almost 110-year-old mystery:  Where do Galactic cosmic rays originate?
+
+References:
+
+[1] Albert, A. et al. (HAWC Collaboration) ApJL 896, L29 (2020)
+
+[2] Kelner, S. R., Aharonian, F. A., Bugayov, V. V., 2006, Phys. Rev. D, 74, 034018 (2006)
+
+[3] Abramowski et al. (H.E.S.S. collaboration), Nature 531, 476-479 (2016)
+
+[4] Abdalla, H. et al. (H.E.S.S. collaboration), A&A 612, A1 (2018)
+
+[5] Abeysekara, A. U. et al. (HAWC Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 021102 (2020)
+
+[6] Acero, F. et al. (The CTA Consortium), ApJ 840, 2, 74 (2017)
diff --git a/src/content/news/pre-registration-opens-for-ctas-first-science-symposium.md b/src/content/news/pre-registration-opens-for-ctas-first-science-symposium.md
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+---
+title: "Pre-Registration Opens for CTA’s First Science Symposium"
+description: "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!"
+date: 2018-08-14
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/SM_Ad_small_cropped-768x328.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) announced the dates and location for its first science symposium. The symposium, which will be held 6-9 May 2019 at Teatro Duse in Bologna, Italy,  will focus on the novel investigations CTA will bring to the field and its synergies with other wavebands and messengers. It will also cover instrument characteristics, analysis tools and opportunities for guest investigators and how coordinated observations with CTA will have a significant impact on the exciting new era of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics.
+
+If you are interested in attending, you can pre-register now to receive updates. Pre-registration does not entail registration and payment for the conference. Regular registration will open on 1 December 2018. The conference fee is expected to be around €300 and will include lunches, coffee breaks and the conference dinner.
+
+To learn more and to pre-register, go to the [www.cta-symposium.com](http://www.cta-symposium.com).
diff --git a/src/content/news/preparations-begin-for-cta-north-site-construction.md b/src/content/news/preparations-begin-for-cta-north-site-construction.md
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+---
+title: "Final Preparations Begin for CTA-North Site Construction"
+description: "The latest news from the project office…"
+date: 2019-10-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/ORM_AkiraOkumura.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Originally published in the [October 2019 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/12cb6698d185/cta-newsletter-october2019-english).
+
+The first phase of the CTA-North site’s infrastructure design commenced in August 2019 as CTA site hosting partner the [Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias](http://www.iac.es/index.php?lang=en) (IAC) initiated a contract for the infrastructure design and planning of the remaining Large-Sized Telescope (LST) foundations (LST 2, LST 3 and LST 4) and one of the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MST), the MST 3, as well as the auxiliary instrumentation for the site (three weather stations and several atmospheric monitoring and calibration devices). This project also includes roads and fencing, as well as accesses, underground services and power networks, to complete the infrastructure for the central part of the array.
+
+The IAC has hired a group of experienced local firms – Onazol & F4 Ingenieros, H&T Ingenieros, Estudio AT3 and Innovasol Medioabiental – to prepare the studies and documentation necessary for the construction permits (a preliminary study, basic project study and environmental impact study) and the tender for construction (detailed design reviews). The CTA Observatory (CTAO) and the LST and MST teams are contributing the technical requirements and related guidance to the contractors. The work is scheduled to end by June 2020 when, if all goes as planned, the permitting process will be complete, and the construction tender process can be executed.
+
+The work is being funded by the IAC from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which is a fund allocated by the European Union for investments in the infrastructure and services of underdeveloped regions.
+
+The next phase will include preparations for the final detailed design of the operations building and the remaining MST foundations and infrastructure. The contract for this work will be awarded before the end of 2019.
diff --git a/src/content/news/prof-tavani-new-president-inaf.md b/src/content/news/prof-tavani-new-president-inaf.md
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+---
+title: "Prof. Tavani elected new President of INAF"
+description: "Professor Marco Tavani has been elected as the new President of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF). We would like to congratulate and wish all the best to Prof. Tavani in his new position!"
+date: 2020-10-12
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/tavani-1-768x494.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Professor Marco Tavani has been elected as the new President of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), shareholder institution of the CTA Observatory and host of the future CTAO headquarters in Bologna (Italy). Professor Tavani has actively dedicated his career to the fields of astronomy and high-energy astrophysics from both theoretical and observational point of view. We would like to congratulate and wish all the best to Prof. Tavani in his new position!
+
+[Read the INAF press release.](https://www.media.inaf.it/2020/10/12/marco-tavani-presidente-inaf/)
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+---
+title: "Q&A with ACADA Deputy Coordinator & Quality Manager, Bernhard López"
+description: "From ESO to Virgo, from ALMA the CTAO. It is clear that Bernhard has a wealth of experience in international research infrastructures, which he brings to the CTAO. We sat down with Bernhard López, the ACADA Deputy Coordinator & Quality…"
+date: 2022-08-05
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Lopez_Bernhard_Slider-1600x1399.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Originally published in the [July 2022 issue of the CTAO Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/98267c2aeaaf/ctao-newsletter-july2022-english#Bernhard). [Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTAO Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/32783ebdf78b/ctao-newsletter-july2022-spanish#Bernhard)
+
+Anyone who has ever worked with Bernhard knows that he is calm, yet passionate about his work. Not to mention, “Citizen of the world” is an expression that suits him perfectly: he has lived and worked in Germany, Chile, the U.S.A. and Italy. His extensive experience in different fields and for world-class observatories, makes Bernhard an excellent addition to the CTAO team. In this interview, Bernhard shares more about himself and his work…
+
+#### **Tell us about yourself and how you came into your present role.**
+
+I like to start by saying that I am an engineer. I highlight it because I am passionate about building things, tangible things that can move. Hence my passion for participating in the construction of observatories. In fact, I began to participate in the construction of observatories more than 25 years ago, when I was a student. Although I was born in Germany, at the age of 17 I went to study at a university in Chile, where I was able to participate in the characterization of the Gemini South site and work in a cosmic-ray laboratory in Antarctica. And this is when I fell in love with astronomical observatories.
+
+After a few years of working for ESO in Chile with optical instruments, I moved with my wife to Italy to not only participate in a new project, Virgo, but also to see another part of the world. Then, my next challenge led me to work with another type of technology: radio antennas for the ALMA Observatory. I spent time in the U.S. before returning to Chile, where I stayed for 14 years.
+
+Thus, I worked in projects under construction and even under commissioning, but I was missing being able to work on projects in the design and early planning phase in preparation for construction and operation. And that’s where the CTAO came in. The CTAO was clearly among the world-class projects that could give me a new challenge, and in which I felt I could help in the early definitions. In addition to this professional inquisitiveness, I also wanted to show my family another country, teach my children that we live in a diverse, international world. And so, I arrived at the CTAO’s Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) in Germany to work as ACADA Deputy Coordinator, as well as Quality Manager.
+
+#### **What does an ACADA Deputy Coordinator and Quality Manager do and why is it important to the future of CTAO?**
+
+As ACADA (Array Control And Data Acquisition system) Deputy Coordinator, my goal is to support and help the development of this key system. For me, CTAO is more of a software observatory than a hardware observatory, so there is a strong focus on developing all the fundamental software tools for the operation of the Observatory in a timely manner. And the truth is that I have been very lucky to join a really good team, very structured and where everything was clear, so it was quite simple to integrate.
+
+On the other hand, as a Quality Manager, my focus is the establishment of processes, initially focused on construction, so that we all work approximately in the same way or reconcile appropriately the different forms of development in a fair and transparent manner for all parties. The definition of such processes needs to also consider the operation phase: unlike isolated telescopes, observatories have periods of years of coexistence between construction and operation. Thus, telescopes are being added at the same time as early science is being done. For this reason, we already must think about how to make this coexistence possible. In short, make use of a work methodology that allows us to converge and optimize the development of the Observatory.
+
+#### **What are you working on now?**
+
+Regarding ACADA, our main goal now is launching “release 1,” a very important milestone. This first release of ACADA is limited to the Large-Sized Telescope prototype, the LST-1, so we can test the software and build solid foundations for future releases with which the array of telescopes will be operated. Part of my job is the coordination between the Computing groups of CTAO and LST-1 and efficiently planning the integration of this software in the common interfaces.
+
+As Quality Manager, I am working on updating the Observatory’s Operation Plan. An Operation Plan must include concepts of scientific observation (e.g., how observation proposals are managed) and technical operations (e.g., how we actually acquire the data). It also has to consider the specific characteristics of each array site (e.g., the differing geophysical and administrative conditions at the telescope sites as well as the responsibilities of the headquarters or the SDMC). All the processes and who participates in what way, on-site and off-site, must be described to be able to evaluate the necessary resources and technical requirements. And it really goes beyond just software or hardware. For example, operating a telescope is not running it, it’s maintaining it, it’s having a vehicle that allows you to access it, it’s having a place where the operators can have lunch! And of course, we must also consider what happens after the data is taken. That is, the experience of the scientific users who will analyze our data, as in the tools and support they will need. Each and every one of the little checkboxes of this process has its relevance for CTAO to work well, and I am happy to be able to contribute to this.
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+---
+title: "Q&A with Director of Administration, Stephan Haid"
+description: "From Germany to Ghana, from DESY to the CTAO, Stephan Haid has worked with scientists, technologists, and administrators worldwide in various fields to reach his current position as CTAO Director of Administration. How did he get to this…"
+date: 2023-01-16
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/website_SH_FeaturedImage-1-e1673870348882-768x353.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+For a research infrastructure to be able to make groundbreaking scientific discoveries, it is essential to build efficient, well-established organizational structures and processes, as well as a strong team capable of carrying them out. Stephan Haid is responsible for coordinating these tasks and overcoming the associated challenges within the CTAO’s Administration Department. We sat down with Stephan to ask him more about his current position and recent activities…
+
+#### **Tell us about yourself and how you came into your present role.**
+
+I have a background in business administration, and, after university, I spent a year doing development work in Ghana, supporting the growth of small-scale industries. I really enjoyed it, but I had the opportunity to start a “trainee programme” at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron) in Hamburg and decided to go back to Germany. For me, this represented the beginning of my relationship with the scientific world.
+
+At DESY, I started working in the project management of some administrative projects related to the implementation of IT systems and then, eventually, led a dedicated team to work on organizational development for the administration and IT systems. I also served as the administrative interface between DESY and [European XFEL](https://www.xfel.eu/index_eng.html), the world’s largest X-ray laser facility.
+
+At that time, I was involved in the administrative and financial support of DESY’s investments in international research collaborations, and, thanks to that, I was able to learn more about the CTAO. I found CTAO to be an extremely interesting project, not only from the scientific and technical perspective, but also from the organizational point of view – and I still find it super captivating!  To build up the organization with all its structures, processes, teams, IT systems, and in four locations (Spain, Chile, Italy and Germany), seemed challenging and fascinating. So, when the position of the CTAO Director of Administration was advertised, I applied. And, luckily, I got it.
+
+#### **What does a Director of Administration do do and why is it important to the future of CTAO?**
+
+As the CTAO Director of Administration, I am responsible for the Administration Department that supports key aspects for the basic development of the Observatory such as human resources, legal services, procurement, finances, among others. Fortunately, I have a team that is extremely capable and collaborative, and, together, we provide administrative services and organizational tasks to employees, as well as external partners.
+
+In the final steps of the current preparatory phase, a great challenge is to set up the administrative part of the organization, design the processes and implement the right systems, that will facilitate the construction and operation of the Observatory, once the final legal entity of the ERIC is in place.
+
+#### **What are you working on now?**
+
+As we approach the establishment of the CTAO ERIC, and besides the regular preparation for the upcoming meetings of our Governing Bodies, such as the Council or the AFC (Administrative & Finance Committee), I am currently very focused on supporting the Board of Governmental Representatives with the preparation of the proposal for the administration rules and policies that will apply to the ERIC.
+
+The transition we are undergoing as an organization has been very challenging for everyone, but I think our biggest achievement has been that we have built a strong, resilient team and, with that, an organization that is ready to start construction of a unique large-scale research infrastructure. We are entering an exciting and inspiring new phase: Regardless of whether you work in the Project Office, in the Director’s Office or in the Administration Department, we all are eager to see the CTAO and its infrastructure grow.
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+---
+title: "Q&A with Off-Site ICT Infrastructure Lead Nadine Neyroud"
+description: "Meet George Pruteanu, the CTA Observatory’s (CTAO) RAM (reliability, availability, maintainability) Engineer. We asked him a few questions to learn a bit about him and the work he is doing to ensure the long-term performance of CTA."
+date: 2021-05-21
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Nadine_QA-768x385.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/017503426ad1/cta-newsletter-december2020-spanish)
+
+Originally published in the [December 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/d0da7c1b23f0/cta-newsletter-may2021-spanish).
+
+In this issue, we asked the CTA Observatory (CTAO) Computing team’s Information and Computing Technology (ICT) Infrastructure lead, Nadine Neyroud, about the work she is doing to prepare the CTAO’s off-site data management and storage system.
+
+#### **Tell us about yourself and how you came into your present role?**
+
+I am in charge of CTAO’s off-site ICT infrastructure work package. I graduated as a computing engineer when computing science was in its infancy, and I have spent more than 15 years in the computing industry, with leading technical responsibilities in well-known American companies and an international managed storage services start-up. In 2002, I joined the Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP) laboratory in France as an Information and Technology (IT) manager to create the MUST data centre. MUST is combining a shared infrastructure for the local university scientists and is part of a European Grid Initiative (EGI) node of the CTA simulation processing network, as well as one of the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (WLCG) nodes to process data from the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva. I have been working in parallel with the CTA project on computing topics for more than eight years, with a specific focus on ICT infrastructure for the CTAO for the past four years.
+
+#### **What is the ICT Infrastructure and why is it important for the future users of CTAO data?**
+
+For the CTAO, the ultimate objective is to produce and distribute quality science data products. To achieve this, it takes a long chain of instruments, sites construction and software development, but nothing could be transferred from the array sites, archived, processed and disseminated to scientists without the off-site ICT infrastructure. The number of telescopes, the resulting large data volume (up to six petabytes of event data per year) and Observatory responsibilities are CTAO’s challenging parameters. My role is to design and organize the Science Data Management System implementation, which is distributed across multiple academic data centres, which are called the “Computing and Storage Service Providers,” planning the most performant, reliable, available and cost-effective solutions based on appropriate data flow and use of IT technologies.
+
+#### **What are you working on now?**
+
+The off-site ICT infrastructure computing model is defined, and a distributed organisation solution has been retained with multiple academic data centres to provide computing and storages services that will be operated from the CTAO’s Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) located in Zeuthen, Germany. With the CTAO Computing team and, more specifically, those in charge of the software products that will be hosted on off-site ICT infrastructures, we are working on a more detailed model and plan for the next phases of development related to deployment, integration and validation through, for example, the organisation of Technical Data Challenges with key stakeholders (i.e., scientists, software development teams and data centre technical teams).
+
+Learn more about CTAO Computing and the Science Data Management Centre on [our website](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/data-and-computing/).
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+---
+title: "Q&A with Infrastructure Design Coordinator David Bristow"
+description: "Meet David Bristow, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory’s (CTAO) Infrastructure Design Coordinator. We asked him a few questions to learn a bit about him and the work he is doing to ensure the long-term performance of the CTAO."
+date: 2022-02-03
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/David_QA-1600x800.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Originally published in the [December 2021 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/5dc5e0991a84/cta-newsletter-may2021-english-8711433#David). [Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/47319de06027/cta-newsletter-may2021-english-8717681#David)
+
+In this issue, we asked the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) Infrastructure Design Coordinator, David Bristow, about the work he is doing to prepare the upcoming CTAO’s facilities and infrastructure.
+
+#### **Tell us about yourself and how you came into your present role.**
+
+I am originally from the United Kingdom, where I trained as an Architect for seven years. My professional career primarily covers industrial building design and construction, with experience also in the design of education, large scale mixed retail development projects, housing, defence, transport and storage buildings. In 2016, I joined the CTAO Project Office in Heidelberg (Germany) to design and implement the Civil Infrastructure for the Observatory.
+
+#### **What does an Infrastructure Coordinator and why is it important for the future of CTAO?**
+
+The role of the Infrastructure Design Coordinator is to ensure the design of the Civil Infrastructure for the observatory is coordinated to meet the needs of the end users’ requirements. This includes coordinating the design for the building, roads, telescope foundations and network infrastructure.
+
+For large-scale projects like CTAO, it is important to ensure that the design of the Civil infrastructure is coordinated and functions to meet the needs of the Observatory for the next 30 years.
+
+#### **What are you working on now?**
+
+We are currently working on the concept design and planning for the Civil Infrastructure of the CTAO-South Array Site. The first concept design proposals for the Technical and Operations Buildings have been presented to the CTAO Project Office for discussion and the second iteration of the designs will be presented before the end of the year for further discussions. In addition, the first designs of the ‘site support’ are being planned and discussed, which includes all the major Civil infrastructure which will be required to allow the Observatory to function on a ‘day to day’ basis. This includes resolving many complex planning issues related to how the users will live and work at the sites.
+
+In early 2022, we start the detailed design of the CTA-South Array Site Civil infrastructure. The work is detailed and requires the coordination of our site characterisation studies undertaken several years ago to design the most efficient infrastructure. The design will include the coordination of the road networks, underground services network and foundations.
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+---
+title: "Q&A with Project Scientist, Roberta Zanin"
+description: "As the CTAO’s Project Scientist, Roberta Zanin is responsible for providing a link between the CTAO’s engineers and the science community to make sure the ultimate mission of the CTAO is achieved: to make unprecedented discoveries."
+date: 2023-06-15
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+Building an observatory is no small feat, especially when it comes to ensuring that what is built achieves the science goals of the scientists it is going to serve. As the CTAO’s Project Scientist, Roberta Zanin is responsible for providing a link between the CTAO’s engineers and the science community to make sure that everything from the telescope specifications to the data products are designed and built to achieve the ultimate mission of the CTAO: to make unprecedented discoveries about the gamma-ray Universe. We sat down with Roberta to learn more about her and her work toward making the CTAO a world-class observatory…
+
+#### **Tell us about yourself and how you came into your present role.**
+
+I decided to study Physics when I was 13 years old. At that age, I discovered what an internal combustion engine was at school and found it fascinating — I think I always had a very experimental approach to all aspects of my life! However, it was clear to me that I did not want to be an engineer, but a physicist. What I was looking for was to study and understand the basic principles of science.
+
+This is how I started my Physics degree at the Università di Padova (Italy), where I entered the field of astroparticle physics. Within this, I opted for gamma-ray astronomy and ended up doing my master’s thesis on the MAGIC telescopes, the preceding generation of the CTAO.
+
+Over the years, I participated and worked in the different instruments that compose the current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes or IACTs (H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS), where I had different coordination positions, especially focused on galactic physics. In fact, my field of study focused on the understanding of the very high-energy emission emitted by Galactic sources, such as rapid rotating and magnetized neutron stars (pulsars), their environment (Pulsar Wind Nebulae), or binary systems ejecting powerful jets (microquasars).
+
+My involvement with the CTAO started as a member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC), where I served as Coordinator of the Galactic Working Group and worked in the development of software for data analysis and operation. When the position of Project Scientist was opened in 2019 at the CTAO gGmbH, I knew I wanted to apply: after almost 15 years dedicated to ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, being able to work directly in the definition of the first ground-based IACT observatory’s science was really exciting.
+
+#### **What does a Project Scientist do do and why is it important to the future of CTAO?**
+
+The Project Scientist is responsible for all science-related aspects of the Observatory, which involves working on different fronts. From one side, I have to ensure that all science requirements are met during the construction phase: if, for example, the engineers need to revise the design of an instrument, I work with them to guarantee that the change’s impact on the science performance of the Observatory is acceptable. From another side, I am the Observatory’s interface with the scientific community. Thus, I collect science users’ feedback and proposals, and work together with them to define the science cases and priorities for the CTAO.
+
+Moreover, as Project Scientist, I had to recently evaluate the scientific implications of the Observatory’s reduced configuration. The CTAO benefits from a modular configuration and, while the ultimate goal is to have more than 100 telescopes between two sites, the approved configuration to be built based on current available funds, includes 64 telescopes. The definition of such configuration, named Alpha Configuration, and the geographical position of all elements (telescopes, calibration systems and atmospheric characterization devices) was the result of a meticulous optimization process for each array’s scientific capabilities, carried out in collaboration with the CTAC members.
+
+#### **What are you working on now?**
+
+Now that the scope of the CTAO construction project (its Alpha Configuration) has been defined, I am advancing in the definition of the Scientific Operations Concept, and this is really important: at the end, we are building this Observatory to optimize the scientific outcomes and discoveries and for that, we need to have clear processes and workflows behind observation planning, data collection, reduction and dissemination, so that observations are carried out as expected and data is properly made available to the worldwide scientific community.
+
+In preparation also for future data, I am working on the CTAO Science Data Challenge (SDC), our first publicly available data challenge to broaden the scientific community and allow astronomers from any field to become familiar with CTAO’s scientific capabilities and data analysis. The SDC represents an important milestone for the construction project, since it allows us to verify the requirements of the software packages, test the software algorithms (observation planning and scientific analysis tools), validate the data models and formats, test the scientific portal prototype and authentication system, among many other important parameters.
+
+At the same time, and thinking about the involvement of scientists at different levels of their career, we are starting the preparation of the first CTAO International School and of the second edition of the CTAO Symposium. The former’s goal is to train young scientists in gamma-ray astronomy, while the latter aims to become a meeting point for the high-energy astrophysics community, as an international conference to talk about the latest news of the CTAO and impact within multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astronomy.
+
+Very busy, and yet exciting, time for science with the CTAO!
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+---
+title: "Q&A with RAM Engineer George Pruteanu"
+description: "Meet George Pruteanu, the CTA Observatory’s (CTAO) RAM (reliability, availability, maintainability) Engineer. We asked him a few questions to learn a bit about him and the work he is doing to ensure the long-term performance of CTA."
+date: 2021-01-21
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/George_QA-4-768x385.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/017503426ad1/cta-newsletter-december2020-spanish)
+
+Originally published in the [December 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/892f3f0c743d/cta-newsletter-december2020-english).
+
+Meet George Pruteanu, the CTA Observatory’s (CTAO) RAM (reliability, availability, maintainability) Engineer. We asked him a few questions to learn a bit about him and the work he is doing to ensure the long-term performance of CTA.
+
+#### Tell us about yourself and how you came into your present role?
+
+I am originally from Romania, where I earned a B.Sc. in Electromechanical Engineering, with a major in automation industry, and gained several years’ experience in mechatronics design, engineering test responsibilities and lead a computer numerical control maintenance team. After immigrating to Canada, I worked for 15 years in the RAM field within the aerospace industry and more than two years in the transportation industry. In 2016, I joined the CTAO Project Office to implement a RAM process for the observatory.
+
+#### What is RAM and why is it important to the CTA project?
+
+For large-scale projects like CTA, it is relatively difficult to optimize the future maintenance and operational costs unless a RAM process is systematically implemented. In simple terms, the ‘reliability’ is a measurement of how often the system will fail, the ‘maintainability’ is how quick the system can be restored to its initial performance and ‘availability’ is the probability that the system will function when requested. Having control over these three characteristics, which are in a tight mathematical relationship and influencing each other, will give us a high confidence in the performance of our product over its lifecycle. In addition, an ‘Integrated Logistics Support’ process will be implemented to support the quick restoring of the system in case of malfunction, assuring particular availability requirements.
+
+#### What are you working on now and what are its short- and long-term effects on the project?
+
+RAM activities have a higher probability of success if a solid process is implemented within the initial stages of the project and continued over its lifecycle. Sometimes, the prioritization of these activities tends to be bypassed or postponed due to the demands of the project in other areas. My job is to keep these activities top of mind through the development stages, construction and service of this project. That’s why my work, now, focuses on education, support and guiding the contributors of CTA technology through the analyses required by the Project Office. In the long term, the results of these activities will be rolled up and applied to the system level, which will continue to improve the confidence of the Observatory’s performance throughout its operational lifetime. With our progress and the support from senior management received for the RAM Process, thus far, I am very confident that we are on the right track.
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+---
+title: "Redshift: Why Does Distance Matter to CTA?"
+description: "Only by knowing the distance of the objects we observe can we begin to understand their physical nature.This is particularly true with one of CTA’s main targets, Blazars, which are the most numerous class of extragalactic sources in the…"
+date: 2021-06-02
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/800px-Redshift.svg-1-768x433.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Originally published in the [May 2021 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/892f3f0c743d/cta-newsletter-december2020-english). *Written by: Paolo Goldoni*
+
+*
+*Only by knowing the distance of the objects we observe can we begin to understand their physical nature. In 1923, Edwin Hubble demonstrated that some of the so-called “nebulae” he saw were, actually, galaxies located millions of light years away. He did so by observing a particular type of variable star in the “nebulae,” the Cepheids, discovered by Henrietta Leavitt a few years before, whose period of variation is linked to their luminosity. The period of the Cepheids in the nebulae that Hubble observed implied such a luminosity that they were undoubtedly extragalactic. In doing so, he also established a correlation between the distance and the redshift of the optical spectra of the galaxies he observed. Since then, the redshift is the quantity most used to measure the distance of extragalactic objects.
+
+The redshift is an increase of the light’s wavelength (decrease of energy) that occurs when a light source moves away from the observer. It is typically measured in optical and near-infrared by the spectral lines of the source (Figure 1). In extragalactic astronomy, the redshift (also called cosmological redshift) is due to the expansion of the Universe that increases the distance between the galaxies and the Earth.
+
+![](/uploads/800px-Redshift.svg-1-1.png)
+
+*Figure 1. Absorption spectral lines in the optical spectrum of a supercluster of distant galaxies (upper panel) compared to a close-by object, the Sun (bottom panel). Arrows indicate the redshift, i.e. the increase of the wavelengths (lower energy). Credit: Georg Wiora*
+
+### Blazars and their Distance in Very High-Energy Astronomy
+
+As for all astronomical instruments, the distance of the observed object is very important to CTA, too. This is particularly true for blazars, the most numerous class of extragalactic sources in the very high-energy (VHE) domain (above tens of GeV). Blazars are a class of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) – compact regions at the centre of galaxies with strong and variable emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. Their emission is caused by accretion on the central supermassive black hole. During the accretion process, a jet of relativistic particles is emitted from the vicinity of the black hole, whose radiation spans from radio to gamma rays. In blazars, the jet is pointed towards the observer.
+
+In the most numerous class of VHE blazars, BL Lacs, the jet emission dominates over the galaxy emission in the optical range. The latter is crucial for redshift measurement, but because of the stronger jet emission, their redshift is very difficult to estimate. Less than half of the known BL Lacs have a known redshift and, with such a low percentage, it is not possible to estimate their properties as a whole: we do not know with precision their density in the Universe and their evolution with time, and their emission cannot be modelled with great precision.
+
+The lack of knowledge of blazars’ redshift (or distance) is particularly problematic in the VHE domain: the blazars’ VHE spectra we observe with our telescopes are distorted by the interaction of the VHE gamma rays with photons and particles encountered along their travel to Earth. This distortion is dependent on the distance and so, its value is needed to correct the spectra and obtain the real emission of the source. Conversely, if a model of the source emission is assumed, the properties of the intergalactic medium can be extracted.
+
+Several physical processes are responsible for the distortion of the VHE spectra, but in this article, we will concentrate on the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL), which is the integration of all the optical and near-infrared light emitted by the stars and galaxies during the history of the Universe, and whose value, usually measured in the optical range, is not very well known yet.
+
+The optical photons from the EBL interact with the VHE gamma rays from blazars, annihilating and giving rise to an electron and a positron (see Figure 2). This effect is strongly dependent on the redshift of the blazar and so, by knowing the redshift and observing VHE gamma rays, we can measure the EBL.
+
+![](/uploads/gpropa_300ppi.png)
+
+*Figure 2: Cosmic journey of gamma rays from a distant galaxy down to the CTA Observatory. Among other physical processes, some gamma rays produce electron-positron pairs when interacting with EBL photons (top left process)*
+
+This measurement is one of the main science cases of CTA. Thanks to its unprecedented sensitivity, wide field of view and extended spectral range, in fact, CTA will obtain many more blazar spectra and with a much higher signal-to-noise than previous instruments. These spectra, in principle, will allow to measure the EBL with precision comparable to the optical one, allowing a fundamental cross-check between the two methods. Unfortunately, if the distance of the blazars is not known, the quality of the measurements in general can be affected. For this reason, a group of CTA Consortium members has performed observations from some of the world’s greatest optical observatories (ESO, Keck, SALT) in order to measure the redshift of bright gamma-ray blazars that likely will be detected with CTA. A paper presenting the measurement of 11 blazar redshifts, which will be crucial for future CTA scientific studies, has recently accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal [1]. This effort is just beginning, and it will increase the number of gamma-ray blazars with known redshift, thus, helping to maximise the scientific return of CTA.
+
+[1] Goldoni, P. Et al. 2020, ArXiV:201205176
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+---
+title: "In the Right Direction: The GCT Team Begins Observations in Paris"
+description: "In March 2017, the GCT camera prototype was taken from its laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, back to Meudon for a two-week commissioning campaign. A team of 12 worked around the clock to install the camera and run observing shifts with…"
+date: 2017-05-16
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/cta42-1600x1067.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+In November 2015, a CTA telescope prototype, the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT), recorded CTA’s first ever Cherenkov light while undergoing testing at l’Observatoire de Paris in Meudon, France. Since then, the telescope’s camera has been undergoing vigorous laboratory testing to prepare it for its installation on pre-production telescopes.
+
+In March 2017, the camera was taken from its laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, back to Meudon for a two-week commissioning campaign. A team of 12 worked around the clock to install the camera and run observing shifts with the goal to finalise the safety and operation procedure tests for the telescope and camera. This was the first time the camera would include a dedicated safety system and the first time the telescope would track cosmic sources. Although the Meudon site is appropriate for prototype work, Paris, aptly named the “City of Lights,” is not an ideal location to capture cosmic light from the night sky. However, as seen in the below video, the team was still able to capture thousands of images for analysis, including observations of blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501.
+
+The GCT is proposed as one of CTA’s Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs), covering the high end of the CTA energy range, between about 1 and 300 TeV (tera-electronvolts). To detect the short flashes of light produced by cosmic rays and gamma rays as they hit the earth’s atmosphere, the telescope’s camera must be about a million times faster than a digital camera. To do this, it uses high-speed digitisation and triggering technology capable of recording images at a rate of one billion frames per second and sensitive enough to resolve single photons.
+
+The camera will now remain in Paris where observatory staff will conduct routine operations with the help of remote camera support to better understand the stability and reliability of the system.
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+---
+title: "Dr. Roberta Zanin Joins the CTAO as its New Project Scientist"
+description: "Effective 1 March 2019, Stefan Schlenstedt will join the CTA Observatory (CTAO) as its Computing Coordinator. As a member of the CTA Project Office and part of the construction project, he will play a key role in coordinating software…"
+date: 2019-06-01
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/IMG_4472_small-768x784.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 1 June 2019, Dr. Roberta Zanin joined the CTAO as the new CTA Project Scientist. She follows Prof. Jim Hinton, who, as CTA’s first Project Scientist, filled this position since 2012. It is because of his leadership that CTA has come so far in creating the requirements and systems definition of what CTA will look like. We are extremely grateful to him for all his important contributions to CTA in this role and look forward to him continuing as a key scientific advisor to the CTAO moving forward!
+
+Roberta has devoted her entire scientific career to imaging Cherenkov astronomy during which she has taken part in all the three major currently-running instruments of this kind, as an active member of MAGIC and H.E.S.S. and as a visiting scientist at VERITAS. Cultivating her research interests between Padua, Barcelona, and, most recently, at MPIK in Heidelberg, she has built substantial experience in data analysis and interpretation, software development, operations and commissioning of the telescopes – all aspects in which she has been successfully involved, with increasing leadership responsibilities. A member of the CTA consortium since 2012, she has just completed her two-year term as a convener of the Galactic Science working group.
+
+As a member of the CTAO in the construction and operations phases, the CTA Project Scientist has a key role in all science related aspects of CTA construction and operation. Roberta will work with the Project Manager and System Engineers, in tandem with In-Kind Contributors and the CTA Consortium, to ensure that the design, implementation and science verification of CTA achieves the science goals of the project. She also will be a member of the CTAO Change Control Board.
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype Telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Detects Crab Nebula"
+description: "On 1 June 2020, scientists from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium announced at the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that they have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula using a prototype telescope…"
+date: 2020-06-01
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTA_SCT_01_02_small-768x432.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+*[Read the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Press Release](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-11) *
+
+Armado, AZ — On 1 June 2020, scientists from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium announced at the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that they have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula using a prototype telescope proposed for CTA, the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), proving the viability of the novel telescope design for use in gamma-ray astrophysics.
+
+“The Crab Nebula is the brightest steady source of TeV, or very-high-energy, gamma rays in the sky, so detecting it is an excellent way of proving the pSCT technology,” said Justin Vandenbroucke, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin. “Very-high-energy gamma rays are the highest energy photons in the universe and can unveil the physics of extreme objects including black holes and possibly dark matter.”
+
+Detecting the Crab Nebula with the pSCT is more than just proof-positive for the telescope itself. It lays the groundwork for the future of gamma-ray astrophysics. “We’ve established this new technology, which will measure gamma rays with extraordinary precision, enabling future discoveries,” said Vandenbroucke. “Gamma-ray astronomy is already at the heart of the new multi-messenger astrophysics, and the SCT technology will make it an even more important player.”
+
+The use of secondary mirrors in gamma-ray telescopes is a leap forward in innovation for the relatively young field of very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, which has moved rapidly to the forefront of astrophysics. “Just over three decades ago, TeV gamma rays were first detected in the universe, from the Crab Nebula, on the same mountain where the pSCT sits today,” said Vandenbroucke. “That was a real breakthrough, opening a cosmic window with light that is a trillion times more energetic than we can see with our eyes. Today, we’re using two mirror surfaces instead of one, and state-of-the-art sensors and electronics to study these gamma rays with exquisite resolution.”
+
+“The initial pSCT Crab Nebula detection was made possible by leveraging key simultaneous observations with the co-located [VERITAS](https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/) (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) observatory.  We have successfully evolved the way gamma-ray astronomy has been done during the past 50 years, enabling studies to be performed in much less time,” said Wystan Benbow, Director, VERITAS. “Several future programs will particularly benefit, including surveys of the gamma-ray sky, studies of large objects like supernova remnants, and searches for multi-messenger counterparts to astrophysical neutrinos and gravitational wave events.”
+
+Located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona—the largest field site of the [Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian](http://cfa.harvard.edu)—the pSCT was inaugurated in January 2019 and saw first light the same week. After a year of commissioning work, scientists began observing the Crab Nebula in January 2020, but the project has been underway for more than a decade.
+
+“We first proposed the idea of applying this optical system to TeV gamma-ray astronomy nearly 15 years ago, and my colleagues and I built a team in the US and internationally to prove that this technology could work,” said Prof. Vladimir Vassiliev, Principal Investigator, pSCT. “What was once a theoretical limit to this technology is now well within our grasp, and continued improvements to the technology and the electronics will further increase our capability to detect gamma rays at resolutions and rates we once only ever dreamed of.”
+
+The pSCT was made possible by the contributions of thirty institutions and five critical industry partners across the United States, Italy, Germany, Japan, and Mexico, and by funding through the U.S National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program.
+
+“That a prototype of a future facility can yield such a tantalizing result promises great things from the full capability, and exemplifies NSF’s interest in creating new possibilities that can enable a project to attract wide-spread support,” said Nigel Sharp, Program Manager, National Science Foundation.
+
+The SCT is being proposed to cover the core of CTA’s energy range (around 80 GeV – 50 TeV). The SCT’s two-mirror optical system is designed to better focus the light for greater imaging detail and improved detection of faint sources. A total of 40 telescopes (25 in the southern hemisphere and 15 in the northern hemisphere) are planned to cover this energy range. “CTA has been exploring the dual-mirror technology since the very beginning of the project with the Small-Sized Telescope prototypes and the SCT for the Medium-Sized Telescope,” says Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of the CTA Observatory. “The results obtained by the pSCT team re-confirm the advantages of advancing the technology for Cherenkov astronomy and the great potential it will bring to CTA.”
+
+“The pSCT, and its innovations, are pathfinding for the future CTA, which will detect gamma-ray sources at around 100 times faster than VERITAS, which is the current state of the art,” said Benbow. “We have demonstrated that this new technology for gamma-ray astronomy unequivocally works. The promise is there for this groundbreaking new observatory, and it opens a tremendous amount of discovery potential.”
+
+### About the pSCT
+
+The SCT optical design was first conceptualized by U.S. members of CTA in 2006, and the construction of the pSCT was funded in 2012. Preparation of the pSCT site at the base of Mt. Hopkins in Amado, AZ, began in late 2014, and the steel structure was assembled on site in 2016. The installation of the pSCT’s 9.7-m primary mirror surface — consisting of 48 aspheric mirror panels — occurred in early 2018, and was followed by the camera installation in May 2018 and the 5.4-m secondary mirror surface installation — consisting of 24 aspheric mirror panels — in August 2018. Scientists opened the telescope’s optical surfaces and observed [first light](https://www.cta-observatory.org/sct-first-light/) in January 2019. It began scientific operations in January 2020.  The SCT is based on a 114 year-old two-mirror optical system first proposed by Karl Schwarzschild in 1905, but only recently became possible to construct due to the essential research and development progress made at the Brera Astronomical Observatory, the Media Lario Technologies Incorporated and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, all located in Italy. pSCT operations are funded by the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution.
+
+### Project contacts:
+
+Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
+
+Wystan Benbow
+
+617-496-7597
+
+[wbenbow@cfa.harvard.edu](mailto:wbenbow@cfa.harvard.edu)
+
+University of Wisconsin
+
+Justin Vandenbroucke
+
+608-890-1477
+
+[justin.vandenbroucke@wisc.edu](mailto:justin.vandenbroucke@wisc.edu)
+
+University of California, Los Angeles
+
+Vladimir Vassiliev
+
+310-267-5878
+
+[vvv@astro.ucla.edu](mailto:vvv@astro.ucla.edu)
+
+### Media contacts:
+
+Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
+
+Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
+
+Amy Oliver
+
+801-783-9067
+
+[amy.oliver@cfa.harvard.edu](mailto:amy.oliver@cfa.harvard.edu)
+
+CTA Observatory
+
+Megan Grunewald
+
++49 157 58795599
+
+[mgrunewald@cta-observatory.org](mailto:mgrunewald@cta-observatory.org)
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype Telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Achieves First Light"
+description: "Less than a week after its inauguration on 17 January 2019, the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), successfully detected its first Cherenkov light on…"
+date: 2019-02-12
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/run325519_ev1734_time64_web-2-768x374.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Less than a week after its inauguration on 17 January 2019, the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), successfully detected its first Cherenkov light on January 23 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona. A dual-mirrored Medium-Sized Telescope, the SCT is proposed to cover the middle of CTA’s energy range (80 GeV – 50 TeV).
+
+The week following the inauguration, the camera was operated for the first time with the mirrors uncovered in a commissioning test run. During the first few minutes of this “first light” run on the evening of January 23, cosmic-ray-induced Cherenkov air shower events were identified in the raw, uncalibrated camera data.
+
+[Cherenkov light](https://www.cta-observatory.org/about/how-cta-works/) is the result of a gamma ray or cosmic ray from an astrophysical source interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere. The flash of bluish light only lasts a few billionths of a second and is extremely faint. Gamma-ray telescope cameras are sensitive to these faint flashes. The pSCT camera triggers when several neighboring pixels detect light within a few nanoseconds of one another. The camera has a modular design, with 25 modules each containing 64 pixels. The central module is not yet installed in order to shine a laser beam along the central axis for telescope alignment, and a neighboring module was disabled during the test run. The pixel amplitudes are raw and uncalibrated, but the early results are a major milestone for the SCT team.
+
+The SCT’s dual-mirror optical system improves on the single-mirror designs traditionally used in gamma-ray telescopes by dramatically enhancing the optical quality of their focused light over a large region of the sky and by enabling the use of compact, highly-efficient photo-sensors in the telescope camera. The pSCT commissioning will continue in 2019, including alignment of the mirror panels of both the primary and secondary mirror, positioning of the camera with respect to the focal plane and calibration of the camera data.  A project is underway to increase the number of pixels in the pSCT camera by a factor of seven in order to match the wide field of view of the mirrors.
+
+CTA will consist of 118 telescopes split between a southern array in Paranal, Chile and a northern array on the island of La Palma, Spain. Three classes of telescopes (Small-, Medium- and Large-Sized Telescopes) will be used to detect gamma rays in the energy range 20 GeV to 300 TeV with about ten times increased sensitivity compared to any current observatory. Notable for providing improved gamma-ray angular resolution and its very-high-resolution camera (>11,000 pixels), the SCT is proposed for the medium-sized CTA telescopes, which are considered to be the “workhorses” of the arrays with 15 planned for the north site and 25 for the south site.
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+---
+title: "CTA Prototype Telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Inaugurated at Whipple Observatory in Arizona"
+description: "On 17 January 2019, a prototype telescope proposed for CTA, the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is being unveiled in a special inauguration event at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Fred Lawrence Whipple…"
+date: 2019-01-17
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTA_SCT_01_02_small-768x432.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+AMADO, Ariz. — On 17 January 2019, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is being unveiled in a special inauguration event at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, [Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory](http://cfa.harvard.edu/flwo) (FLWO) in Amado, Arizona. A dual-mirrored Medium-Sized Telescope, the SCT is proposed to cover the middle of CTA’s energy range (80 GeV – 50 TeV).
+
+“The inauguration of the pSCT is an exciting moment for the institutions involved in its development and construction,” said CTA-US Consortium Chair David Williams, a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “The first of its kind in the history of gamma-ray telescopes, the SCT design is expected to boost CTA performance towards the theoretical limit of the technology.”
+
+The SCT’s complex dual-mirror optical system improves on the single-mirror designs traditionally used in gamma-ray telescopes by dramatically enhancing the optical quality of their focused light over a large region of the sky and by enabling the use of compact, highly-efficient photo-sensors in the telescope camera.
+
+“Ultimately, the SCT is designed to improve CTA’s ability to detect very-high-energy gamma-ray sources, which may also be sources of neutrinos and gravitational waves,” said Prof. Vladimir Vassiliev, Principal Investigator, pSCT. “Once the SCT technology is demonstrated at FLWO, it is hoped that SCTs will become a part of at least one of the two CTA arrays, located in each of the northern and southern hemispheres.”
+
+The CTA Observatory (CTAO) will consist of 118 telescopes split between a southern array in [Paranal, Chile](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/) and a northern array on the island of [La Palma, Spain](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/). Three classes of telescopes (Small-, Medium- and Large-Sized Telescopes) will be used to detect gamma rays in the energy range 20 GeV to 300 TeV with about ten times increased sensitivity compared to any current observatory. Notable for providing improved gamma-ray angular resolution and its very-high-resolution camera (>11,000 pixels), the SCT is proposed for the medium-sized CTA telescopes, which are considered to be the “workhorses” of the arrays with 15 planned for the north site and 25 for the south site.
+
+“The SCT and other telescopes at CTA will greatly improve upon current gamma-ray research being conducted at HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS, the last of which is located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory,” said Dr. Wystan Benbow, Director, VERITAS. “Gamma-ray observatories like VERITAS have been operating for 12 to 16 years, and their many successes have brought very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy into the mainstream, and have made many exciting discoveries. We hope CTA will supersede VERITAS around 2023, and it will be used to continue to build upon the 50 years of gamma-ray research at the Whipple Observatory and elsewhere.”
+
+“I am very pleased to congratulate our colleagues that have conceived and realised such a promising prototype for the Medium-Sized Telescopes, a major component of the family of instruments that will characterise the CTA Observatory,” said Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of the CTAO.
+
+#### **About pSCT**
+
+The SCT optical design was first conceptualized by U.S. members of CTA in 2006, and the construction of the pSCT was funded in 2012. Preparation of the pSCT site at the base of Mt. Hopkins in Amado, AZ, began in late 2014, and the steel structure was assembled on site in 2016.  The installation of pSCT’s 9.7-m primary mirror surface —consisting of 48 aspheric mirror panels—occurred in early 2018 and was followed by the camera installation in June 2018 and the 5.4-m secondary mirror surface installation—consisting of 24 aspheric mirror panels—in August 2018. Leading up to the inauguration and in preparation for first light, scientists opened the telescope’s optical surfaces in January 2019.  The SCT is based on a 114 year-old dual-mirror optical system first proposed by Karl Schwarzschild in 1905, but only recently became possible to construct due to the critical research and development progress made at both the Brera Astronomical Observatory and Media Lario Technologies Incorporated in Italy. The pSCT was made possible by funding through the U.S. National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation program and by the contributions of thirty institutions and five critical industrial partners across the United States, Italy, Germany, Japan, and Mexico.
+
+#### **About Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian**
+
+Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) | Harvard & Smithsonian is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe. The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is the largest field site of the CfA and is host to dozens of telescopes, including the pSCT and VERITAS for gamma-ray astronomy.
+
+For more information visit [http://cfa.harvard.edu/](http://cfa.harvard.edu/)
+
+#### **About CTA**
+
+More than 1,400 scientists and engineers from 31 countries are engaged in the scientific and technical development of CTA. The planning for the construction of the Observatory is managed by the CTAO gGmbH, which is governed by Shareholders and Associate Members from a growing number of countries. CTA will be the foremost global observatory for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond and will be the first ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory open to the world-wide astronomical and particle physics communities. The scientific potential of CTA is extremely broad: from understanding the role of relativistic cosmic particles to the search for dark matter. With its ability to cover an enormous range in photon energy from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, CTA will improve on all aspects of performance with respect to current instruments.
+
+#### **Project contacts:**
+
+Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
+
+Wystan Benbow
+
+617-496-7597
+
+[wbenbow@cfa.harvard.edu](mailto:wbenbow@cfa.harvard.edu)
+
+University of California, Los Angeles
+
+Vladimir Vassiliev
+
+310-267-5878
+
+[vvv@astro.ucla.edu](mailto:vvv@astro.ucla.edu)
+
+University of California, Santa Cruz**
+
+**David Williams**
+
+**831-459-3032**
+
+**[daw@ucsc.edu](mailto:daw@ucsc.edu)
+
+#### **Media contacts:**
+
+Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
+
+Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
+
+Amy Oliver
+
+801-783-9067
+
+[amy.oliver@cfa.harvard.edu](mailto:amy.oliver@cfa.harvard.edu)
+
+CTAO gGmbH
+
+Heidelberg, Germany
+
+Megan Grunewald
+
+[mgrunewald@cta-observatory.org](mailto:mgrunewald@cta-observatory.org)
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+---
+title: "Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Prototype Primary Mirror Installation Complete"
+description: "The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), under construction at the Whipple Observatory in Arizona, completed its primary mirror installation on 26 April 2018…"
+date: 2018-05-02
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/SCT_web_menu-768x484.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), under construction at the Whipple Observatory in Arizona, completed its primary mirror installation on 26 April 2018. The primary mirror consists of 48 mirror panel modules each including ~1m2 aspheric mirror integrated with six actuators and four/five edge sensors for mirror positioning and alignment in the optical system of the telescope.
+
+“This event is very important milestone for the project, which pushes imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technology to the performance limit in the context of its future implementation in CTA,” explains Vladimir Vassiliev, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California Los Angeles and the lead scientist for the pSCT project.
+
+Now that the primary mirror is fully installed and its alignment system is being commissioned, the installation of the prototype SCT camera will begin in May and is expected to last through the middle of June. The installation of the secondary mirror, consisting of 24 mirror panel modules, is scheduled to begin in June and should be completed in early August. If all goes as planned, commissioning will begin in autumn 2018 when all the optical surfaces will be opened (the white film covering them during construction will be removed).
+
+The SCT is a dual-mirrored version of the Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) that is proposed to cover the middle of CTA’s energy range (80 GeV-50 TeV). The SCT’s innovative two-mirror technology and the advanced high resolution camera is intended to capture the Cherenkov air showers at unprecedented imaging quality to significantly improve gamma-ray angular resolution of MST array in CTA and increase its sensitivity. In collaboration with the SST-2M and MST groups and institutes in Germany, Italy, Japan and Mexico, institutes in the United States have been the pioneers of the SCT design since 2006.
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+---
+title: "DESY Announces Science Data Management Centre Building Architectural Competition Winner"
+description: "CTA’s Science Data Management Centre (SDMC), which will be in charge of science operations and make CTA’s science products available to the worldwide community, will be located in a new building complex on the Deutsches…"
+date: 2019-03-14
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/5003_PerspektiveAuen_low_small-768x396.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+CTA’s Science Data Management Centre (SDMC), which will be in charge of science operations and make CTA’s science products available to the worldwide community, will be located in a new building complex on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus in Zeuthen, just outside Berlin.
+
+In preparation for the new personnel, planning is underway to outfit the DESY campus with a new SDMC building as part of a campus master plan, which includes a new canteen and education center.
+
+A competition to design and construct a new building was initiated by DESY in 2018. The final decision on the winning design, with an award for the first, second and third winner, was [announced on 11 March 2019](http://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=1595&two_columns=0). The first prize went to Heinle Wischer und Partner Freie Architekten GbR from Berlin, along with Ulrich Krüger Landschaftsarchitekten from Dresden.
+
+“Planning a new building for the Science Data Management Centre, SDMC, and developing a masterplan for DESY’s research campus at Zeuthen is an exciting and complex challenge. That is why we decided, for the first time, to hold a competition to decide who should be awarded the contract,” explains Christian Harringa, Administrative Director of DESY and a member of the jury. The task was demanding: to design a high-quality new building within the context of planning a campus that would take into account the various different typologies of the existing interior and exterior spaces to form a prestigious whole.
+
+“The offices of Heinle Wischer und Partner and Ulrich Krüger Landschaftsarchitekten presented outstanding and compelling plans,” Christian Stegmann was pleased to announce. He is in charge of DESY’s Zeuthen site as well as being the head of the Astroparticle Physics department.
+
+Until the new building is constructed, CTAO personnel have taken up residence in an existing building on campus (the “Seevilla” at the South end of the campus) that has been recently renovated to host eight employees with room to grow. The temporary space now provides workspace for the Observation Execution System (OES) Coordinator and Science User Support System (SUSS) Coordinator and will eventually also be the home office of the SDMC coordinator.  The team at the SDMC will grow to support the construction of the CTA software products and to organize the required tasks in preparation for the science operations, including support for science planning, data processing and simulations and science user support.
+
+[Read more about the competition and award ceremony.](http://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=1595&two_columns=0)
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+---
+title: "The CTAO Science Data Management Centre Lays “First Stone”"
+description: "On Wednesday, 2 March 2022, the first stone-laying ceremony for the CTAO Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) took place at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus in Zeuthen, Brandenburg (Germany). To celebrate this milestone,…"
+date: 2022-03-02
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Perpsektive3_Park_ohne-Logo-scaled-1-1600x900.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+### Follow the ceremony live:
+
+>> [English broadcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye24BOZpfs4)
+
+>> [German broadcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe5hNfoIB-g)
+
+On Wednesday, 2 March 2022, the first stone-laying ceremony for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) took place at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus in Zeuthen, Brandenburg (Germany). To celebrate this milestone, Brandenburg’s Science Minister, Manja Schüle, and Head of the Sub-Department Large-Scale Facilities and Basic Research at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Volkmar Dietz, participated in the ceremony on campus, together with the Managing Director of the CTAO gGmbH, Federico Ferrini and the Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, Helmut Dosch.
+
+“DESY scientists have been involved in major international research projects in astroparticle physics for decades. The decision to locate the Scientific Data Management Centre of the international gamma-ray observatory CTAO in Zeuthen greatly enhances this research location in the state of Brandenburg, which is internationally established with researchers from more than 30 nations and has regional roots at the same time. Soon, not only will enormous amounts of data be processed and coordinated there. There will also be rooms for lectures, training and – more important than ever – for meetings,” says Manja Schüle, Minister of Research of the State of Brandenburg. “I am convinced that science and research will continue to bring people together in the future. But since Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine, trusting institutional cooperation with Russian and Belarusian institutions is no longer possible. That is why we support DESY’s decision to suspend all scientific cooperation with Russia and Belarus. Science and research build bridges – but these must be built by both sides. In the face of this war in Europe, there must not and cannot be a simple ‘business as usual’. We are fully on the side of the peace- and freedom- loving people in Ukraine – and of all scientists who have spoken out against the war. I am certain that the new Science Data Management Centre will be a jewel in the Brandenburg research landscape – and build new bridges.”
+
+The SDMC will be the science data gateway of the CTAO, the first ground-based gamma-ray observatory and the world’s largest and most sensitive instrument for the detection of gamma rays. Tens of Petabytes (PB) of simulated as well as processed data gathered at both CTAO telescope sites, one in Chile and one in Spain, will be generated, further processed and accessible at the SDMC. CTAO will be the first observatory of its kind to provide open access to its data and analysis tools worldwide.
+
+Additionally, the SDMC will host the CTAO Computing Department, in charge of designing and implementing software systems that support science activities from accepting observation proposals to scheduling observations, controlling the telescopes, processing and archiving the data at all levels, and disseminating data products and science tools to the public using open standards and FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) principles.
+
+“With the new CTAO SDMC, DESY in Zeuthen is taking another big step towards becoming an international centre for astroparticle physics in Germany and one of the most innovative research centres in the region,” says Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors.
+
+DESY is already now one of the largest scientific institutions in Brandenburg with approximately 280 employees. The construction of the SDMC will create about 60 additional jobs. In addition, more guest scientists will visit the institute in the future, with an estimation of up to 400 people working in the campus.
+
+“The CTAO is a truly international project. At its two sites in Chile and La Palma, it will generate large amounts of valuable data to be analysed by the growing worldwide community of astrophysicists and particle physicists,” says Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of CTAO. “It is great to see the SDMC building up here in Zeuthen as one of the crucial ingredients for the success of the CTAO.” Read DESY press release (in English and in German) in the following links:
+
+[English version.](https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=2243&two_columns=0)
+
+[German version.](https://www.desy.de/aktuelles/news_suche/index_ger.html?openDirectAnchor=2243&two_columns=0)
+
+Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral, CTAO Outreach, Education and Communication Officer
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
+Dr. Thomas Zoufal, DESY Press Spokesperson
+
+[thomas.zoufal@desy.de](mailto:thomas.zoufal@desy.de)
+
+Welcome
+Prof. Christian Stegmann, DESY Director for Astroparticle Physics and head of the DESY site in Zeuthen
+
+Greetings
+Dr. Manja Schüle, Brandenburg´s Science Minister
+Dr. Volkmar Dietz, Head of the Sub-Department Large Facilities and Basic Research at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
+Prof. Otmar Wiestler, President of Helmholtz Association 
+Prof. Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors
+Prof. Federico Ferrini, Managing Director CTAO gGmbH
+
+The new SDMC building, located directly at Lake Zeuthen, will provide ~1200 square metres of usable space in a flat base building and a cantilevered office block above. Approximately 500 square metres are also planned for a new canteen, which will cater for the increasing number of future employees on campus.
+
+The building is being financed as part of an institutional grant to the Helmholtz research centre DESY with federal funds of around 9.9 million euros and funds from the state of Brandenburg amounting to 1.1 million euros. The SDMC building is to be certified with a Silver rating under the Sustainable Building Rating System. Construction work began at the end of 2021 and move-in is scheduled for 2023.
+
+### About the CTAO
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO; [www.cta-observatory.org](https://www.cta-observatory.org)) will be the first ground-based gamma-ray observatory and the world’s largest and most sensitive instrument for the detection of high-energy gamma rays. The CTAO’s unparalleled accuracy and unprecedented energy range (20 GeV- 300 TeV) will provide novel insights into the most extreme and powerful events in the Universe, addressing questions in and beyond astrophysics falling under [three major themes:](https://www.cta-observatory.org/science/study-topics/) Understanding the origin and role of relativistic cosmic particles, probing extreme environments (such as the vicinity of black holes) and exploring frontiers in physics (including the study of dark matter). To do so, CTAO has two telescope array sites: One in the northern hemisphere in La Palma, Spain, and one in the southern hemisphere in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The headquarters of the CTAO is hosted by Italy and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Bologna, and the Science Data Management Centre is hosted by Germany and the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Zeuthen. CTAO will also be the first of its kind to be open to the world-wide astronomical and particle physics communities as a resource for data from unique, high-energy astronomical observations.
+
+The preparation of the design and implementation of the CTAO is managed by the interim legal entity CTAO gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH) until the final legal entity is achieved, the CTAO ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) in charge of the construction and operation of the Observatory. The CTAO gGmbH is governed by [the CTAO Council](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/governance/), composed of shareholders from 11 countries and one intergovernmental organisation (ESO), as well as associate members from two countries. The CTAO gGmbH works in close cooperation with the [CTA Consortium (CTAC),](https://www.ctao.org/partners/ctao-consortium/) a group of more than 1,500 scientists and engineers working from 25 countries that contribute to the definition of the instrument design and the scientific programme.
+
+Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY; [www.desy.de](http://www.desy.de)) is one of the world’s leading particle accelerator centres and investigates the structure and function of matter – from the interaction of tiny elementary particles and the behaviour of novel nanomaterials and vital biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe. The particle accelerators and detectors that DESY develops and builds at its locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen are unique research tools. They generate the most intense X-ray radiation in the world, accelerate particles to record energies and open up new windows onto the universe. DESY is a member of the Helmholtz Association, Germany’s largest scientific association, and receives its funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (90 per cent) and the German federal states of Hamburg and Brandenburg (10 per cent).
+
+[CTA Flickr Page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/) (Collection of photographs and renderings available for download.
+
+CTAO Computing Department at the SDMC: [https://www.cta-observatory.org/project/technology/computing/](https://www.cta-observatory.org/project/technology/computing/)
+
+CTAO films (science animation and telescope site films): [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/albums/72157713629905932](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cta_observatory/albums/72157713629905932)
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+---
+title: "Season’s Greetings from CTAO Managing Director, Stuart McMuldroch"
+description: "Season’s greetings from the CTAO Director General, Stuart McMuldroch, as he reflects on his first year with the Observatory."
+date: 2023-12-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/McMuldroch_Stuart_horiz-1600x1013.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+I have the pleasure and honour as the new Managing Director of the CTAO to send this message at the end of a busy and successful 2023. In my first year as CTAO Managing Direcftor, I have begun to get to know many of the people whose dedication and professionalism continue to make the development of the Observatory a success.
+
+When I accepted the position, I knew that there would be a steep learning curve in understanding this ambitious project and all its many facets. I have learned a lot in a short time, but, through all the ups and downs, one thing has been steady and true: it is these people who will realize the vision of creating the world’s premier gamma-ray Observatory.
+
+I would therefore like to thank the CTAO gGmbH staff, all the In-Kind Contribution teams and Collaborations, the members of the extended science collaboration, and those governing bodies that support us and ensure we can make progress. And a special thank you must be extended to Federico Ferrini, who prepared the CTAO for this transition and was my co-pilot throughout the year.
+
+Together, we have made significant progress in 2023: The CTAO now stands as a top-ranked priority among new ground-based infrastructure projects in the ASTRONET Roadmap; the CTAO-North Site now has foundations in advance of hosting three new Large-Sized Telescopes; the Medium-Sized Telescope structure has successfully passed the critical design review; the tender to implement the electromechanical structures for 25 Small-Sized Telescopes was issued; and the integration of the ACADA software with the LST-1 has been accomplished, among other actions.
+
+While it’s worth reflecting on our successes, it’s even more crucial to prepare for the future as the CTAO enters a new phase in 2024 with an increase in activities and progress. Thanks to the support of our funding organizations, we plan to double our staff, make key advances in infrastructure, prepare to accept the first telescopes, help define the science collaboration leading the Key Science Projects, and host the second CTAO Science Symposium and our first CTAO School to train future generations.
+
+I am very excited about the next phase of our journey. We have set ambitious goals and outlined strategic priorities that are the path to our future. With your continued dedication, I am confident that we will reach new heights and make even greater progress.
+
+So, for now, please celebrate the holidays and take a well-earned rest. There is much to come and much to do in the months and years ahead. I look forward to the day, in the not-so-distant future, when the CTAO will generate its first science through the efforts of our extended team!
+
+Happy Holidays,
+
+Stuart McMuldroch
+
+Open the Card: [Best Wishes and Happy New Year from the CTAO](https://mailchi.mp/a1773ab9de57/best-wishes-happy-new-year-from-the-ctao)
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+---
+title: "Seminario online de CTAO con la Fundación Starlight"
+description: "El 9 y 10 de diciembre, el CTA Observatory y la Fundación Starlight llevarán a cabo el seminario online “Explorando el Universo más Extremo desde Canarias con CTA”"
+date: 2020-11-06
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/featureimage_seminariofundacionstarlight2-01-1600x742.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+El 9 y 10 de diciembre, tendrá lugar el seminario online “Explorando el Universo más Extremo desde Canarias con CTA”, organizado por el CTA Observatory (CTAO) y la Fundación Starlight. El objetivo principal del seminario, dirigido a todos los miembros de la Fundación Starlight, es adentrarse en el observatorio terrestre de rayos gamma más grande y sensible del mundo, el Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), así como en su ciencia, tecnología y los programas de divulgación desarrollados especialmente en las Islas Canarias.
+
+*Crédito: Vídeo “La Ciencia de CTA: Desde la emisión hasta el descubrimiento”, CTAO*
+
+En el primero de los dos días que durará el seminario, los participantes se iniciarán en la astrofísica de rayos gamma de muy alta energía y profundizarán en los objetivos científicos de CTA: ¿cómo se aceleran las partículas cósmicas a las energías más altas? ¿Qué sucede en los ambientes más extremos del Cosmos, cerca de agujeros negros supermasivos o estrellas de neutrones? ¿Cómo estudiará CTA la naturaleza de la materia oscura? Además, aprenderán cómo se toman y analizan los datos con esta técnica tan particular e innovadora, la técnica Cherenkov, que permite capturar de forma indirecta los rayos gamma provenientes del espacio. En el segundo día, el seminario se centrará en el futuro y actual estado del emplazamiento CTA en el hemisferio norte, denominado CTA-Norte, situado en La Palma (España) en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), así como en la tecnología de los dos tipos de telescopios que formarán este conjunto: los Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) y los Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs), incluyendo el prototipo LST-1 ya instalado. Por último, hablaremos de los programas de divulgación y educación que se llevan a cabo en las Islas Canarias por parte del CTA Observatory. Ambos días del seminario contarán con una sesión dedicada de “Preguntas y Respuestas” en la que los participantes podrán plantear cualquier duda, curiosidad o compartir opiniones con todos los ponentes del día. El programa detallado está disponible para su descarga en el [siguiente enlace](https://www.cta-observatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ProgramaDetallado_SeminarioFundacionStarlight.pdf).
+
+CTA tendrá un gran impacto científico en España y, en particular, en las Islas Canarias, y “Explorando el Universo más Extremo desde Canarias con CTA” permitirá compartir todos los detalles del proyecto CTA y de sus objetivos científicos con los miembros de la Fundación Starlight, una entidad clave para la protección de los cielos nocturnos y la divulgación de la astronomía. Además, este seminario servirá de preludio para futuras colaboraciones conjuntas en La Palma.
+
+El seminario computará para la renovación bianual del carnet de Monitores y Guías Starlight. El seminario es gratuito, pero la inscripción es obligatoria a través del siguiente [Formulario de Inscripción](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXaffwqPSrrFJfU9HRHdZbpjA4A-f5tPc4fcvAn7G2Nbxkew/viewform). Se realizará a través de la plataforma Zoom, cuyo enlace se compartirá con los participantes registrados vía correo electrónico antes del evento.
+
+### Información CTA
+
+El [Cherenkov Telescope Array](https://www.cta-observatory.org/) (CTA) es una iniciativa global para construir el observatorio de rayos gamma de alta energía más grande y sensible del mundo, con decenas de telescopios planificados en dos emplazamientos: uno en el hemisferio norte en la isla de La Palma, España, y otro en el hemisferio sur cerca de Paranal, Chile. CTA será el principal observatorio mundial para la astronomía de muy altas energías durante más allá de la próxima década, y será el primer observatorio de rayos gamma terrestre abierto a las comunidades globales de astronomía y física de partículas. CTA abordará algunos de los más grandes misterios en astrofísica, detectando rayos gamma con una sensibilidad sin precedentes y expandiendo increíblemente el catálogo de fuentes cósmicas, con más de 1000 fuentes nuevas. CTA es una infraestructura única y ambiciosa a gran escala que ampliará las observaciones a una región del espectro nunca antes investigada, abriendo una puerta totalmente nueva de nuestro Universo. CTAO gGmbH (gobernado por un [consejo de accionistas](https://www.cta-observatory.org/about/governance/) de 11 países y una organización intergubernamental, así como miembros asociados de dos países) es responsable de preparar el diseño e implementación del CTA Observatory. CTAO trabaja en estrecha cooperación con el Consorcio CTA formado por más de 1500 miembros de 31 países, que está a cargo de dirigir los objetivos científicos del Observatorio y está involucrado en el suministro de instrumentación.
+
+### Información Fundación Starlight
+
+La [Fundación Starlight](https://www.fundacionstarlight.org/), ubicada en Tenerife, es una entidad con personalidad jurídica propia – creada por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y la Consultora Corporación 5 -, cuya finalidad principal es la protección del cielo nocturno, la divulgación astronómica, así como la coordinación y gestión del movimiento Starlight a nivel mundial. Para ello, desarrolla actividades y ofrece diversos productos y servicios relacionados con esta materia. Esta entidad sin ánimo de lucro engloba y coordina ideas, proyectos y actividades que, bajo el nombre de Starlight, ofrece a la sociedad una forma diferente de valorar el cielo estrellado. Además, la Fundación Starlight, a través de su Sistema de Certificación, pretende generar una economía en territorios eminentemente rurales, contribuyendo a la lucha contra la despoblación y la desestacionalización de los destinos y al desarrollo del astroturismo. La Fundación Starlight contempla tres grandes figuras: 1.  Las Reservas y los Destinos Turísticos Starlight, como la isla de La Palma que acoge el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), administrado por el IAC. 2.  [Alojamientos Starlight](https://www.fundacionstarlight.org/es/apartados/listado--alojamientos-starlight/299.html), constituyen una red internacional de hoteles y casas rurales, paradores, albergues, campings, etc., que cuentan con cielos nocturnos acreditados de alta calidad aptos para la observación astronómica y que proporcionan herramientas a los clientes para la observación y promueven actividades de astroturismo. Asimismo, exigen otras modalidades que persiguen la preservación y puesta en valor del cielo nocturno y el desarrollo económico sostenible de las comunidades locales. 3. La Fundación Starlight es la entidad encargada de impartir los cursos de Monitores y Guías Astronómicos Starlight, avalados por el IAC, que cuentan con una gran aceptación y que se han celebrado en diversos lugares del mundo. Son el personal capacitado para conducir grupos en la noche y en el día, para que los visitantes, además de disfrutar de la naturaleza, puedan enriquecer, a través de la divulgación, sus conocimientos del Universo. En particular, los Guías Starlight son los únicos profesionales autorizados por el IAC para organizar y realizar visitas guiadas al ORM para explicar los telescopios. El personal está formado por astrónomos, astrofotógrafos y de otras disciplinas relacionadas, bien preparados y capacitados, que deben someterse a talleres dedicados cada dos años para mantenerse al día sobre las últimas noticias en ciencia y tecnología astronómica, especialmente sobre los instrumentos y ciencia en el ORM. Más información en www.fundacionstarlight.org
+
+### Contactos
+
+Contacto CTA Observatory (CTAO): [Alba Fernández-Barral](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org), Coordinadora de Divulgación y Educación de CTAO
+
+Contacto Fundación Starlight: [Antonia M. Varela Pérez](mailto:formación@fundacionstarlight.org), Directora de la Fundación Starlight y Dra. en Astrofísica del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
+
+### Organizado por:
+
+### Colabora:
diff --git a/src/content/news/site-infrastructure-work-commences.md b/src/content/news/site-infrastructure-work-commences.md
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+---
+title: "Site Infrastructure Work Commences"
+description: "The CTA northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere array sites in La Palma and Chile, respectively, have been full of activity recently as site infrastructure design studies commence and the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype prepares…"
+date: 2017-04-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/drillings-12-1-768x414.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+#### In the northern hemisphere…
+
+The CTA northern hemisphere array site in La Palma has been full of activity recently as site infrastructure design studies commence and the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype prepares for the next stage of assembly. Below, a draft schematic of the site layout for the four LSTs (plans for 15 Medium-Sized Telescopes not shown). Work on the site’s infrastructure, which is being coordinated by the CTA Project Office, is well underway. A Madrid-based company, Geo-Avance, has been contracted to conduct the topographical study of the site, which is estimated to begin in May. The study will report on the site’s characterization by taking detailed accounts of the contours of the rolling, rocky hills of the site and giving a bird’s-eye view with aerial photography. These details will be integral to design decisions for the placement of telescopes, roads and underground services (power and data). Preparations are underway for the geotechnical study, which is estimated to begin this summer.
+
+The LST prototype foundation (above, right) was completed in January 2017. The telescope and camera access tower foundations were constructed with 620 cubic metres of concrete or about 1,500 tonnes! This massive amount of concrete will help keep the telescope and its mirror (400 square metres) stable in event of very high winds.
+
+The next step is to install the circular 23 m diameter rail used to spin the telescope, followed by the installation of the six-wheel undercarriage. The telescope structure is planned for installation between April and October. The camera access tower should be built in September and, in the final step, the camera is scheduled to be installed in November 2017.
+
+[Learn more about CTA’s northern hemisphere site.](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/)
+
+#### In the southern hemisphere…
+
+Signs of progress toward construction are beginning to pop up around CTA’s southern hemisphere site in Chile. Pictured below, shipping containers at Paranal are being refurbished to serve as the CTA site offices and meetings rooms, while piles of stones serve as makeshift markers for the future homes of CTA telescopes.
+
+Like the northern array site, site infrastructure design studies are preparing the site for the final design of the facilities and services both above- and below-ground. The geotechnical study (above, right), which began in March and is estimated to be completed by the end of April, is being coordinated by the University of Warsaw and conducted by the Chile-based company Sondeal. The topographical study for site characterization will begin soon and be completed in May.
+
+The detailed designs of the buildings and technical facilities are in the advanced development stages and are expected to undergo internal reviews before this summer.
+
+[Learn more about CTA’s southern hemisphere site.](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/)
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+---
+title: "Small-Sized Telescope Harmonization Process and Status"
+description: "CTA is a large science infrastructure with many individual units and a high degree of complexity. There are many good reasons to design and implement the simplest and most harmonized system possible. One prominent area concerns the…"
+date: 2019-10-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/SSTs-768x424.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/00a6b9b4cd4e/cta-newsletter-october2019-spanish-1474929) Originally published in the [October 2019 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/12cb6698d185/cta-newsletter-october2019-english).
+
+*By: Wolfgang Wild, CTAO Project Manager
+
+*
+
+CTA is a large science infrastructure with many individual units and a high degree of complexity. There are many good reasons to design and implement the simplest and most harmonized system possible. In fact, a high degree of simplification will be a crucial success factor both during construction and operation. This need for harmonization applies to many subsystems and components of the array. One prominent area concerns the Small-Sized Telescope (SST) where harmonization is of very high importance due to the large number of units to be built, operated and maintained.
+
+Recognizing this, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) Project Office initiated discussions among the SST technical teams and shareholders in February 2018. As a result, the shareholders and those observers interested in providing SSTs as an in-kind contribution unanimously agreed on 9 May 2018 to implement only one SST design at the observatory.
+
+Concerning the process to arrive at a single SST design from three proposed designs, the CTAO Council mandated the CTA Project Manager to carry out an SST harmonization review involving external experts. Following this mandate, a Request for Information was issued on 1 August 2018, resulting in three submissions by the deadline of 31 October 2018.
+
+In November 2018, the Council unanimously approved the appointment of the members and charges of the external SST Harmonization Review Panel. The panel formed and conducted four remote conferences between 7 January and 4 March 2019 and held a final in-person meeting with the three SST teams on 27-29 March 2019. The report of the panel was delivered on 3 April 2019 and was immediately made available to the Council and the submitting teams.
+
+Based on the review findings and recommendations, and taking into account funding considerations, the CTAO Management formulated its proposal for a unified SST design (the “CTA-SST”). In its June 2019 meeting and following the CTAO Management proposal, the Council decided that “the CTA-SST design should be based on the ASTRI/CHEC design (pictured above), taking into account the experience gained from all designs.” Since June 2019, various discussions have taken place among the teams and shareholders interested in joining the common SST effort. It is expected that a CTA-SST Consortium will form by the Council meeting this November. The teams that have decided not to join the CTA-SST Consortium are looking into other areas of contribution to CTA.
+
+As expected, reaching this point has not been an easy process. We recognize the years of dedication and hard work that have been invested into each of the proposed designs. I would like to thank the SST teams and the panel of reviewers for their participation and diligence as we continue our pursuit to build the best instrument possible for our collective goals.
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+---
+title: "The SST Underwent the Product Review and Is One Step Closer to the Final Critical Design Review"
+description: "On February 15, the SST underwent the Product Review, which examined the implementation of actions towards the industrialization of the telescope and the optimization of the maintenance activities."
+date: 2023-02-20
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FeatureImage_Website_ASTRI-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On February 15, 2023, the Product Review of the Small-Sized Telescope (SST) was held at the CTAO office in Bologna (Italy). This review is the formal conclusion of the Design Verification and Engineering Review (DVER) that the telescope underwent in July 2020. During the DVER, certain actions towards the industrialization of the SST and the optimization of the maintenance activities, with a view to reducing the maintenance workload and the cost of the SSTs, were recommended. Thus, the Product Review examined the implementation of the recommended actions and the resulting design choices.
+
+The review was jointly organized by the SST team and the CTAO Project Office, and was carried out along with a panel consisting of experts from the CTAO, collaborating and external institutes. As a result of the review, the preliminary design presented for the SST was unanimously considered globally adequate for further development until the Critical Design Review (CDR). The process is not yet finished: the panel will issue a detailed report with final recommendations to consider for the CDR, the final review for all subsystems to verify that the design is successfully completed and satisfies the specified requirements before its formal acceptance as a CTAO telescope.
+
+The CTAO Project Office would like to thank all participants and in particular the external panel members and chair for their participation, involvement and dedication in the Product Review of the SST.
+
+The SST, one of the three types of telescopes that the CTAO will use to cover its unprecedented energy range, is optimized to detect the highest-energy gamma rays, from about 0.5 TeV up to 300 TeV. The SSTs will outnumber all the other telescopes with 37 planned to be spread out over ~3 km2 in the [southern hemisphere array](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/) only. The SST full design is based on the so-called ASTRI structure and the Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC). Read more about the SST on [the dedicated webpage](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/).
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+---
+title: "Site Negotiations for Cherenkov Telescope Array Started"
+description: "On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre…"
+date: 2014-04-10
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/1966036_562439230521463_1824076652_o-1600x900.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 10 April 2014, the 12 country delegates mandated by their governments to decide about the start of site negotiations for CTA met in Munich. They took note of the report of the international Site Selection Committee (SSC) and thanked the members of the SSC as well as the CTA consortium for their extensive inputs on the merits of the proposed sites.
+
+The delegates representing Argentina, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK decided, based on the 75 percent majority required, to start the negotiations on the two sites in the southern hemisphere, namely Aar in Namibia and European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, keeping Leoncito in Argentina as a third option. After negotiations finally one site will be selected at the end of the year. With the selection of the potential telescope sites in the southern hemisphere an important step towards the realization of the international Cherenkov Telescope Array has been made.
+
+As far as the northern site of the CTA Observatory is concerned – candidate sites are located in Mexico, Spain and the USA – further considerations are necessary. Therefore, the delegates decided to postpone their decision and to ask the CTA board of agency representatives – the Resource Board – to take this forward. The decision for the negotiations about the northern hemisphere site will be taken as soon as possible.
+
+“We are very happy that this important step has been reached,” said B. Vierkorn-Rudolph, chair of the CTA Resource Board. “CTA will be a unique large-scale infrastructure for astronomy – with this decision we now can start the negotiations with the potential site countries in the southern hemisphere and advance the implementation of CTA.” The spokesperson of the CTA Consortium, Professor Werner Hofmann said, “The site choice is on the critical path towards implementing CTA; this decision represents a major step forward and we appreciate very much the engagement and support of the funding agencies and the country delegates involved in the decision.”
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+---
+title: "Start of Negotiations for CTA North"
+description: "On 13 June 2016, the governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna as the host site of the CTA Headquarters and Berlin – Zeuthen for the Science Data Management Centre…"
+date: 2015-03-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/SiteMap2FINAL-1600x1252.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 26 March 2015, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Resource Board, composed of representatives of ministries and funding agencies, met in Heidelberg to determine with whom to begin site negotiations for the location of the telescope array in the northern hemisphere. Five candidate sites were considered: two sites in the USA (Arizona), one site in Mexico and two sites on Spain’s Canary Islands.
+
+The voting members representing Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the UK have decided to begin negotiations with two countries, namely Spain (La Palma) and Mexico (San Pedro Mártir). Arizona is still kept in consideration as a possible back-up site. After negotiations, the Board will select the final site in November 2015. In regards to the southern hemisphere site, negotiations with the candidates Namibia and Chile/ESO are progressing and are expected to end in August 2015. I appreciate that we have successfully chosen the northern candidate sites with whom we would like to start negotiations as soon as possible,” said B. Vierkorn-Rudolph, chair of the CTA Resource Board. The spokesperson of the CTA Consortium, Professor Werner Hofmann added, “I’m very much looking forward to the final site decisions later this year; scientists worldwide are eager to see CTA advancing towards implementation.”
+
+Currently in its pre-construction phase, determining the northern and southern hemisphere sites will be a critical step towards the realization of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. “I’m looking forward to converging on final designs for the telescope arrays now that negotiations will start with specific locations in mind,” said Christopher Townsley, CTA project manager. Following the site selection, the project will move forward with construction of the first telescopes on site planned for 2016.
diff --git a/src/content/news/statement-of-support-for-ukraine.md b/src/content/news/statement-of-support-for-ukraine.md
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+---
+title: "Statement of Support for Ukraine"
+description: "On behalf of CTAO and CTAC, we would like to express our full and unconditional support for the citizens of Ukraine and strongly condemn the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine."
+date: 2022-03-04
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Image_Statement_Website-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+On behalf of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC), we would like to express our full and unconditional support for the citizens of Ukraine, who are suffering a military attack by Russia. We follow with grave concern the critical situation in the country and the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
+
+Our thoughts are with the Ukrainian population and especially with our CTA colleagues, with whom we are in constant contact. Please remember that you have the complete support of CTAO and CTAC, and that we are prepared to transmit and coordinate any help you need within our groups.
+
+Many scientific institutions, some of which are part of CTAC, have already taken measures to support Ukrainian researchers and sanctions in the research field in response to the Russian attack. Science, as a key element for social development, must contribute to address challenges worldwide to promote and achieve peaceful and inclusive societies. As an international observatory, we are committed to foster peaceful collaboration globally and we strongly condemn the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
+
+We hope that the aggression ceases immediately and that peace is restored in Ukraine again.
diff --git a/src/content/news/status-volcanic-eruption-la-palma.md b/src/content/news/status-volcanic-eruption-la-palma.md
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+---
+title: "Status of the CTAO-North site and LST-1 after Volcanic Eruption at La Palma (Spain)"
+description: "Due to the volcanic eruption that affects La Palma (Spain), movement of the LST-1 is suspended and mirrors will be covered until at least October 25. The CTAO and the LST-1 team express their sincere solidarity to the citizens of the…"
+date: 2021-09-27
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/LST1_350_160-01-1-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+*(English version below)*
+
+El Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) y el equipo del prototipo del Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1), en nombre de todos sus miembros, expresan su más sincera solidaridad con los ciudadanos de la isla canaria de La Palma que están sufriendo las consecuencias de la erupción volcánica, así como su agradecimiento y apoyo a todas las unidades de emergencia que trabajan incansablemente en la zona para evitar daños personales.
+
+La erupción se inició el 19 de septiembre de 2021 en Cumbre Vieja (El Paso), a más de 20 km de distancia en línea recta (~ 65 km por carretera) del Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), donde se encuentra el emplazamiento de CTAO-Norte y, dentro de este, el LST-1. La altitud de la erupción fue de unos 600 m sobre el nivel del mar, muy por debajo de los ~ 2200 m donde se encuentra el emplazamiento de CTAO. Nos gustaría confirmar que todos los miembros de CTAO y del LST-1 en La Palma se encuentran bien y a salvo.
+
+Tras el período de luna llena, durante el cual los telescopios Cherenkov no operan, se esperaba reanudar las observaciones con el LST-1 la noche del jueves 23 de septiembre. Sin embargo, tras una inspección en el emplazamiento, y debido al cambio en la dirección del viento hacia el ORM que portó ceniza, se ha decidido suspender cualquier movimiento del telescopio y cubrir los espejos para prevenir daños hasta el 25 de octubre, cuando se realizará una nueva evaluación. Se está controlando el nivel de ceniza en el aire que, hasta el momento, no representa un riesgo para la salud. No obstante, la evolución del fenómeno y los posibles efectos secundarios están siendo continuamente analizados con el fin de tomar las medidas necesarias para mantener la seguridad de los trabajadores de CTAO y del LST-1. Más información sobre la situación actual, los riesgos y las reglas a seguir en La Palma en [las páginas de las autoridades oficiales](https://riesgovolcanico-lapalma.hub.arcgis.com/).
+
+Estamos en contacto con el ORM, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y las autoridades locales para seguir monitoreando la situación de este evento que, lamentablemente, ya ha causado graves daños materiales a los residentes de la isla. Más de 6000 personas han sido evacuadas, muchas de las cuales han perdido sus hogares y pertenencias. Por ello, en nombre de CTAO y del LST-1, queremos animar a los miembros de CTA y a todas aquellas personas que quieran ayudar a los ciudadanos de La Palma en estos momentos tan difíciles a hacerlo a través de las plataformas facilitadas por las autoridades públicas locales. Más información sobre cómo ayudar a las personas afectadas por la erupción volcánica:
+
+- [Cabildo de La Palma](https://www.cabildodelapalma.es/es/como-ayudar-afectados-volcan-de-la-palma)
+- [Ayuntamiento El Paso](https://elpaso.es/donaciones-damnificados-por-la-erupcion-volcanica/?fbclid=IwAR0W0kFd-7X-MIj1Zcvi4X_T82sP5mgERarlfqu0IWehBjut68Yu-d1vti4#iLightbox[gallery144457]/0)
+- [Ayuntamiento Los Llanos de Aridane](https://www.facebook.com/aytoAridane/posts/4728570020500334)
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) team, on behalf of all their members, express their sincere solidarity to the citizens of the Canary Island of La Palma, who are suffering the consequences of the volcanic eruption, as well as gratitude and support to all the emergency units that work tirelessly in the area to avoid personal damages.
+
+The eruption initiated on September 19, 2021, in Cumbre Vieja (El Paso), at more than 20 km away in a straight line (~ 65 km by road) from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM), where the CTAO-North site and the LST-1 therein are located. Additionally, the altitude of the eruption was about 600 m a.s.l., well below the ~2200 m a.s.l. where the CTAO site stands. We would like to confirm that all CTAO and LST-1 members at La Palma are ok and safe.
+
+After the moon break during which the Cherenkov telescopes do not operate, the observations with the LST-1 were expected to resume on the night of Thursday, September 23.  However, after an inspection of the site and due to a shift of the wind towards the ORM that brought ash, it was decided to suspend all movement of the telescope and to cover the mirrors to prevent any damage until Monday October 25, when further evaluation will be performed. The ash level in the air is being monitored and so far, it does not represent a health risk. Nevertheless, the evolution of the phenomenon and possible side effects are continuously analyzed in order to take any action to keep the safety of the CTAO and LST-1 crew. Updated information about the current situation, risks and rules to follow at La Palma can be found [in the local authorities’ websites.](https://riesgovolcanico-lapalma.hub.arcgis.com/)
+
+We are in touch with the ORM, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and local authorities to keep monitoring the situation of this event that, unfortunately, has already caused serious material damages to the residents at the southern region of the island. More than 6,000 people have been evacuated, many of whom have lost their homes and belongings. Therefore, on behalf of CTAO and LST-1, we would like to encourage CTA members and everyone that would like to help La Palma residents in these difficult times to support with donations through the platforms open by the public administrations. More information to help people affected by the volcanic eruption:
+
+- [Cabildo de La Palma](https://www.cabildodelapalma.es/es/como-ayudar-afectados-volcan-de-la-palma)
+- [Ayuntamiento El Paso](https://elpaso.es/donaciones-damnificados-por-la-erupcion-volcanica/?fbclid=IwAR0W0kFd-7X-MIj1Zcvi4X_T82sP5mgERarlfqu0IWehBjut68Yu-d1vti4#iLightbox[gallery144457]/0)
+- [Ayuntamiento Los Llanos de Aridane](https://www.facebook.com/aytoAridane/posts/4728570020500334)
diff --git a/src/content/news/stefan-schlenstedt-joins-ctao-as-computing-coordinator.md b/src/content/news/stefan-schlenstedt-joins-ctao-as-computing-coordinator.md
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+---
+title: "Stefan Schlenstedt Joins CTAO as Computing Coordinator"
+description: "Effective 1 March 2019, Stefan Schlenstedt will join the CTA Observatory (CTAO) as its Computing Coordinator. As a member of the CTA Project Office and part of the construction project, he will play a key role in coordinating software…"
+date: 2019-02-22
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/S.Schlenstedt_cropped2-1-768x377.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+Effective 1 March 2019, Stefan Schlenstedt will join the CTA Observatory (CTAO) as its Computing Coordinator.
+
+Stefan has been with CTA since its inception. While at DESY Zeuthen, he has helped drive the development of the Medium-Sized Telescope, which he led for many years, and was a member of the CTA site search committee. Until last year, he was the DESY group lead, where he was responsible for the MST and Operation and Execution System planning. Before joining CTA, he worked as the reconstruction software lead for AMANDA and the IceCube collaboration.
+
+As a member of the CTA Project Office and part of the construction project, he will play a key role in coordinating software related activities. He will work closely with the coordinators of the various major software elements, systems engineering and the contributing institutions throughout CTA to implement an efficient and easy-to-maintain software system. In addition, he will coordinate the definition of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) infrastructure for the CTA construction project both on- and off-site.
diff --git a/src/content/news/stefano-stanghellini-joins-ctao-as-telescope-coordinator.md b/src/content/news/stefano-stanghellini-joins-ctao-as-telescope-coordinator.md
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+---
+title: "Stefano Stanghellini Joins the CTAO as Telescope Coordinator"
+description: "Effective 1 March 2021, Stefano Stanghellini will join the CTA Observatory’s (CTAO’s) as its Telescope Coordinator, where he will serve as the primary interface between the Project Office and the telescope teams, working closely with the…"
+date: 2021-02-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTA_telescopes_scales_2020_DAY_small-1-1600x779.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+![](/uploads/Stanghellini_Stefano-1067x1600.jpg)
+
+Meet the CTA Observatory’s (CTAO’s) Telescope Coordinator, Stefano Stanghellini. Stefano is a senior engineer who has spent a large part of his career in the design, construction and procurement of telescope systems and the management of telescope groups in an international environment. After graduating in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Bologna (Italy), he was initially employed as a structural engineer in the nuclear and aerospace industries. After joining the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 1990, he contributed to recent ESO telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope (VLT), Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and, more recently, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).
+
+At the VLT, Stefano was in charge of various key subsystems, including the optomechanics of the primary and secondary mirrors. He then went on to assume the role of system engineer during the initial design phase of the VISTA survey telescope and later became responsible for the overall management of the contracting of the of the 25 ALMA antennas and two antenna transporters. In his most recent role, he led and managed the group responsible for the ESO ELT dome and telescope structure, now under construction in Chile. Stefano also has served on various international committees related to other non-ESO telescope projects.
+
+Given that the telescopes represent the biggest sub-system of the CTA Observatory, the Telescope Coordinator role is integral to the overall success of the project. When Stefano assumes the role on 1 March, he will serve as the primary interface between the Project Office and the telescope teams, working closely with the potential telescope In-Kind Contribution (IKC) providers in the areas of telescope design and manufacturing, detailed scheduling, assembly, integration and verification, inspection and test procedures, and the resolution of problems. He will support the IKC agreement negotiations for the telescopes and be responsible for conducting telescope sub-system reviews, monitor the telescope construction work by the IKC providers and organize the telescope acceptances.
diff --git a/src/content/news/stephan-haid-joins-ctao-as-director-of-administration.md b/src/content/news/stephan-haid-joins-ctao-as-director-of-administration.md
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+---
+title: "Stephan Haid Joins the CTAO as Director of Administration"
+description: "Effective 1 March 2019, Stefan Schlenstedt will join the CTA Observatory (CTAO) as its Computing Coordinator. As a member of the CTA Project Office and part of the construction project, he will play a key role in coordinating software…"
+date: 2020-03-01
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 1 March, Stephan Haid joined the CTAO as its Director of Administration. In this position he will be responsible for a broad range of administrative activities such as Human Resources, Finances, Procurement or Legal Services. As a member of the CTAO management team, Stephan has a key role in establishing the administrative and organizational framework of the CTAO European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CTAO ERIC).
+
+Stephan Haid studied Business Administration, focusing on international and strategic management, and received his diploma in 2007 from the Free University of Berlin. Upon graduation, Stephan worked as an advisor for the German Development Service in Ghana. In 2009, he joined the Helmholtz Centre Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg as the Executive Assistant of the Director of Administration. Since 2013, Stephan has been the Head of Department for the “Organisation and Business Information Systems.“ The main focus of his work was the organizational development and the design and implementation of administrative structures, systems and processes, especially the development and implementation of the administrative processes and governance to meet the role of DESY as host and shareholder of the European XFEL GmbH and operator of the XFEL accelerator. Further, he was responsible for the development and operation of the business information systems (Enterprise Resources Planning System and Document Management System) and was the Risk Management Officer of the DESY Board of Directors.
diff --git a/src/content/news/strategic-plan-for-european-astronomy-ranks-ctao-as-priority.md b/src/content/news/strategic-plan-for-european-astronomy-ranks-ctao-as-priority.md
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+---
+title: "The “Strategic Plan for European Astronomy” Ranks the CTAO as Highest Priority in Ground-based Astronomy"
+description: "The recently-released ASTRONET “Science Vision and Infrastructure Roadmap 2022-2035” includes the CTAO as the top-ranked priority amongst new ground-based infrastructure projects. The strategic plan highlights the CTAO as the future leader…"
+date: 2023-05-08
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/ESO_small-768x387.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+The recently-released ASTRONET [Science Vision and Infrastructure Roadmap 2022-2035](https://www.astronet-eu.org/?page_id=521) includes the CTAO as the top-ranked priority amongst new ground-based infrastructure projects. The strategic plan highlights that “as the first true large-scale observatory targeting these [very high] energies, it [the CTAO] is expected to lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of the origins and production of non-thermal particles in the Universe.” The ASTRONET roadmap provides an overview of the status of European Astronomy, as well as recommendations to funding agencies for the next decade, based on the priorities of the community.
+
+The 2022-2035 roadmap emphasizes CTAO’s unique capabilities and the strong support it receives from the community. Moreover, it stresses how the Observatory will be a key facility to address important science questions, such as the exploration of fundamental physics, including the nature of dark matter, the origin and acceleration of cosmic rays, the formation and evolution of compact objects, among others.
+
+The CTAO was included in the previous ASTRONET 2008 roadmap as a priority for medium-sized ground-based facilities. The repeated inclusion of the Observatory as a priority within the European astronomy roadmap reflects the continuing interest of the scientific community in the CTAO and its potential to unravel great scientific unknowns.
+
+The CTAO organization is expected to become a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) before fall 2023. The launch of the CTAO ERIC initiates the official beginning of the construction phase of the Observatory, which will be the first open ground-based gamma-ray observatory on the planet.
+
+“The construction of the CTAO will begin soon – the commitment of the countries is clear and the financing for the construction is confirmed, while the technical aspects and the management plans are almost finished,” explains Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of CTAO gGmbH. “The competences already assumed by the designated Director General of the CTAO ERIC, Stuart McMuldroch, reassures the timely completion of this transition and beginning of construction, which will open exciting times for science.”
+
+ASTRONET is a group of European funding agencies, community representatives and infrastructures working together as a forum for coordination for all aspects of European Astronomy. Formed in the early 2000’s with EU funding, it was responsible for the first European Science Vision and Infrastructure Roadmaps (2007/8) and their revisions (2013/14). It currently includes representatives from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and ESO. The European Astronomical Society (EAS), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the SKAO are also observers, and it has connections to independent research consortia such as the AstroParticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC), the Opticon Radionet Pilot (ORP) and Europlanet.
+
+Read the full roadmap on the [ASTRONET’s website](https://www.astronet-eu.org/).
diff --git a/src/content/news/stuart-mcmuldroch-joins-ctao.md b/src/content/news/stuart-mcmuldroch-joins-ctao.md
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+---
+title: "Stuart McMuldroch, Designated Director General for the future CTAO ERIC, Joins the Management Board of the CTAO gGmbH"
+description: "Dr. Stuart McMuldroch has been appointed as the second Managing Director of the Management Board of the CTAO gGmbH, starting from 30 April 2023, alongside the Observatory’s existing Director, Prof. Federico Ferrini. McMuldroch and Ferrini…"
+date: 2023-04-19
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/featureimage_StuartMcMuldroch-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Dr. Stuart McMuldroch has been appointed as the second Managing Director of the Management Board of the CTAO gGmbH, starting from 30 April 2023, alongside the Observatory’s existing Director, Prof. Federico Ferrini. McMuldroch and Ferrini will work together on the final steps of the Observatory’s legal entity transition, from a gGmbH (under German law) to a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC, under European law). McMuldroch was recently selected as the first Director General of the CTAO ERIC by the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR), a position he will officially assume when the ERIC is established in mid-2023. By joining the Management Board of the CTAO gGmbH now, McMuldroch will help prepare for the establishment of the CTAO ERIC and the resulting transition of the project to the construction phase in the most effective way.
+
+“We are very fortunate that Stuart is already able to join the CTAO during this important period,” says Prof. Federico Ferrini, current CTAO gGmbH Managing Director. “Working side-by-side through this transition will allow us to achieve the objectives that will ensure an optimal start of the construction phase in the CTAO ERIC era.”
+
+McMuldroch has a PhD in Astronomy and more than 22 years of experience managing large-scale international projects at academic, commercial and government organizations. He was part of the New Horizons and GOES-R space missions as team leader for the design and construction of key optical subsystems. Prior to his appointment as designated Director General for the CTAO ERIC, McMuldroch was the Head of the Giant Magellan Telescope program office at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA)/Harvard & Smithsonian.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Ferrini will continue to manage the day-to-day business of the CTAO gGmbH, focusing on tasks such as running the operational business processes of the CTAO gGmbH, preparing the governing policies and rules of the CTAO ERIC and transferring all relevant assets from the CTAO gGmbH to the CTAO ERIC for the eventual liquidation of the former legal entity. In parallel, McMuldroch will focus on the preparation of the CTAO ERIC and the construction project. This encompasses preparing the CTAO ERIC’s organizational structure and business process, ramping up the staff, coordinating activities for the establishment and full operability of the ERIC, as well as preparing construction, including the project schedule.
+
+“The CTAO is an exceptional project that is entering an extremely exciting and challenging construction phase,” says Dr. Stuart McMuldroch, designated Director General of the CTAO ERIC and Co-Director of the gGmbH. “I am looking forward to working with Federico and the rest of the CTAO team – we have a lot to do, but I am optimistic and energised about the path ahead!”
+
+This joint working approach builds upon the already well-established collaboration of Dr. Stuart McMuldroch and Prof. Federico Ferrini in addition to that of the CTAO gGmbH Council and the BGR; all of whom are working towards the common goal of constructing the first, open ground-based gamma-ray observatory on the planet.
diff --git a/src/content/news/sub-consortium-forms-build-first-pre-production-mst-cta.md b/src/content/news/sub-consortium-forms-build-first-pre-production-mst-cta.md
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+---
+title: "Sub-Consortium Forms to Build First Pre-Production MST for CTA"
+description: "Representatives of CTA Consortium institutes from France, Germany and Spain met in Saclay (France) in December 2016 to lay the foundations for an international sub-consortium that aims to deliver to CTAO one fully-equipped and functional…"
+date: 2017-05-03
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/MSTN-768x427.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Representatives of CTA Consortium institutes from France, Germany and Spain met in Saclay (France) in December 2016 to lay the foundations for an international sub-consortium that aims to deliver to CTAO one fully-equipped and functional Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) with a NectarCAM camera for the pre-production phase of CTA. The sub-consortium, named MSTN, proposes to install this telescope on CTA’s northern hemisphere site at Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma.
+
+A total of 40 MSTs (25 in the southern hemisphere and 15 in the northern hemisphere) are planned to cover the central CTA energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV). An MST prototype was deployed in Berlin in 2012 (pictured to the left) and has been undergoing performance testing, which will be used as input to the construction of the MSTN pre-production telescope. Similarly, elements of the NectarCAM are undergoing extensive tests in Saclay, and the results will be utilized building the pre-production camera.
+
+The construction of the telescopes will be an international effort. The telescope structure will be provided jointly by Spain, Germany and Brazil, and the mirrors and the camera will come from France with possible contributions from Spain. Installation, commissioning and operation of the telescope in La Palma will be done within the framework of CTAO after a Pre-Production Readiness Review as an in-kind contribution to CTA. DESY, a German institute, will be responsible for the delivery of the telescope, with Stefan Schlenstedt (Germany) as the Principal Investigator and Jean-François Glicenstein (France) as the Co-Principal Investigator of the sub-consortium. The project will be overseen by a steering committee of funding agency representatives that is chaired by Carlos Delgado (Spain).
+
+The formation of the MSTN sub-consortium (pictured above) is seen as a major milestone towards the construction of CTA. It is considered as a first step that will pave the way towards the building, installation and commissioning of more MSTs equipped with NectarCAM cameras during the production phase of CTA.
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+---
+title: "Surveying the Large Magellanic Cloud"
+description: "If you gaze up at a dark night sky, you can easily see the Milky Way, the barred-spiral galaxy hosting our solar system. If you are in the southern hemisphere, you can even spot one of our closest neighbor galaxies, the Large Magellanic…"
+date: 2017-05-10
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/LargeCloud-768x581.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Stefan Funk and Stefano Vercellone*
+
+If you gaze up at a dark night sky, you can easily see the Milky Way, the barred-spiral galaxy hosting our solar system. If you are in the southern hemisphere, you can even spot one of our closest neighbor galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC may be much smaller than the Milky Way, but it is the fourth largest galaxy in our Local Galaxy Group and full of a variety of interesting known and candidate sources of gamma-ray photons.
+
+The LMC is one of the nearest star-forming galaxies and is very active, with five times the star formation rate density of the Milky Way. This activity is demonstrated by more than 60 supernova remnants, dozens to hundreds of H II regions (clouds of luminous interstellar gas), bubbles and shells observed at various wavelengths. Some of the most exceptional objects the LMC hosts include the star-forming region 30 Doradus, the star cluster RMC 136, the remnant of Supernova 1987A and the puzzling 30 Dor C super-bubble.
+
+Supernova 1987A was first recorded in 1987 and is the closest supernova in recent times. Considering its distance, the almost face-on inclination and the typical angular resolution of CTA, the LMC is perhaps the only object that can provide us with a global and significantly resolved view of an external galaxy at gamma-ray energies.
+
+![](/uploads/LMC-1-1.png)
+
+*Skymap Credit: SkyView, A. Mellinger*
+
+The above image shows a proposed survey scheme composed of six pointings evenly distributed around the LMC centre at a separation distance of 2 degrees (green circles, for a typical field-of-view radius of 3 degrees).
+
+The current Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. instruments have revealed a small number of sources, some of uncertain nature. CTA will explore further and deeper, covering the entire LMC and permitting the probe of the population of VHE emitters in a galaxy and its connection to global galaxy properties. Below, a simulated comparison of CTA’s survey of the LMC with current optical and H.E.S.S. images.
+
+![](/uploads/LMC_comparison1-1024x318-1.png)
+
+Observations of this star-forming galaxy will address many CTA science objectives: population studies of supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae; transport of cosmic rays on large scales — from their release into the interstellar medium to their escape from the system; and the search for a signature of dark matter.
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+title: "The Swiss Scientific Community Gathers to Discuss the Contributions and Scientific Goals of the CTAO"
+description: "From 14-15 December 2022, members of the CTAC and CTAO gathered in Zürich (Switzerland) to hold the “Swiss CTA Days.” The event, hosted by the University of Zürich, focused on the Swiss scientific community’s current and future activities…"
+date: 2022-12-21
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/featureimage_SwissCTADays-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+During 14-15 December, members of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC) and Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) gathered in Zürich (Switzerland) to hold the *“*Swiss CTA Days.” The event, hosted by the University of Zürich, focused on the Swiss scientific community’s current and future activities to support the technological and scientific development of the CTAO.
+
+The University of Zürich, the University of Geneva, the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique (LASTRO) and the Advanced Quantum Architecture (AQUA) Laboratory of the EPFL, ETHZ and the CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre of ETH members participates actively in the development of the CTAO, which has been selected as a project relevant to Switzerland in the Roadmap for large Research Infrastructures of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Four work packages are run by these institutes and financed by SERI under two performance agreements.
+
+The workshop initiated with a welcome and remarks by the scientific and institutional representatives from a variety of institutes involved in CTAC and CTAO, such as Stephan Neuhauss (Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Zürich), Rudolf Mumenthaler (Director of University Library Zurich), Brigitte Galliot (Vice Rector for Research University of Geneva), Teresa Montarulli (Coordinator of the Swiss CTA Collaboration) and Roberta Zanin (CTAO Project Scientist).
+
+During the first day, the discussion focused on the four work packages run by the Swiss institutes involved in the construction of the CTAO and financed by SERI. The packages are related to the Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs), the software development of the data formats and data handling for the CTAO’s Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) software, the calibration and bulk archive that interfaces with the science archive for scientists’ use. This software development concerns the Data Pipeline and Preservation System (DPPS) of CTAO. Moreover, participants discussed the development of one of the four off-site data centres, under the responsibility of CSCS and LASTRO of EPFL. The centre will manage CTAO data and also is being organized in synergy with SKAO to equip Switzerland with a data server effective for many Petabyte projects in astronomy. The second day of the workshop served as an opportunity to talk about the scientific interests of the Swiss community and to discuss recent scientific publications within the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astronomical field.
+
+Building on the scientific and technological expertise developed by the Swiss community in relation to the current generation ground-based high-energy gamma-ray telescopes, the group’s participation becomes more fundamental as the CTAO approaches the establishment of its final legal entity, the CTAO ERIC, and the beginning of construction.
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+---
+title: "DESY Hosts Thai Royalty at DESY-NARIT Cooperation Agreement Signing"
+description: "On 26 November 2015, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT), recorded CTA’s first ever Cherenkov light while undergoing testing at l’Observatoire de Paris in Meudon,…"
+date: 2015-11-18
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/news4.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On 18 November 2015, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand attended the signature ceremony of the DESY-NARIT (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand) Cooperation Agreement on Astroparticle Physics at DESY Hamburg. A new Consortium member, NARIT intends to collaborate with CTA on mirror re-coating and array control, as well as provide 1-1.2 full-time employees from Thailand to work with DESY in Hamburg.
+
+More information: [http://www.narit.or.th/en/index.php/news/400-desy-narit-mou-astroparticle-physics-cooperation](http://www.narit.or.th/en/index.php/news/400-desy-narit-mou-astroparticle-physics-cooperation)
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+title: "The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium"
+description: "Bologna, Italy, 7 January 2025 – On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s…"
+date: 2025-01-07
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTAO_Telescopes-1600x840.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+**Bologna, Italy, 7 January 2025 –** On January 7, 2025, the [European Commission](https://commission.europa.eu/index_en) established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a [European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)](https://www.eric-forum.eu/), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. The creation of the CTAO ERIC will enable the Observatory’s construction to advance rapidly and provide a framework for distributing its data worldwide, significantly accelerating its progress toward scientific discovery.
+
+“The ERIC will streamline the construction and operation of the Observatory in a way that will undoubtedly help the CTAO attract new talent and investment as it continues to grow,” stated Dr. Aldo Covello, Chair of the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR). “The ERIC status provides the CTAO with the legal stability and administrative advantages it needs to be sustainable in its worldwide operations and impact.”
+
+The CTAO ERIC was established with the international support of 11 countries and one intergovernmental organisation that contribute to the technological development, construction and operation of the Observatory. The BGR represents this group and has been responsible for the preparation of the ERIC.
+
+“We are grateful to our founding members for their support and to the European Commission for reaffirming their confidence in the CTAO as a world-class research infrastructure,” said Dr. Stuart McMuldroch, CTAO Managing Director. “This milestone represents the culmination of years of dedicated planning by the diverse teams contributing to the success of the Observatory. With the CTAO ERIC, we now have a powerful instrument to consolidate our efforts and drive the project forward.”
+
+The ERIC not only provides the Central Organisation with a formal framework to accept and operate the current telescope prototypes, but it also allows for the immediate start of construction for the full array of more than 60 telescopes across both telescope sites in Spain and Chile. On the CTAO-North site, where the Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) is under commissioning, three additional LSTs and one Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) are expected to be built in the next 1-2 years. Meanwhile, on the CTAO-South site, the first five Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) and two MSTs are expected to be delivered by early 2026. Thus, with the aid of the ERIC, the Observatory is expected to be able to operate intermediate array configurations as early as 2026. These sub-sets of the final arrays will already be more sensitive than any existing instrument, bringing the Observatory’s early science within reach.
+
+The impact of the ERIC will extend beyond hardware, influencing several other key areas. In the coming months, the Observatory will prepare to integrate and operate advanced software designed to control the telescopes and their supporting devices on-site, as well as to manage data processing. Additionally, the ongoing recruitment campaign will continue across all CTAO facilities, including the CTAO Headquarters in Italy and the CTAO Science Data Management Centre in Germany, ensuring robust support for these developments.
+
+The CTAO was promoted to a “Landmark” on the [European Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) Roadmap 2018](https://www.ctao.org/news/cta-promoted-to-landmark-status-on-2018-esfri-roadmap/) and was ranked as the main priority among the new ground-based infrastructures in the [ASTRONET Roadmap 2022-2035](https://www.cta-observatory.org/strategic-plan-for-european-astronomy-ranks-ctao-as-priority/). Now, after years of extensive preparatory work, and with the final legal entity in place, the CTAO solidifies its standing in the global research community, facilitating synergies with other international organisations and observatories.
+
+“The ERIC status strengthens the presence of the CTAO in Europe and its role as a key player in the European Research Area, but the support we have received and the scope of the CTAO ERIC’s influence goes far beyond European borders,” explained Prof. Federico Ferrini, co-Managing Director. “To build and operate the world’s largest gamma-ray observatory that serves the ambitious needs of the global scientific community, we are counting on an increasing number of partners from around the world.”
+
+The CTAO ERIC Members are Austria, Czech Republic, European Southern Observatory (ESO), France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. Additionally, Switzerland is an Observer, Japan is a Strategic Partner and Australia is a Third Party.
+
+Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/7 of 7 January 2025 setting up the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory ERIC (CTAO ERIC) is available on the [Official Journal of the European Union](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202500007).
+
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+
+The CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory; [www.ctao.org](https://www.ctao.org/)) will be the world’s largest and most powerful [observatory for gamma-ray astronomy](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/science/how-ctao-works/). The CTAO’s unparalleled accuracy and broad energy range (20 GeV- 300 TeV) will help to address some of the most perplexing questions in astrophysics, falling under [three major themes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/science/study-themes/): understanding the origin and role of relativistic cosmic particles; probing extreme environments, such as black holes or neutron stars; and exploring frontiers in physics, searching for dark matter or deviations from Einstein’s theory of relativity. Additionally, the CTAO will play a key role in both multi-wavelength and multi-messenger fields in the coming decades thanks to its enhanced performance, which will allow it to provide fundamental gamma-ray information in the quest to probe the most extreme scenarios.
+
+To cover its broad energy range, the CTAO will use [three types of telescopes](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/): the [Large-Sized Telescopes (LST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/lst/), the [Medium-Sized Telescopes (MST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/mst/) and the [Small-Sized Telescopes (SST)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/). More than 60 telescopes will be distributed between two telescope array sites: [CTAO-North](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-north/) in the northern hemisphere at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias’ (IAC’s) Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Spain), and [CTAO-South](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/ctao-south/) in the southern hemisphere at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The [Headquarters](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/facilities/) of the CTAO is hosted by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Bologna (Italy), and the [Science Data Management Centre (SDMC)](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/facilities/) is hosted by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Zeuthen (Germany).
+
+The CTAO is a [Big Data project](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/data-and-computing/). The Observatory will generate hundreds of petabytes (PB) of data in a year (~3 PB after compression). Based on its commitment to Open Science, the CTAO will be the first gamma-ray observatory of its kind to operate as an open, proposal-driven observatory providing public access to its high-level science data and software products.
+
+The [CTAO Central Organisation](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/) (legally, the CTAO ERIC) is in charge of the construction and operations of the Observatory. This group works in close cooperation with partners from around the world toward the development of the Observatory. Major partners include [In-Kind Contribution Collaborations](https://www.ctao.org/partners/in-kind-contributors/) that are developing essential hardware and software, in addition to the [CTAO Consortium](https://www.ctao.org/partners/ctao-consortium/), an international group of researchers who works in the scientific exploitation of the Observatory.
+
+The [European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)](https://www.eric-forum.eu/) is a specific legal form under EU law that facilitates the establishment and operation of [Research Infrastructures](https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe/research-infrastructures_en) with a European interest. A European Commission decision is required to set up a new ERIC. The CTAO is the 29th ERIC created since 2009 and proves that the ERIC legal instrument facilitates pan-European and international scientific collaboration.
+
+The members of an ERIC are EU Member States, associated countries within the EU framework programme for research and innovation and, under certain conditions, other non-EU countries and intergovernmental organisations.
+
+Read the press release by the European Commission on [their dedicated webpage](https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/commission-facilitates-worlds-largest-and-most-powerful-ground-based-gamma-ray-observatory-2025-01-08_en?prefLang=es).
+
+> Lee y descarga la nota de prensa en español aquí: “[El CTAO se convierte en un Consorcio Europeo de Infraestructuras de Investigación](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAOERIC_NotadePrensa.pdf)“.
+
+> Leggi e scarica il comunicato stampa in italiano qui: “[Il CTAO diventa un Consorzio Europeo di Infrastrutture di Ricerca](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAOERIC_ComunicatoStampa.pdf)“.
+
+> Lesen Sie die Pressemitteilung und laden Sie sie hier in deutscher Sprache herunter: “[Das CTAO wird ein Konsortium für eine Europäische Forschungsinfrastruktur.](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAOERIC_Pressemitteilung.pdf)“
+
+> Read and download the press release in English here: “[The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium.](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/CTAOERIC_PressRelease.pdf)“
+
+Support materials, such as renderings, photos and videos, are available for download on the CTAO [Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctao-universe/albums) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@ctao_universe/playlists) channels. For convenience, the links to the most up-to-date content are provided below. Descriptions can be found in the corresponding captions. Unless otherwise noted, the appropriate credit for the CTAO content is “CTAO.” Please read the [media usages guidelines](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/media-library/media-usage/) on our website.
+
+> “Exploring the Universe at the Highest Energies with the CTAO” Film – [Link to Download](https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/Exploring-the-Universe-at-the-Highest-Energies-with-the-CTAO.mp4) & [Link To YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv-JyExCq7Y).
+
+> CTAO-South rendering: [Link to Download](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctao-universe/53205280258/in/album-72157672713462861).
+
+> CTAO-North rendering: [Link to Download](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctao-universe/53205280483/in/album-72157672713462861).
+
+> CTAO Telescopes rendering: [Link to Download](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctao-universe/53482410243/in/album-72157672713462861).
+
+For further information and interview inquiries (both in person and online), please contact:
+
+Dr. Alba Fernández-Barral
+
+CTAO Chief Communications Officer
+
+[alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org)
+
++39-051-6357-270
+
+(English, Spanish and Italian)
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+title: "The CTAO Enters a New Phase of Growth"
+description: "Bologna, Italy – On Thursday, 18 April, during the closing session of the CTAO Science Symposium at Teatro Duse in Bologna, the Managing Director of the CTAO, Dr. Stuart McMuldroch, officially announced the Observatory’s new phase of…"
+date: 2024-04-18
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/AAFF_CTAO_Logo_RGB_Negative-2_cherenkov-1600x960.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+**Bologna, Italy – **On Thursday, 18 April, during the closing session of the CTAO Science Symposium at Teatro Duse in Bologna, the Managing Director of the CTAO, Dr. Stuart McMuldroch, officially announced the Observatory’s new phase of growth. Supported by the 30M Euro endorsement by the [CTAO’s governing bodies](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/governance/) in September 2023, this new period puts an end to the design phase of the Observatory, as it embarks on major infrastructure development to operate intermediate telescope array configurations in the upcoming years.
+
+“We are moving from individual prototype telescopes to building intermediate array configurations on both sites in Spain and Chile,” explained Dr. McMuldroch during his presentation. “While our goal is to reach the Alpha Configuration, these subsets will already be more powerful than any existing instrument.”
+
+“The intermediate array configurations will have a performance two to three times better than the current generation of ground-based instruments, allowing the CTAO to detect fainter sources and minute-scale variability from gamma-ray signals,” says Roberta Zanin, CTAO Project Scientist.
+
+The growth of the CTAO will not only be apparent in terms of hardware, but also software and personnel. Firstly, the Observatory will start applying advanced software packages, moving from testing to integrating key systems that control the telescopes and process data. Additionally, the [CTAO Central Organisation](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/) will double its staff to support the advancement of the Observatory on all fronts, from science and engineering to computing and administration.
+
+To showcase this milestone, Stuart also launched the CTAO’s new visual identity and website during his talk. An important update is that the “CTAO” will now define the Observatory and international project, discontinuing the term “CTA.”
+
+“The CTAO is built thanks to a growing international partnership composed of various teams with different tasks, scopes and even management, but who share a common goal: to build the world’s largest gamma-ray observatory to achieve transformational science,” says Stuart. “The “CTAO” encompasses that joint effort, representing all the groups involved.”
+
+The CTAO’s new logo and brand reflect this fresh phase of growth and collaboration with a clean, modern aesthetic that clearly positions the Observatory for its current and future status in the field. The website ([www.ctao.org](http://www.ctao.org)) is the most visible manifestation of this transition, providing an immersive and engaging interface for the general public and scientists to interact with the science, technology and partners behind the CTAO.
+
+Watch the launch video:
+
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+---
+title: "The CTAO ERIC Council is Officially Established and Elects Francisco Colomer as its Chair"
+description: "On February 12, 2025, the CTAO ERIC Council was formally established during its inaugural meeting in Bologna, Italy, solidifying the governance framework of the CTAO. Following the European Commission’s creation of the CTAO ERIC in January…"
+date: 2025-02-14
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/CTAOERICCouncil_BolognaFeb2025-768x401.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On February 12, 2025, the [CTAO ERIC Council](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/governance/) was formally established during its inaugural meeting in Bologna, Italy, solidifying the governance framework of the CTAO. Following the [European Commission’s creation of the CTAO ERIC](https://www.ctao.org/news/the-ctao-becomes-an-eric/) in January 2025, the newly formed Council plays a fundamental role in steering the organisation’s future. As the Observatory’s governing body, the Council brings together delegates from all governing parties that form the CTAO ERIC to oversee strategy and decision-making in pursuit of CTAO’s mission and objectives.
+
+The first CTAO ERIC Council Meeting, held February 12–13, marked the beginning of a new management era. In a unanimous decision, the Council elected Dr. Francisco Colomer (Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities) as its Chair. Dr. Colomer previously served as a member of the Board of Governmental Representatives, the group responsible for the successful legal transition of the Observatory to an ERIC. Additionally, Dr. Mathieu de Naurois (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet IN2P3-CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, France) was appointed as Vice-Chair of the CTAO ERIC Council.
+
+“We are witnessing the birth of a long waited European Research Infrastructure Consortium, CTAO ERIC, to build and operate a unique instrument, only possible thanks to the cooperation of many international parties,” says Dr. Colomer. “This demonstrates that science brings people together, different interests can be accommodated when we work for a common goal.”
+
+During the meeting, the Council also appointed Dr. Stuart McMuldroch as CTAO ERIC Director General. Dr. McMuldroch, who became a Director of the Observatory in May 2023, will now lead the next phase of the Observatory’s development as it moves from design to construction and operation.
+
+“It is an honour to have the confidence of the Council to lead the Observatory at such a pivotal moment,” says Dr. McMuldroch. “I am passionate and determined to make this exciting project a success, driving it toward groundbreaking scientific discoveries.”
+
+The CTAO ERIC Members are Austria, Czech Republic, European Southern Observatory (ESO), France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. Additionally, Switzerland is an Observer, Japan is a Strategic Partner and Australia is a Third Party.
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+---
+title: "The CTAO ERIC Joins the ERIC Forum"
+description: "From 28 to 29 January, the CTAO ERIC participated in the ERIC Forum Annual Meeting at the Club University Foundation in Brussels, Belgium. During the event, Designated Director General for the CTAO ERIC, Stuart McMuldroch, signed the…"
+date: 2025-01-30
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Eric_Forum-2-1600x900.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+From 28 to 29 January, the CTAO ERIC participated in the [ERIC Forum](https://www.eric-forum.eu/) Annual Meeting at the Club University Foundation in Brussels, Belgium. During the event, Designated Director General for the [CTAO ERIC](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/team/), Stuart McMuldroch, signed the Memorandum of Understanding to make the CTAO the Forum’s newest member after the European Commission [established it as an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) on January 7, 2025](https://www.ctao.org/news/the-ctao-becomes-an-eric/).
+
+The ERIC Forum supports the 29 ERICs in their mission to deliver excellent science and services by serving as a collaborative platform for its members (source: [https://www.eric-forum.eu](https://www.eric-forum.eu)). As an ERIC and a member of the ERIC Forum, the CTAO will now collaborate with Forum members to identify and address common challenges, contributing to the continuing development of ERIC regulation and the European research framework, and participating in advancing ERIC visibility, impact, and sustainability.
+
+![](/uploads/Eric_Forum-3-1600x900.jpg)
+
+![](/uploads/Eric_Forum-4-1-1600x900.jpg)
+
+*Top* *Left: (from left to right) Antje Keppler, Chair of the ERIC Forum; Michael Arentoft, Head of Unit Open Science & Research Infrastructures, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission; Stuart McMuldroch, CTAO ERIC Designated Director General; Jana Pavlic-Zupanc, BBMRI-ERIC, ERIC Forum 2 Project Coordinator; Agnès Robin, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission;, Tiziana della Ragione, Research Program Administrator at ERA and Research Infrastructures Unit, European Commission. Right: Group photo at the ERIC Forum Annual Meeting. (Credit: ERIC Forum)*
+
+The annual meetings bring together ERIC representatives, policymakers, and key stakeholders like EU institutions (Commission, Council, Parliament, Committee of the Regions), ESFRI, national ministries, funding bodies, user communities, international partnerships, regulatory authorities and industry. This significant crossroads of the European research community will be an asset and resource for the CTAO’s development while supporting the enhancement of the European Research Area (ERA) through shared advancements and collaboration.
+
+The current CTAO ERIC Members are Austria, Czech Republic, European Southern Observatory (ESO), France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. Additionally, Switzerland is an Observer, Japan is a Strategic Partner and Australia is a Third Party. The establishment of the CTAO ERIC enables the Observatory’s construction to advance rapidly and provide a framework for distributing its data worldwide, significantly accelerating its progress toward scientific discovery. [Read more about the ERIC and what it means for the CTAO here](https://www.ctao.org/news/the-ctao-becomes-an-eric/).
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+title: "The CTAO Participates in the Creation of the New High-Energy Interest Group within the International Virtual Observatory Alliance"
+description: "On November 17, the Executive Board of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) announced the founding of the High Energy Interest Group or HEIG during the IVOA Interoperability Meeting in Malta. The creation of this group is…"
+date: 2024-12-09
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/25a8479f-5625-4217-bf28-5a37e9d1dd43-768x386.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On November 17, the Executive Board of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) announced the founding of the High Energy Interest Group or HEIG during the IVOA Interoperability Meeting in Malta. The creation of this group is the result of an effort between multiple instruments and observatories, including the CTAO, to address current and future needs of high- and very high-energy astrophysics within IVOA.
+
+The IVOA is a forum that facilitates and coordinates global efforts to establish agreed-upon standards, protocols, and methods aligned with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. These efforts enable the development of interoperable frameworks and applications as an integrated virtual observatory. Its goal is to allow astronomers to seamlessly access and analyze data from different astronomical fields and multiple archives, offering advanced visualization tools and a uniform system for the publication of data. To achieve this, one of the core initiatives includes the creation of standardized data format and exchange methods, as well as a registry of available services and their capabilities. The HEIG will ensure the observatories and instruments in the high-energy field integrate into the interoperable virtual observatory framework.
+
+“High-energy astrophysics instruments are built to detect and measure the properties of individual particles, such as photons or cosmic rays. The techniques required to do so are very different from those applied at other wavelengths, like in optical or radio astronomy,” explains Catherine Boisson, researcher at LUTH and member of the HEIG. “The establishment of the HEIG within the IVOA allows for the development of standardized requirements for representing high-energy astrophysics data and enhances interoperability both among instruments within the field and across other wavelength domains.”
+
+Based on its commitment to Open Science, the CTAO will be the first ground-based gamma-ray observatory to operate as an open, proposal-driven observatory providing public access to its high-level science data and software products. As such, the CTAO was not only a founding member but also a key contributor to the creation of the HEIG, laying the groundwork to ensure that the future CTAO’s products and services will be interoperable.
+
+The CTAO is represented within the HEIG by Karl Kosack, Mathieu Servillat, Catherine Boisson, and Matthias Fuessling, all members of the Data Model group from the CTAO Central Organisation’s Computing Department, as well as Bruno Khélifi, a member of the Very-High Energy Data Format group. All of them played a crucial role in shaping the vision for the HEIG in collaboration with other instruments and, under the guidance of Matthieu Servillat, made significant contributions to the preparation of its foundational document.
+
+The groups and projects that participated in the foundation of the HEIG, and that will become members, belong to multi-messenger astrophysics, including X-ray, gamma-ray, cosmic-ray, and neutrino instruments. Bruno Khélifi has been appointed as the HEIG Chair, with Janet Evans, who works on the Chandra satellite, serving as vice-Chair. More details on the mission of the HEIG are available [on the dedicated webpage](https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/HEGroup).
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+title: "The Dark Side of the Matter"
+description: "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…"
+date: 2020-03-25
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Screenshot-2020-03-25-at-09.30.09-768x559.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/60f13a07ae21/cta-newsletter-march2020-spanish-2)
+
+Originally published in the [March 2020 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/71658f0225bd/cta-newsletter-march2020-english).
+
+*Written by: Gabrijela Zaharijas*
+
+Only a small fraction of the total mass of the Universe is formed by known particles (baryonic matter and neutrinos), while the rest is composed of dark matter – 25 percent of the total energy density of the Universe. This makes dark matter an integral part of the so-called Lambda CDM Cosmological Model*, *which is what scientists use to describe the nature of the Universe according to its age, rate of expansion, history and contents.
+
+The existence of dark matter was first indicated in the 1930s when Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky found an anomaly as he was attempting to estimate the mass of large galaxy clusters using velocity measurements of individual galaxies within those clusters. He found the observed velocities were surprisingly high and postulated that the galaxies must be subject to a gravitational field much stronger than the one simply created by the mass of the observed systems and, thus, that the extra mass was the result of some form of unobserved “dark” type of matter. It took many scientists and 40 years to confirm these predictions, when American astrophysicist Vera Rubin provided robust observational evidences of the discrepancy between the predicted and observed rotational motion of stars in galaxies. Consequently, we now know that all galaxies sit at the centres of dark matter “halos,” characterized by a large central density but extending far beyond the visible galaxy’s size.
+
+While this and many more recent observations tell us that dark matter exists, its nature remains one of the greatest mysteries in science.
+
+### The dark matter mystery
+
+While the Standard Model of particle physics can explain the known particles and forces in the Universe, it cannot explain the existence of the ever-mysterious dark matter. It turns out that none of the particles that make up the Standard Model can completely satisfy the properties of dark matter as is required by cosmological observations. This gap implies that the Standard Model is incomplete and that the solution to the dark matter puzzle may be the link to other unsolved problems in particle physics, so its study could result in a significant breakthrough in our fundamental understanding of nature.
+
+Long-standing candidates for dark matter particles are the so-called Weakly Interacting Massive Particles or WIMPs. WIMPs appeared as a perfect dark matter candidate: theoretical particles with a mass of 100 -1000 times the mass of a proton (100 GeV – 1 TeV, approximately), which would naturally be produced with the right abundance in the early Universe. WIMPs, however, are far from being the only candidate. The wide range of proposed candidates spans about 40 orders of magnitude in mass: from extremely light but theoretically well-motivated particles like “axions“ over the much heavier “WIMPZillas” to macroscopic objects such as primordial black holes.
+
+### Hunting dark matter with CTA and gamma rays
+
+Gravity led to the discovery of dark matter’s existence, and it is still the only force known by which dark matter particles interact. However, if the dark matter particle is to complete the Standard Model of fundamental particles, the hope is that it will also be able to interact with other known particles, which could provide another opportunity for detection.
+
+Over the past few decades, the scientific community joined forces and devised a clear three-pronged strategy to (initially) search for WIMPs: via their production in particle collisions (like in the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva), via their scattering with Standard Model particles in dedicated detectors (called “direct detection” experiments) and through astrophysical observations. The main idea of the latter is that, in regions of the Universe where the dark matter density is high, dark matter particles could self-annihilate or decay, producing Standard Model particles that would reach us in the form of cosmic rays, as well as gamma rays.
+
+Thus, there is no doubt that CTA will act as a powerful dark matter discovery instrument: CTA will detect very high-energy gamma rays, a promising means to search for dark matter as gamma rays travel in straight lines (as opposed to charged cosmic rays) and are easier to capture than neutrinos. In particular, CTA will use its unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution to capture gamma rays exactly over the energy range that corresponds to the heavier end of the WIMP masses.
+
+A variety of experiments over the past few decades have explored and excluded a significant fraction of the lighter WIMP candidates. However, while current instruments are not sensitive enough to detect some of the best-motivated WIMP models, their signals may be lurking exactly in CTA’s optimal energy range. In particular, in an upcoming CTA Consortium publication, CTA scientists demonstrate that the data from the planned survey of the Galactic Centre, where the density of dark matter is expected to be the highest, together with modern analysis techniques, will enable CTA to explore the “Holy Grail” region of the WIMP scenario in detail for the first time in an unrivaled way (see Figure 1).
+
+![](/uploads/CTA_GC_full_small.png)
+
+*Figure 1: Main frame: Artist’s view of the CTA-South array with the view of the Milky Way plane and the Galactic center. Overlaid in violet is a prediction, from computer simulations, for how the dark matter gamma-ray signal might look. Inset: The plot showing the dark matter interaction cross section (y-axis) vs the dark matter particle mass (x-axis). The blue horizontal line marks the region where the WIMP dark matter signal is expected to be. While light WIMPs (left part of the x-axis) are already excluded, the heavier WIMPs will be probed by CTA (CTA sensitivity shown with black lines). Credit: C. Eckner; Rendering: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC), Marc-André Besel  (CTAO); Simulations and inset: CTA Consortium.*
+
+Beyond WIMPs, another pending publication will look at the major role CTA will also play in exploring currently inaccessible aspects of axion-like particle dark matter models. Moreover, unlike current ground-based gamma-ray instruments, CTA will use three different types of telescopes (the Large-, Medium- and Small-Sized Telescopes) that will expand the energy range from 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. This, along with its better 10 percent energy resolution, will maximize CTA’s opportunities to detect spectral features associated with the interaction of dark matter particles of unexpected sources.
+
+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.
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+title: "The First CTAO School is a Wrap"
+description: "The first CTAO School came to a close last week, and the organisers, instructors and students agree that it was a resounding success! The 27 PhD students travelled from 12 different countries for the two-week workshop that took them to…"
+date: 2024-07-05
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Group_CTAOS-768x576.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+The first CTAO School came to a close last week, and the organisers, instructors and students agree that it was a resounding success! The 27 PhD students travelled from 12 different countries for the two-week workshop that took them to Italy and Spain for a deep dive into CTAO science, technology and data analysis.
+
+The school kicked off in Bertinoro, Italy, with a masterclass in gamma-ray astrophysics that included hands-on sessions on how to prepare a science proposal for the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST), the LST-1. The students learned about the open questions in the field and then were instructed to select a topic for which they could apply LST-1 observations. To be able to prepare the science proposal, they also learned how to estimate the required observing time and conditions to reach the selected scientific goal.
+
+For the second week, the students travelled to La Palma in the Canary Islands, which is the home of the CTAO-North site. To learn about the Cherenkov detection principles, the students were led by the instructors through the various steps of data analysis, from the event reconstruction to the production of the physical results that are needed for publications. Special attention was given to high-level analysis with the Gammapy software, which is the basis for future CTAO science analysis.
+
+![The students visit the prototype Large-Sized Telescope, the LST-1.](/uploads/03_CTAOS_v2.jpg)
+
+Then, the students made the trek from the classroom at sea level up to the site of the CTAO’s northern array at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) to experience the life of telescope operators. They learned about Cherenkov instruments and visited the LST prototype, the LST-1, to see the latest in Cherenkov technology up close. Additionally, the students visited the CTAO’s predecessor, MAGIC, at night and had a class in optical astronomy, with day and night visits to the GTC and TNG.
+
+“Before I went to school, I didn’t think I was really interested in the instrumental part of my work. But I was finally amazed by the telescopes and the incredible site of El Roque de los Muchachos, and it made me realise just how huge CTAO is, involving all the people who work there (researchers, engineers, technicians, science popularizers, etc.),” said Coline Dubos, second-year PhD student IJCLab.
+
+![](/uploads/01_CTAOS.jpg)
+
+And, naturally, the course wouldn’t be complete without putting their newfound knowledge and skills to work – the LST-1, MAGIC, GTC and TNG operators kindly shared some observation time with the students.
+
+“I had many valuable lectures and experiences from theoretical and observational perspectives, specifically, as an aspiring theorist, it was a great opportunity to visit and learn deeply about the LST-1…I will never forget the sight of the LST-1 against the backdrop of the Milky Way,” says Tatsuki Fujiwara, second-year graduate student, Osaka University.
+
+Just as important, the students had time to bond and enjoy the beautiful island of La Palma. On their day off they rented cars and explored some of the incredible natural sites of the island. These future scientists not only left the CTAO School with a more in-depth knowledge and experience in gamma-ray astrophysics, but they also established connections for a lifetime!
+
+“The school answered every lingering question I had about research topics like gamma-ray production mechanisms or extensive air shower physics, as well as giving me the opportunity to examine the hardware on current state-of-the-art IACTs in person,” said Luca Riitano, a fourth year PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “All this complimented by the beautiful locations in which the school took place and the new connections made with the lecturers and students alike.”
+
+The success of the first  CTAO School is in large part to the [organisers](https://www.school.cta-observatory.org/organizers), namely the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC), which includes school instructors.[[1]](#_ftn1) The chairs of the LOC and SOC would like to relay the following statement:
+
+“This is an exciting moment for everyone involved. Bringing students from around the world to learn about a field and project we are so passionate about has been both fulfilling and fun. It was inspiring to watch the next generation of astroparticle physicists explore the fundamentals and frontier of the field, present their innovative ideas and work together to enhance each other’s knowledge, all against the backdrop of two phenomenal locations: Bertinoro and La Palma. And nothing was better than watching their joy and awe as they experienced working at the ORM, where three more LSTs are under construction and they had the opportunity to operate the ‘crown jewel’ of the CTAO-North site, the LST-1. We can’t wait to do it again!”
+
+We would like to extend a special thanks to the CTAO LST Collaboration, as well as the Gammapy, MAGIC, GTC and TNG teams for their support and participation. The CTAO School was organized by the CTAO Central Organisation in cooperation with the CTAO LST Collaboration. The first week of the school in Bertinoro was funded by the Cherenkov Telescope Array Plus project (IR0000012; CUP C53C22000430006) within the Italian Resilience and Recovery Plan (PNRR), as an activity led by the University of Bologna and INAF, with contribution from INFN. The second week was supported by funds from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the Japanese Institute for Cosmic Ray Research. Read more about the Scientific and Local Organizing Committees on the [Organisers](https://www.school.cta-observatory.org/organizers) page.
+
+To learn more about the school, head to [the website](https://www.school.cta-observatory.org/). And if you’re interested in the next session of the CTAO School, it will be back in June 2025! Make sure you follow us on social media to learn when the next call for applications is open.
+
+To see more photos and testimonials from the school, go to our [Flickr site](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctao-universe/albums/72177720318481849/).
+
+[[1]](#_ftnref1) **Bertinoro LOC: **Tiziana Abegg (CTAO Central Organisation), Michelangelo Bottura (CTAO Central Organisation), Andrea Bulgarelli (INAF-OAS Bologna), Vito Conforti (INAF-OAS Bologna), Paolo Da Vela (INAF-OAS Bologna), Stefano Marchesi (University of Bologna, INAF-OAS Bologna; Chair), Eleonora Torresi (INAF-OAS Bologna)
+
+**La Palma LOC:** Paolo Calisse (CTAO Central Organisation), Pilar Coca Llano (CIEMAT), Juan Cortina (CIEMAT/IAC), Alice Donini (INAF), Alba Fernández-Barral (CTAO Central Organisation), Patricia Márquez (IFAE), Daniel Mazin (ICRR), Mireia Nievas (IAC; Chair)
+
+**SOC:** Fabio Acero (CNRS/IAC), Jonathan Biteau (Paris-Saclay University), Patrizia Caraveo (INAF), Juan Cortina (CIEMAT/IAC, Co-Chair), Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino (University of São Paulo), Emma de Ona Wilhelmi (DESY), David Green (MPP), Jamie Holder (University of Delaware), Daniel Mazin (ICRR), Lars Mohrmann (MPIK), Abelardo Moralejo Olaizola (IFAE), Cristian Vignali (University of Bologna), Gabrijela Zaharijas (University of Nova Gorica), Roberta Zanin (CTAO Central Organisation, Chair)
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+---
+title: "The Low End: Why CTA is Interested in Low-Energy Gamma Rays"
+description: "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…"
+date: 2019-01-29
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/LST1_MW-768x432.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Lee este artículo en español en nuestra CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/a40b62e8924e/cta-newsletter-dec2018-1342317#Science)
+
+Originally published in the [December 2018 issue of the CTA Newsletter](https://www.cta-observatory.org/outreach-education/newsletter/).
+
+*Written by: Daniel Mazin
+*
+
+When we talk about CTA, we usually talk about studying the Universe at the highest energies. Scientists, however, also talk about low energies with CTA, which seems strange because those “low” energies are still a million times higher than the energy of X-rays. Therefore, it’s all a matter of perspective. 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.
+
+![](/uploads/AGN_Redshift_compare-1.png)
+
+*Figure 1: Comparison of the potential observation of the very-high energy (VHE) Universe without CTA vs. with CTA. (Credit: adapted from D. Nakajima, ICRR)*
+
+The main physics case comes from the fact that the Universe is not entirely transparent to gamma rays because of the pair production between the gamma rays and the low-energy (this time really low, in the range of infrared and optical) photons of the background light, which has been filling the Universe since the first stars were created. This absorption is, however, energy dependent. So, if we can measure sources up to a few hundreds of million parsecs (which we call the nearby Universe!) with 1 TeV gamma rays, we can reach distances 10 times further with 100 GeV gamma rays, and at 20 GeV the Universe is transparent down to its origins (i.e. close to the Big Bang). This is why when CTA extends the sensitivity to lower gamma-ray energies, it increases the observable volume significantly, which is illustrated schematically in Figure 1. Through a larger accessible volume, we do not only increase fundamentally the number of sources and phenomena we can study, but, as is the case in all other wavelengths, we are also able to look into the past by measuring gamma rays that were produced billions of years before reaching the Earth. How were gamma rays produced in the past? Are gamma-ray sources in the distant Universe the same as close by? Are there new unseen phenomena? These are just a few of the questions that have convinced scientists to construct CTA’s Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs), which will be devoted to the study of low-energy gamma rays. The LST prototype, LST-1, was recently inaugurated on CTA’s north site on the island of La Palma, Spain.
+
+![](/uploads/Fermi_CTA.png)
+
+*Figure 2: Comparison of CTA’s projected sensitivity and Fermi-LAT’s sensitivity at the same energies in the low-energy gamma-ray regime.*
+
+CTA will not be the only instrument sensitive to low-energy gamma rays. Gamma-ray satellites like *Fermi*-LAT, for example, also can measure in this energy regime. However, because satellites have a small collection area (<1m2), they struggle to measure transient phenomena. CTA’s collection area will be about a million times larger, which results in a much-improved sensitivity on short timescales where the hadronic background is unimportant. Fig. 2 demonstrates that for every short-time phenomena (like a flare) with a duration of less than a day, CTA’s sensitivity is many orders of magnitude better than the satellite-based *Fermi*-LAT. This is extremely important as we expect many time-variable phenomena like flares of extragalactic sources (e.g. blazars and radio galaxies), as well as galactic transients (e.g. gamma-ray binaries and soft gamma-ray repeaters) to happen on time scales of hours and below. CTA will be opening a new window in the time domain for these gamma-ray energies.
+
+Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the clear targets for CTA in the low-energy gamma-ray regime. These bursts release most of their energy in the MeV domain and typically last only for 0.1-1000s, and their origin has been a matter of debate for several decades. The most prominent explanation is that the short GRBs (with a typical prompt emission of less than a few seconds) are mergers of black holes or neutron stars, whereas long GRBs (with a typical prompt emission of several tens of seconds) have their origin in asymmetric explosions of hypernovae. However, as of now, no GRB has been detected by CTA precursors like H.E.S.S., MAGIC or VERITAS. With CTA, its lower energy threshold and the ability of the LSTs to rotate within 20s to any point in the sky following a GRB alert, scientists hope to finally measure GRB signals on many occasions and shed light on the processes responsible for these mysteriously short but enormously luminous explosions.
diff --git a/src/content/news/the-multiple-synergies-with-ctao.md b/src/content/news/the-multiple-synergies-with-ctao.md
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+---
+title: "The Multiple Synergies with CTAO"
+description: "Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations are increasingly becoming the norm in astronomy, and will be a central part of the CTAO observational program and strategy, essential for the achievement of its many science goals."
+date: 2022-01-14
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Crab.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Originally published in the [December 2021 issue of the CTA Newsletter.](https://mailchi.mp/5dc5e0991a84/cta-newsletter-may2021-english-8711433)
+
+Several decades of efforts and technological breakthroughs have pushed the observational boundaries of Astronomy, which has achieved the capability of ‘seeing’ photons of all existing wavelengths. In this context, the observational range of CTAO represents only a relatively small fraction of the total span of the detectable spectrum, the rest being divided into several bands: radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet and X-rays.
+
+As it is clear from the figure, which shows the Crab Nebula (one of the most notable gamma-ray sources) seen through different wavebands, each observational technique reveals a distinct and complementary perspective into the source. This is because different frequency ranges are dominantly the result of different physical processes, and an integral view of the object is only possible through a combined, multi-wavelength panorama.
+
+![](/uploads/crab-1.png)
+
+*Figure 1: Multiwavelength observation of the Crab Nebula. Credits:  NRAO/AUI and M. Bietenholz; NRAO/AUI and J.M. Uson, T.J. Cornwell (radio); NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Gehrz / University of Minnesota (infrared); NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll / Arizona State University (visible); NASA/Swift/E. Hoversten, PSU (ultraviolet); NASA/CXC/SAO/F.Seward et al.(X-rays); NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT/R. Buehler (gamma rays).*
+
+This already rich observational landscape has been further incremented by other carriers of cosmic information — cosmic rays, neutrinos and gravitational waves — which add truly unique insight into the physical mechanisms of sources and represent a crucial frontier in high-energy astrophysics today. It is nevertheless not possible to directly identify the origin of these other messengers without the help of more accurate observations using photons, and astronomers cannot prescind from a synergetic approach combining electromagnetic and multi-messenger probes to understand the energetic universe.
+
+Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations are thus increasingly becoming the norm in astronomy, and will be a central part of the CTAO observational program and strategy, essential for the achievement of its many science goals.
+
+### Lessons Learned
+
+Obtaining the complete set of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger data and bringing together the full range of facilities with which CTAO will need to collaborate are important tasks for the current stage of the Observatory’s planning. Previous or existing facilities and space missions had already dealt with similarly large-scale cooperation schemes, from whose experience valuable lessons can be learned.
+
+To this purpose CTAO and CTAC are organizing since April 2021 a series of webinars to discuss the ‘[Synergies in the Exploration of the Extreme Universe.](https://www.ctao.org/for-scientists/webinars-for-researchers/)’ Specialists involved in the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength planning for previous and current-generation observatories are invited to share their experience and present a perspective into future synergies with CTAO.
+
+While CTAO will be unique among ground-based gamma-ray facilities in the sense that it will operate as an open observatory, proactive planning by the CTAO remains necessary to guarantee the successful exploitation of all potential synergies.  Multi-instrument coordination imposes a set of requirements on the Observatory operations which have to be anticipated and implemented well in advance, which in turn implies a careful study of the use cases deriving from each specific science topic.
+
+### Future Perspectives for CTAO
+
+Three main avenues for multi-instrument coordination are being investigated: joint planning and cross-matching of survey data, identification and follow-up of multi-wavelength and messenger events, and the coordinated monitoring of transient and variable sources. The main idea of the latter is, from one side to provide real-time information about the observing schedules and plans of CTAO, that can then be matched by other instruments in coordinated campaigns. On the other hand, an ecosystem of facilities needs to be set up to closely support CTAO’s regular observing programs. Efficient, real-time data and schedule sharing protocols and tools are fundamental ingredients for the success of the coordination.
+
+Real-time data sharing, and in particular the capability to trigger and follow-up external alerts, are also key to enable multi-wavelength and messenger science with CTAO, as well as the study of fast transients such as gamma-ray bursts. In the case of neutrinos and gravitational waves, for which event localization is uncertain, not only a rapid, but a coordinated multi-instrumental search for the counterpart source is necessary. Here, the interface with brokers, which receive and transmit tailor-made alert information integrated from multiple sources at once, will be crucial.
+
+In summary, CTAO will be a unique instrument for high-energy astrophysics, capable of detecting with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy TeV gamma rays produced by the broadest variety of sources and regions of the Cosmos, and multi-instrument cooperation will significantly, and perhaps decisively, increase its science reach.
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+---
+title: "Dr. Thierry Stolarczyk Elected New Co-Spokesperson of the CTAO Consortium"
+description: "On November 25, Dr. Thierry Stolarczyk was appointed as the new Co-Spokesperson of the CTAO Consortium. He succeeds Dr. Rene Ong (UCLA), who was integral to leading the Consortium through significant milestones and pivotal developments…"
+date: 2024-12-02
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/DSC_0605-1600x1064.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+On November 25, Dr. Thierry Stolarczyk was appointed as the new Co-Spokesperson of the [CTAO Consortium](https://www.ctao.org/partners/ctao-consortium/). He succeeds Dr. Rene Ong (UCLA), who was integral to leading the Consortium through significant milestones and pivotal developments over the past decade. We are very grateful to Rene for his long-term dedication and varied contributions to the progress of the project.
+
+Dr. Stolarczyk is Director of Research at the Institute of Research into the Fundamental laws of the Universe (IRFU) at [CEA Paris-Saclay](https://www.cea.fr/paris-saclay/Pages/Accueil.aspx). He brings extensive experience in particle physics and astrophysics to his new role. His distinguished career began in the late 1980s with the underground solar neutrino experiment GALLEX, in Italy. In 1993, he joined the NOMAD neutrino oscillation experiment at CERN, where he made substantial contributions to the construction and calibration of the central detector and advanced the understanding of neutrino interactions. In 1998, he joined the Antares neutrino undersea telescope during its early phases, playing a key role in setting up its first software chains as he analyzed the initial data. From 2005 onward, he became the leader of the Antares and KM3NeT projects at CEA, took responsibility in the publication committees of Antares, and led several KM3NeT preparatory phase strategic work packages.
+
+Dr. Stolarczyk’s contributions to the CTAO have been equally impactful on many different fronts. He joined the project in 2012 and took the lead of the site infrastructure work package during the preparatory phase, which culminated in selecting the [CTAO’s two array sites](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/array-sites/) in La Palma and Chile. Since 2015, he has made the development of a new data reconstruction pipeline the primary focus of his group at CEA Paris-Saclay. This sub-work package, which he currently leads, will deliver the Observatory’s Data Processing Pipeline System within the [Data Processing and Preservation System.](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/data-and-computing/)
+
+On the scientific front, Dr. Stolarczyk has contributed to numerous publications and supervised multiple PhD students.  He served as Coordinator of the Transient and Multi-Wavelength Working Group from 2022 to 2023. Beyond research, throughout his career, he has contributed to the organisation of scientific conferences and demonstrated a deep commitment to education and outreach, actively participating in regional and national initiatives to promote the CTAO and its science to the general public.
+
+As Co-Spokesperson, Dr. Stolarczyk will now steer the CTAO Consortium, a collaboration of 1,500 scientists from more than 150 institutes across 25 countries. The Consortium conceived the Observatory’s concept over a decade ago and the initial definition of its key science goals.
+
+Congratulations, Dr. Stolarczyk, on your new role, and we wish you every success in your next chapter with the CTAO!
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+---
+title: "Two New Webinar Series Launch in April 2021"
+description: "Calling all scientists and astronomy fans! In April 2021, CTA will launch two new webinar series – one for astronomy researchers and another for anyone and everyone interested in astronomy."
+date: 2021-04-16
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/FeatureImage_Website-01-1600x900.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+[Subscribe to the webinar series for researchers here](http://eepurl.com/hrwfOH)
+
+In April 2021, CTA will launch two new webinar series – one for astronomy researchers and another for anyone and everyone interested in astronomy.For the researchers, the “Synergies in the Exploration of the Extreme Universe” webinar series is focused on the various multi-wavelength (MWL) and multi-messenger (MM) synergies of CTA’s scientific goals. Webinars will take place on the fourth Thursday of every month via Zoom, alternating the time for each webinar (17:00 UTC or 09:00 UTC) to make the live connection more accessible to scientists in different time zones. Participation is open and free to all researchers who subscribe to the series. Information about the next seminar and the access for each month’s webinar will be shared via email to all subscribers.
+
+Organized jointly by the CTA Observatory (CTAO) and the CTA Consortium (CTAC), particularly, the CTA MWL Task Force, the objective of “Synergies in the Exploration of the Extreme Universe” is to enhance CTA’s engagement with the broad astronomy science community, to build bridges with external groups within the MWL and MM field, as well as to keep the CTA community up to date about the MWL developments and instrumentation relevant to CTA science. You can find more information [on the CTA website](https://www.cta-observatory.org/outreach-education/events/webinars-researchers/).
+
+For our everyday astronomy fans, the “Journey through the Extreme Universe” webinar series will take participants on a series of exciting “missions” to explore the Universe via the science cases and technology of CTA. It will be livestreamed via the CTA YouTube and Facebook feeds every month on a Wednesday at 17:00 UTC. The series launches on 28 April with an introductory talk about the CTA Observatory, after which different “mission commanders” will cover topics like cosmic rays, dark matter and star-forming regions. There is no subscription necessary for this remote journey through the Universe. Just head to the [event webpage](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/outreach-webinars/) or follow us on social media for more information!
diff --git a/src/content/news/university-of-california-awarded-3-9million-to-develop-alignment-system-for-mst.md b/src/content/news/university-of-california-awarded-3-9million-to-develop-alignment-system-for-mst.md
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+---
+title: "University of California Awarded $3.9 Million to Develop Alignment System for Medium-Sized Telescopes"
+description: "The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $3.9 million to researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz to lead the development of a next-generation telescope alignment system for the Medium-Sized Telescopes."
+date: 2024-01-26
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/MST_Rendering-768x432.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+The United States (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 (MSTs)](https://www.cta-observatory.org/project/technology/mst/). The alignment systems will be the first major U.S. contribution to the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The researchers will work with an international team to build and test systems in Santa Cruz and eventually install the final designs in seven telescopes.
+
+The MST is one of three types of telescopes that will form the CTAO’s two array so of telescopes. It is optimized to capture the CTAO’s core energy range, from about 150 GeV to 5 TeV. Nine MSTs will be built at the CTAO-North array site on La Palma, Spain, while 14 will be part of the CTAO-South array in Chile. Every telescope has around 100 mirror segments that will each need their own alignment system. The lab at UC Santa Cruz will develop ideas for the systems, build prototypes and work with manufacturers to find a scalable option. In addition to being accurate, reliable and cost-effective, the systems must also be resilient.
+
+“We need it to withstand the weather and the elements, because, unlike optical telescopes, gamma-ray telescopes don’t have domes over them. They’re sitting out in the weather,” said David Williams, researcher in the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) and adjunct professor of physics who has worked on the development of the CTAO for nearly 20 years. The project is based out of the SCIPP, which “has long had a strength in doing instrumentation for high-energy particle physics and now high-energy particle astrophysics,” said Williams.
+
+Designing and testing the systems will allow early career scientists and students to experience hands-on research and training and contribute to a large international research infrastructure. “We’re going to be able to see things with higher resolution,” said Amy Furniss, new UC Santa Cruz teaching professor, working on the alignment system project. “We’re going to be able to see things farther afield, and our students, our graduate students and our faculty here at UC Santa Cruz, by putting in that work at the fundamental level, are going to be part of making this huge effort possible,” she said.
+
+The UC Santa Cruz team will work with colleagues at UCLA, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics Tuebingen (IAAT) in Germany.
+
+The UC Santa Cruz team will also install alignment systems on the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT), a dual-mirrored telescope that is being developed and proposed as an alternative type of medium telescope for the CTAO.
+
+Read the UC Santa Cruz press release: [https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/01/next-gen-telescope.html](https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/01/next-gen-telescope.html)
diff --git a/src/content/news/vink-awarded-nwo-grant-for-sst-cameras.md b/src/content/news/vink-awarded-nwo-grant-for-sst-cameras.md
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+---
+title: "Jacco Vink awarded with a NWO Grant allocated for the production of SST cameras"
+description: "On the evening of the 25 March, the Barcelona Raman LIDAR Pathfinder installed on the CTA-North site at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Spain) achieved first light."
+date: 2021-05-28
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/2020_CTA_Paranal_Comp_8K_small-1-1600x675.jpeg
+draft: false
+---
+
+[NWO Grants Awarded 2021](https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/nwo-investment-grant-large/grants)
+
+On 21 May 2021, CTA Consortium member Jacco Vink (University of Amsterdam) was awarded with a 1.5 million euro grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research’s (NWO’s) [Investment Grant NWO Large programme](https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/nwo-investment-grant-large/grants), allocated for the production of [Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs)](https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/telescopes/sst/) cameras for the CTA-South array in Chile. The project will be led by Vink in collaboration with other Dutch CTA members and groups from the University of Amsterdam (Sera Markoff and Christoph Weniger), the University of Groningen (Manuela Vecchi and Andrey Baryshev) and its NOVA lab, where the mass-production of the cameras’ focal plane units might be performed.
+
+Over the years, the Dutch teams have been especially involved in the definition of scientific cases and prospects within the CTA Consortium, but this grant allows their contribution to the technological development of the CTA Observatory (CTAO).
+
+“I am very excited that the Netherlands can also contribute to the construction of this important observatory,” explains Jacco Vink. “The grant shows that the support of CTA in the Netherlands is growing, and we will make an effort to simultaneously increase the interest of Dutch scientists in CTA and grow the gamma-ray community in the Netherlands.”
+
+The NWO grant will potentially be used towards the provision of elements for the SST cameras, based on the Compact High Energy Cameras (CHEC) prototype design. The SST cameras will each consist of 2048 silicon photo-multiplier pixels forming approximately a 9o x 9o field of view when installed on the smallest of the CTA telescopes, the SST. The SSTs will cover the highest end of CTA’s energy range (1-300 TeV) and thus, they are optimized to observe the most extreme accelerators in the Universe, known as PeVatrons, and star-forming regions. The full-scope configuration for the CTA southern hemisphere site array, CTA-South, located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is expected to include 70 SSTs spread out over a diameter of about two kilometres.
+
+The Netherlands is currently part of the [CTAO gGmbH Council](https://www.ctao.org/organisation/governance/) as an associate member. The CTA Observatory is expected to transition to its final legal entity as an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) in 2022, after which construction on the sites will take place for around five years.
diff --git a/src/content/news/what-propogation-of-energetic-light-can-tell-us.md b/src/content/news/what-propogation-of-energetic-light-can-tell-us.md
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+---
+title: "What the Propagation of Energetic Light can Tell us about the Evolution of Stars, Intergalactic Magnetic Fields and Fundamental Physics"
+description: "Photons at energies beyond a billion times that of X-rays cannot reach us from the outer edges of the observable Universe. Only a fraction of these very-high-energy gamma rays reach our atmosphere to produce firework-like visual displays…"
+date: 2018-05-09
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/gpropa_100ppi_cropped.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+*Written by: Jonathan Biteau and Manuel Meyer*
+
+*
+*Photons at energies beyond a billion times that of X-rays cannot reach us from the outer edges of the observable Universe. Only a fraction of these very-high-energy gamma rays reach our atmosphere to produce firework-like visual displays called air showers. While our eyes can’t see these rapid air showers, telescopes can. Today, the H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS telescopes observe gamma rays and tell us the story of their travels, taking nano-second pictures of the fireworks they initiate in the atmosphere. In the not-too-distant future, CTA will measure these gamma rays with its improved sensitivity and will write down the chronicles of gamma-ray propagation on cosmological scales.
+
+![](/uploads/gpropa_100ppi-1024x507-1.png)
+
+***Fig. 1**: Cosmic journey of gamma rays from a distant galaxy down to the CTA Observatory. Some gamma rays produce electron-positron pairs when interacting with EBL photons (red). The pairs, deflected by the intergalactic magnetic field, scatter off CMB photons resulting in a gamma-ray halo (orange). Exotic processes such as Lorentz invariance violation (gray) or coupling to axion-like particles (light blue) could modify the absorption, resulting in characteristic spectral features.*
+
+Gamma rays are emitted in distant galaxies located billions of light years away. The chief foe that gamma rays face in the intergalactic medium is the army of lower-energy photons called the extragalactic background light (EBL). The EBL radiation spans the ultraviolet, optical and infrared bands and is created mainly by stars and dust in galaxies over the history of the Universe. EBL photons interact with gamma rays to generate pairs of electrons and positrons. This absorption, depicted in **Fig. 1** (red box), becomes stronger with increasing gamma-ray energy and source distance. By measuring it in gamma-ray spectra of extragalactic sources, CTA will probe with unrivaled accuracy the spectrum and evolution of the EBL, thereby unveiling the formation and evolution of dust and stars in galaxies.
+
+The electrons and positrons produced in the interaction with EBL photons do not reach Earth, however, they can scatter off photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This transfers energy from the pairs to the CMB photons, transforming them to gamma rays with lower energies than that of the initial parent gamma ray, as shown in **Fig. 1** (orange box). Because electrons and positrons are charged particles, they are affected by the intergalactic magnetic field in cosmic voids, which deflects their trajectory on scales of millions of light years. This creates a diffuse gamma-ray halo around otherwise point-like sources. CTA will search for such halos, and possibly detect for the first time the elusive remnant of cosmic magnetism in the most rarefied corners of the Universe.
+
+In their struggle for survival, gamma rays could be helped by new processes, which lie beyond the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. The first is Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) at the Planck scale, the frontier of current physical theories. This process could shield gamma rays from interacting with the EBL, resulting in an unexpectedly large number of cosmic-trotters reaching Earth at the highest energies probed by CTA (**Fig. 1**, gray box). The second is a cloak called an axion-like particle. Gamma rays could put this cloak on within magnetic fields, effectively escaping interactions with the EBL. Cloaked-uncloaked oscillations (**Fig. 1**, light blue box) would result in larger-than-expected fluctuations in the gamma-ray spectra, which CTA will constrain with its excellent energy reconstruction.
+
+Gamma rays from extragalactic sources tell us the story of an epic cosmic journey, probing the very fabric and content of the Universe in large voids. A first report of the potential of CTA to constrain gamma-ray propagation can be found in [1], but the CTA Consortium is actively preparing the scientific machinery to greet cosmic-trotters and recount their odyssey.
+
+[1] Studying cosmological gamma-ray propagation with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, F. Gaté, R. Alves Batista, J. Biteau, J. Lefaucheur, S. Mangano, M. Meyer, Q. Piel, S. Pita, D. Sanchez, I. Vovk (for the CTA Consortium), ICRC proceedings (2017).
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+---
+title: "Wolfgang Wild Announced as CTA’s New Project Manager"
+description: "Starting 1 September, the CTAO gGmbH will welcome its new Project Manager, Wolfgang Wild. Wolfgang’s knowledge of ESO and experience in coordinating other publicly funded international projects will greatly benefit CTA, and we look forward…"
+date: 2017-06-13
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Capture2-1.jpg
+draft: false
+---
+
+We are very pleased to announce that Wolfgang Wild will join CTAO GmbH as our Project Manager. Wolfgang was the Project Manager responsible for delivering the European part of the ALMA project, which is of similar size to CTA in terms of number of contributors and funds invested. Before that he was signal chain manager in the construction of the HIFI instrument of the Herschel Space Observatory, which also included many in-kind contributions. With this long standing experience in a similar political and technical environment he is the ideal person to manage the CTA construction and later the transition to operation.
+
+Wolfgang’s move from ESO to CTA brings benefits to both organizations. Having a Project Manager for CTA who already understands ESO well will help ensure that the planned partnership to host CTA South by ESO at Paranal runs smoothly and effectively. But also the CTA sites in La Palma and in Europe will greatly profit from his experience in coordinating publicly funded international projects.
+
+Wolfgang will officially start as the CTA Project Manager on 1 September.
+
+-Ulrich Straumann, Managing Director, CTAO gGmbH
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+---
+title: "‘Women of CTA’ Returns to Bologna on 11 February"
+description: "In recognition of the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will host its second Women of CTA meeting on 11 February 2020 in Bologna, Italy."
+date: 2020-02-04
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/Banner-1-768x402.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Go to the [Facebook event page](https://www.facebook.com/events/483044219255214/).
+
+Since 2015, the United Nations has recognized 11 February as the [International Day of Women and Girls in Science](https://www.womeninscienceday.org/) with the purpose of promoting equal opportunities, access and participation in the field to women and girls. To celebrate this occasion, and to join the international effort to find solutions to gender inequality in science, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will hold its second “Women of CTA” event in Bologna at 18:00 on Tuesday, 11 February at [Scuderia-Future Food Living Lab](https://bit.ly/2NWUI8n) (Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 2).
+
+The event, which is free and open to all, will gather three female astrophysicists, working in different subject areas and at different stages of their careers, to talk about their professional and personal experience in science: Carla Aramo (INFN, Naples) , Ambra Di Piano (INAF, Bologna) and Roberta Zanin (CTAO, Bologna). After their presentations, and while enjoying an appetizer (coffee break on us!), the speakers will be available for all your questions.
+
+## Meet the speakers:
+
+## **Carla Aramo
+
+**
+
+Carla is a doctor in Physics with almost 25 years of experience in astroparticle physics and detector development. She is currently a researcher of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). She has been an active member in several former and currently active cosmic-ray experiment, such as MACRO, Haverah Park, EAS-TOP and Pierre Auger. Moreover, she coordinated a collaboration to develop a multi-pixel detector based on the coupling silicon-carbon nanotubes, large area and highly sensitive to Ultraviolet light. Carla is a member of CTA since 2012, and coordinates the INFN-Naples group, which is involved in several CTA telescopes, like the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) and Large-Sized Telescope (LST). She is the coordinator of OCRA (Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities), a program of the Coordination Committee for the International Cosmic Day in Italy, and is the representative of Italy within the CTA Outreach Committee.
+
+## **Ambra Di Piano
+
+**
+
+Ambra graduated in Astronomy in 2016 at the University of Bologna, where she is currently studying a Master in Astrophysics and Cosmology. She started working on her master thesis project at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Bologna in March 2019 and is aiming to graduate in March 2020. Her project focuses on prospects for blind-searches of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), the most powerful sources in the Universe, with CTA through Real-Time Analysis (RTA). Despite being in the initial stages of her career, contributions from this work were already presented in CTA Consortium Meetings and even in the First CTA Science Symposium, in the context of the RTA prototype status reports and short-term sensitivity studies.
+
+## **Roberta Zanin
+
+**
+
+Roberta has been delving into the extreme gamma-ray Universe since 2006. A Doctor in Physics by the Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE, Spain), she held postdoctoral positions at the University of Barcelona and Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (Germany), including an A. von Humbolt fellowship in the latter. Her research over these years was focused on the understanding of the very high-energy emission emitted by Galactic sources, such as rapid rotating and magnetized neutron stars (so-called pulsars), their environment (Pulsar Wind Nebulae or PWNe), or binary systems ejecting powerful jets (microquasars). Among all cosmic sources, Roberta specialized in the Crab Nebula, the standard candle in gamma-ray astronomy, and its pulsar. She has been an active member in multiple gamma-ray collaborations (such as MAGIC, CTA, XIPE and H.E.S.S.) and held leadership positions, as Convener of the Galactic Working Group in CTA and MAGIC. Besides her science contributions, Roberta has actively worked in the development of software for the data analysis and operation of different Cherenkov telescope collaborations. Currently, she is the Project Scientist of CTAO, playing a key role in all science related aspects of CTA construction and operation.
+
+Women of CTA is an annual event carried out under the Astrodiversity program, which gathers all those activities and programs organized or supported by CTAO within a diversity and inclusion framework. Find more information regarding Astrodiversity and, particularly, about the worldwide situation of women and girls in science on the [Astrodiversity page](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/) of our website.
+
+We are looking forward to seeing you at Scuderia on 11 February at 18:00!
+
+Contact: [Alba Fernández-Barral](alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org), CTAO Outreach and Education Coordinator
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+---
+title: "‘Women of CTA’ Goes Virtual this February 11"
+description: "In recognition of the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will host its third Women of CTA meeting on 11 February 2020 virtually in its YouTube channel."
+date: 2021-02-05
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/WoC_2021_featureimage-01-1600x731.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Go to the [YouTube event page](https://youtu.be/Ryn0deLc9v0).
+
+Go to the [Facebook event page](https://fb.me/e/21ZYHTSRp).
+
+In honour of the [International Day of Women and Girls in Science](https://www.womeninscienceday.org/), which aims to raise awareness about the work and achievements of women in STEM and to promote equal opportunities in the field, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) will hold its third edition of “Women of CTA.” For the first time, the event will be carried out virtually through the [CTA YouTube](https://youtu.be/Ryn0deLc9v0) and [Facebook channels](https://fb.me/e/21ZYHTSRp) at 18:30 on Thursday, 11 February.
+
+“Women of CTA” will feature three female astrophysicists – Elina Lindfors (University of Turku), Mireia Nievas (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) and Leslie Paige Taylor (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – who will share their work developing the physics, software and hardware for gamma-ray astronomy, as well as their professional and personal experiences in the field. The event, moderated by Alba Fernández-Barral (CTA Observatory), will include a “Question & Answer” session with the viewers.
+
+## Meet the speakers:
+
+## **Elina Lindfors
+
+**
+
+Elina has been studying the extragalactic very high-energy gamma-ray sky since 2002. She obtained her PhD from the University of Turku (Finland), where she is currently working as senior researcher. She specializes in emission models for blazars. These are distant galaxies that host supermassive black holes from whose vicinity jets pointing close to our line of sight are launched. They are among the most efficient particle accelerators of the Universe. Elina served as coordinator of the Extragalactic Working Group in the MAGIC Collaboration and the CTA Consortium, and she is currently the Science Coordinator of the latter. Her astronomical interests cover also other regimes – Elina has great interest in multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies that can help unveil the Cosmos even further.
+
+## **Mireia Nievas
+
+**
+
+Mireia has been working in the very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy field since 2013. She finished her PhD in Astrophysics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 2018, working for the MAGIC Collaboration in both software development (such as the on-site analysis that takes place during observations) and in science as it relates to a type of bright and violently variable blazar. Afterwards, she moved to work as a postdoctoral researcher for DESY (Zeuthen, Germany) for the VERITAS Collaboration, focusing on calibration methods for Cherenkov telescopes, software for early detection of flaring Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and the study of extreme extragalactic sources. Since summer 2020, she has been working as a postdoc for the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain) in the commissioning of the prototype of CTA’s Large-Sized Telescope, the LST-1, installed in La Palma, and she is starting to work in the AGN Science Group of the CTA Consortium and MAGIC.
+
+## **Leslie Paige Taylor
+
+**
+
+Leslie graduated in Physics at the University of California (Berkeley). She started as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison five years ago, where she soon joined the CTA group and began developing her PhD thesis. Her work focused on hardware, developing the camera of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), a proposed design for CTA’s Medium-Sized Telescope. She worked on the installation of the camera at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO), where she travels frequently to perform the commissioning of the system. The pSCT was inaugurated in January 2019, and over that year she established the observing procedure for the telescope. She completed the observations that resulted in the first light of the pSCT, as well as led the initial observations of the Crab Nebula that resulted in the telescope’s detection of this standard candle in gamma-ray astronomy.
+
+“Women of CTA” is an annual event carried out under the Astrodiversity program, which gathers all those activities and initiatives organized or supported by CTAO within the inclusion and diversity framework. Find more information regarding Astrodiversity and, particularly, about the worldwide situation of women and girls in science on the [Astrodiversity pae](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/) of our website.
+
+Contact: [Alba Fernández-Barral](alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org), CTAO Outreach and Education Coordinator
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+---
+title: "‘Women of CTA’ Returns Online this February 11"
+description: "On 11 February 2022 at 18:30 CET, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will broadcast live its fourth Women of CTA event in the CTA YouTube and Facebook channels, in recognition of the United Nations’ International Day of Women…"
+date: 2022-02-04
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+cover: /uploads/featureimage_350_160-01-768x351.png
+draft: false
+---
+
+Go to the [YouTube event page.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wthDpESB90) Go to the [Facebook event page](https://www.facebook.com/ctaobservatory/posts/4609373909161288).
+
+On Friday 11 February at 18:30 CET, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will host its fourth edition of the “Women of CTA” event via livestream on the [CTA YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wthDpESB90) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ctaobservatory/posts/4609373909161288) channels in recognition of the United Nations’ [International Day of Women and Girls in Science](https://www.womeninscienceday.org/). The event makes part of the global effort to raise awareness about the work and achievements of women in STEM and to promote equal opportunities in the field.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This year’s “Women of CTA” will feature three female astrophysicists – Anna Wolter (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera), Heide Costantini (Aix-Marseille University and CPPM/IN2P3) and Judit Pérez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and IFT) – who will share their work on the gamma-ray astronomy, challenges of the science education and their professional and personal experience in the field. The event, moderated by Alba Fernández-Barral (CTAO), will include a “Question & Answer” session with the viewers at the end.
+
+## Meet the speakers:
+
+## **Anna Wolter**
+
+After her degree at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and a period at the Center for Astrophysics of the Smithsonian Institution (Cambridge, MA – USA), Anna became part of the INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera. She has always worked in the high-energy Astrophysics field, favoring Extragalactic Astronomy, studying sources such as galaxy clusters or black holes, including Ultraluminous X-ray sources and Active Galactic Nuclei (galaxies with a supermassive black hole at their centre that eats up the surrounding material, becoming very luminous). She has always believed in a multiwavelength approach to study astrophysical phenomena: by looking at things from different perspectives, at different frequencies and with different instruments, it is possible to learn much more from the Universe. Between 2013 and 2018, she was appointed member of the Steering Committee of the High Energy Division of the IAU.
+
+She has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals, and many outreach texts. She has delivered more than 200 conferences for schools or public lectures, and values the interaction with Universities and the young: she has held a few monographic courses at the universities in Milano and supervised Master and PhD thesis. Since 2010, she represents Italy in the ESO Science Outreach Network and, since 2020, she coordinates the outreach efforts for the national ASTRI project and serves as Country Representative of Italy at the CTA Outreach Committee. She also makes part of the editorial staff of EduINAF, the outreach magazine of INAF, and of astroEDU/it, the Italian version of the IAU portal of peer-reviewed astronomy education activities.
+
+## **Heide Costantini
+
+**
+
+Heide’s career started as a Nuclear Astrophysicist, studying nuclear reactions occurring in stars with the LUNA accelerator located at the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso in Italy. She got her PhD in Physics in 2003 at the University of Genova (Italy) and continued to work in nuclear astrophysics with a particular focus on the early and quiescent evolutionary stages of the life of the stars. After her postdoc at the University of Notre Dame in the US, she came back to Italy for a researcher position at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). At that point, she started to get interested in the high-energy sky and, in particular, in the final evolution stages of a star that lead to the extreme energetic scenarios. She joined the ANTARES neutrino telescope experiment in 2007, for which she served as Calibration Coordinator for several years and studied the possibility of detecting a supernova neutrino. In 2010, she became Assistant Professor at the Aix-Marseille University (France) and joined the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC), where she currently serves as the Galactic Working Group Co-Coordinator. Her work at CTAC focuses on the simulations for the Small-Sized and Medium-Sized Telescopes (SSTs and MSTs, respectively) and on the preparation of the hunt for PeVatrons, cosmic sources in our own Galaxy capable of accelerating charged particles up to energies of Peta-electronvolts (PeV) – thousands of trillions more energetic than the visible light!
+
+## **Judit Pérez
+
+**
+
+Judit is a last-year PhD candidate in the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) in Madrid (Spain). She graduated in Physics in Universidad de Valencia and moved to the IFT for her Master’s degree, where she joined the DArk Matter, AStroparticles and Cosmology (DAMASCO) group and started her PhD thesis. She specializes in gamma-ray searches of Dark Matter. From the most recent studies, we know that only 5% of the Universe is made of standard matter (atoms, protons, electrons…). The rest of the matter is invisible to us – that is why we named it Dark Matter. This mysterious Dark Matter usually only interacts leaving gravitational imprints, but there is a chance that from the collision of two Dark Matter particles some gamma rays emerge and arrive to our telescopes. Judit is member of the *Fermi*-LAT Collaboration and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC). Within the latter, as the Coordinator of the “Galaxy Clusters Task Force,” she has focused on studying galaxy clusters, the most massive objects in the Universe, as targets for searching Dark Matter. She is also working as the Coordinator of the “Dark Matter Tools Task Force” in software development for the analysis required to distinguish the gamma rays originated in the interaction of Dark Matter, from other gamma-ray sources. Judit is currently the Country Representative for Spain at the CTA Outreach Committee. “Women of CTA” is an annual event carried out under the Astrodiversity program, which gathers all those activities and initiatives organized or supported by CTAO within the inclusion and diversity framework. Find more information regarding Astrodiversity and, particularly, about the worldwide situation of women and girls in science on the [Astrodiversity page](https://www.cta-observatory.org/outreach-education/astrodiversity/) of our website.
+
+Contact: [Alba Fernández-Barral](alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org), CTAO Outreach and Education Coordinator
+
+Under the patronage of the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach.
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) brings together a community of diverse cultural backgrounds and personal and professional abilities and experiences. This diversity makes us strong, and the CTA Observatory (CTAO) is committed to supporting and protecting it. To do so, the following CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings shall be applied. It provides guidelines for the basic standards and rules of behaviour expected in any online or in-person meeting/event organized by the CTAO. They apply to any participant, regardless of whether they are CTA members or external participants.
+
+CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings focuses on different core values:
+
+1. Diversity
+
+– Refrain from unpleasant or disparaging remarks or actions, in particular, on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, beliefs, nationality, culture, ethnicity, race, job status/title, disability or family situation.
+
+– Treat others with tact, courtesy and respect.
+
+– Abstain from and actively discourage discrimination in all forms.
+
+– Respect and value differences.
+
+2. Integrity
+
+– Ensure to credit others for their contribution.
+
+– Respect the privacy of others and protect personal information given to you in confidence.
+
+3. Professionalism
+
+– Respect the contribution of each participant to the meeting/event.
+
+– Maintain a professional environment characterized by good working relations and an atmosphere of tolerance and mutual respect.
+
+– Provide advice and guidance to colleagues, where appropriate.
+
+– Abstain from and actively discourage all forms of harassment as well as verbal, non-verbal, written or physical abuse.
+
+4. Creativity
+
+– Use your professional experience in a constructive manner.
+
+– Be open to new ideas and approaches. Be thoughtful with all participants’ work and provide only constructive critiques.
+
+Mutual respect is paramount, and your right to be treated equally, with dignity and respect, also is protected. The CTAO will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of participants attending our events and meetings, and the organizer, person responsible and/or chairperson of the event/meeting reserves the right to ask any participant who does not follow these guidelines to leave the event/meeting (without refunding the fee, if any).
+
+To privately report a violation of the CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings during or after the *“Women of CTA” event,* please contact the organizer, [Alba Fernández-Barral](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org) (CTAO Outreach and Education Coordinator).
+
+* *
+
+*The “CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings” is based on the “CTAO Code of Conduct” (May 2018)*
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+title: "“Women of CTA” Returns for Fifth Edition on 8 February"
+description: "On 8 February 2023 at 18:30 CET, the CTAO will broadcast live the fifth edition of the “Women of CTA” event through the CTAO YouTube and Facebook channels, in recognition of the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in…"
+date: 2023-01-31
+category: news
+author: CTAO
+draft: false
+---
+
+Go to the [YouTube event page.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8TmH9887k) Go to the [Facebook event page](https://www.facebook.com/events/725672102288034/?post_id=725672112288033&view=permalink).
+
+“Women of CTA,” one of the CTAO’s longest-running and most popular outreach and education events, returns for its fifth edition. The event, carried out on the occasion of the [International Day of Women and Girls](https://www.womeninscienceday.org/), will take place on Wednesday, 8 February at 18:30 CET via livestream on the CTAO’s [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ctaobservatory) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0IHTTfgiiyCFLp-SH8egMw) platforms.
+
+This year, Lucy Fortson (University of Minnesota), Elisabetta Bissaldi (Politecnico di Bari and Italian National Instituto of Nuclear Physics, INFN) and Heike Prokoph (DESY and CTAO) will share their professional experiences in their respective fields and as researchers for the CTA project. To further instigate the exchange of ideas, we have changed the structure of the event to a round table focused on themed discussions around topics that include the future of astrophysics, the situation of women in science and science education. During the event, we will invite attendees to join the discussion and ask speakers questions through Facebook and YouTube.
+
+## Meet the speakers:
+
+## **Lucy Fortson**
+
+Dr. Lucy Fortson is a Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota (UMN). As an observational astrophysicist, she uses very high-energy gamma-ray telescopes to probe Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and the jets of matter and radiation that emanate from the region surrounding supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies. She is a member of both the VERITAS collaboration and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC). She is also a founding member of the [Zooniverse project](https://www.zooniverse.org/) where over 2.5 million volunteers contribute to discovery research by performing simple data analysis tasks. Fortson focuses on developing human-computation algorithms to tackle Big Data challenges with next generation observatories such as LSST and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). Moreover, she serves as USA’s Country Representative for the CTA Outreach Committee, an international group of 60 CTAC members that collaborates with the CTAO on communications and outreach activities to promote the Observatory to a worldwide audience.
+
+Prior to joining the faculty at UMN, Fortson was Vice President for Research at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and a research scientist at the University of Chicago. She received her BA in 1984 from Smith College in Physics and Astronomy, and her PhD in 1991 from UCLA in High Energy Physics on CERN’s UA1 experiment. She has served on numerous committees including the National Academy of Sciences Astronomy 2010 Decadal Survey, NASA’s Astrophysics Science Subcommittee and the Human Capital Committee of the NASA Advisory Council, the NSF’s Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee, and the Education and Public Outreach Review Committee for NOAO. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and member of the American Astronomical Society and the Citizen Science Association. Her awards include the APS Nicholson Award, NASA’s Exceptional Public Service Award, the University of Geneva’s Innovation Award and UMN’s Community-Engaged Scholar Award.
+
+## **Elisabetta Bissaldi
+**
+
+Dr. Elisabetta Bissaldi is Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Bari and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Bari. Her work focuses on high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics and, in particular, on the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). She is also active in the development of new sensors and detectors for next generation gamma astrophysics instruments.
+
+Prof. Bissaldi got her Master in Astrophysics and Space Physics at the University of Trieste in Italy and her PhD at the Technische Universität München in Germany. In the past, she worked at the Max Planck Institut for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich, at the Institute for Astro and Particle Physics in Innsbruck and spent research periods in various international institutes such as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and the University of Tokyo in Japan.
+
+She is a member of several international scientific collaborations, including the NASA Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Collaboration, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC) and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Collaboration. Lately, she has been very active in the scientific outreach field. She has been a guest on several occasions on the Newton program of Rai Cultura in Italy and is member of the CTA Outreach Committee, where she supports the outreach and education projects of the CTAO.
+
+## **Heike Prokoph
+**
+
+Dr. Heike Prokoph is a researcher with more than 10 years of experience in astroparticle physics. She is currently a Research Associate at DESY (Germany) and works as a secondee for the CTAO as Array Clock Coordinator within the [CTAO Computing Department](https://www.cta-observatory.org/project/technology/computing/).  She obtained her PhD at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, after which she joined the Linnaeus University (Sweden) as a Postdoc researcher. Later, she worked as Research Associate at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) before coming back to Germany.
+
+While her scientific interests drove her to study Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and transient phenomena, Prokoph is very focused on the software and technical development for ground-based gamma-ray instruments. As a former member of the VERITAS and H.E.S.S. collaborations and current member of the CTAC, she worked on complex and maintainable systems for application in science and industry, on the development of selection and observation strategies for transient sources in the multi-messenger era, and on embedded systems for applications in high-precision astronomical camera systems for ground- and space-based telescopes. As Array Clock Coordinator for the CTAO, Heike is focused on the technical planning and documentation of the product definition, interfaces and requirement specification of the time and clock distribution system for the Observatory.
+
+Beyond her technical work in the field, Heike is strongly interested in science education. For more than 10 years, she has been actively involved in training programmes for teachers and as a tutor in “Measuring Cosmic Particles” at the DESY School Lab. In addition, she is a member of the organizing team for [International Cosmic Day](https://icd.desy.de/#:~:text=Organisation-,Welcome,us%20but%20always%20go%20unnoticed.) and a member of the CTA Outreach Committee. In her free time, she also develops her skills as a science illustrator, making science and technology accessible through visual storytelling.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”block_mit_mittel”][vc_column width=”1/4″ el_class=”block_mittel_left”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1465813450558{margin-top: 30px !important;}” el_class=”block_mittel_right”][vc_column_text]”Women of CTA” is an annual event carried out under the Astrodiversity program, which gathers all those activities and initiatives organized or supported by CTAO within the inclusion and diversity framework. Find more information regarding Astrodiversity, including about the worldwide situation of women and girls in science, on the [Astrodiversity page](https://www.ctao.org/news-resources/outreach-and-education/astrodiversity/) of our website.
+
+Contact: [Alba Fernández-Barral](alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org), CTAO Outreach, Education and Communication Officer
+
+Under the patronage of the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach.
+
+The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) brings together a community of diverse cultural backgrounds and personal and professional abilities and experiences. This diversity makes us strong, and the CTAO is committed to supporting and protecting it. To do so, the following CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings shall be applied. It provides guidelines for the basic standards and rules of behaviour expected in any online or in-person meeting/event organized by the CTAO. They apply to any participant, regardless of whether they are CTAO members or external participants.
+
+CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings focuses on different core values:
+
+1. Diversity
+
+– Refrain from unpleasant or disparaging remarks or actions, in particular, on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, beliefs, nationality, culture, ethnicity, race, job status/title, disability or family situation.
+
+– Treat others with tact, courtesy and respect.
+
+– Abstain from and actively discourage discrimination in all forms.
+
+– Respect and value differences.
+
+2. Integrity
+
+– Ensure to credit others for their contribution.
+
+– Respect the privacy of others and protect personal information given to you in confidence.
+
+3. Professionalism
+
+– Respect the contribution of each participant to the meeting/event.
+
+– Maintain a professional environment characterized by good working relations and an atmosphere of tolerance and mutual respect.
+
+– Provide advice and guidance to colleagues, where appropriate.
+
+– Abstain from and actively discourage all forms of harassment as well as verbal, non-verbal, written or physical abuse.
+
+4. Creativity
+
+– Use your professional experience in a constructive manner.
+
+– Be open to new ideas and approaches. Be thoughtful with all participants’ work and provide only constructive critiques.
+
+Mutual respect is paramount, and your right to be treated equally, with dignity and respect, also is protected. The CTAO will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of participants attending our events and meetings, and the organizer, person responsible and/or chairperson of the event/meeting reserves the right to ask any participant who does not follow these guidelines to leave the event/meeting (without refunding the fee, if any).
+
+To privately report a violation of the CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings during or after the *“Women of CTA” event,* please contact the organizer, [Alba Fernández-Barral](mailto:alba.fernandezbarral@cta-observatory.org) (CTAO Outreach, Education and Communication Officer).
+
+*The “CTAO Code of Conduct for Events and Meetings” is based on the “CTAO Code of Conduct” (May 2018)*