Month: April 2024

Poster presented on CTAO Science Symposium

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[ Bastien Lacave, CTAO Science Symposium, 15-18 April 2024 in Bologna ] Current status and recent results of the SST-1M telescopes were presented at the CTAO Science Symposium in Bologna. Bastien Lacave, member of the SST-1M consortium, presented poster to the general audience, emhasizing achievemts reached with the telescopes operation in stereo mode and future prospects for scientific observations. [ View the poster ] [ CTAO Science Symposium 2024 – website ] Photo: archive of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Cherenkov’s telescope from all sides

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[ Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 5. 4. 2024 ] Two Cherenkov telescopes are located at the Ondřejov observatory. What makes them unique? Cherenkov telescopes are capable of capturing high-energy gamma rays, which cannot be detected in any other way. The telescopes are operated by the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Palacký University in Olomouc, the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Geneva and other institutions of the...