{"id":514,"date":"2017-12-18T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/?p=514"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:09:26","slug":"the-ift-joins-the-cta-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/2017\/12\/18\/514\/","title":{"rendered":"The IFT joins the CTA Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/files\/2017\/12\/cta-imagen3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-520\" title=\"cta imagen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/files\/2017\/12\/cta-imagen3-300x102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/files\/2017\/12\/cta-imagen3-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/files\/2017\/12\/cta-imagen3-1024x349.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/files\/2017\/12\/cta-imagen3.png 1339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The IFT has just joined the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium with Miguel A. S\u00e1nchez Conde as representative member.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. With more than 100 telescopes located in the northern and southern hemispheres, CTA will be the world\u2019s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Building on the technology of current generation ground-based gamma-ray detectors (H.E.S.S., VERITAS and MAGIC), CTA will be ten times more sensitive and have unprecedented accuracy in its detection of high-energy gamma rays. Current gamma-ray telescope arrays host up to five individual telescopes, but CTA is designed to detect gamma rays over a larger area and a wider range of views.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the northern and southern CTA arrays will constitute the CTA Observatory (CTAO), which will be the first ground-based gamma-ray observatory open to the worldwide astronomical and particle physics communities as a resource for data from unique, high-energy astronomical observations.<\/p>\n<p>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cta-observatory.org\/\">https:\/\/www.cta-observatory.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The IFT has just joined the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium with Miguel A. S\u00e1nchez Conde as representative member. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. With more than 100 telescopes located in the northern and southern hemispheres, CTA will be the world\u2019s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Building on the technology of current generation ground-based gamma-ray detectors (H.E.S.S., VERITAS and MAGIC), CTA will be ten times more sensitive and have unprecedented accuracy in its detection of high-energy gamma rays. Current gamma-ray telescope arrays host\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7197],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":4}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/fisicateorica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}