Instrumentation

CLUE container arrives at IFAE for LIDARs R&D

March 3, 2021

Gamma-ray Group

Last Thursday the CLUE (Cherenkov Light Ultraviolet Experiment) container arrived at IFAE from the ORM. It now occupies the place where the Barcelona Raman LIDAR was placed. It will become a R&D platform for developing LIDAR for cherenkov astronomy and various other possible applications.

Latest Group News

New Member

New member of the Gamma-ray group

February 23, 2022

Giulio Lucchetta has just started as a new postdoc of the Gamma-ray Group.

Instrumentation

First LST observations after the volcano eruption.

February 9, 2022

The CTA LST telescope is back in operation. After a few weeks dedicated to cleaning the site and checking the telescope subsystems, the first sky data were taken in early February.

New Paper

New Gamma-ray group paper

January 12, 2022

“First Combined Study on Lorentz Invariance Violation from Observations of Energy-dependent Time Delays from Multiple-type Gamma-ray Sources Part I - Motivation, Method Description and Validation through Simulations of H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS Datasets” by D. Kerszberg and M. Martínez has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.