Barnard College: Professor Reshmi Mukherjee and Colleagues Help Prove Viability of Prototype Gamma-Ray Telescope
June 08, 2020
June 08, 2020
NEW YORK, June 8 -- Barnard College issued the following news:
When it comes to research in astrophysics, the use of gamma-ray telescopes to detect high-energy light sources from galaxies far away is a fairly new practice -- one that Barnard helped pioneer. This year, at a June 1 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium announced that its members used a version of the telescope to detect high-energy gamma rays from the Crab Nebula, . . .
When it comes to research in astrophysics, the use of gamma-ray telescopes to detect high-energy light sources from galaxies far away is a fairly new practice -- one that Barnard helped pioneer. This year, at a June 1 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium announced that its members used a version of the telescope to detect high-energy gamma rays from the Crab Nebula, . . .