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Caption: Salvatore Scuderi, Alessandro Tacchini, Giuseppe Malaspina, Marcello Lodi, Fulvio Gianotti, Christine Grivel con il monolite m-ICT collegato al mondo. (Crediti: Giuseppe Malaspina )

ASTRI – Mini-Array is now connected to the world!

Caption: Salvatore Scuderi, Alessandro Tacchini, Giuseppe Malaspina, Marcello Lodi, Fulvio Gianotti, Christine Grivel with the monolith m-ICT connected to the world. (Credits: Giuseppe Malaspina) May 2022 - This last April, in Izana in Tenerife…
In the image above: a completed mirror with some team people: from left to right, Giovanni Pareschi (ASTRI Mini-Array Project PI), Salvatore Scuderi (Program Manager) and Nicola La palombara (Product Assurance Manager). Credit: Inaf Brera.
Mappa del piano della galassia sopra 100 TeV fatta da LHAASO. I cerchi indicano sorgenti note.

A new eye for ASTRI-HORN – The video

On 25th November 2021, the new camera was installed on the ASTRI-Horn prototype telescope at the Serra la Nave Observatory. The deep refurbishment of the instrument and the new aluminization of the mirror put the telescope back into focus. It…
L’altopiano di Asiago: i due telescopi usati nell’esperimento

One photon, two photons …

A new observational technique to identify the finest details of celestial sources: after long nights of experiments, stellar intensity interferometry has given its first results. With a base between the two telescopes on the Asiago plateau…
Mappa del piano della galassia sopra 100 TeV fatta da LHAASO. I cerchi indicano sorgenti note.

Contract signed for ASTRI Mini-Array cameras – The video

On July, 13th 2021 at INAF-IASF in Palermo, the contract for the production of the ASTRI Mini-Array cameras has been signed by the ASTRI PI Giovanni Pareschi and delegates for choseon companies - CAEN spa and EIE group in addition to other smaller…
Mappa del piano della galassia sopra 100 TeV fatta da LHAASO. I cerchi indicano sorgenti note.

Search for the most energetic photon – Gamma rays open a window

For the first time, the Gamma-ray sky at PeV energies was opened to observations. The Chinese experiment Lhaaso (Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory), after almost a year of observations, found 12 cosmic accelerators in our Galaxy. The…

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