Mission to Build the Thirty Meter Telescope
(2013-08-01)
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A major milestone has been reached for building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The UC President and several international partners have signed the agreement. UCLA astronomers will play a significant role in the development and use of the TMT, which will be located in Hawaii and slated to start in 2022 for the scientific operations.
UCLA News Release
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High-energy γ-ray astronomy comes back to Earth
(2013-06-20)
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Rene Ong, an astroparticle physicist at the UCLA, is part of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium. CTA would be able to detect the trails of blue light that are produced when γ-ray photons are absorbed in the upper atmosphere. The proposed CTA is aimed to solve two mysteries: the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and the nature of dark matter.
Nature
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Comets Collide Every Six Seconds Near the Star 49 CETI
(2012-11-08)
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UCLA professor Benjamin Zuckerman coauthored a paper published in Astrophysical Journal on the study of the massive, dusty disk around 49 CETI. The study suggests that this 40 million year old disk is composed of not only dusty debris, but also gas that is constantly being replenished by comet collisions.
UCLA News Release
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