{"id":3927985,"date":"2026-09-16T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/muon-rings-enable-precise-calibration-of-telescopes-at-the-cherenkov-telescope-array-observatory\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:00:46","slug":"muon-rings-enable-precise-calibration-of-telescopes-at-the-cherenkov-telescope-array-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/muon-rings-enable-precise-calibration-of-telescopes-at-the-cherenkov-telescope-array-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Muon rings enable precise calibration of telescopes at the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Research initiated as part of a bachelor&#8217;s thesis in physics at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB) has culminated in a new analytical description of the muon-based calibration of dual-mirror Cherenkov telescopes. The work solves a problem that had remained open for more than 30 years because of the geometric complexity of these optical systems: determining precisely how much Cherenkov light produced by a muon reaches the camera, taking into account the shadows cast by the secondary mirror and the camera itself.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-muon-enable-precise-calibration-telescopes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research initiated as part of a bachelor&#8217;s thesis in physics at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB) has culminated in a new analytical description of the muon-based calibration of dual-mirror Cherenkov telescopes. The work solves a problem that had remained open for more than 30 years because of the geometric complexity of these optical systems: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}