Potential of CTA to revolutionize understanding of "cosmic glow" featured in August 2015 Astronomy Magazine

University of California Santa Cruz and CTA-US member is quoted in the August 2015 issue of Astronomy Magazine

The cover story of the August 2015 issue of Astronomy Magazine gives a multiwavelength overview of the extragalactic background light (EBL). The EBL can be thought of as the dim background glow that bright sources such as galaxies sit on top of. The EBL carries the history of the light emission (e.g. brightness) of the Universe and the formation of objects within it. As stated by Jonathan Biteau, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz and member of the CTA-US group, "The hope for [CTA] is to be able to track the EBL by layers, by taking more and more distant sources and being able to reconstruct the EBL for different distances. This would allow us a technique to reconstruct the star formation story."  Read more about the EBL and how CTA will sharpen our view of it in Astronomy Magazine