Astronomers and astrophysicists have received a €15 million EU funding boost with the launch of the ASTERICS project.
ASTERICS supports:
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a radio telescope currently being built at two locations in Australia and South Africa, as well as precursor/pathfinder experiments;
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the first high-energy gamma-ray world-wide observatory, comprising two large arrays of Cherenkov telescopes in Chile and Namibia;
KM3Net, a telescope at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea aiming to detect ghostly neutrino particles from space;
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), an optical and infrared telescope currently being built in Chile, as well as precursor optical and infrared telescopes.
ASTERICS will also open up its work to the international community through the International Virtual Observatory Alliance and by funding citizen science mass participation experiments.
The project is led by the Netherlands institute for radio astronomy ASTRON, with a consortium of 22 European partner institutions.
“ASTERICS stands for Astronomy ESFRI and Research Infrastructure Cluster. It brings together the astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities to find imaginative new solutions to our common data avalanche problems,” says Professor Mike Garrett, Principal Investigator of the ASTERICS project.
“ASTERICS will open up some of the very best of European astronomy to everybody,”
Says Dr. Stephen Serjeant, Head of Astronomy at the Open University (UK) and leading the ASTERICS citizen science work, “Crowdsourcing can solve major scientific problems, because the human eye is often much better than computers at recognising and classifying patterns.”
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