El Instituto Avanzado de Cosmología IAC, se complace en invitar a nuestra comunidad de gravitación, astrofísica y cosmología, a su próximo seminario:

"The Cylinder Radio Telescope: The Mexican Connection"

Dr. Omar Lopez-Cruz (INAOE) & Jeff Peterson (Carnegie-Mellon University)
for the Cylinder Radio Telescope Consortiumz

Resumen:
SThe race for the detection of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) through the
detection of neutral hydrogen at high redshift has begun. For this aim a host
of giant radio telescopes geared at the detection of the 21 cm transition of
neutral hydrogen at z~9 are being designed and constructed. The Square
Kilometer Arrays (SKA) represents the largest effort in this race, which is
planned to be in full operation by 2024. Alternatively, The Cylinder Radio
Telescope (CRT) represents a versatile pathfinder experiment for the early
detection of high-z hydrogen using intensity mapping. In this talk we
describe the CRT concept and how it will help us to derive constrains for Dark
Energy and the acceleration of the Universe using the BAO technique. CRT can
also help us to understand the ionization of the interstellar medium by the
first stars, large scale magnetic fields, and even help in the search for
extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). To fulfill its promise the CRT needs the
most radio quiet sites in the Planet and a search for possible sites in
underway. We have identified the Zona del Silencio at the boarder of the
Mexican States of Chihuahua, Durango and Coahuila as one the most radio quiet
places in the world. The second aim of this talk is to offer the possibility
of starting a large collaboration among Mexican Astrophysicist, Cosmologists
and Technologists around the CRT. INAOE has begun the construction of a
CRT prototype based on the model already tested at Carnegie-Mellon.

El evento se llevará a cabo el día:

Martes 8 de Junio 1 p.m.
en la Sala Sandolval Vallarta,
Instituto de Fisica, UNAM