Kathy VivasBorned in Venezuela, graduated in Physics from the University of Los Andes and PhD in Astrophysics from Yale University, Kathy Vivas works as a support astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory, in La Serena, Chile. And it was from there that Vivas, along with a large team of scientists scattered around the world, participated in the project that resulted in the earliest observations of a ‘kilonova’: the fusion of two neutron stars 130 million years ago in the galaxy NGC4993, constellation of Hydra. We talked with her about the importance of this collaboration and how the work was carried out.

Enrique Zas

Member and representative of Spain at the Pierre Auger Observatory, and Professor of the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics of the Department of Particle Physics of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Enrique Zas shared with us his experience in the process of observation of the fusion of two neutron stars recorded on Aug. 17, which he referres as an experience that changed the lives of the participating scientists.

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renata vcesEn 2017, de las 64 instituciones afiliadas a RENATA, 24 utilizan el VC Espresso, la solución de conferencia en línea para seminarios, reuniones y educación virtual provista por RENATA y RedCLARA que permite la realización de sesiones de trabajo colaborativo entre usuarios localizados en diferentes puntos geográficos.

REUNA - cluster usm(By: Carolina Muñoz, REUNA) Today cutting-edge research is only possible through collaboration by sharing human and material resources to generate new knowledge. Many of the major international scientific projects generate such amount of data that it would be impossible for a single institution to process them within a reasonable time. Facing this scenario, the logical solution has been the integration several smaller institutions into a network where they share their resources through a mutual collaboration.

 

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Discover new stars, galaxies and objects from the solar system. This is the purpose of the project. J-PAS, Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey, The unpublished photometric celestial survey of the sky, conducted by a partnership between the National Observatory (ON) and the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, and the Center for Studies of Physics of the Cosmos of Aragon (CEFCA) and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain.

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