The world’s most powerful ground-based cosmological telescope is located atop Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, and is connected to global R&E Networks through REUNA.
Over the past decade, Chile has positioned itself as the world’s astronomy capital, concentrating more than half of the planet’s astronomical capacity. The Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, due to its high altitude, dry conditions, and atmospheric stability, has ideal characteristics for astronomical observation. This is why numerous international projects have chosen this territory to install their most modern telescopes. Likewise, astronomers from around the world have converged to work in collaboration with Chilean researchers, universities, and government agencies to advance our understanding of the Universe.
One such project is the Simons Observatory, an experimental cosmological facility that will provide scientists with an unprecedented platform to study the nature of the fundamental physical processes that governed the origin and evolution of the Universe.
“The service provided by REUNA makes it much easier overall to handle the data from Simons Observatory, replacing the old method for handling this much data, which was to fly hard disks from the Chilean site to the US and back in a continuous cycle”, explains Kam Arnold, founding member of the Simons Observatory at the University of California, San Diego.
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Submitted by Daniel Harris
