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Pen and Vanderlinde

CHIME radio telescope collaboration wins Brockhouse Canada Prize

A cross-Canada collaboration including the University of Toronto has won the prestigious from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) for its groundbreaking insight into astrophysical mysteries.

The award recognizes outstanding Canadian teams of researchers from different disciplines engaged in research that draws on their combined knowledge and skills  and has produced a record of excellent achievements in the natural sciences and engineering.

The (CHIME) is a groundbreaking radio telescope  one of the most novel and extraordinarily powerful in the world  located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in B.C. It is described by NSERC as one of the biggest success stories in Canadian astrophysics.

CHIMEs success arose from thinking outside the box and innovating without constraints of convention, says , a professor in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and a CHIME member. The experiment leveraged leading Canadian expertise across the country to implement the novel cosmological intensity mapping concept pioneered in Toronto.

Building CHIME took a huge effort from the whole team, years of long nights for students, faculty and engineers across Canada, says , a professor in the Facultys , and a CHIME member. Its been amazing to watch the telescope come to life and start pouring out science.

With files from NSERC

 

 

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