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01.10.2024 13:00

Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME)

Norbert Junkes Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie

    The kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) was held on the 16th and 17th of September in Paris. This EU-funded project coordinated by Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) aims to realize an ambitious coordinated European-wide optimization of the accessibility and cohesion between multiple leading astroparticle and astronomy research infrastructures, including MPIfR’s two world-class radio telescopes (Effelsberg in Germany and APEX in Chile). The project offers access to instruments, data and expertise, focused on the new science of multi-messenger astrophysics.

    With 40 world-class collaborating institutions from 15 countries, including the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) brings together the astroparticle and astronomy communities in a joint effort to forge a basis for strengthened long-term collaboration between these research infrastructures irrespective of location and level up access opportunities across Europe and beyond.

    ACME objectives are to implement the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium’s (APPEC) and the Planning and Advisory Network for European Astronomy’s (ASTRONET) roadmaps’ recommendations and to act as a pathfinder to broaden and improve trans-national and virtual access to the respective research infrastructures services and data, assess and evaluate new models for better coordination and provision of at-scale services, develop centres of expertise, improve science data products management and interoperable systems for rapid identification of astrophysical candidate events and alert distribution to optimize follow-up observations, provide training for a new and broader generation of scientists and engineers, open the astrophysics and astroparticle physics data sets to other disciplines and increase citizen engagement.

    The ACME project coordinator Prof. Antoine Kouchner (CNRS/Université Paris Cité), and co-coordinator Paolo D’Avanzo (INAF), represent both, the astroparticle physics community and the astronomy community, in order to ensure balance and drive cross-domain collaboration.

    “Our institute is co-leading an initiative to tackle the challenges of harmonizing infrastructure access practices by facilitating Transnational Access based on scientific merit across a broad range of astroparticle, high-energy and astronomical facilities”, says Dr. Izabela Rottmann from MPIfR who is in charge of this activity, “The idea will be to bring together astroparticle research infrastructures developing new open time allocation along with astronomical infrastructures with an extensive track record such as the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope) to share expertise across domains.”

    ACME will establish six centres of expertise, which will offer a complete service of expertise on the infrastructures, observations, data analysis and interpretation for different messenger and multi-wavelength domains in ACME. “For the Radio Astronomy part we offer expertise across radio wavelengths from the meter to the centimeter/millimeter range supporting both, single dish and interferometric observations”, says Alex Kraus, also from MPIfR, the station manager of the Effelsberg Radio Observatory. “We plan to establish a dedicated expertise node for extended user support paired with software development for our 100-m Radio Telescope.”

    The Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn hosts raw data archives for two powerful radio telescopes: the 12-m submm telescope APEX in Chile and the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope 40 km southwest of Bonn, Germany., Together they cover a frequency range between 300 MHz and 1 THz. Within the ACME development, a better access procedure to the data archives as well as the basis for an automated calibration of the observations of both telescopes via software pipelines shall be implemented, including an assessment of data quality.


    Wissenschaftliche Ansprechpartner:

    Dr. Izabela Rottmann
    Co-leader Infrastructure Access Practices by Enabling Transnational Access (TA)
    Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn.
    Fon: +49 228 525-281
    E-Mail: irottmann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

    Dr. Alex Kraus
    Effelsberg Station Manager
    Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn.
    Fon: +49 2257 301-120
    E-mail: akraus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

    Dr. Friedrich Wyrowski
    APEX Project Manager
    Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn.
    Fon: +49 228 525-381
    E-mail: wyrowski@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de


    Weitere Informationen:

    https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/announcements/2024/6


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    Two radio telescopes of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR): the Effelsberg 100-m telescope 40 km southwest of Bonn in Germany (left) and the APEX telescope at 5100m altitude in the Atacama region in Chile (right).
    Two radio telescopes of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR): the Effelsberg 100-m t ...

    Norbert Junkes/MPIfR (Effelsberg), ESO (APEX)

    Participants at the kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) in September 2024 in Paris.
    Participants at the kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europ ...

    ACME kick-off meeting


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    Two radio telescopes of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR): the Effelsberg 100-m telescope 40 km southwest of Bonn in Germany (left) and the APEX telescope at 5100m altitude in the Atacama region in Chile (right).


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    Participants at the kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) in September 2024 in Paris.


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