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Brazilian Astronomy

Brazilian Astronomy. Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino IAG- Universidade de Sã o Paulo. Brasil. Capital : Brasília    Population : 169.799.170 inhabitants    Micro-Regions : 558    Cities : 5560    Total area : 8.514.215,3 km²    Demographic dens. : 19,94 inhab/km².

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Brazilian Astronomy

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  1. Brazilian Astronomy Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino IAG- Universidade de São Paulo

  2. Brasil Capital : Brasília   Population : 169.799.170 inhabitants   Micro-Regions : 558   Cities : 5560   Total area : 8.514.215,3 km²   Demographic dens. : 19,94 inhab/km²

  3. São Paulo State & São Paulo City 19.7 Million inhabitants (2006)

  4. São Paulo City

  5. São Paulo City

  6. USP IAG

  7. São Paulo: IAG-USP, INPE, IFT, CRAAM, UniCamp, UniVap, Unipi Other States: LNA, ON/RJ, UFRJ, UFRGS, UFSC, UFPR, UFMG, UFRN, UFES, UESC, UEFS, others (38) Brazilian Institutions

  8. Brazilian Astronomers Doctors: 322 Students: 188 Total: 510

  9. Research Areas Stellar Astronomy Solar Astronomy Galactic Astronomy ISM Extragalactic Astronomy Cosmology Plasma Astrophysics, HD & MHD Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysics

  10. Research Areas@ IAG-USP Stellar Astronomy Solar Astronomy Galactic Astronomy ISM Extragalactic Astronomy Cosmology Plasma Astrophysics, HD & MHD Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysics

  11. IAG-USP Permanent Position: 32 Post-docs: 20 Students: 55 Undergraduate students: 30 Total: 137

  12. Projects and Networks Gemini & SOAR telescopes AUGER COROT space telescope Polarimetric Survey JETSET network ALPHA-LENAC MASCO (50 keV a 2 MeV) SKA

  13. 8-m Gemini North & South International partnership: 50% USA, 25% Inglaterra, 15% Canada, 6% Australia, 2.5% Brasil, 2.5% Argentina Instruments: WFMOS; optical fiber expertises North: Mauna Kea, Haway (13,822 ft.) South: Cerro Pachon, Chile (8895 ft.) Chile

  14. Optical/IR Gemini Telescopes Mauna Kea - Hawaii Cerro Pachon - Chile

  15. Gemini Observations – exs.

  16. Gemini Observations – exs. Stephan’s Quintet Mendes de Oliveira et al.

  17. 4-m SOAR telescope SOAR: SOuthern Astrophysical Research telescope Partnership: Brazil  (33%) and USA Universities of North Carolina (UNC), Michigan State University (MSU) and the National optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO). Location: Cerro Pachón, Chile (2,700 meters).

  18. Polarimetric Survey Southern Sky optical/IR survey of ISM polarization of MW: magnetic field structure - HVCs, Young clusters, Dark Clouds (Magalhaes et al.) Observations: IAG-USP 60cm Ritchey-Chretien telescope @ LNA (22° S) in Brazil. Polarimeter is inserted ahead of the CCD or IR camera (high precision imaging polarimetry) Polarization software and hardware: for CTIO (Chile) and Spartan camera of SOAR

  19. AUGER Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory: universe's highest energy particles Partnership: USA, several European countries, Argentina & Brasil (15)

  20. AUGER

  21. AUGER Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory: universe's highest energy particles Partnership: USA, several European countries, Argentina & Brasil (15) Location: Pampa Amarilla (yellow prairie) in western Argentina: 1600 SD detectors ("water Cherenkov counters") over 3000 km2 At the edges: 4 nitrogen fluorescence telescopes

  22. COROT Space Tellescope COROT: COnvection, ROtation & Transient Stars Partnership: French laboratories (CNRS) and with several international partners (European countries, Brazil). Spacecraft Proteus 27-cm diameter afocal telescope and a 4-CCD camera sensitive to tiny variations of the light intensity from stars Research: extrasolar planets and stellar seismology Launched: December 2006 

  23. European Research and Training Network Partnership: European countries, Mexico, Brasil HH111 Cerqueira, de Gouveia Dal Pino, Herant

  24. Clouds Formation Density SNR-SNR interactions lead to formation of filaments and new clouds with n=100-1000 na in less than 105 yr(Melioli, de Gouveia Dal Pino & Raga) t=4x104 yr

  25. High Velocity Clouds Formation

  26. ALPHA-LENAC network Network: for research and training numerical simulations (student exchanging, workshops, etc.) Partnership: Durham University, Max-Planck Institutes @ German, Chile, Brazil

  27. Square Kilometer Array (SKA) • Total effective collecting area: 1 km2 (100 MHz to 25 GHz) • Stations of ~100 m diameter 150 stations – accounting for half the SKA area – will be distributed across continental distances (~3000km). • Remaining area will be concentrated within a central region of 5 km diameter(2020).

  28. Square Kilometer Array (SKA) • Map nearby galaxies10x better angular resolution than present radio telescopes • 10x more distant galaxies with similar spatial resolution as today • detect synchrotron emission from galaxies and structures inthe earliest stage of evolution • search for the earliest magnetic fields and theirorigin • proto-planets • black-holes • pulsars (>10000) Cordes 2001

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