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21 de February de 2019
‘Neurus’ in Antartica

During January/February of 2019, the LAMP group (Laboratorio Argentino de Meteorología del esPacio, www.iafe.uba.ar/u/lamp) installs a ‘Space Weather’ laboratory and a cosmic ray detector (called ‘Neurus’) in Antarctica, in the argentine Marambio station. The detector was designed and built at IAFE, is part of the LAGO Latin American collaboration and its technology is based on the surface detectorsof the Pierre Auger Observatory. It is planned that it will be in operative conditions during this year, so that it will report cosmic radiation flows in real time.The project is interinstitutional and is carry out by the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio(IAFE, UBA-CONICET), Instituto Antártico Argentino(IAA/DNA), and Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos/ Departamento de Física (DCAO/DF, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA).

More information in spanish:

https://www.nationalgeographicla.com/espacio/2019/01/instalan-el-primer-detector-argentino-de-rayos-cosmicos-en-la-antartida
https://www.conicet.gov.ar/antartida-instalaran-el-primer-detector-argentino-de-rayos-cosmicos/

  

The four researchers who are carrying out  the installation of the laboratory and the detector in the Antarctic argentine station.

From left to right Adriana Gulisano, Sergio Dasso, Omar Areso and Matías Pereira

Part of the load that was sent from Buenos Aires, when it arrives at the laboratory in the hostile climatic conditions of Antarctica
‘Neurus’ detector, already installed at the place where it will be working, in the Antarctic laboratory.

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