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Astronomy, Technology, Industry. Roadmap for the Fostering of Technology Development and Innovation in the Field of Astronomy in Chile
(1999)
The skies over Chile are well recognized as a global natural resource for astronomy. How can this natural resource best benefit Chile? To be sure, the presence of so much of the world’s telescope inventory already benefits ...
Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
(SpringerDordrecht, 2011-12)
Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in ...
Sciences and audiences along the lastcentury: the impact of Astronomy Education
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Just as in the past, the development of the natural sciences and in particular of astronomy has changed the history of humanity. If we think about the role of our discipline into the future, it shows its enormous power in ...
Analysis Astronomy Communication Actions in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Int Astronomical Union, 2021-11-01)
In early 2020, the world was taken aback with the spread of the Covid-19 disease by an unknown coronavirus. Months later, the World Health Organization characterised this outbreak as a pandemic, urging decision makers to ...
Sobre la posibilidad del empleo de las observaciones radioastronómicas del Sol para la determinación de la absorción atmosférica y la humedad absoluta
(1987)
Se muestra el método empleado en la Estación Radioastronómica de La Habana para corregir las observaciones radioastronómicas por absorción en la atmósfera terrestre, y se analiza la posibilidad de realizar mediciones de ...
Doing passive radio astronomy with a MST/ST System: a fast crosscorrelation algorithm
(1995)
There are not too many antennas in the VHF range in the world dedicated to radio astronomy. ST, and specially MST, radars require and have large antenna apertures which could also be used for radio astronomical observations. ...
The Barolo Palace: medieval astronomy in the streets of Buenos Aires
(University Wales Trinity Saint David. The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, 2013-04)
Cultural heritage relating to the sky in the form of sundials, old observatories and the like, are commonly found in many cities in the Old World, but rarely in the New. This paper examines astronomical heritage embodied ...
Andrés Bello and the dissemination of astronomy: education and scientific rhetoric.
This paper analyzes the astronomical texts written by Andres Bello between 1810 and 1848, from its educational nature to its rhetorical expression, suggesting that their main purpose was to show the advances in the field ...