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With the start of the first scientific data stream from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new era begins for global astronomy based on the analysis of large volumes of data. In this context, ALeRCE, a scientific platform developed in Chile, begins receiving and displaying these astronomical alerts, positioning the country as an active player in global astronomical data science.

Guillermo Cabrera-Vives leads the project that brings together the capabilities of the Millennium Institute for Astrophysics MAS, the Center for Mathematical Modeling at the University of Chile, the University of Concepción, and Data Observatory. Transforming the...

Chile’s pavilion at the Universal Exposition seeks to promote the country’s astronomical leadership, combining science, art and technology, with academic activities and others focused on the general audience.

The Chile Pavilion included a presentation by the project’s director and the exhibition of a video about this initiative that brings together the capabilities of the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS), the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the...

Identified as a potentially interesting source by ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events).

From December 11 to 15, specialists from around the globe will gather in Puerto Varas on the eve of the beginning of a new era in astronomy.

Based on the visual system of animals, which do not need high peripheral resolution in their field of view to solve different tasks, the ALeRCE astronomical broker team developed a new tool that will allow to know characteristics of new supernovae with high precision, quickly identifying their host galaxy.

The large volume of data that astronomical observation generates today is a challenge for scientists to search for new ways to process large volumes of images obtained per night. This situation will only increase when telescopes such as the Vera Rubin or ELT start to operate in the following years.

The Chilean virtual astronomical broker ALeRCE – dedicated to classifying time-varying astronomical objects reported by large telescopes that map the sky every night – presented in Ireland a new phase of its project, this time together with the ATLAS telescope network.

From the frontier between astronomy and data science, ALeRCE consolidates as the first astronomical broker to use artificial intelligence. A breakthrough in the optimization of the study of the avalanche of data perceived from the observable universe.

ALeRCE, a Chilean astronomy and data science project, will optimize the observation of the universe by incorporating big data techniques. Its role will be fundamental in the processing of data collected by the new observatory that will begin operating from the Coquimbo Region in 2024.

With the support of several universities and research centers in Chile and the United States, a group of Chilean scientists developed “ALeRCE”, a project that uses artificial intelligence to detect the most relevant events in the observable universe.