Objective
ASTERICS (Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infrastructure Cluster) aims to address the cross-cutting synergies and common challenges shared by the various Astronomy ESFRI facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3Net & E-ELT). It brings together for the first time, the astronomy, astrophysics and particle astrophysics communities, in addition to other related research infrastructures. The major objectives of ASTERICS are to support and accelerate the implementation of the ESFRI telescopes, to enhance their performance beyond the current state-of-the-art, and to see them interoperate as an integrated, multi-wavelength and multi-messenger facility. An important focal point is the management, processing and scientific exploitation of the huge datasets the ESFRI facilities will generate. ASTERICS will seek solutions to these problems outside of the traditional channels by directly engaging and collaborating with industry and specialised SMEs. The various ESFRI pathfinders and precursors will present the perfect proving ground for new methodologies and prototype systems. In addition, ASTERICS will enable astronomers from across the member states to have broad access to the reduced data products of the ESFRI telescopes via a seamless interface to the Virtual Observatory framework. This will massively increase the scientific impact of the telescopes, and greatly encourage use (and re-use) of the data in new and novel ways, typically not foreseen in the original proposals. By demonstrating cross-facility synchronicity, and by harmonising various policy aspects, ASTERICS will realise a distributed and interoperable approach that ushers in a new multi-messenger era for astronomy. Through an active dissemination programme, including direct engagement with all relevant stakeholders, and via the development of citizen scientist mass participation experiments, ASTERICS has the ambition to be a flagship for the scientific, industrial and societal impact ESFRI projects can deliver.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsneutrinos
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyobservational astronomygravitational waves
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata mining
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyastrophysics
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
3526 KV Utrecht
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75794 Paris
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67081 Strasbourg
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75014 Paris
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00136 Roma
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CB2 1TN Cambridge
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7991 PD Dwingeloo
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28850 Torrejon De Ardoz Madrid
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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69117 Heidelberg
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MK7 6AA Milton Keynes
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91054 Erlangen
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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75015 PARIS 15
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1012WX Amsterdam
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18071 Granada
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08860 CASTELLDEFELS
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08005 Barcelona
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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28040 Madrid
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00044 Frascati
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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22607 Hamburg
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3511 EP Utrecht
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08005 Barcelona
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1081 HV AMSTERDAM
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79104 FREIBURG
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2616 LR Delft
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