ARGOS Conceptual Design Study: Designing a next-generation radio facility for multi-messenger astronomy
Dates: 01/2023 – 06/2026
Funded by: European Commission, Horizon Europe, HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01
Project Coordinator: Ioannis Antoniadis (Intistute of Astrophysics, FORTH)
PI for FORTH: Stefanos Papadakis
Funding: total cost/funding: € 3,000,000 , FORTH-ICS funding: € 737,750.
Summary:
Astronomy is being transformed by surveys performed with instruments capable of searching the sky for multi-messenger signals with high speed and sensitivity, while delivering science-read datasets to the community. While radio astronomy is not yet fully participating in this revolution, an instrument following the same philosophy that would finally open the dynamic radio sky for exploration is not only urgent but inevitable.
ARGOS is a concept TRL2 for a leading-edge, low-cost, sustainable “small-D, big-N” radio interferometer that will realize this ambition, directly addressing multiple fundamental scientific questions, from the nature of dark matter and dark energy to the origin of fast radio bursts.
ARGOS Conceptual Design Study: Designing a Next-Generation Radio Facility For Multi-Messenger Astronomy is funded by the European Comission under the HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01 call Grant Agreement number: 101094354
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