Noticias

31 July 2017

Postdoctoral research fellowships

The Institute of Astrophysics of Pontificia Universidad Catolica (IA-PUC) and the Center of Astro-Engineering of the Universidad Catolica (AIUC) invite applications for sponsoring postdoctoral research fellowships in the areas of observational, theoretical, computational astrophysics and/or instrumentation to work either on existing projects or in close collaboration with one or more faculty members at IA-PUC (www.astro.puc.cl) and/or AIUC (www.aiuc.puc.cl). Selected candidates will be sponsored by IA-PUC/AIUC professors either to apply for 3-year FONDECYT postdoctoral grants from the Chilean funding agency, CONICYT, or for other national or international grants. The FONDECYT fellowship is expected to begin on March 15, 2018, with eligibility limited to recent PhDs (received after Jan 1, 2014 and granted before the application deadline). AIUC additionally has funding to employ a few experimentalists/programmers related to Cosmic Microwave Background work.

19 July 2017

Galaxias lejanas 'levantan el velo' marcando el final del tiempo cósmico oscuro

Un grupo de investigadores que estudia el universo lejano, entre los que se encuentran astrónomos del Instituto de Astrofísica UC, descubrió que las pequeñas galaxias que forman estrellas eran abundantes cuando el universo tenía solo 800 millones de años, un pequeño porcentaje de su edad actual. Los resultados sugieren que las primeras galaxias, que iluminaron e ionizaron el universo, se formaron incluso en épocas anteriores.

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