Berkeley Prize / en Canadian collaboration including ֱ astronomers wins Berkeley prize /celebrates/canadian-collaboration-including-u-t-astronomers-wins-berkeley-prize <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Canadian collaboration including ֱ astronomers wins Berkeley prize</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-11-22T16:58:18-05:00" title="Monday, November 22, 2021 - 16:58" class="datetime">Mon, 11/22/2021 - 16:58</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/berkeley-prize" hreflang="en">Berkeley Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/cita" hreflang="en">CITA</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/dunlap-institute-astronomy-astrophysics" hreflang="en">Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-04/story%2010-CHIME-2_1200px%20%281%29-crop.jpeg" width="750" height="500" alt="The&nbsp;CHIME radio telescope"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>(Photo by Andre Renard )</p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment fast radio burst (CHIME/FRB) team will receive the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) 2022&nbsp;<a href="https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/lancelot-m-berkeley-new-york-community-trust-prize-meritorious-work-astronomy" target="_blank">Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy</a>.</p> <p>The CHIME/FRB team is being honoured for its progress on fast radio bursts –&nbsp;brief and powerful flashes of radio waves with enigmatic origins – using observations from the&nbsp;<a href="https://chime-experiment.ca/en" target="_blank">CHIME radio telescope</a>.&nbsp;The team is being recognized in particular for an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2863-y" target="_blank">article published in&nbsp;<em>Nature</em></a>&nbsp;that identified the first known fast radio burst within our own galaxy and tied this flash to its potential source, a known magnetar –&nbsp;a highly magnetized and dense remnant of a massive star.</p> <p><strong>Paul Scholz</strong>, a Dunlap-NSERC Fellow with the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics</a>, was a lead author on the paper. In January, Scholz will accept the prize on behalf of the team, along with Victoria Kaspi, professor of astronomy at McGill University and CHIME/FRB principal investigator.</p> <p>“It’s an honour to be recognized for this work by the AAS,” Scholz says. “It's taken a large team years of work to get here, and I’m proud of what we've accomplished.”</p> <p>Co-led by the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, McGill University, the CHIME/FRB team is hosted by the National Research Council of Canada, with collaborating institutions across North America and contributions of dozens of scientists.</p> <p>“CHIME was unconventional in so many ways,” says&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~pen/wordpress/" target="_blank">Ue-Li Pen</a></strong>, a professor in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cita.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics</a>&nbsp;and a member of the CHIME/FRB team. “Canada provided a unique opportunity for a new, bold idea which has now confirmed us as international leaders.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/canadian-collaboration-including-u-t-astronomers-wins-berkeley-prize-breakthrough-discoveries">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:58:18 +0000 lanthierj 301084 at