UK SKA Regional Centre (UKSRC)
Website: www.uksrc.org
The UK SKA Regional Centre (UKSRC) is a key component of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), which aims to revolutionize radio astronomy by enabling unprecedented exploration of the universe. As part of the international SRCNet, the UKSRC provides the infrastructure, computing power, and user support necessary for UK-based scientists to access and analyse the massive volumes of data generated by the SKA’s telescopes in South Africa and Australia. It plays a vital role in advancing data-intensive science, fostering innovation in high performance cloud computing, and ensuring the UK remains at the forefront of global astronomical research.
e-MERLIN VLBI National Radio Astronomy Facility
Website: www.e-merlin.ac.uk
e-MERLIN (enhanced Multi Element Remotely Linked Interferometer Network) is an array of seven radio telescopes spanning 217 km (135 miles) across Great Britain connected by a superfast optical fibre network to its headquarters at Jodrell Bank Observatory. It has a unique position in the world with an angular resolution comparable to that of the Hubble Space Telescope and carrying out centimetre wavelength radio astronomy with micro-Jansky sensitivities. Its flexible wide-band correlator enables e-MERLIN to become the core of the EVN (European Very Long Baseline Interferometer Network) providing those valuable shortest baselines to global VLBI scientists. The array is also flexible enough to be used for sensitive pulsar observations in very-high time-resolution modes. e-MERLIN is funded by UKRI STFC, and is the UK’s VLBI National Radio Astronomy Facility.
UK ALMA Regional Centre
Website: www.alma.ac.uk
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is composed of 66 antennas located in northern Chile on the Chajnantor Plateau at an altitude of 5000m an a latitude of -23 degrees. The UK ALMA Regional Centre (UK ARC) is hosted by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA) at the University of Manchester and provides support for UK scientists using the telescope. We are a STFC-funded collaborative project, with contributions from University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC) and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
