Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
25°01′17″N 121°32′17″E / 25.021278°N 121.538139°E
Established | 2010, 10 years ago |
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Director | Ue-Li Pen |
Address | 11F of Astronomy-Mathematics Building, AS/NTU. No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, Taiwan |
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Website | asiaa.sinica.edu.tw |
The Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA or IAA) is a affiliated research institute of Academia Sinica in Taipei.
ASIAA is currently located in the Astronomy and Mathematics Building at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan and also has a field office in Hilo, Hawaii.
ASIAA was officially established on June 1, 2010, with Paul Ho being the first director.
Research
[edit]The research areas of ASIAA range from the Solar System to star formation to galaxies and cosmology. ASIAA has either led or co-led the construction and operation of several telescopes, including the AMiBA Telescope to study the cosmic microwave background radiation (also known as "Lee Array"), the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey, the Submillimeter Array and many other research projects.
Projects
[edit]ASIAA is involved in several research projects, including:
- Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey (TAOS)
- Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)
- Yuan Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA)
- Theoretical Institute for Advanced Research in Astrophysics (TIARA)
- Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Survey
- Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
- The Greenland Telescope
- Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA)
Observatories
[edit]ASIAA has access to several observatories:
- Submillimeter Array (SMA)
- Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)
- Subaru Telescope
- The Greenland Telescope
Directors
[edit]Directors for the re-establishment of ASIAA
[edit]- Typhoon Lee (1993–1994)
- Chi Yuan (1994–1997)
- Fred Lo (1997 – 2002 August)
- Paul Ho (September 2002 – August 2003)
- Sun Kwok (September 2003 – 2005 August)
- Paul Ho (September 2005 – May 2010)
Directors of ASIAA
[edit]- Paul Ho (June 2010 – August 2014)
- You-Hua Chu (September 2014 – August 2020)
- Shiang-Yu Wang (Acting Director) (September 2020 – August 2021)
- Ue-Li Pen (September 2021 – present)