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| Welcome to the
Cosmology Group at the Institute for Space Sciences. Our main research activities are related to modeling and constraining standard, extended and non-standard cosmological parameter spaces, reionization and structure formation scenarios by using Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation anisotropy and polarization and Large Scale Structure measurements. For more than 13 years the group has been involved in numerous projects such as RELIKT2 , SPORT , Planck and also in future BPol and SPACE missions. |
| News |
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| SPECIAL - May 14th 2009 |
| The launch of Planck/Herschel was successful! At 16:37 (Romanian time) at 1140km away from the African coast, the two sattelites have separated, saying good bye to Ariane 5. Now, Planck is in L2 and the telemetry works perfect! We expect the first relevant meassurements in approximately 6 months. You can watch the launch movie directly on our web page |
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| May 2009 |
| Planck sattelite is scheduled to be launched on May 14th Planck is a mission of the European Space Agency. It will measure, with unprecedented accuracy and level of detail the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) anisotropies which encode a wealth of information on the properties of the Universe in its infancy The Cosmology Group is directly involved in this mission and our work is a contribution to Planck's scientific objectives. Dr. Lucia Popa is a member of the Core Team of the mission and was a part of the experiment ever since its proposal stage. More information about the launch you can find on ESA home page < |
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| May 2008 |
| Laurentiu Caramete successfully presented the Romanian Virtual Observatory initiative and our group's intention to create specific VO tools for cosmology (especially for helping PLANCK Mission) and astroparticle physics at the IVOA Interoperability meeting, Trieste, Italy. Thus, we obtained the full support of the IVOA . Follwing the same meeting Laurentiu Caramete also became representative of the ISS in the proposal team for a new international infrastructure project regarding astroparticle physics in the VO |
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| March 2008 |
The WMAP Five-year data have been released on March 5th 2008!! |
| January 2008 |
| Our group has recently extended its research interests to galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields and statistics of galaxies. We also started a project for creating a national Virtual Observatory in Romania (RoVO) |
| November 2007 |
| Lucia Popa and Ana Vasile was awarded with the CNCSIS prize for the article Constraints on non-thermal Dark Matter from Planck lensing extraction |
| September 2007 |
| Petruta Stefanescu was awarded with the CNCSIS prize for the article Constraints on time variation of fine structure constant from WMAP-3yr data |
