They reward Mexican for the most beautiful astronomical image

Joel Sánchez Bermúdez, Mexican researcher at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in Garching, Germany, won the award for the reconstruction of a more beautiful and accurate astronomical image.

The picture was taken with his team, formed by the Spanish Antxón Alberdi and Rainer Schödel; this award was granted at the Congress of the Society of Engineers in Photo-Optical Instrumentation

The interferometric image competition aims to test the software and the methodological capabilities for the reconstruction of this type of 39, illustrations in the infrared spectrum.

The reconstruction of this type of images is fundamental in modern astronomy to understand the phenomena that occur every day in the universe.

The contest [19659002] The dynamic of the contest is that the teams of experts and the participants from all over the world receive a series of data obtained from the simulations made by the organizers according to the parameters of the instruments and telescopes.

From there, teams process interferometric data and create an image, according to which data is chosen as the winner.

The image of the Mexican recreates a central star With an elongated dust disk and asymmetrical brightness, with a planet in formation, this type of young stars is common in the universe and it is thought that the Sun and the solar system had a similar training process.

it serves as a reference for establishing the limits and scope of technology in the field of infrared interferometry, "explained the award-winning astrophysicist in an interview at the agency. Information from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT)

. Image, the physical parameters of the observed object must be delivered, that is why experts from Cambridge Universities, Lyon and Louvain were needed.

The competition is held every two years for 16 years, in previous editions teams and researchers have reconstructed from images of interferometric data of stars, clusters of dinosaurs. stars, discs around stars and planets. [19659002 Discipline

Astronomical interferometry is an observational technique that allowed astronomers to observe the stars and galaxies with the pl details are possible, and this technique makes it possible to combine two or more telescopes at the same time to observe an astronomical object. "For an interferometer like the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the level of detail reached is equivalent to seeing a five peso coin on the surface of the moon," explained investigator

In this edition of the competition, international specialists have had to reconstruct from interferometric data a star in formation with a disk of dust and a planet.

The specialist's research line is based on badysis. interferometric data for the badysis of stars of high mbades, which are those that produce virtually all the ingredients entities whose universe is made, so that they acquire special relevance to study astronomical phenomena .

"The study of this type of star by interferometry is important to understand their evolution and their effect on chemical evolution.This is the second time that Joel Sánchez Bermúdez is the Winner of this competition, that's why he's positioned as one of the world's most renowned reconstruction astronomers.The first time in 2014, he was still a doctoral student.

In June 2016, while attending a post-doctorate at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, he received another award from the Spanish Astronomical Society, PhD Thesis in Astrophysics