Mexican Island a Choice Site for Radio Astronomy
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October 16, 2013
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MEXICO CITY - A team of some 30 scientists are preparing to take advantage of the special characteristics of Mexico's Isla Guadalupe for a vanguard project in radio astronomy.

The Sci-Hi experiment has the potential to make Mexico "a pioneer at the Latin American level in the search for birth of the earliest galaxies in the universe," the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, or INAOE, said in a statement.

Led by Mexican researchers, the project includes about a dozen scientists from the United States, Canada, Britain and Argentina.

The focus of Sci-Hi is on detecting neutral hydrogen (HI), which is a residue of galaxy formation.

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