The Spanish Space Agency is organising the colloquium. Professor Guzmán will present the mission.
ARRAKIHS is the first ESA scientific programme led by Spain. The consortium responsible for the mission is a scientific-technological collaboration led by Professor Guzmán (Institute of Physics of Cantabria, IFCA, CSIC-UC), working alongside researchers from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA), the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE), the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the Centre for Cosmic Physics Studies of Aragon (CEFCA), the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), the Institute of High Energy Physics (IFAE), the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), and the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA).
The ARRAKIHS consortium comprises over 50 researchers from 20 research centres and universities in Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the United States, Taiwan and Thailand. In terms of industry, European aerospace companies in Switzerland, Belgium and the United Kingdom, led by the Spanish company Satlantis, are involved in developing the instrument.
The main objective of ARRAKIHS is to elucidate the nature of dark matter and the baryonic feedback mechanism by conducting space-based observations of GSE and CEM in the halos of a statistically representative sample of Milky Way-like galaxies in the local universe at surface brightnesses lower than 30 mag/arcsec². Professor Guzmán will present the development of the mission, after which there will be time for questions.
Date: 27 October
Time: 11:30–12:30 (CET)
Location: Hybrid event (in person at the ESA auditorium and online).
Image: Alex Camazón (ARRAKIHS Consortium)
