Swedish SKA Regional Center (sweSRC)

The SKAO is a next-generation radio astronomy-driven Big Data facility that will revolutionise our understanding of the Universe and the laws of fundamental physics. Enabled by cutting-edge technology, it promises to have a major impact on society, in science and beyond.

Sweden is represented in the  SKA Organisation by  Onsala Space Observatory, the Swedish national facility for radio astronomy. Onsala Space Observatory, founded in 1949, is hosted by  Department of Earth and Space Sciences at  Chalmers University of Technology, and is operated on behalf of the  Swedish Research Council. Sweden became a member of the SKA in 2012.

Onsala Space Observatory is developing the Swedish SKA Regional Center node as part of the collaborative global network, SRCNet, in collaboration with Chalmers e-Commons.

The primary goal of Swedish SKA regional centre is to develop and deploy Sweden’s share of inter-connected data strorage and compute resources to the global SRCNet project which will provide the data archive and second tier processing layer for SKA data delivery to its users..
In addition to the above role the SRC node also works to promote knowledge and use or the SKA and its precursor/pathfinder telescopes within Sweden.