McGill Cosmology Instrumentation Laboratory

01/27/2026

"In a flat-bottomed valley 20 kilometres south of Penticton, B.C., Canada’s most ambitious radio telescope is growing."

Check out the feature article in today's Globe and Mail Newspaper by Ivan Semeniuk about CHORD, the ambitious radio telescope we are building in British Columbia.

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01/27/2026

"In a flat-bottomed valley 20 kilometres south of Penticton, B.C., Canada’s most ambitious radio telescope is growing."
- Ivan Semeniuk's feature article in the Globe and Mail about CHORD, the ambitious radio telescope we are building in British Columbia.

CHORD, once built, will scour for signals that offer clues to the origin and fate of the universe

01/27/2026

"In a flat-bottomed valley 20 kilometres south of Penticton, B.C., Canada’s most ambitious radio telescope is growing." - Ivan Semeniuk's feature article in the Globe and Mail about CHORD, the ambitious radio telescope we are building in British Columbia

CHORD, once built, will scour for signals that offer clues to the origin and fate of the universe

11/26/2025

hot off the press: Detection of the Cosmological 21 cm Signal in Auto-correlation at z ~ 1 with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment,

We present the first detection of the cosmological 21 cm intensity mapping signal in auto-correlation at z ~ 1 with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). Using 94 nights of observation, we have measured the 21 cm auto-power spectrum over a frequency range from 608.2 MHz to 707....

05/05/2022

Data from the CHIME radio observatory are a milestone in the quest to discover the hidden origins of universal structure

11/11/2021

Together with collaborators across Canada and internationally, we're building CHORD, the most powerful telescope conceived for construction on Canadian soil. It will be built up from a large number (640) of radio dishes, all working together through a powerful backend digital signal processing system to work together as one ultra-sensitive instrument. Here is the first prototype dish, rolling out of the stables at the Dominion Astrophysical Radio Observatory in British Columbia.

10/25/2021

More ICE correlators on the go — these boards are for the Chime outriggers that will provide precision locations of FRBs.

03/17/2021

LiteBIRD space telescope hardware is being prepared for thermal/vacuum testing.

06/12/2019

Prof Chiang - doing astrophysics halfway between Africa and Antarctica: halfway between

Prof Chiang and her team are making valuable contributions to UKZN’s astronomy research because the data collected on Marion Island is critical for mapping the formation of the first stars.

03/13/2019

https://reporter.mcgill.ca/62169-2/

Physics PhD candidate Joshua Montgomery talks about the unique challenges of spending 11-months in Antarctica

02/13/2019

Our CHIME telescope is featured on the cover of Nature this issue: https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/566/issues/7743

01/11/2019

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