CEFCA's headquarters

The Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) is a foundation of public interest of the Government of Aragón that was created in 2008 to define and construct the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ), as well as to carry out and promote its scientific exploitation. The main scientific topics of CEFCA focus on Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution, with a strong leadership and participation in the J-PLUS and J-PAS surveys. The CEFCA data center, UPAD, with capacity for 6.1 PB of storage, 3.3 TB of RAM and 406 cores, complete the OAJ Project at the city of Teruel, allowing to process and storage the data gathered with the OAJ telescopes.