D I R A C I n s t i t u t e
Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Washington
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Letter From The Director
December 2018 Newsletter It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the first DIRAC Institute newsletter. It is hard to believe that the institute is only a year old and how much has happened over the last 12 months….
Read MoreDIRAC Researchers at the AAS Meeting
December 2018 Newsletter Researchers from DIRAC and LSST are gearing up for the annual winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. This year, it will be here in Seattle at the Washington State Convention Center, from January 6-10, 2019. More than…
Read MoreMeet DIRAC’s Research Team: Gwendolyn Eadie
December 2018 Newsletter Eadie’s research falls in the category of astrostatistics, an interdisciplinary field of astronomy and statistics. On the astronomy side, she is interested in properties of the Milky Way Galaxy such as its mass and amount of dark matter,…
Read MoreZwicky Transient Facility in 2018
December 2018 Newsletter 2018 saw the beginning of survey operations for the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). ZTF is characterizing the Northern Hemisphere sky on timescales ranging from minutes to years. ZTF data will identify young supernovae, rare classes of explosive…
Read MoreThe Mysterious “Boyajian’s Star”
December 2018 Newsletter The explanation for the mysterious “Boyajian’s Star” has eluded scientists since its discovery in 2015. DIRAC Research Scientist, James Davenport, thinks it may simply be cosmic dust. DIRAC Researcher and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, James Davenport, is a coauthor…
Read MoreDIRAC Researchers Observe 1I/’Oumuamua
December 2018 Newsletter On October 24, 2017, the first interstellar object, 1I/‘Oumuamua, was discovered by a small telescope in Hawaii. 1I/‘Oumuamua is thought to have originated in another solar system before its journey took it on a brief tour of…
Read More2018-12-11 Seminar: Benjamin Pope
When: December 11, 2018 @ 12:00pm Where: PAB, B305, 3rd floor The Brightest Stars in Kepler and K2 The Kepler mission and its continuation as K2 have revolutionized both the study of exoplanets and of stellar astrophysics, providing high-precision light curves of hundreds…
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