Monthly Archives: September 2020


Google Summer of Code With DiRAC

It was a great learning experience for me as I learned a lot about the Jupyter Ecosystem and remote collaborative work.

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Photometric Redshifts with the LSST II: The Impact of Near-Infrared and Near-Ultraviolet Photometry

The groundbreaking advances in cosmological astrophysics to be made by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) all rely, at least in part, on accurate photometric redshift estimates for billions galaxies in our Universe. These…

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Letter From the Director

Welcome to the DiRAC Institute newsletter, and to the new academic year! Allow me to begin by introducing myself: I’m Mario Juric, Associate Professor of Astronomy at UW and the new Director of DiRAC. My interests span science and technology:…

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Meet DiRAC’s Research Team: Dr. James Davenport

DiRAC is pleased to introduce the new Associate Director of our Institute, Professor James (Jim) Davenport. Davenport received his PhD from the University of Washington in 2015, working on exploring magnetic activity from low-mass stars using NASA’s Kepler mission. He…

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DiRAC & Astronomy on Tap Seattle Present: Astronomy at Home

Once per month, we invite you to join us for an evening with a UW astronomer and participate in talks and live conversations about topics that vary from searching for the most mysterious stars in our Galaxy to the Starlink satellites…

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Photometric Biases in Modern Surveys

Precise brightness measurements, or photometry, are essential for many areas of astronomy. DiRAC Postdoctoral Fellow Stephen Portillo, together with collaborators Joshua Speagle and Douglas Finkbeiner, published the  paper “Photometric Biases in Modern Surveys” which illustrates a measurement bias that is common…

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Studying the first-known asteroid to orbit the Sun closer than Venus

DiRAC research scientist Sarah Greenstreet recently published a paper on the orbital stability of the first-known asteroid discovered on an orbit entirely interior to the orbit of Venus. Greenstreet and colleagues were the first to predict that such asteroids should…

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