Category: 2019 December
Welcome to the DiRAC Institute newsletter. As we head towards the winter solstice, if you were lucky with the clouds and the near full moon, you may have seen the Geminid meteor shower which peaked early in the morning of…
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Understanding why the expansion of the universe is getting faster with time is one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology today. Kyle Boone, a fellow at the DiRAC Institute, focuses his research on developing novel statistical methods for astronomy and…
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Searching for Boyajian’s Star Analogs with the Zwicky Transient Facility The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey is a treasure trove for time domain science, and members of DiRAC’s Time Domain & Inference group are collaborating to comb through some 200…
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an upcoming sky survey that aims to conduct a 10 year long survey from which we hope to answer questions about dark matter, dark energy, hazardous asteroids and the formation and structure of…
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DiRAC Fellow Keaton Bell is coordinating an international collaboration of asteroseismologists to study the brightness variations of pulsating white dwarf stars recorded by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is capable of much more than its name…
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DiRAC faculty Zeljko Ivezic, together with DiRAC Institute Director Andy Connolly and collaborators Jacob Vanderplas and Alex Gray, have just published an updated edition of their book “Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis…
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