NANOGrav PFC
@nanograv.bsky.social
A NSF-funded Physics Frontiers Center using pulsars to search for low-frequency gravitational waves! They/Them/Theirs
Lucas Brown, graduate student at Tufts University, has updated the iconic pulsar map originally seen on the Voyager golden record to include the pulsars from NANOGrav's data sets. Check out this great way to visualize our data! You can see how much the array has grown over the years 🔭🧪
NANOGrav congratulates the LISA Consortium on ESA’s approval, advancing the space-based LISA gravitational wave observatory. We look forward to exploring the gravitational universe alongside LVK Consortium and LISA 🔭
Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead
Today, ESA’s Science Programme Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.
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We are pleased to announce that Ross Jennings is the "Hero of NANOGrav" for the month of January! 🔭 nanograv.org/news/hero-na...
Hero of NANOGrav - January 2024 | NANOGrav
Ross Jennings has been awarded the title "Hero of NANOGrav" for the month of January!
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#AAS243 Astrobiter @astrolamb.bsky.social will be presenting his research at 10am today! He'll be talking about distinguishing between an astrophysical and cosmological origin to the gravitational wave background seen by @nanograv.bsky.social and other pulsar timing arrays!
Day 1 #AAS243 summaries are up! If you missed anything yesterday or are following along from afar, we’ve got you covered 👍🏻⭐️ astrobites.org/2024/01/09/a...
Astrobites at AAS 243: Day 1
Astrobites coverage of Day 1 of AAS 243!
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Lots of NANOGrav talks and posters tomorrow, including a Special Session in room 226 starting at 2PM. We hope to see you there! #AAS243 🔭🧪
Good morning AAS! Steve Taylor is starting off the day with the Kavli Plenary 🔭
Don’t miss the Kavli Planetary Lecture at AAS243 by NANOGrav chair Dr. Stephen Taylor. There are also many other NANOGrav talks tomorrow and all week long 🔭
With support from the AAS, Astronomy on Tap will host what is likely to be their biggest event *ever* during #AAS243 in New Orleans. Tuesday night, Jan 9, at an incredible venue: Republic NOLA, directly across from the convention center: aot.eventbrite.com
Astronomy on Tap All-Stars
Republic NOLA Presents... Astronomy on Tap All-Stars on January 9th, 2024!
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Excellent op-ed from Dr. Chiara Mingarelli:
The black hole revolution needs you! - Nature Astronomy
The NANOGrav collaboration has found light-years long gravitational waves from, most likely, the mergers of millions of supermassive black holes. To keep watching this cosmic dance, we need sustained ...
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Need a gift for the pulsar astronomer In your life? We recommend www.thegamecrafter.com/games/nanogr...
The new High Energy Astrophysics Division Newsletter is out! See page 15: head.aas.org/sites/head.a...
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar. She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. 🔭 🧪 👩🔬
The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered OTD in 1967.🧪 🔭 👩🔬
We are pleased to announce that Joe Simon is our NANOGrav Hero for the month of November!
I tried my hand at some large scale outreach. It was frankly a bit unnerving 🤪 But thanks to the folks at WIRED is was really fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65m...
Physicist Answers Physics Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
Physicist Jeffrey Hazboun visits WIRED to answer the internet's swirling questions about physics. How does one split an atom? Is light a wave or a particle.....
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Emmanuel Fonseca at SACNAS: on a panel and during the GWA special session. We also had people at the shared Gravitational Wave Astronomy booth!
Kicking off the Fall meeting with a Speed Networking session
Save the date! 📅 Dr. Stephen Taylor from NANOGrav will headline the 243rd AAS Meeting in New Orleans on Jan 8, 2024, with the prestigious Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture. 🌌 aas.org/press/aas-na...
AAS Names Stephen Taylor as Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 243rd Meeting | American Astronomical So...
At our January 2024 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Kavli lecture will be given by Stephen Taylor, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University and Chair of the NANOGrav Collaboration.
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From William Lamb: Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expect them to have! 🔭 astrobites.org/2023/10/12/c...
Continued analysis on the continuous search for continuous waves (continued)
Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expe…
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Still have questions about gravitational waves? Check out this excellent new video that explains what they are and the different methods for detecting them (including our own!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHuk...
Gravitational Waves: A New Universe | Breakthrough
It’s been called 'the most significant breakthrough of the century.' For the FIRST TIME EVER, a global team of scientists have used astronomy... to detect a ...
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