Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Upcoming Events

Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology with the Rapid Neutron-capture Process

Pupin 1402

4:05 PM - 5:05 PM

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Seminar by Oren Slone

Pupin 1402

4:05 PM - 4:35 PM

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Decoding Dark Matter with Stellar Streams from Beyond the Milky Way

Pupin 1402

4:05 PM - 5:05 PM

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News

November 26, 2022

First detections of stellar light from quasar host galaxies at z > 6

November 18, 2022

Astronomy Outreach Restarts

November 10, 2022

Talking about Teaching: Graduate student-led workshops & Teaching Tea

Featured Publications

Novae in M51: a new, much higher rate from multi-epoch HST data

Shifra Mandel

Mike Shara

David Zurek

Charlie Conroy

Pieter van Dokkum

The Periodic Signals of Nova V1674 Herculis (2021)

J. Patterson

J. Eisenstein

E. de Miguel

M. Epstein-Martin

et al.

Comparing weak lensing peak counts in baryonic correction models to hydrodynamical simulations

Max E. Lee

Tianhuan Lu

Zoltan Haiman

Jia Liu

Ken Osato

If Dark Matter is Fuzzy, the First Stars Form in Massive Pancakes

Mihir Kulkarni

Eli Visbal

Greg L. Bryan

Xinyu Li

Bridging the gap — the disappearance of the intermediate period gap for fully convective stars, uncovered by new ZTF rotation periods

Yuxi(Lucy) Lu

Jason L. Curtis

Ruth Angus

Trevor J. David

Soichiro Hattori

Deriving Instrumental Point Spread Functions from Partially Occulted Images

Stefan J. Hofmeister

Michael Hahn

Daniel Wolf Savin

Comptonization by reconnection plasmoids in black hole coronae II: Electron-ion plasma

Navin Sridhar

Lorenzo Sironi

Andrei Beloborodov

More Publications

Big Apple Sky Calendar

Date: Feb 1-2
Event: Good nights to look for overflights of New York City by the International Space Station (ISS), just about the brightest thing in the sky, on Feb 1 from 6:39 to 6:43 pm EST and on Feb 2 from 5:50 to 5:56 pm EST

Date: Feb 5
Event: Full Snow Moon

Date: Feb 15-28
Event: Venus and Jupiter will stage a beautiful show in the western sky during evening twilight, with Jupiter starting out higher and sinking each day as Venus does the opposite, bringing them together

Date: Feb 27
Event: High in the evening sky, the Moon approaches Mars from the west, while the Jupiter-Venus conjunction continues low in the southwestern sky

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