April 26 |
NuSTAR Cycle 7 targets announced |
Congratulations to all whose proposals were successful. Read the full target list here. |
May 19 |
Yanjun's PhD defense |
Probing the Inner Accretion Flow Properties Around Black Holes with X-ray Observations |
Aug 30 |
Sean publishes a paper! |
Photospheric Radius Expansion and a Double-peaked Type-I X-Ray Burst from GRS 1741.9–2853 |
Sept 16 |
Nikita's PhD defense |
Probing the Corona in Active Galactic Nuclei using Broadband X-ray Spectroscopy |
Oct 23 |
Hannah goes to Hawaii! |
Hannah Earnshaw is off to Hawaii for few days, where they are using the Keck telescope to observe the companion stars to some ULXs in the infrared. Wish them good weather for observing! |
Oct 25 |
Javier's project receives NASA ADAP (Astrophysics Data Analysis Program) Grant |
"Bridging the gap between X-ray and UV/optical disk reverberation mapping in Active Galactic Nuclei" is a project that Javier is a Co-Investigator on in tandem with MIT scientists, seeking to study supermassive black holes in AGN using new timing techniques to analyze UV and X-ray observations. |
Nov 4 |
Decadal Survey release |
The National Academies' Decadal Survey (co-chaired by our own Fiona Harrison) is released and discussed in a public webinar on Thursday, November 4th. More details can be found here. |
Nov 7 |
NuSTAR's 1000th published paper! |
Today (Sunday, November 7th) the NASA HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center) bibliography site posted the 1000th published science paper from NuSTAR. Also, the 1001st and 1002nd papers. |
Nov 9 |
Murray's paper accepted into The Astrophysical Journal |
Evolution of the spin, spectrum and super-orbital period of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar M51 ULX7 |
Nov 15 |
Labani Mallick joins the team! |
New Postdoc Labani Mallick joins the HEAG! Check out her profile on the People page! |
Nov 23 |
Thomas, Daniel, and friends get a new paper accepted into The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
X-Ray Evidence Against the Hypothesis that the Hyper-Luminous z=6.3 Quasar J0100+2802 is Lensed |
Nov 23 |
Nikita's Virtual lecture presentation |
The Enigmatic Corona: Powerhouse of Accreting Black Holes. You can watch it on YouTube Live here! |
Nov 30 |
Javier's Paper Is Accepted to ApJ |
Javier Garcia's paper, Relativistic X-ray Reflection Models for Accreting Neutron Stars, is published on ApJ. Co-authors include HEAG members Renee Ludlam and Fiona Harrison, among others. |
Dec 1 |
Fiona Testifies Before Congress |
Grad student Yuhan Yao submitted a new paper to ApJ presenting AT2020mrf, the fifth member of a new class of engine-driven massive star explosions! |
Dec 1 |
Yuhan Submits to ApJ |
December 1st, at 11:00 am EST, Fiona provides A Review of the Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics in the 2020s before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. |
Dec 8 |
NuSTAR Cycle 8 Now Accepting Proposals |
The due date for NuSTAR Cycle 8 proposal submissions is January 28th, 2022. Proposals should be submitted via the HEASARC's ARK Remote Proposal System (RPS). For more information about this cycle, please visit the NuSTAR Proposal Page. |
Dec 9 |
XMM-Newton Cycle 21 Results Released! |
The list of accepted observations for XMM-Newton AO-21 is released! The list can be found here, and features multiple HEAG members including Murray, Javier, Daniel, Yuhan, Labani, and Thomas! |