Green Bank, WV location of some of the most fundamental discoveries in astrophysics and astronomy Posted on 2023-09-18 at 7:25 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky American Physical Society Recognizes GBO as Historic Site Green Bank Observatory campus, photo credit Jay Young. The American Physical Society has designated the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (GBO) as a Historic Site, recognizing it as the location of some of the most fundamental discoveries in astrophysics and astronomy. (more…) GBT Will Create New Sky Map Posted on 2023-08-01 at 10:29 am.Posted by Jill Malusky Image credit Dave Green. Jack Singal, a physics professor at the University of Richmond, has received a $589,939 grant from the National Science Foundation to produce the first calibrated map of diffuse radio emission over nearly the entire sky. (more…) Astronomers find multiple microsecond-length fast radio bursts in GBT data Posted on 2023-07-31 at 10:33 am.Posted by Jill Malusky Full-polarization, frequency-averaged profiles and polarization position angles (PPAs) for a selection of bursts. The top row shows the three brightest ultra-FRBs and the bottom row shows the three highest S/N millisecond-duration bursts. The profiles of the bursts (bottom panels) show the total intensity (Stokes I) in black, circular polarization (Stokes V) in blue and the Faraday-rotation-corrected unbiased linear polarization in red. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.02303 (more…) NANOGrav’s 15-year effort yields evidence for universal background of gravitational waves Posted on 2023-06-28 at 8:00 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, photo credit Jay Young. In a series of papers to be published June 28th in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, NANOGrav reports an analysis pointing to the existence of low-frequency gravitational waves permeating our Universe. (more…) Cosmic Collision: Space Nessie Spawns Newborn Star Posted on 2023-06-06 at 12:15 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky Deep in the depths of our galactic ocean, astronomers have observed triggered star formation in the Nessie Nebula. Nessie’s legendary shape, revealed in an image from the Spitzer Telescope. The expanding bubble is the yellow, ring-shaped object at the far right. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Of Wisconsin. (more…) 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 27 »
GBT Will Create New Sky Map Posted on 2023-08-01 at 10:29 am.Posted by Jill Malusky Image credit Dave Green. Jack Singal, a physics professor at the University of Richmond, has received a $589,939 grant from the National Science Foundation to produce the first calibrated map of diffuse radio emission over nearly the entire sky. (more…) Astronomers find multiple microsecond-length fast radio bursts in GBT data Posted on 2023-07-31 at 10:33 am.Posted by Jill Malusky Full-polarization, frequency-averaged profiles and polarization position angles (PPAs) for a selection of bursts. The top row shows the three brightest ultra-FRBs and the bottom row shows the three highest S/N millisecond-duration bursts. The profiles of the bursts (bottom panels) show the total intensity (Stokes I) in black, circular polarization (Stokes V) in blue and the Faraday-rotation-corrected unbiased linear polarization in red. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.02303 (more…) NANOGrav’s 15-year effort yields evidence for universal background of gravitational waves Posted on 2023-06-28 at 8:00 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, photo credit Jay Young. In a series of papers to be published June 28th in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, NANOGrav reports an analysis pointing to the existence of low-frequency gravitational waves permeating our Universe. (more…) Cosmic Collision: Space Nessie Spawns Newborn Star Posted on 2023-06-06 at 12:15 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky Deep in the depths of our galactic ocean, astronomers have observed triggered star formation in the Nessie Nebula. Nessie’s legendary shape, revealed in an image from the Spitzer Telescope. The expanding bubble is the yellow, ring-shaped object at the far right. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Of Wisconsin. (more…) 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 27 »
Astronomers find multiple microsecond-length fast radio bursts in GBT data Posted on 2023-07-31 at 10:33 am.Posted by Jill Malusky Full-polarization, frequency-averaged profiles and polarization position angles (PPAs) for a selection of bursts. The top row shows the three brightest ultra-FRBs and the bottom row shows the three highest S/N millisecond-duration bursts. The profiles of the bursts (bottom panels) show the total intensity (Stokes I) in black, circular polarization (Stokes V) in blue and the Faraday-rotation-corrected unbiased linear polarization in red. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.02303 (more…) NANOGrav’s 15-year effort yields evidence for universal background of gravitational waves Posted on 2023-06-28 at 8:00 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, photo credit Jay Young. In a series of papers to be published June 28th in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, NANOGrav reports an analysis pointing to the existence of low-frequency gravitational waves permeating our Universe. (more…) Cosmic Collision: Space Nessie Spawns Newborn Star Posted on 2023-06-06 at 12:15 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky Deep in the depths of our galactic ocean, astronomers have observed triggered star formation in the Nessie Nebula. Nessie’s legendary shape, revealed in an image from the Spitzer Telescope. The expanding bubble is the yellow, ring-shaped object at the far right. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Of Wisconsin. (more…) 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 27 »
NANOGrav’s 15-year effort yields evidence for universal background of gravitational waves Posted on 2023-06-28 at 8:00 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, photo credit Jay Young. In a series of papers to be published June 28th in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, NANOGrav reports an analysis pointing to the existence of low-frequency gravitational waves permeating our Universe. (more…) Cosmic Collision: Space Nessie Spawns Newborn Star Posted on 2023-06-06 at 12:15 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky Deep in the depths of our galactic ocean, astronomers have observed triggered star formation in the Nessie Nebula. Nessie’s legendary shape, revealed in an image from the Spitzer Telescope. The expanding bubble is the yellow, ring-shaped object at the far right. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Of Wisconsin. (more…) 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 27 »
Cosmic Collision: Space Nessie Spawns Newborn Star Posted on 2023-06-06 at 12:15 pm.Posted by Jill Malusky Deep in the depths of our galactic ocean, astronomers have observed triggered star formation in the Nessie Nebula. Nessie’s legendary shape, revealed in an image from the Spitzer Telescope. The expanding bubble is the yellow, ring-shaped object at the far right. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Of Wisconsin. (more…) 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 27 »
