24A Proposal Call The Green Bank Observatory (GBO) invites scientists to participate in the 2024A Semester Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The submission deadline for Semester 2024A proposals is Wednesday, 2 August 2023, at 17:00 EDT (21:00 UTC). The deadline is for the 24A semester observing period on the GBT: 1 […]
Author. Title. Reference Abstract/Article Link (if available) Agazie, G. et al. The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars. 2023 ApJ, 951, 9 2023ApJ…951L…9A Andreon, s. et al. Witnessing the intracluster medium assembly at the cosmic noon in JKCS 041. 2023 MNRAS, 522, 4301 2023MNRAS.522.4301A Anna-Thomas, R. et al Magnetic […]
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The Green Bank Ammonia Survey (GAS) is an ambitious legacy survey to map emission from the 23 GHz NH3 inversion transitions toward all the northern Gould Belt star forming regions with Av > 7. The Gould Belt is a ring of young stars and star-forming regions that contains nearly all the ongoing, predominantly low-mass star […]
Eight ultra-fast bursts lasted only ten millionths of a second or less An international team of researchers have discovered radio pulses from the distant universe that last only millionths of a second. They found these microsecond bursts after a meticulous examination of archival data from the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope. It’s unclear how […]
Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2023 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Dr. Paul A. Vanden Bout, Senior Scientist, Emeritus at NRAO. The Jansky Lectureship is an honor established by the trustees of AUI to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement of radio astronomy.
American Physical Society Recognizes GBO as Historic Site 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.
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