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Upcoming Science Community Webinars
October 11 – Mark Snelders (ASTRON, The Netherlands) Microsecond duration bursts from FRB 20121102A
October 25 – Yuri Y. Kovalev (Max Planck Inst. For Radioastronomy, Bonn) RadioAstron and GBT imaging of nearby AGN: exciting results on M87 and 3C84
November 8 – Yuxin Lin (Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics) Piecing the physical and chemical conditions of early-stage cores: ammonia observations from GBT and VLA
November 22 – Thanksgiving Break (no webinar)
December 6 – Jean-Luc Margot (UCLA) Are we alone? New estimates on transmitter prevalence from UCLA SETI data
December 20 – TBD
Recordings – please note, most recent webinars appear first:
September 27 – Dunc Lorimer (West Virginia University) The latest from GREENBURST: a real-time transient detector on the GBT
September 13 – Larry Morgan (Green Bank Observatory) Filaments All the Way Down: Examining the hierarchical nature of the ISM
August 30 – Charles Romero (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) GBT/MUSTANG-2 achieves a milestone in galaxy cluster studies
August 16 – T.P. Krichbaum (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn) Mapping the jet origin of M87
August 2 – Reshma Thomas (West Virginia University) Magnetic field reversal in the turbulent environment around a repeating fast radio burst
July 19 – Haley Scolati (University of Virginia) Astronomical detection of the interstellar anion C10H- towards TMC-1 from the GOTHAM large program on the GBT
July 5 – Nihan Pol (Vanderbilt University) New Results from the NANOGrav Collaboration
June 21 – Ryan Lynch (Green Bank Observatory) Update on GBT Cyclic Spectroscopy Backend
June 7 – Willem Baan (ASTRON) The VLBI Tale of Two Megamasers
May 24 – Pedro Salas (Green Bank Observatory) Revisiting the density of the ionized gas in the Galactic plane with the GBT
May 10 – Tierra Candelaria (New Mexico Tech) Widespread hot ammonia in the central kiloparsec of the Milky Way
April 26 – Stefano Andreon (INAF-OA Brera, Milan, Italy) First massive galaxy clusters emerging from the web at the cosmic noon (this session was not recorded at the request of the presenter – link to presentation)
April 12 – Dan Stinebring (Oberlin College) How Porous is the Ionized Interstellar Medium? Results from a Scintillation Arc Survey
March 29 – Shantanu Naidu (JPL) Dimorphos orbit change due to the DART impact
March 15 – Gaspar Galaz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) The molecular gas content of the giant low surface brightness galaxy Malin 1 from GBT/ARGUS observations
March 1 – Ingrid Stairs (University of British Columbia) Tests of Strong-Field Gravity with the Double Pulsar
February 15 – Antoine Marchal (Australian National University) Mapping the thermal condensation of diffuse H I in the North Celestial Pole Loop with the GBT
February 1 – Michael A. Garrett (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics) SETI: Near & Far with Breakthrough Listen and the GBT
January 18 – Emilie Parent (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE – CSIC), Barcelona) Searching for pulsars and fast transients with GBT: Status of the GBNCC survey and future prospects
January 4 – Ross Jennings (West Virginia University) An unusual pulse shape change in the millisecond pulsar J1713+0747 observed with the GBT and CHIME
Recordings – please note, most recent webinars appear first:
December 7 – Jane Greaves (Cardiff University) GBT Photometry Seeking Pebbles in Protoplanetary Discs
November 23 – Thanksgiving Break (no webinar)
November 16 – Green Bank Observatory Town Hall — Hear what’s new, and what’s to come, at the Green Bank Observatory. Registration is required.
November 9 – Helen Kirk (Herzberg Research Center, Victoria) Early Results from the KEYSTONE Survey of molecular clouds
October 26 – Aya Keller (University of California, Berkeley) A Model-Independent Dark Matter Search Using GBT Data
October 12 – Tony Remijan (NRAO) PRIMOS: The Prebiotic Interstellar Molecular Survey
September 28 – Felix J. Lockman (Green Bank Observatory) A “Leading Arm” of the Smith High Velocity Cloud Stream
August 14 – Lance Benner (NASA – JPL) The Apophis Planetary Defense Campaign
August 31 – Jack Orlowski-Scherer (McGill University) Constraints on the Thermodynamic State of X-Ray Bubbles in MS0735 with MUSTANG-2
August 17 – Akshay Suresh (Cornell University) A Galactic Center Search for Fast Transients at 4–8 GHz
August 3 – Ananthan Karunakaran (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía) HI Properties of Satellite Galaxies Around Local Volume Hosts
July 6 – Scott Ransom (NRAO) NANOGrav and the Road to nanoHertz Gravitational Wave Detection
June 22 – Dongzi Li (CalTech) The magneto-active environment near FRBs and pulsars
June 8 – Adam Hincks (University of Toronto) Mapping the Gas in Intercluster Filaments with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
May 25 – Kim Emig (NRAO) Revealing the Diffuse ISM in Cygnus X using Low-frequency Radio Recombination Lines
May 11 – Di Li (National Astronomical Observatory of China) A Unified Description of FRB polarization based on FAST and GBT joint observations
April 27 – Jeffrey Hazboun (University of Washington) Monitoring the Solar Wind with Pulsar Timing Arrays observations
April 13 – Karen Perez (Columbia University) On the Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center
March 30 – Al Marscher (Boston University) Peering Deep into Blazar Jets with VLBI Including the GBT
March 16 – Patrick Taylor (AUI) Planetary Radar with the Green Bank Telescope
March 2 – Jim Jackson (Green Bank Observatory) RAMPS: The Radio Ammonia Mid-Plane Survey
February 16 – Maria Charisi (Caltech) NANOGrav limits on supermassive black hole binaries in massive galaxies
February 2 – Eric Koch (CfA) Detailed atomic ISM kinematics across the Local Group with the GBT and VLA (Abstract in video description)
January 19 – Emily Moravec (Green Bank Observatory) Exploring Merging Galaxy Clusters and Radio Galaxies at z~1
January 5 – Jorge Pineda (JPL) Characterizing the ionized and neutral phases of the ISM with far-infrared fine-structure and radio recombination lines
Recordings – Please note, most recent webinars appear first:
December 22 – Haley Wahl (West Virginia University) The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Polarimetry and Faraday Rotation Measures from Observations of Millisecond Pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope
December 8 – Eleonora Bianchi (University of Grenoble) The early stages of Solar-type protostars: the missing evidence of large carbon chains
November 24 – Thanksgiving Break
November 17 (Special Edition) – Jim Jackson (Green Bank Observatory) GBO’s Response to the Recent Decadal Survey
November 10 – D. J. Pisano (West Virginia University) Towards an understanding of the Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda
October 27 – Amanda Kepley (NRAO) Observing the Dense Molecular Gas Fueling Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies (abstract in video description)
October 13 – Dave Frayer (Green Bank Observatory) GBT Observations of Gas in Luminous Infrared Galaxies (abstract in video description)
September 29 – Steve Croft (UC Berkeley) Breakthrough Listen on GBT: How the World’s Biggest Steerable Dish is Engaging in the World’s Biggest SETI Program
September 15 – Emmanuel Fonseca (West Virginia University) Measuring the Radius of a High-Mass Neutron Star with Radio and X-ray Observations
September 1 – Charles Romero (Green Bank Observatory) Insights into Thermodynamic Evolution of Galaxy Clusters
August 18 – Michael Busch (Johns Hopkins University) Revealing the Galactic Distribution of Dark H2 with GBT Observations of Faint OH Emission
August 4 – Nissim Kanekar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Fuelling Starbursts: HI in Green Pea galaxies
July 21 – Jaime E. Pineda (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik) The ion-neutral connection in Dense Cores
July 7 – Marina Brozovic, (JPL) Bistatic radar observations of NEOs with Goldstone and the GBT
Jun 23 – Trey Wenger (DRAO) Galactic HII Regions and Structure in the Milky Way
Jun 9 – Sara Issaoun (Radboud University) The Size, Shape, and Scattering of Sagittarius A*
May 26 – Natalie Butterfield (Green Bank Observatory) Dense Molecular Gas in the Galactic Bar
May 12 – Helene Courtois (University of Lyon) Cosmic-Flows in Green Bank : Discovery of Laniakea and Beyond
April 28 – Laura Wolz (Manchester University) – HI constraints from the cross-correlation of eBOSS galaxies and Green Bank Telescope intensity maps
April 14 – Amy Sardone (Ohio State University) Quantifying the diffuse HI around 18 MHONGOOSE galaxies
March 31 – Jean-Luc Margot (UCLA) Spin state and moment of inertia of Venus
March 17 – Brett McGuire (MIT) An update from the GOTHAM Large Project: New molecules and new chemistry at the earliest stages of star-formation
March 3 (PDF presentation) – Charles Romero (Green Bank Observatory) Insights into Intracluster Medium Physics from MUSTANG-2
February, 17 – Kristine Spekkens (Royal Military College of Canada; Queen’s University) HI in Ultra Diffuse Galaxies to Probe their Origins
February 3 – Tom Bania (Boston University) GBT Observations of 3He+: Planetary Nebulae
January 20 – Kat Barger (Texas Christian University) Hydrodynamic Instabilities along the Infalling High-velocity Cloud Complex A
January 6 – Jesse Bublitz, Will Armentrout, Pedro Salas, Ryan Lynch; GBO Staff Presentations at the AAS meeting
Please note, latest calls appear first:
December 16 – Megan DeCesar (George Mason Univ; US Naval Research Lab.); Using the GBT for Gravitational Wave Searches with Pulsar Timing Arrays
December 2 – Dom Pesce (Harvard-Smithsonian Cntr. for Astrophysics); A geometric measurement of H0 by the Megamaser Cosmology Project
November 18 – Joseph Simon (University of Colorado, Boulder); The search for a stochastic gravitational wave background in NANOGrav?s pulsar timing data
November 4 – Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida); A GBT MUSTANG-2 Survey of the Galactic Plane: HII regions and dust
October 21 – Rachel Friesen (University of Toronto); Understanding the evolution of star-forming cores and filaments with GAS
October 7 – Enrico Di Teodoro (Johns Hopkins University); GBT Science: Gas Clouds Entrained in the Milky Way’s Nuclear Wind
September 23 – Ryan Lynch (Green Bank Observatory); Recent Results from the NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array
September 9 – Brian Mason (NRAO); Long Wavelength measurements of Interstellar Dust in Orion
August 26 – Loren Anderson (West Virginia University); Ionized Gas in the Galactic Midplane
August 12 – Karen Masters (Haverford College); HI-MaNGA: HI Followup for the MaNGA Galaxy Survey with GBT
July 29 – H. Thankful Cromartie (University of Virginia); Recent Relativistic Shapiro Delay Observations with the GBT
July 15 – Brian Svobda (NRAO); Towards a multi-scale view of dense gas in the Milky Way