The Observatory has been sharing news and information about its operations and science in bi-weekly Zoom meetings. The recordings are linked below, and include a description of topics and presenters in the recording descriptions.
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Upcoming Community Zooms
September 29 – Steven Croft (UC Berkeley) Breakthrough Listen on GBT: How the World’s Biggest Steerable Dish is Engaging in the World’s Biggest SETI Program
October 13 – Dave Frayer (GBO) GBT Observations of Gas in Luminous Infrared Galaxies
October 21 – Amanda Kepley (NRAO) Observing the Dense Molecular Gas Fueling Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
November 10 – D. J. Pisano (West Virginia University) Towards an understanding of the Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda
November 24 – Thanksgiving Break
December 8 – Elenora Bianchi (Univ. Grenoble) The early stages of Solar-type protostars: the missing evidence of large carbon chains
Recordings – Please note, most recent webinars appear first:
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 (GBO) 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