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    The MIT Kavli Institute paves the way for new developments in space- & ground-based astrophysics. Our faculty, research staff, and students develop technology & instrumentation with a focus on an engineering and technical core. 


    We are comprised of the MIT Department of Physics, MIT School of Engineering, & MIT EAPS (Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences).

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    Zirconium, Barium, Lanthanum, and Europium Abundances in Open Clusters
    H.R. Jacobson & E. Friel
    April, 2013
    Chiral effective theory with a light scalar and lattice QCD
    Soto, J. and Talavera, P. and Tarrüs, J.
    January, 2013
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    A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the press release).

     

     

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    Two MIT Kavli Institute IAP 2013 activities on the "Life Cycle of Stars" were selected to be video-recorded as part of an ongoing MIT Libraries and AMPS video project sponsored by Neil Pappalardo. See "The High Energy Lifestyle of Young Stars" by Dr. Norbert Schulz (MIT Kavli Institute); "Dissecting the X-rays from Supernova Remnants" by Dr. Laura Lopez (Pappalardo Fellow, Einstein Fellow, MIT Kavli Institute). Note: MIT retains copyright to these videos.

     

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      Sixth Annual MKI Postdoctoral Symposium -- Day 2
      Friday, April 26, 11:45am to 1:30pm

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      March 25, 2013 -- Received a National Science Foundation (NSF)...

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    Researchers at The Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research explore extreme and unusual phenomena found beyond the Earth including extrasolar planets, black holes, neutron stars, and distant galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

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  • A far-off solar system
    Researchers measure the orientation of a multiplanet system and find it very similar to our own solar system.
  • A model burster
    Researchers find the first neutron star that bursts as predicted.
  • NASA selects MIT-led TESS project for 2017 mission
    $200 million project will launch telescopes to perform full-sky search for transiting exoplanets.
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  • Searching for solar systems like our own
    Josh Winn’s hunt for exoplanets may someday reveal habitable, Earth-like worlds.
  • Most massive and luminous galaxy cluster identified
    Detection may confirm long-held theory.
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    Events

    Tilt-Free Inertial Sensing Concept and Tilt-Horizontal Coupling Attenuation Experiment (Fabrice Matichard, speaker)
    GRITTS Seminar   | May 8, 2013
    "A Holistic View of a Black Hole Binary: Bringing Together Spectral, Timing, and Polarization Analysis of Cygnus X-1" (Speaker: Victoria Grinberg, ECAP-Bamberg)
    HETG Group Meeting Talk   | May 9, 2013
    Graphene: a Physicist’s View of the 'Wonder Material' (Speaker: Eva Andrei, Rutgers)
    The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium   | May 9, 2013
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    News

    New five-planet system contains two that are in the ‘habitable zone’
    MIT News Office   | April 19, 2013
    3Q: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano on possible hints of dark matter
    MIT News Office   | April 22, 2013
    Anna Frebel receives NSF CAREER Award
    MIT News Office   | April 17, 2013
    X-ray monitoring mission comes to an end
    MIT News Office   | March 13, 2012
    A far-off solar system
    MIT News Office   | July 25, 2012
    First light from a super-Earth spotted
    MIT News Office   | May 8, 2012
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    • Science Themes
      • Cosmology
      • Neutron Stars & Black Holes
      • Exoplanets
      • Extragalactic Astrophysics
      • First Stars/Reionization, Cosmic Structure
      • Heliophysics
      • Strong Gravity & Gravitational Radiation
      • Supernovae, Neutron Stars & Black Holes
    • Techniques
      • Gravitational Wave Detection
      • High Energy Astrophysics
      • Radio Astronomy
      • High Performance Computing
      • Particle Astrophysics
      • Optical/IR Astronomy
      • Pencil & Paper
      • Planetary Remote Sensing
      • Precision Measurement

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