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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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    Evidence for the Tidal Destruction of Hot Jupiters by Subgiant Stars
    Kevin C. Schlaufman and Joshua N. Winn
    June, 2013
    NuSTAR Discovery of a 3.76 s Transient Magnetar Near Sagittarius A*
    Mori, Kaya; Gotthelf, Eric V.; Zhang, Shuo; An, Hongjun; Baganoff, Frederick K.; Barrière, Nicolas M.; Beloborodov, Andrei M.; Boggs, Steven E.;...
    June, 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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      PHYSICS SPOTLIGHT: Sara Seager wins MacArthur 'genius grant'
      September 25, 2013

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      SPECULOOS, a search for terrestrial planets transiting the nearest ultra-cool stars (Speaker: Michael Gillon)
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      Class of 1941 Professor of Physics and Planetary Science
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      Sara Seager received her B.Sc. in mathematics and physics from the University of Toronto in 1994. She earned a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in...

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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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    The mission of the MIT Kavli Institute (MKI) for Astrophysics and Space Research
  • 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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    Events

    SPECULOOS, a search for terrestrial planets transiting the nearest ultra-cool stars (Speaker: Michael Gillon)
    lectures/conferences   | October 8, 2013
    Dual Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Evolution (Speaker: Julie Comerford)
    lectures/conferences   | October 22, 2013
    Some Like it Hot: What Observations Can Tell Us About Solar Coronal Heating (Speaker: Joan Schmelz)
    lectures/conferences   | October 29, 2013
    HSTPROMO: Local Group Dynamics from HST Proper Motions (Speaker: Roeland van der Marel)
    lectures/conferences   | November 5, 2013
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    New Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley (Kavli ENSI)
    Originally published by the University of California   | October 3, 2013
    PHYSICS SPOTLIGHT: Sara Seager wins MacArthur 'genius grant'
    MIT NEWS OFFICE   | September 25, 2013
    Q&A: John Richardson and John Belcher on Voyager 1's crossing and interstellar exploration
    MIT NEWS OFFICE   | September 16, 2013
    Voyager 1 in the Interstellar Medium!
    MKI News   | September 12, 2013
    Waking up to a new year
    MIT News Office   | August 19, 2013
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    • Science Themes
      • Cosmology
      • Neutron Stars & Black Holes
      • Neutron Stars and Black Holes
      • Strong Gravity and Gravitational Radiation
      • 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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