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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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    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
    Evidence for the Tidal Destruction of Hot Jupiters by Subgiant Stars
    Kevin C. Schlaufman and Joshua N. Winn
    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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      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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Stephen O'Sullivan

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MIT Department of Physics, MIT Kavli Institute

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e: stepheno@mit.edu

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