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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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Outreach

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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