…website, www.harvard.com/events. We hope to see you there. ————————————————— David Kaiser reads from How the Hippies Saved Physics. Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome MIT’s David Kaiser for a…
Abstract: The majority of the baryons in galaxies are inferred to comprise the circumgalactic medium (CGM) – gas that is mostly in either a cool (~10^4K) or a hot (10^5-10^6…
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 10AM EDT Abstract: eROSITA was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan aboard the SRG spacecraft in July 2019. Following an extended commissioning phase, eROSITA entered full science operations…
STEM research and innovations have positively impacted many aspects of our society. Today, the quality of the STEM enterprise must be elevated if the quality of innovation is to meet…
Seeing the wobble through the wiggles: Finding exoplanets buried deep in stellar noise Stellar activity is one of the main limiting factors for exoplanet surveys using the transit and radial…
Note: this talk will be held at 10:00am EST via zoom Abstract: Accreting stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binary systems show X-ray variations over a broad range of time-scales, which…
To this day, the exact nature of the detonation mechanism in core-collapse supernovae is still somewhat of a mystery. While numerical models are becoming ever more sophisticated, observations of the…
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NOTE: This talk will begin at 10:00am ET Abstract: The galaxy cluster A2146 is undergoing a major merger and hosts two huge, bright Mach 2 shock fronts, which provide a…