September 23, 2021 | Rubin Observatory
Great success for Rubin Observatory! On the summit, the Telescope Mount Assembly (TMA) began moving manually in azimuth and elevation on a thin film of oil in early September—for the first time since factory testing in Spain. You can see a video of this achievement on the Rubin Observatory YouTube channel.
Read More »September 15, 2021 | DiRAC NEWS
DiRAC Fellow Rebecca Phillipson has been awarded a Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) to conduct a program of research and education at the University of Washington. This new prize fellowship is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential, and provide them with experience in research that will broaden participation in mathematics and the physical sciences. Dr. Phillipson plans to […]
Read More »August 25, 2021 | Press Release
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington have announced an expansive, multi-year collaboration to create new software platforms to analyze large astronomical datasets generated by the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
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August 16, 2021 | LSSTC News
The LSST Corporation, a non-profit consortium of approximately 30 research institutions (including UW), has received $7 million to establish the LSSTC Catalyst Fellowship Funded by the John Templeton Foundation. These will support early-career researchers as they study big data generated from the soon-to-be-completed Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile.
Read More »August 15, 2021 | Asteroid Institute
Have you ever wondered how an asteroid gets named? Dr. Sarah Greenstreet describes the asteroid recently named after her.
Read More »August 5, 2021 | UW News
An international team of astronomers, including DiRAC research professor James Davenport, reports that superflares pose only a limited danger to exoplanets because the flares tend to originate near the poles of the stars – not the equator where most exoplanets orbit.
Read More »July 30, 2021 | space.com
Dr. Meredith Rawls, DiRAC Research Scientist, discusses recommendations from the recent “SATCON2” workshop
Read More »July 19, 2021 | Nature
Working with the United Nations, scientists hope to establish standards for satellite ‘megaconstellations’ and reduce disruption of astronomical observations.
Read More »July 16, 2021 | DiRAC News
ADS library features recently published papers by DiRAC researchers.
Read More »July 1, 2021 | Physics Today
Observations and computer simulations of their orbits and interactions with planets yield insights into the asteroids’ dynamic lives. Sarah Greenstreet is a senior researcher with the B612 Asteroid Institute in Mill Valley, California, and a research scientist with the Dirac Institute at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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