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Solar astrophysics students building instrument that will hitch a ride on NASA balloon
Students in the School of Physics and astronomy, under the supervision of Professor Lindsay Glesener, are building a solar x-ray spectrometer that is planned to fly on a NASA high-altitude balloon
Cushman and Liu groups help SuperCDMS to major milestone
School of Physics and Astronomy faculty members Priscilla Cushman and Yan Liu are part of a collaboration that successfully cooled the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment to
Miller and Skinner receive prestigious NASA Future Investigator Fellowships
School of Physics and Astronomy graduate students John Miller Jr and Evan Skinner received highly competitive NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)
Coughlin part of team that developed alert broker “Babamul” to help parse data from the LSST
Coughlin is part of a collaboration with Caltech to build a broker called Babamul, which can receive alerts from telescope surveys like Rubin Observatory and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) to
Coughlin part of team that wins Scialog Award in early LSST research
This Scialog–short for science + dialog– is a “three-year initiative that aims to advance the foundational science needed to realize the full potential of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming
