Astrophysics

The proximity of the Galactic Center makes it unique for studying the
interactions that take place between the interstellar medium, the
stars and the supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei.  The galactic
supermassive black hole is not very...

The Bahcall Lunch follow the astrophysics colloquium lecture. Registration is required by 3pm the previous Friday so a meal can be provided. Please contact Amanda Cenker with questions.

A primary scientific outcome of the Apollo program was the giant impact theory for lunar origin, in which a collision at the end of Earth’s main accretionary phase creates a disk from which the Moon forms.  In the past decade, the nature of a Moon...

Abstract: Recently, the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA scientific collaboration reported the detection of nearly 80 gravitational wave sources, with the majority of them being binary black holes. The increased number of binary black hole observations allow...

Time domain astronomy will face big data challenges with operation of big surveys such as Rubin LSST and Roman. These challenges are being addressed by data science methods some of which are also applicable to other fields of science with large...

Gravity plays the central role in structure formation and evolution in astronomical scales. Despite the apparently simple inverse square law for the gravitational force in the non-relativistic regime, the dynamics of self-gravitating many-body...

The Bahcall Lunch follow the astrophysics colloquium lecture. Registration is required by 3pm the previous Friday so a meal can be provided. Please contact Amanda Cenker with questions.

Millimeter-wave surveys of the sky have the potential for yielding a wealth of information about our universe from the first instants of its existence to our own solar system. I will describe how modern measurements of the cosmic microwave...