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American Physical Society Elects Professors Margutti and Larson to Committees

Congratulations to Raffaella Margutti on her election as member-at-large to the Executive Committee of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and to Shane L. Larson on his election as Vice Chair of the American Physical Society Prairie Section. The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and

Prof. Margutti Receives NSF Honor for Junior Faculty

Congratulations to CIERA’s Raffaella Margutti, recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Margutti studies the biggest explosions and disruptions in the universe, including supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, compact stellar mergers and tidal disruption events. Margutti will use the award for research, education, and public outreach initiatives,

Professor Raffaella Margutti Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

Joining the “Gravity & the Extreme Universe” program, assistant professor Raffaella Margutti has been named by CIFAR one of 14 international early-career researchers with exceptional promise. CIFAR is a Canadian-based global charitable organization that “convenes extraordinary minds to address the most important questions facing science and humanity.” Professor Margutti will receive a two-year term in

Professor Margutti’s Paper Among Top Ten in 2018

American Astronomical Society Publishing announced their top-cited papers from 2018, including an electromagnetic observation paper led by Professor Raffaella Margutti. Overall, the AAS journals published more than 4,400 research papers which have gathered over 10,700 citations so far. Margutti’s paper reports observations of the binary neutron star event GW170817. Read it here: The Binary Neutron

CIERA’s Raffaella Margutti Named Sloan Research Fellow

  Three Northwestern University faculty members — mathematician Bao Le Hung, astrophysicist Raffaella Margutti and biomedical engineer Jonathan Rivnay — each have been awarded a prestigious 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The three are among 126 outstanding early-career scholars being recognized for their achievements and potential to contribute substantially to their scientific fields. This

Profs. Wen-fai Fong, Raffaella Margutti and Team Create First-ever Movie of Gamma-ray Burst

“Astronomers using telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) studied a cataclysmic stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and found its enduring “afterglow.” The rebound, or reverse shock, triggered by the GRB’s powerful outflows slamming into surrounding debris, lasted thousands of times longer than expected. These observations

CIERA Prof. Raffaella Margutti Helps Discover ‘Heavy Metal’ Supernova Rocking Out

Northwestern has issued a press release, Astronomers discover ‘heavy metal’ supernova rocking out: First clear evidence of a metal-rich birthplace for a superluminous supernova, which begins: “Many rock stars don’t like to play by the rules, and a cosmic one is no exception. A team of astronomers, including Northwestern University’s Raffaella Margutti, has discovered that an extraordinarily

Supernova News from CIERA Professor Raffaella Margutti

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a press release, NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’, which begins: “We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl Sagan famously said. Nuclear reactions that happened in ancient stars generated much of the material that makes up our bodies, our planet and our solar system. When stars explode in violent

Raffaella Margutti Joins CIERA to Investigate the Biggest Explosions in Our Universe

As part of a 5-year faculty expansion initiative in the Physics & Astronomy Department, Dr. Raffaella Margutti, an expert on supernovae, has joined Northwestern as an assistant professor. Dr. Margutti was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation. At CIERA, Dr. Margutti’s group will work with broad-band observations (from X-rays to

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