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“Dance of the Black Holes”, composed by Darsan Swaroop Bellie

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“Dance of the Black Holes”, composed by Darsan Swaroop Bellie

“Dance of the Black Holes” is an original composition by CIERA Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow Darsan Swaroop Bellie (on drums) and the debut performance of the Star Eyes Initiative. The performance took place during the CIERA-hosted LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration meeting networking event on March 15, 2023. Composer’s Notes below: Focusing on a binary black hole system, the

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Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University engages in exciting, world-leading research in physics and astronomy and attracts a diverse, motivated community of scientists and teachers. The department offers graduate and undergraduate students an engaging learning environment and post-doctoral researchers fascinating research in areas like condensed matter physics, astrophysics and superconducting technologies. The

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Twelve-Year Exoplanet Timelapse

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Twelve-Year Exoplanet Timelapse

Using observations collected from 2009 to 2021 CIERA Professor Jason Wang has assembled a time lapse video of HR8799, the first directly imaged extrasolar planetary system. The video shows a family of four exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, orbiting their star and gives viewers an unprecedented glimpse into planetary motion. To construct the video,

Jason Wang/Northwestern/CIERA

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Firefly visualization of the ESA Gaia DR3 dataset

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Firefly visualization of the ESA Gaia DR3 dataset

Firefly video visualization of data from the the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite. The full demo enables users to explore all 1.46 billion stars in the Gaia DR3 dataset in real time. Firefly is a browser-based interactive particle visualization app created by CIERA researchers Alex Gurvich and Aaron Geller, in a joint venture with

Alex Gurvich & Aaron M. Geller/Northwestern/CIERA and IT Research Computing Services

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  • Data Science & Computing