The Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University invites applications for a postdoctoral associate research position with Professor Raffaella Margutti in the area of Time-Domain and Multi-messenger Astrophysics. The subject of investigation includes supernovae, tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources.
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An international group of over 90 experts and early-career researchers gathered August 19 – 22 for Hot-wiring the Transient Universe VI. Hosted by scientific organizing committee chair Professor Raffaella Margutti, the meeting aimed to explore opportunities and challenges of massively parallel time domain surveys coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations. Through over 50 talk
2019 marks 20 years of superb performance by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The CXC is planning a number of events and products for the science community and the general public. In a celebratory newsletter, Professors Raffaella Margutti and Wen-fai Fong, together with CIERA alum Daryl Haggard, wrote the feature, “The X-rays Also Rise.” View the
For a dozen years, the four science divisions (Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate have supported graduate student-initiated research through the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships. This year, they started a new program for graduate student research called “Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology”
“An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion. This explosive event (known as gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C) is part of a class of the most energetic explosions in the universe. It was produced when a star — much more massive than our sun — collapsed to
Emboldened by the success and informed by the challenges of the September STEM weekend for seven Bad River Ojibwe girls hosted by Physics & Astronomy (and funded entirely with a grant through OIDI), alumna Ava Polzin (with a grant again from OIDI and an additional one through CNAIR) tweaked weekend plan and content for the March 29
“The first month of LIGO-Virgo’s third observing run has been truly amazing, potentially bringing us the discovery of the so far missing third, hybrid class of mergers – a neutron star merging with a black hole,” said Professor Vicky Kalogera, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University and member of
For the third year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation (LSSTC), to fund undergraduate research in projects related to LSST science. Dr. Adam Miller, Prof. Vicky Kalogera and Prof. Raffaella Margutti serve as Co-Investigators. This grant will fund three students to work
When the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the world’s first image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, the excitement was palpable in the astronomy community and far beyond. View the NSF Announcement. Learn more about black holes in Professor Shane Larson’s blog post, Black Holes 1: Imaging the Shadow of
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s cutting-edge research programs. Nancy Aggarwal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) joined as CIERA/CFP Postdoctoral Fellow in Spring 2019, and is working on building an axion detector (with the ARIADNE collaboration). In addition,
Adriano Baldeschi worked with Raffaella Margutti on a project called “Exploring the fourth dimension: Enhancing the Discovery Power of Transient Surveys with an Effective Classification/Identification System,” where he helped address the challenges associated with the classification of astronomical transients in real time. Dr. Baldeschi was a CIERA postdoc from 2019-2021.
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