 Old News
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05 02 23
Alexis Finoguenov, Visiting associate research scientist, has co-authored
an XMM study
measuring the velocities near the speed of light in the vicinity of cosmic
mass
monsters. The research appeared as a press release of
ESA
and
Max-Plank Society.
04 09 27
Alexis Finoguenov, visiting assistant research scientist,
has co-authored an XMM study on Abell 754 that was covered
by New Scientist.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996443
04 07 28
NASA and ESA
have issued a Press release about the work of JCA member Volker Beckmann
on NGC 4388.
04 07 08
JCA member Patricia Boyd received a Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA) Peer
Award for "Able Leadership of the RXTE Guest Observer Facility and Swift Science Center
While Still Pursuing An Active Research Program."
04 03 04
The UMBC Telescope is open for public viewing on the first Thursday
of every month. The next open house will be Thursday March 4, and will feature
views of Mars and Saturn, as well as the Orion Nebula and other objects. If
weather does not cooperate, the rain date is March 11.
03 06 05
The work of JCA member John Cannizzo on the threat of supernovae to life
on earth is featured on
Space.com
.
02 06 26
The work of JCA members Jane Turner and Ian George receives widespread coverage.
Dr. Turner and colleagues found evidence of the gravitational redshift from a
black hole.
Space.com
and
SpaceFlight Now
.
Read the original
NASA-GSFC press release
.
Also on the observation team are Hagai Netzer and Doron Chelouche who worked at
UMBC as visiting scientists last year.
Local copies are also available:
Space.com
SpaceFlight Now
02 04 01
Dr. Igor V. Moskalenko (PI) was awarded a NASA Astrophysics Theory
Program grant (2002-04) to study cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy.
02 03 01
Dr. Igor V. Moskalenko (Co-PI) was awarded AO-1
INTEGRAL observational time to study PKS 0208-512.
02 02 13
The UMBC telescope is being used to
track the lightcurve of a supernova in M74.
This is a hypernova candidate.
02 01 30
Dr. Dave Davis has been hired to work in the GLAST Science Support
Center at the LHEA. He will be joining JCA members Taro Kotani and David
Band in the GLAST SSC.
01 10 12
Dr. Kip Kuntz was recently awarded 8 orbits of the Hubble Space
Telescope time in Cycle 11.
01 10 12
Dr. Mark Henriksen was awarded 2.3 days of time with the Rossi
X-ray Timing Explorer in Cycle 7 to observe the Abell 1750 galaxy cluster.
01 10 29
Dr. Eric Perlman's Gemini observation has deepened the mystery of a
local active galaxy. http://www.gemni.edu/project/announcements/press/2001-3.html.
01 08 22
Dr. Jim Chiang awarded 100 ks on
INTEGRAL, the International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory.
He will use the time to observer the Seyfert galaxy, NGC 5548. Seyfert
galaxies comprise a class of galaxies known to have an active nucleus. The
high-energy radiation emitted from the nucleus is postulated to be owing
to the presence of a massive black hole.
01 08 21
Dr. Ian George will be giving an invited talk at the upcoming meeting,
"Two Years of Science with Chandra",
September 5-7 in Washington.
He will be discussing "Grating Spectra of NGC 3783 and AGN"
01 08 10
Dr. David Band will head the
GLAST Science Support
Center. He joins JCA personnel,
Drs. Jim Chiang, and Jonathan Ormes on the GLAST team.
01 06 05
Dr. Padi Boyd's work is the topic of a NASA Press Release:
Method Uncovered In Madness Of Black Hole And Neutron Star Eruptions
.
The text of the press release is also
available locally.
Also available:
additional information, illustrations and animation.
01 05 24
Dr. Jonathan Ormes named the new Director of Space Sciences at Goddard Space Flight
Center.
See the
GSFC Press release (available locally).
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