News | Archives 2012

11.28.2012 \| Astrometry for Astrophysics: Methods, Models, and Applications by William F. van Altena , Yale Professor Emeritus Astrometry for Astrophysics gives advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students an introduction to the field of Astrometry with examples of current applications to a variety of currently interesting astronomical topics. It is hoped that the students’ exposure at an introductory level will lead to more advanced study of this exciting field. For researchers in other fields, the goal is to provide sufficient background to understand the opportunities and limitations of Astrometry.
11.16.2012 \| Google Uses Yale's Bright Star Catalog for its 100,000 Stars Project "87 stars can be viewed close-up, with data pulled from Wikipedia Astronomy Nexus, the Gliese/Jahreiß Catalogue, Yale University's Department of Astronomy Bright Star Catalogue and the European Space Agency..."
11.09.2012 \| Frontiers in Star Formation conference held at Yale The Yale Astronomy Department hosted "Frontiers in Star Formation," a celebratory conference in honor of Dr. Richard Larson, on October 26-27, 2012. Twenty-five invited speakers presented the latest discoveries and exciting research that will be conducted in the near future in the field of star formation.
10.15.2012 \| Armchair astronomers find planet in four-star system "Aided by volunteers using the Planethunters.org website, a Yale-led international team of astronomers identified and confirmed discovery of the phenomenon, called a circumbinary planet in a four-star system. "
10.11.2012 \| Nearby super-Earth likely a diamond planet says Madhusudhan Yale postdoc Nikku Madhusudhan has led a team of Yale scientists to characterize 55 Cancri e, a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star. Their work suggest that the surface of the planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite.
10.01.2012 \| The Great Galactic Travelers An article in the current issue of Sky & Telescope features the work of several Yale astronomers (past and present), including Nitya Kallivayalil & Kathy Vieira, on the origin and fate of the Magellanic Clouds.
09.19.2012 \| Astronomers add powerful camera to Arizona telescope A Yale partnership has begun testing a new camera that will be among the most advanced on Earth dedicated to the study of astronomy.
08.28.2012 \| Yale scientist opens doors for women "When Meg Urry was in graduate school studying physics at Johns Hopkins University, she was often the only woman in a room full of male students and professors."
08.14.2012 \| Daisuke Nagai wins Young Scientist Prize in Astrophysics Yale astronomer Daisuke Nagai has won the 2011 Young Scientist’s Prize in Astrophysics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics...
08.12.2012 \| Yale Undergraduate and Exoplanet Team Member Zachary Kaplan Honored with a Chambliss Medal Exoplanet team member Zak Kaplan presented a poster at the summer 2012 AAS meeting and was one of four undergraduate students who received an Astronomy Achievement Student Award...
07.17.2012 \| Debra Fischer, planet hunter — live and on the Web Yale astronomer Debra Fischer will discuss the search for new planets in a live Web video interview on Tuesday, July 24
07.11.2012 \| Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Hubble Space Telescope imaging reveals that ultra-faint galaxies around the Milky Way abruptly stopped forming stars within the first billion years after the Big Bang, bolstering evidence for a transitional phase in the early universe, reports a science team including Prof. Marla Geha.
06.21.2012 \| Proximity of new planets stuns even astronomers “We’ve never known of planets like this,” said Yale University astronomer Sarbani Basu, a member of the research team that analyzed the system. “If you were on the smaller planet looking up, the larger planet would seem more than twice the size of Earth’s full moon. It would be jaw-dropping.”
06.20.2012 \| Most quasars live on snacks, not large meals "The study, led by Kevin Schawinski of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, bolsters evidence that the growth of most massive black holes in the early universe was fueled by small long-term events rather than dramatic short-term major mergers"
06.19.2012 \| Professor Pieter van Dokkum Named the 2012 Aaronson Lecturer For his studies of the evolution of the most massive galaxies over cosmic time
06.14.2012 \| Searching for Earths "This is the first time that the public has used data from a NASA space mission," said Dr. Fischer, affirming that with each new round of data there are more discoveries.
06.06.2012 \| The Public Outreach for the Transit of Venus on June 5, 2012 was a Huge Success. The public outreach for the transit of Venus on June 5, 2012 was a huge success. Despite being partly cloudy we estimate that 400 people were present...
05.16.2012 \| The Ancient Massive Galaxy Mystery -- 80 percent Appear Extremely Active and Growing Former Yale postdoc Danilo Marchesini and collaborators revealed that some of the most massive galaxies in the Universe may have formed billions of years earlier than the current models predicted. The identified galaxies were five to ten times more massive than our own Milky Way.
05.15.2012 \| Chasing Galaxies - The Legacy of "Brian Tinsley's clever wife" But what if a galaxy gets either brighter or fainter with age? What if it changes its shape from eon to eon? Then all bets are off, and the universe’s destiny is far harder to determine in this way. Cosmologists learned this unhappy fact—galaxies change!—by the 1970s, and the person primarily responsible for establishing it was Beatrice Tinsley.
05.14.2012 \| Astronomy Graduate Student Jedidah Isler has been Inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Graduate Student Jedidah Isler has been inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the ninth annual Bouchet Leadership Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education, held at Yale in March.
05.01.2012 \| ‘Ridiculously’ Dim Bevy of Stars Found Beyond Milky Way Former Yale postdoc Ricardo Munoz has discovered the least luminous globular cluster around the Milky Way, hinting that many more such globular clusters may soon be discovered.
04.17.2012 \| Professor Debra Fischer is One of Six Yale Faculty Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Six Yale faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
03.30.2012 \| When Dark Energy Turned On MANCHESTER, UK — The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) today announced the most accurate measurements yet of the distances to galaxies in the faraway universe, giving an unprecedented look at the time when the universe first began to expand at an ever-increasing rate. Included on the BOSS team of scientists and engineers is Nikhil Padmanabhan of Yale University.
03.19.2012 \| Yale physicist Daisuke Nagai has been named a 2012 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Nagai’s research focuses on computational modeling of galaxy clusters — the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity. The formation of these objects is driven by dark matter and dark energy. Supercomputer simulations developed by Nagai’s group will be used to interpret properties of these enigmatic but dominant components of the universe.
01.20.2012 \| Dr. Christian Schwab Awarded a Prestigious Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship Dr. Schwab's proposal described innovative technology design and development to push radial velocity precision towards 10 cm/s here in the Yale Exoplanet Lab.
01.19.2012 \| C. Megan Urry 2012 Recipient of The George Van Biesbroeck Prize The George Van Biesbroeck Prize honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy.
01.19.2012 \| Adele Plunkett, Astronomy Graduate Student, is a 2012 Recipient of a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award The Astronomy Achievement Student Awards are given to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the AAS. Awardees are honored with a Chambliss medal or, in the case of honorable mention, a certificate.

Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA

11.28.2012 \| Astrometry for Astrophysics: Methods, Models, and Applications by William F. van Altena , Yale Professor Emeritus Astrometry for Astrophysics gives advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students an introduction to the field of Astrometry with examples of current applications to a variety of currently interesting astronomical topics. It is hoped that the students’ exposure at an introductory level will lead to more advanced study of this exciting field. For researchers in other fields, the goal is to provide sufficient background to understand the opportunities and limitations of Astrometry.
11.16.2012 \| Google Uses Yale's Bright Star Catalog for its 100,000 Stars Project "87 stars can be viewed close-up, with data pulled from Wikipedia Astronomy Nexus, the Gliese/Jahreiß Catalogue, Yale University's Department of Astronomy Bright Star Catalogue and the European Space Agency..."
11.09.2012 \| Frontiers in Star Formation conference held at Yale The Yale Astronomy Department hosted "Frontiers in Star Formation," a celebratory conference in honor of Dr. Richard Larson, on October 26-27, 2012. Twenty-five invited speakers presented the latest discoveries and exciting research that will be conducted in the near future in the field of star formation.
10.15.2012 \| Armchair astronomers find planet in four-star system "Aided by volunteers using the Planethunters.org website, a Yale-led international team of astronomers identified and confirmed discovery of the phenomenon, called a circumbinary planet in a four-star system. "
10.11.2012 \| Nearby super-Earth likely a diamond planet says Madhusudhan Yale postdoc Nikku Madhusudhan has led a team of Yale scientists to characterize 55 Cancri e, a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star. Their work suggest that the surface of the planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite.
10.01.2012 \| The Great Galactic Travelers An article in the current issue of Sky & Telescope features the work of several Yale astronomers (past and present), including Nitya Kallivayalil & Kathy Vieira, on the origin and fate of the Magellanic Clouds.
09.19.2012 \| Astronomers add powerful camera to Arizona telescope A Yale partnership has begun testing a new camera that will be among the most advanced on Earth dedicated to the study of astronomy.
08.28.2012 \| Yale scientist opens doors for women "When Meg Urry was in graduate school studying physics at Johns Hopkins University, she was often the only woman in a room full of male students and professors."
08.14.2012 \| Daisuke Nagai wins Young Scientist Prize in Astrophysics Yale astronomer Daisuke Nagai has won the 2011 Young Scientist’s Prize in Astrophysics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics...
08.12.2012 \| Yale Undergraduate and Exoplanet Team Member Zachary Kaplan Honored with a Chambliss Medal Exoplanet team member Zak Kaplan presented a poster at the summer 2012 AAS meeting and was one of four undergraduate students who received an Astronomy Achievement Student Award...
07.17.2012 \| Debra Fischer, planet hunter — live and on the Web Yale astronomer Debra Fischer will discuss the search for new planets in a live Web video interview on Tuesday, July 24
07.11.2012 \| Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Hubble Space Telescope imaging reveals that ultra-faint galaxies around the Milky Way abruptly stopped forming stars within the first billion years after the Big Bang, bolstering evidence for a transitional phase in the early universe, reports a science team including Prof. Marla Geha.
06.21.2012 \| Proximity of new planets stuns even astronomers “We’ve never known of planets like this,” said Yale University astronomer Sarbani Basu, a member of the research team that analyzed the system. “If you were on the smaller planet looking up, the larger planet would seem more than twice the size of Earth’s full moon. It would be jaw-dropping.”
06.20.2012 \| Most quasars live on snacks, not large meals "The study, led by Kevin Schawinski of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, bolsters evidence that the growth of most massive black holes in the early universe was fueled by small long-term events rather than dramatic short-term major mergers"
06.19.2012 \| Professor Pieter van Dokkum Named the 2012 Aaronson Lecturer For his studies of the evolution of the most massive galaxies over cosmic time
06.14.2012 \| Searching for Earths "This is the first time that the public has used data from a NASA space mission," said Dr. Fischer, affirming that with each new round of data there are more discoveries.
06.06.2012 \| The Public Outreach for the Transit of Venus on June 5, 2012 was a Huge Success. The public outreach for the transit of Venus on June 5, 2012 was a huge success. Despite being partly cloudy we estimate that 400 people were present...
05.16.2012 \| The Ancient Massive Galaxy Mystery -- 80 percent Appear Extremely Active and Growing Former Yale postdoc Danilo Marchesini and collaborators revealed that some of the most massive galaxies in the Universe may have formed billions of years earlier than the current models predicted. The identified galaxies were five to ten times more massive than our own Milky Way.
05.15.2012 \| Chasing Galaxies - The Legacy of "Brian Tinsley's clever wife" But what if a galaxy gets either brighter or fainter with age? What if it changes its shape from eon to eon? Then all bets are off, and the universe’s destiny is far harder to determine in this way. Cosmologists learned this unhappy fact—galaxies change!—by the 1970s, and the person primarily responsible for establishing it was Beatrice Tinsley.
05.14.2012 \| Astronomy Graduate Student Jedidah Isler has been Inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Graduate Student Jedidah Isler has been inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the ninth annual Bouchet Leadership Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education, held at Yale in March.
05.01.2012 \| ‘Ridiculously’ Dim Bevy of Stars Found Beyond Milky Way Former Yale postdoc Ricardo Munoz has discovered the least luminous globular cluster around the Milky Way, hinting that many more such globular clusters may soon be discovered.
04.17.2012 \| Professor Debra Fischer is One of Six Yale Faculty Members Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Six Yale faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
03.30.2012 \| When Dark Energy Turned On MANCHESTER, UK — The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) today announced the most accurate measurements yet of the distances to galaxies in the faraway universe, giving an unprecedented look at the time when the universe first began to expand at an ever-increasing rate. Included on the BOSS team of scientists and engineers is Nikhil Padmanabhan of Yale University.
03.19.2012 \| Yale physicist Daisuke Nagai has been named a 2012 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Nagai’s research focuses on computational modeling of galaxy clusters — the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity. The formation of these objects is driven by dark matter and dark energy. Supercomputer simulations developed by Nagai’s group will be used to interpret properties of these enigmatic but dominant components of the universe.
01.20.2012 \| Dr. Christian Schwab Awarded a Prestigious Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship Dr. Schwab's proposal described innovative technology design and development to push radial velocity precision towards 10 cm/s here in the Yale Exoplanet Lab.
01.19.2012 \| C. Megan Urry 2012 Recipient of The George Van Biesbroeck Prize The George Van Biesbroeck Prize honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy.
01.19.2012 \| Adele Plunkett, Astronomy Graduate Student, is a 2012 Recipient of a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award The Astronomy Achievement Student Awards are given to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the AAS. Awardees are honored with a Chambliss medal or, in the case of honorable mention, a certificate.

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