September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... nature of one-off FRB events Secondly, magnetic fields play very critical roles in almost every aspect of astrophysics, ranging from star formation to large-scale galactic and intergalactic dynamics. They also have a significant contribution...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...Schmidt, M. A. McGrath, K. P. Hand, J. R. Spencer, M. Cracraft, and S. E Deustua. “Active Cryovolcanism on Europa?” 2017. In the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 839, Number 2. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa67f8 W. B. Sparks, K. P. Hand, M. A. McGrath...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... University in Baltimore, USA, and is also at the Institut d’Astrophysique, Paris, and the Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Oxford. Most of his scientific research is related to cosmology and particle...
22 December 2015
Magnetic fields around protostar gives a new twist on star formation
... Erin Cox, a researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and lead author of a paper submitted recently to the Astrophysical Journal Letters. These morphologies that show frozen-in field lines are consistent with the field being...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
...a paper on the burst now under review by The Astrophysical Journal. Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor can detect radiation..., a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the LIGO...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
..., associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey and lead author of the scientific paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, said “today, we are announcing the discovery of 1284 new planets in the Kepler mission. This is the...
