Astrophysics Branch
Marshall Space Flight Center's Astrophysics Branch uses space and ground-based observatories to peer back to the earliest epochs of the universe, unravel its mysteries, and study the most violent explosions in our galaxy and beyond. Our goal is to help discover how the universe works, explore how it began and evolved, and search for life on planets around other stars.
The Relativistic Astrophysics Group and the Fermi GBM team gave 5 presentations at the 240th AAS meeting in Pasadena, CA, from June 12-16, 2022. Cori Fletcher (USRA) presented an iPoster entitled “A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Events …
On 7/6/22, Colleen Wilson-Hodge (ST12) and Lisa Gibby (ESSCA) participated in the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Tours sponsored by Jacobs Space Exploration Group (JSEG). This was part of a virtual tour series for interns that covers a wide array …
Virtual Tour Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Science and Operations Read More »
Cori Fletcher and Joshua Wood (ST12) recently taught at the Fermi Summer School, held from May 31 to June 10, 2022. The school focuses on providing graduate students an opportunity to explore a range of gamma-ray observations in multimessenger and …
The LISA Astrophysics Working Group held a hybrid meeting the week of June 20th with a focus on LISA multimessenger science, as well as theoretical and observational work needed in the years before the mission launch to best support LISA …
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, “LISA”, Astrophysics Working Group Meeting Read More »
IXPE Science Operations Center (SOC) team successfully completed required adjustments needed to optimize optical alignment, to maximize system throughput and to center the image. The change required a final Tip Tilt & Rotate (TTR) adjustment in Tip, which was successfully …
Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Optimization of Optical Alignment Read More »