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.
Michelle Hui (ST12) gave an invited talk on “Fermi-GBM in the Multimessenger Era” which highlighted the ongoing efforts and contributions of the Fermi-Gamma Ray-burst Monitor (GBM) instrument to gravitational wave and neutrino astronomy. She also served as a co-host to …
Chandra Project Science team member Steven Ehlert spoke to participants in the NASA Student Launch competition about the Chandra X-ray Observatory on 4/8/21. More than fifty (50) students, ranging in age from middle school to undergraduate college students, attended the …
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Adam Goldstein (USRA) presented a talk entitled “The Fermi GBM Data Tools and GSpec” about new updated modern software tools to significantly improve the astrophysics community’s ability to use GBM data in their research. Rachel Hamburg (UAH) presented a talk …
Daniel Kocevski (ST12) debuted the new Fermi Light Curve Repository at the 9th international Fermi Symposium. The repository provides on-demand access to publication quality light curves for over 1500 variable gamma-ray sources monitored by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) …
The Advanced Neutron Spectrometer on the ISS (ANS-ISS) was successfully relocated from the Columbus Module to Node2. The ANS-ISS will operate for one year in Node2 to monitor the neutron flux and radiation exposure in this module. These operations will …
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