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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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A Chandra issued image, “Huge Rings Around a Black Hole”, was featured as NASA’s Image of the Day on 6/2/22. This image features a spectacular set of rings around a black hole, captured using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels …
The NASA Science Mission Directorate conducts comparative reviews of operating missions within each division to maximize the scientific return from these missions within finite resources. NASA uses the findings from the Senior Reviews to define an implementation strategy and give …
The most recent Chandra image release, “Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science” was issued on 6/7/22, and featured as NASA’s Image of the Day on 6/9/22. A shock wave about 1.6 million light years long is stretching along the …
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The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) Project was given general notice on 6/10/22, that the 2022 Senior Review Panel had conveyed a highly favorable review of Fermi. The Fermi mission has been approved for another period of extended operations and …
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Colleen Wilson-Hodge (ST12) was interviewed about her long-term role in developing the STROBE-X probe concept, which ties back to SPIE meetings and earlier mission concepts. The Spectroscopic Time-Resolved Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) is an X-ray probe concept for …
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