Astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics have led a research team that has helped map the north-sky portion of the Milky Way Galaxy’s magnetic field. The team used data from the CHIME telescope to measure the way in which invisible magnetism distorts the radio signals from rapidly spinning stars known as “pulsars.”
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Observations by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope suggest that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. July 15, 2020 – From a mountain high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation’s Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) – including researchers with the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy
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July 15, 2020 – The team behind the Canadian-based radio telescope CHIME (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) has been awarded the fifth annual Governor General’s Innovation Award. Announced Tuesday by the Rideau Hall Foundation, these awards recognize and celebrate exceptional Canadian individuals, teams, and organizations who have “developed new or better ways of creating value and
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Blasts of radiation detected every 16 days, which could help explain mysterious bursts of energy from space. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (June 17, 2020) – A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby
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Menu Job Opportunities Dunlap Fellowship Potential Fellowship Hosts From Fellow to Faculty/Scientist Former Dunlap Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Johanna Nagy was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri starting in May, 2020. For almost three years, Nagy played a pivotal role at the Dunlap Institute,
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[one_third] [/one_third][two_thirds_last] University of Toronto graduate student and Dunlap Institute researcher Emily Deibert has been awarded the University of Toronto Alumni Association\’s Graduate Award of Excellence. These awards are considered among the highest honour within the U of T community. During her time at U of T and Dunlap, Deibert has not only excelled academically,
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