Dunlap\’s Director on Astronomy, Gender, and Hockey
The Dunlap Institute\’s new director, Prof. Bryan Gaensler talks about astronomy in Canada, gender issues in science, and hockey.
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The Answer is Blowing in the Intergalactic Wind
Astronomers from Toronto and Arizona have provided the first direct evidence of an intergalactic “wind” stripping galaxies of star-forming gas as they fall into clusters of galaxies.
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Development and Commissioning of the Integral Field Spectrograph for the Gemini Planet Imager
[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Jeffrey Chilcote, Dunlap Institute Thursday, 9 October, noon – AB Lounge The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is one of a new generation of instruments designed to directly image extrasolar planets in the outer solar systems of young main sequence stars. By combining a 1700-actuator adaptive optics system, an apodized-pupil Lyot
Dunlap’s Prof. Keith Vanderlinde at 2014 TEDxToronto, Oct. 2
The Dunlap\’s Prof. Keith Vanderlinde will speak at the 2014 TEDxToronto, Oct. 2nd.
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Astronomers find unexpected lack of water vapour on hot Jupiters
A team of astronomers has found a lower than expected abundance of water vapour in the atmospheres of three Jupiter-like planets beyond our Solar System.
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Square Kilometre Array
[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Jeff Wagg, Square Kilometre Array Monday, 21 July, noon – AB Lounge The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world\’s largest observatory for studying the Universe at long radio wavelengths. Work is currently underway to finalize the detailed design of phase I, involving more than 350 scientists and engineers from around
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Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto, announces new director, astronomer Prof. Bryan Gaensler
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, announces new director, astronomer Prof. Bryan Gaensler.
Wavefront Sensing and Control for Large Space Telescopes
[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Marshall Perrin, STScI Active and adaptive optics have revolutionized ground based telescopes in the last few decades, and this revolution is now making the leap into space. The James Webb Space Telescope\’s 6.5 m aperture depends critically on our ability to accurately measure and align its mirror segments after launch,
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WEAVE: New wide-field multi-fibre spectroscopy facility for the prime focus of William Herschel Telescope
[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Raine Karjalainen, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes WEAVE is a powerful new multi-object spectrograph being planned for the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on La Palma in the Canary Islands. It will allow astronomers to take spectra of up to 1000 stars and
GPU Correlators for the CHIME Computational Radio Telescope
[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Peter Klages, Dunlap Institute The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is located in a radio-quiet valley near Penticton, BC, and aims to study Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations for red-shifted hydrogen between z = 0.8 to z = 2.5. The CHIME telescope is a computational radio telescope composed of multiple parabolic
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