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Double Awards for Dunlap’s Transit of Venus at Varsity Stadium Event

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[bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’] 9 June 2013 – Bronze and Silver CASE Awards for astronomy public outreach. The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics has won two CASE awards for its 2012 Transit of Venus at Varsity Stadium public outreach event. The gathering was one of the largest astronomy outreach events ever, attracting 5000+ spectators eager

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Twelve researchers win $2.5M in research infrastructure funding

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[bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’] 7 June 2013 – Astronomer building advanced astronomical instrumentation among them. U of T researchers have won just under $2.5 million in infrastructure funding in the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s latest Leadership Opportunity Fund competition. Professor Shelley Wright of the Dunlap Institute and the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics is one of

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The Dark Art of Detecting and Characterizing Extrasolar Planets by Direct Imaging

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[one_half] Thayne Curry, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U of T Direct imaging is the new frontier in detecting and characterizing extrasolar planets. In this talk, Currie will discuss the noise sources limiting our ability to image planets and our attempts to overcome them using a novel suite of observing methods like angular differential imaging/roll

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Using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer to Look for Exoplanets and Debris Disks

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[one_half] Phil Hinz, University of Arizona The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) is a NASA-funded instrument, designed to carry out a survey of nearby stars for the existence of faint zodiacal dust disks. The survey is named the Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial planetary Systems (HOSTS). These observations will constrain the prevalence and brightness

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Entrepreneurship Program at Institute for Optical Sciences

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  [one_half] Venkat Venkataramanan, Dir. Scientific Operations, IOS The Institute for Optical Sciences at University of Toronto was started in 2005 with the mission to create a world-class academic research centre in optics. We have since evolved as a vibrant interdisciplinary academic research and a unique entrepreneurship education centre. This talk will highlight our academic

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Distant Planetary System is a Super-Sized Solar System

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[bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’] 14 March 2013 – A team of astronomers, including Quinn Konopacky of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet beyond our Solar System. According to Konopacky, “We have been able to observe this planet in

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Modelling the NIR sky background for IRIS/TMT

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[one_half] Dr. Tuan Do, Dunlap Fellow Accurate sky background models are necessary for realistic predictions of telescope and instrument performance. However, there are significant variations to sky background measurements as well as models. Do will describe methods and challenges of modeling the sky background for the IRIS integral-field spectrograph for TMT. The model he describes

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Is the near-infrared sky background really lower in the Arctic?

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[one_half] Dr. Suresh Sivanandam, Dunlap Fellow Many years ago, people published a result claiming that the NIR sky background was factors of 2-3 lower at the South Pole when compared to a mid-latitude astronomical site. This meant that something physically different was going on in the upper atmosphere above the Pole. Sivanandam and team members

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