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CHIME Outrigger Telescopes boost search for Fast Radio Bursts

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  CHIME\’s new siblings will pinpoint where bursts detected by Canada’s world-renowned telescope come from. By Meaghan Thurston and Fergus Grieve, with notes from Meaghan MacSween In the quest to identify the origins of one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries – fast radio bursts (FRBs) – Canada’s world-renowned telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME),

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Two Dunlap Postdocs Win Prestigious Hubble Fellowship

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  Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Kathryn Neugent and Dr. Karthiek Iyer have been awarded the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship beginning in the fall of 2022. The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue research that will contribute to NASA Astrophysics. The grant, which is administered by NASA, can be taken to any participating

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The new, improved Dragonfly is a galactic gas detector

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  By James Shelton, with notes from Meaghan MacSween The Dragonfly telescope is undergoing a metamorphosis. For the past decade, the Dragonfly Telephoto Array — designed by The University of Toronto\’s Roberto Abraham and Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum — has conducted groundbreaking science by detecting faint starlight within dimly lit parts of the night sky.

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Dunlap\’s New Video Series Explores Large-Scale Questions of the Cosmos

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  [one_half] [/one_half] Do Astronomers believe that aliens exist? The Dunlap Institute has launched a new video series that explores some big astronomy questions like this one. The series title and content was inspired, in part, by the first COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020. \”Even though we couldn\’t host events in person, we wanted to

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U of T Astro March Grad Student of the Month: Bolin Fan

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  [one_half] [/one_half] As a second year PhD student in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Bolin focuses on applying new statistical methods from other disciplines to astronomy – as well as utilizing astronomy methods in other disciplines. Bolin completed an honours biological physics degree and an ecology and

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U of T Astro February Grad Student of the Month: Victor Chan

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  [one_half] [/one_half] Victor focuses on applying new methods and statistics to cosmological studies as a fifth year PhD candidate at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Originally from Toronto, Victor also completed an Honours Astronomy and Astrophysics specialist degree from U of T. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] How did

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Mini Doc: How Rare Stars Help us Understand the Universe

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  Follow University of Toronto astronomer Anna O’Grady as she shares her personal research journey discovering a rare type of star.     Original news story here: dunlap.utoronto.ca/u-of-t-student-discovers-rare-star-population. A University of Toronto PhD student has led the discovery of a population of a rare type of star — research that can help us to better understand

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Twelve for dinner: The Milky Way’s feeding habits shine a light on dark matter

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  Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars orbiting within our Galactic halo. Understanding these star streams is very important for astronomers. As well as revealing the dark matter that holds the stars in their

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January Grad Student of the Month: Steffani Grondin

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  [one_half] [/one_half] Steffani is a second year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, specializing in binary systems and stars that have escaped their birth cluster. She received a Combined Honours Physics and Astronomy degree from the University of British Columbia where she studied pulsars and white

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December Grad Student of the Month: Emily Deibert

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