The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International has granted U of T Grad Student Margaret Ikape a World Fellowship Award for the 2021-2222 academic year. Ikape – a graduate student at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics – received the award for her contributions […]
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\”Live fast, die young\” could be the motto of six early, massive, \”dead\” galaxies that ran out of the cold hydrogen gas needed to make stars early in the life of the Universe. These galaxies lived fast and furious lives, creating their stars in a remarkably short time. But then they literally ran
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Indigenous perspectives are a strong component of the study of astronomy, and now one U of T prof is helping to bring this important connection to the classroom. Hilding Neilson, CLTA Assistant Professor at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, has created a course for students who are interested in Indigenous
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[one_half] [/one_half] Rebecca is going into her final year as an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. She specializes in Physics and Astronomy, with a minor in Mathematics. Rebecca is originally from São Paulo, Brazil, but spent most of her childhood in Peru, and moved to Toronto in 2018. She is thrilled
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A Dunlap Postdoc has created a new way to visualize and interpret the stars in the Milky Way, centred around the Sun. With the help of his colleagues, Banting & Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Josh Speagle used publicly available datasets and statistical methods to map out the distances to, and properties of, 170 million
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The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics is pleased to announce a successful start to its astronomical instrumentation summer school. Early Monday afternoon, the 2021 Dunlap Instrumentation Virtual Summer School kicked off with a greeting from Dunlap Institute’s Acting Director and Professor Suresh Sivanandam. “The Dunlap Summer School is the largest event offered by
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They may not look like much — just metal disks 80 centimetres (30 inches) across with some etched markings and hundreds of small holes — but round aluminum “plates” like this one from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have been vital to mapping our Universe for more than 20 years. “The large number
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A U of T graduate student has discovered that the largest magnetic fields in the Universe are weaker than a fridge magnet – in fact, about three billion times weaker. PhD student Ariel Amaral from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the University of Toronto has led a team of researchers that
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The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2020 Michael Penston Thesis Prize to University of Toronto Astronomer Dr. Jennifer Chan. A Postdoctoral Fellow at The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and an Associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chan’s research focuses on ionization and magnetism – aiming to understand how
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Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters. Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office To catch sight of a fast radio burst is to be extremely lucky in where and when you point your radio dish. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are oddly bright flashes of
