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A NSF-funded Physics Frontiers Center using pulsars to search for low-frequency gravitational waves! They/Them/Theirs

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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Lucas Brown, graduate student at Tufts University, has updated the iconic pulsar map originally seen on the Voyager golden record to include the pulsars from NANOGrav's data sets. Check out this great way to visualize our data! You can see how much the array has grown over the years 🔭🧪
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
NANOGrav congratulates the LISA Consortium on ESA’s approval, advancing the space-based LISA gravitational wave observatory. We look forward to exploring the gravitational universe alongside LVK Consortium and LISA 🔭
esa.int
Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead
Today, ESA’s Science Programme Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
We are pleased to announce that Ross Jennings is the "Hero of NANOGrav" for the month of January! 🔭 nanograv.org/news/hero-na...
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Hero of NANOGrav - January 2024 | NANOGrav
Ross Jennings has been awarded the title "Hero of NANOGrav" for the month of January!
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
🔭#aas243
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Today at #AAS243 🔭
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
#AAS243 Astrobiter @astrolamb.bsky.social will be presenting his research at 10am today! He'll be talking about distinguishing between an astrophysical and cosmological origin to the gravitational wave background seen by @nanograv.bsky.social and other pulsar timing arrays!
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Day 1 #AAS243 summaries are up! If you missed anything yesterday or are following along from afar, we’ve got you covered 👍🏻⭐️ astrobites.org/2024/01/09/a...
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Astrobites at AAS 243: Day 1
Astrobites coverage of Day 1 of AAS 243!
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Lots of NANOGrav talks and posters tomorrow, including a Special Session in room 226 starting at 2PM. We hope to see you there! #AAS243 🔭🧪
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Have you stopped by the new Gravitational Wave booth at #AAS243 yet? Come say hi to NANOGrav, LIGO, and LISA! #AAS243 🔭
Group of scientists standing in front of gravitational wave booth in exhibit hall at AAS in New Orleans.
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Good morning AAS! Steve Taylor is starting off the day with the Kavli Plenary 🔭
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Don’t miss the Kavli Planetary Lecture at AAS243 by NANOGrav chair Dr. Stephen Taylor. There are also many other NANOGrav talks tomorrow and all week long 🔭
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Great article from @astrobites.bsky.social 🔭 astrobites.org/2024/01/07/m...
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Stephen Taylor
Today we interview astrophysicist Stephen Taylor for his plenary talk at #AAS243!
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
NANOGrav talks tomorrow 🔭AAS243
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
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The Biggest Discoveries in Physics in 2023 | Quanta Magazine
From the smallest scales to the largest, the physical world provided no shortage of surprises this year.
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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 20/12/2023
With support from the AAS, Astronomy on Tap will host what is likely to be their biggest event *ever* during #AAS243 in New Orleans. Tuesday night, Jan 9, at an incredible venue: Republic NOLA, directly across from the convention center: aot.eventbrite.com
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Astronomy on Tap All-Stars
Republic NOLA Presents... Astronomy on Tap All-Stars on January 9th, 2024!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/12/2023
Here’s a gift link to my article: wapo.st/3NALhdH
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Opinion | I’m a physicist. Last week’s gravitational waves announcement sent me reeling.
Hum from gravitational waves gives a completely new and audacious view of the universe.
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
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Highlights of the Year
Physics Magazine Editors pick their favorite stories from 2023.
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Excellent op-ed from Dr. Chiara Mingarelli:
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The black hole revolution needs you! - Nature Astronomy
The NANOGrav collaboration has found light-years long gravitational waves from, most likely, the mergers of millions of supermassive black holes. To keep watching this cosmic dance, we need sustained ...
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
ICYMI
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Need a gift for the pulsar astronomer In your life? We recommend www.thegamecrafter.com/games/nanogr...
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
The new High Energy Astrophysics Division Newsletter is out! See page 15: head.aas.org/sites/head.a...
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar. She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. 🔭 🧪 👩‍🔬
A black and white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell looking at a printout in front of the large radio dish she used. She is wearing cat's-eye glasses with her brown hair pulled back. Her head is turned towards the camera and she is smiling.The printout where Bell and Hewish noticed the regular signal associated with the pulsar.It is a green-yellow graph paper with a staticky red line showing occasional spikes.
There are hand annotations labeling the spikes and recording the time and date of each one.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered OTD in 1967.🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
The cover of the Joy Division album
"Unknown Pleasures." It features a white
"stack plot" on a black background. The lines, which record data from a radio telescope, form what looks like a mountain range.
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
We are pleased to announce that Joe Simon is our NANOGrav Hero for the month of November!
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Jeffrey Hazboun @jeffreyhazboun.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
I tried my hand at some large scale outreach. It was frankly a bit unnerving 🤪 But thanks to the folks at WIRED is was really fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65m...
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Physicist Answers Physics Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
Physicist Jeffrey Hazboun visits WIRED to answer the internet's swirling questions about physics. How does one split an atom? Is light a wave or a particle.....
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Emmanuel Fonseca at SACNAS: on a panel and during the GWA special session. We also had people at the shared Gravitational Wave Astronomy booth!
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Kicking off the Fall meeting with a Speed Networking session
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Save the date! 📅 Dr. Stephen Taylor from NANOGrav will headline the 243rd AAS Meeting in New Orleans on Jan 8, 2024, with the prestigious Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture. 🌌 aas.org/press/aas-na...
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AAS Names Stephen Taylor as Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 243rd Meeting | American Astronomical So...
At our January 2024 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Kavli lecture will be given by Stephen Taylor, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University and Chair of the NANOGrav Collaboration.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
From William Lamb: Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expect them to have! 🔭 astrobites.org/2023/10/12/c...
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Continued analysis on the continuous search for continuous waves (continued)
Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expe…
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Still have questions about gravitational waves? Check out this excellent new video that explains what they are and the different methods for detecting them (including our own!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHuk...
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Gravitational Waves: A New Universe | Breakthrough
It’s been called 'the most significant breakthrough of the century.' For the FIRST TIME EVER, a global team of scientists have used astronomy... to detect a ...
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Scott Ransom doing his best Socrates impression during a Q&A at Texas Tech yesterday (photo credit Ben Owen)
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Using a pulsar timing array, we look for correlated noise which might be consistent with the signal of a gravitational wave passing by Earth stretching and compressing space (on the scale of the GALAXY!) in a predictable way. 🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬📡
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Now we're getting the 2min review of what a pulsar is, and how they make radio emissions at the Committee on Radio Frequency. Pulsars really are mind-boggling - something the size of a city, rotating at the speed of a blender! 🔭🧪👩🏻‍🔬
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Pulsar timing arrays are just telescope sensors the scale of roughly a spiral arm in our Galaxy.... image is a still from a really awesome movie showing this for @nanograv.bsky.social which we just saw 🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬
Artist impression of our galaxy, with a bunch of dots and lines overlaid which show that Nanograv array of pulsars stretches across one large quadrant of our Galaxy.
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Yesterday, Natalia Lewandowska gave an invited talk at Ithaca College. The talk was titled "A new message from the gravitational wave universe".
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Are you looking for a relatable scientist role model to bring accessible, cutting-edge astrophysics to your school/group? Please request a member of NANOGrav’s Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT) to visit and deliver our signature outreach presentation: test-nanograv.pantheonsite.io/resources/spot
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Scientist? New to BlueSky? Trying to figure out what the hell a "feed" is and why hashtags aren't working the same as on Twitter? Check out this quick start guide by @steveharoz.com and me 👇
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BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Congratulations to Aaron Johnson for being this month's Hero of NANOGrav! He always goes above and beyond!
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 14/08/2023
I don’t normally cross post material from that other place, but this felt like it should be shared here. Sleep well, gentle giant. And thank you for changing human knowledge, forever. 🔭📡
Tweet from Prof. Abel Méndez that says: The Arecibo Observatory was disconnected from the web today Monday, August 14, 2023, at 6:03 PM AST. End of an era and the start of a new beginning, see you soon. 😢
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 06/08/2023
Just been reminded that 6 August is the anniversary of the first detection of pulsar signals by Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967. Wrote about this discovery on @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social last year for the 55th anniversary: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-y… 🧪🔭
cartoon image of a woman wearing reading glasses and looking out into the distance. The caption reads 'Pulsars were discovered by (then PhD student) Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967.
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
This months Hero of NANOGrav is Elizabeth Ferrera! #nanograv #heroofnanograv #sciencecollaboration
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 20/07/2023
✨Check out Part II of the video featuring Tyler Cohen (NRAO), as he demonstrates how PTAs act as a telescope made of stars! ✨ 🎥Video Title: "We Found Gravitational Waves with a Telescope Made of Stars" 🎬YouTube link: youtu.be/2ApRctZrgJE #NANOGrav #GravitationalWaves
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We Found Gravitational Waves with a Telescope Made of Stars
On June 29th, 2023, astronomers announced the first evidence for the gravitational wave background, a rumble of gravitational waves that permeates the cosmos...
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NANOGrav PFC @nanograv.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
Prepare to be mesmerized by the power of dance and gravitational waves! 🕺✨Check out this video featuring Tyler Cohen (NRAO), as he harnesses the arts of dance and animation to demonstrate how gravitational waves warp spacetime. 📺YouTube Link: youtu.be/uH91gSI4ELs
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How to Dance Like a Gravitational Wave
Wave goodbye to those tired old aerobics programs, this one's based on sound physics!Learn how gravitational waves warp space through the power of dance.----...
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