In our exploration of the universe’s most energetic particle accelerators, our research team has measured X-ray polarization from the blazar 1ES 1959+650. Utilizing data obtained from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite, a telescope capable of capturing X-ray light polarization, we characterized the intensity and configuration of the magnetic field at the point where […]
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Cassie wins poster competition!
Cassie won the poster competition at the WU Physics Research Symposium. She presented her correlation analysis between infrared point sources in the WISE catalog and X-ray sources in the eROSITA catalog.
Students present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
Charlie Fallon and Grace Mead presented posters on their Summer research at the Washington University Undergraduate Research Symposium today. Charlie’s poster described his simulations of the response of scintillators to optimize the geometry of a compact gamma-ray spectrometer. Grace presented her work on extracting hard X-ray light curves from relativistic jets using data from the […]
VERITAS sees the awakening of a long-dormant blazar
The VERITAS Collaboration has issued an Astronomers Telegram to notify other observatories of the bright gamma-ray flux that VERITAS has measured from the blazar H 1426+428. Zach did part of the analysis that led to the announcement. This is a very interesting object with a relativistic jet that is capable of accelerating particles to extreme […]
Zach defends his PhD thesis!
Congratulations to Zach on the successful defense of his PhD thesis with title “Toward an understanding of high-mass gamma-ray binaries: an investigation using current observatories and the development of a future GeV instrument”!
VERITAS detects a new source of cosmic gamma rays
The VERITAS collaboration issued an Astronomers Telegram to report the detection of a new TeV gamma-ray blazar. Our group participated in scheduling the observations and analyzing the VERITAS data, and Ella was in charge of the VERITAS data quality monitoring while the observations were being taken.
Hannah presents at the Chandra Time-Domain Science conference
Hannah gave a talk at the Chandra Frontiers in Time-Domain Science virtual conference on the formation of a transient accretion disk in the accreting pulsar GX 301-2.
William presents at the uSTAR research meeting
William presented the work he did this Summer simulating the response of Ge crystals for gamma-ray spectroscopy at the research meeting of the uSTAR Summer Scholars Program.
Ben Groebe’s thesis defense
Congratulations to Ben for the successful defense of his PhD thesis with title “Flux Variability in Gamma-Ray Blazars”!
Hannah’s presentation at the AAS meeting
Hannah presented her research on the geometry of the absorbing gas surrounding the pulsar GX 301-2 at the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.