I just got a notification from the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre that our observations of IC 2497 and the Voorwerp have now been scheduled for April 19th. XMM-Newton is esa’s flagship X-ray satellite and can observe photons from 0.2-10 keV. We’ve already got our hard X-ray observations from Suzaku last year, so XMM will have [...]
Dear all,
I am happy to tell you that after a lot of work and a long peer review process, the Galaxy Zoo paper on AGN host galaxies (galaxies whose supermassive black holes are feeding) has finally been accepted by the Astrophysical Journal.
I’ve blogged about it before when we submitted it last year. The paper itself [...]
Our final entry (for now) in the series of foreign language translations of She’s an Astronomer posts – here it is: Vardha’s Interview auf Deutsch!
Vardha’s Interview in English
Dr. Vardha Nicola Bennert ist als Wissenschaftlerin (”postdoc”) an der Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie an der Universität von Kalifornien (UC) in Santa Barbara tätig. Ursprünglich kommt sie [...]
Dear Zooniverse users,
We’d like to re-draw [no pun intended!] your attention to the GalaxyZoo Google-powered Bar drawing website: http://www.icg.port.ac.uk/~hoyleb/bars/ simply log in with your Zooninverse username and password. Please note, this site works best using FireFox.
In this project, we ask for more specific observations and even drawing to be performed on a selection of galaxies. [...]
My Galaxy Zoo paper on the dust content of spiral galaxies was accepted for publication in the Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society this morning, and will be available here on the ArXiV server after 1am GMT tomorrow (Wed 13th Jan 2010).
You can read about the work that went into this paper and our [...]
Els’s interview in het Nederlands
Els Baeten (ElisabethB) lives in Belgium, in the old university town Leuven. She studied medicine for a few years, but then decided that it was not what she really wanted to do. She now works as a secretary in a reinsurance company.
When she isn’t busy doing anything Zoo-related she can be [...]
Our first She’s an Astronomer translation posted at the same time as the interview! Thanks Els.
Els’s Interview in English.
Els Baeten (ElisabethB) woont in België, in de oude universiteitsstad Leuven. Ze studeerde enkele jaren geneeskunde maar besloot uiteindelijk dat dit toch niet echt was wat ze wou doen. Ze werkt nu als secretaresse in een herverzekeringsmaatschappij.
Wanneer [...]