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12/12 - 02:00 pm
Rachel Street
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Rachel Street
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Science with the LCO Network (Las Cumbres Observatory)
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The Las Cumbres Observatory operates a global network of fully robotic telescopes with a range of instrumentation through a highly adaptable scheduler system. This scheduler makes it possible to coordinate a wide range of astronomical observations across multiple sites, telescopes and instruments, making it possible to seamlessly compensate in cases of poor weather. The rapid response of the scheduling system combined with the multiple sites makes the network ideal to respond quickly to a range of phenomena over many timescales from minutes to years. Distinct from other telescope networks in astronomy, LCO is a general-purpose facility which supports a wide range of science. I will give an overview of how the network operates, and the unique science that it makes possible. I will describe how the current Key Projects at LCO exploit the network\\\'s capabilities and the tools they use. Finally, I will end by looking to the future, and outline LCO\\\'s role as a partner in the Astrophysical Events Observatories Network.
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05/12 - 02:00 pm
Ardis Herrold
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Ardis Herrold
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Bringing LSST Data to the Classroom (LSST)
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We will discuss the philosophy and goals of the formal education program for LSST, and how this translates to the choice of our audiences and topics and design of our classroom investigations. Strategies for testing of the materials, and professional development will also be included as time allows.
21/11 - 11:00 am
Lucas Secco
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Lucas Secco
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Cosmic Shear in the Year-3 DES data: 2-point and 3-point correlations (UPenn)
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The cosmology analyzes of the Year-3 (Y3) data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) is at full speed ahead. Our preliminary weak lensing sample contains 120 million objects over 4200 square degrees of sky and is the largest shape catalog to date. This statistical power comes at a price: the cosmic shear measurements are more sensitive not only to the signal but also to potential systematics. In this talk, I will present our prospects for the 2-point cosmic shear cosmology analysis and some of the leading systematics that must be under control, in particular the Intrinsic Alignment of galaxies. Additionally, I will talk about a preliminary detection of a shear 3-point correlation in the DES-Y3 simulations and data which is unprecedented in weak lensing surveys.
14/11 - 11:00 am
Mariana Vargas-Magana
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Mariana Vargas-Magana
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Decrypting the Large Scale Structure of the Universe with spectroscopic surveys: BOSS, eBOSS and DESI (UNAM)
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Spectroscopic surveys provided a unique opportunity to explore the large-scale structure in the Universe, in particular they have been conceived to study one of the most important questions of modern cosmology: the nature of dark energy. During this seminar I will review three spectroscopic surveys: BOSS, eBOSS and DESI.In the first part I will explain the observables that we can use to learn dark energy: the Baryons Acoustic Oscillations(BAO) and the Redshift Space Distortions (RSD). In the second part, I will focus to present the latest eBOSS results from the full shape analysis that includes de Redshift Space Distortions as well as the Alcock Paczinsky parameters with the Luminous Red Galaxy sample Data Release 14. In the third part I will present how we can use galaxy redshift surveys to explore other physics than dark energy, in particular to constrain properties of neutrinos. Neutrinos were a dominant component of the energy density in the early universe and, therefore, played an important role in the evolution of cosmological perturbations. In particular neutrinos imprint a temporal phase of sound waves in the primordial plasma. I will present the first constraint on this neutrino-induced phase shift in the spectrum of baryon acoustic oscillations of the BOSS DR12 data.
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07/11 - 03:00 pm
Connie Walker
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Connie Walker
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Teen Astronomy Cafés (NOAO)
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The National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (formerly NOAO) started the Teen Astronomy Cafés program to excite the interest of talented youth in STEM. One Saturday a month during the academic year, high school students interact with expert astronomers who work with big data. Students learn about killer asteroids, exoplanets, lives and deaths of stars, variable stars, black holes, the structure of the universe, gravitational lensing, dark matter, colliding galaxies, and more. The format for the cafés is a short presentation by an astronomer, a computer-based lab activity and a discussion during lunch. Presently, 50% of the students are from schools with failing grades (by the Arizona Department of Education). Over 50% are girls. Our science cafés demonstrate that scientists play a key role in increasing student interest and curiosity about science research and in helping students get a sense of scientists as people. The cafés also demonstrate that scientists can help students see how research connects with issues important to society and with students’ daily lives.
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31/10 - 11:00 am
Julian Bautista
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Julian Bautista
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O legado cosmológico do Sloan Digital Sky Survey e o começo do Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (University of Portsmouth)
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Desde mais de 20 anos, o Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) vem produzindo os maiores mapas em 3D do Universo usando espectroscopia. Com o último projeto cosmológico do SDSS -- o extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) -- foi possível estudar a estrutura em grande escala e obter as melhores medidas de expansão do Universo em função do tempo até hoje, em redshifts desde 0.6 até 2.3. Os resultados finais do eBOSS serão publicados no começo de 2020. Aguardando as medidas finais, irei apresentar as principais medidas publicadas usando a metade dos dados (Data Release 14). Uma parte deste webinar será dedicada a mostrar o estado atual da seguinte geração de levantamentos espectroscópicos para cosmologia: o Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), cuja primeira luz ocorreu na semana passada.
24/10 - 11:00 am
Matteo Costanzi
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Matteo Costanzi
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Cluster Cosmology in the Dark Energy Survey (Johann Wolfgang INAF)
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The abundance of galaxy clusters has the potential to be a powerful tool for constraining cosmological parameters, provided we can rely on well calibrated mass-proxies to estimate the cluster masses. In this talk I will present the cosmological analysis we performed using the optical cluster catalog extracted from in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data. The DES Y1 data is based on optical/near-infrared imaging covering ~1800 square degrees of the southern sky, taken from August 31, 2013 to February 9, 2014 by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.In particular, I will introduce the different ingredients necessary to perform a cosmological analysis of cluster abundance, lingering on the systematics which mostly affect photometric cluster catalogs. Thus, I will present preliminary results obtained from the analysis of DES Y1 cluster abundance data and weak lensing mass estimates, discuss current problematics, and conclude with future perspectives.
15/10 - 11:00 am
Jennifer Sokoloski
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Jennifer Sokoloski
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Helping You Do Science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Attention day of week changed: Tuesday 15/10) (Columbia University)
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will create the largest census of the Universe ever undertaken, repeatedly surveying the sky every few nights for ten years. The potential for scientific discoveries with the LSST will be limited only by how well we can extract the knowledge contained in its massive and complex data streams. The mandate of the Large Synoptic Survey Corporation (LSSTC) is to maximize the scientific output from LSST with investment in the international research community. Indeed, as first light and full operations approach, LSSTC is ramping up its support for LSST science. I will review highlights from a year of activities we have funded, and describe our very ambitious plans for helping the community tackle the scientific, software, and statistical challenges associated with LSST during the next few years. You can directly benefit from these programs, with researchers from LSSTC member institutions guiding how funds are allocated and receiving the highest level of benefits.
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10/10 - 11:00 am
Matias Carrasco Kind
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Matias Carrasco Kind
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Kubernetes as an Astronomical platform, a technical review (University of Illinois)
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In this talk, I will review the basic concepts of Kubernetes and how these are being applied within the context of Astronomy. In particular, Kubernetes has been already adopted by surveys like DES and LSST and is slowly making its way into other projects. I will do a live demo of a simple deployment and how this can be expanded into a full production-like system.
26/09 - 11:00 am
Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
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Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
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DESI: unraveling dark energy (CEA)
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I will present the stage-IV Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The scientific goals of DESI on dark energy, redshift space distortions, inflation and neutrino mass will be compared to current measurements and limits set by ongoing experiments, in particular by the SDSS BOSS and eBOSS projects. I will then present the construction status of DESI, which is nearing completion, and give the timeline of the five-year survey. With first light quickly approaching, we expect DESI to be one of the world’s best facilities for wide-field spectroscopy throughout the decade.
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19/09 - 11:00 am
Andrea Cattaneo
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Andrea Cattaneo
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Formation of pseudobulges through disc instabilities (Observatoire de Paris)
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By using simulations, we have studied the stability of an isolated thin exponential stellar disc embedded in a static spherical NFW halo and explore how the disc\\\'s mass and size (relative to the halo) together with the concentration of the halo itself affect the mass of the pseudobulge that forms (if any). We observe a transition from Scd to Sab and barred morphologies when the mass of the disc grows (relative to the mass of the halo), when the size of the disc is reduced, and when the concentration of the halo is lowered. The final bulge-to-total stellar mass ratio B/T is strongly related to the disc\\\'s fractional contribution $f_{\\\\rm d}$ to the total gravitational acceleration at the optical radius. The formula $B/T=0.5f_{\\\\rm d}^{1.8}$ fits the bulge-to-total stellar mass ratios that we measure in our simulations to an accuracy of $30\\\\%$ and reproduces the observed morphology -- luminosity relation. Our formula will be useful to improve the description of pseudobulges in future semianalytic models of galaxy formation.
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12/09 - 11:00 am
Pedro Beaklini
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Pedro Beaklini
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Monitoring blazar variability at radio wavelengths using Brazilian facilities (USP)
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Pedro P.B, Beaklini (IAG/USP), Tânia P. Dominici (MAST/MCTIC), Zulema Abraham (IAG/USP), Juliana C. Motter (IF/UFRGS) Blazars are high luminosity AGNs presenting relativistic jets seen at small angles to the line of sight. They are also characterized by variability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and the emission is boosted due to relativistic effects. In this talk, I will present observations carried out at 43 GHz (7 mm) for the blazars 3C 273, 3C 279 and PKS 1510-089 using the Pierre Kaufmann Radio Observatory (former Itapetinga). I will report on the variability monitoring results of theses sources and how they correlate with other wavelengths. Delays between high energy emission, either gamma-rays or optical R band, with respect to the 7-mm light curve have been detected. Although such delays present different observational signatures for each source, they are well explained by the shock-in-jet model. A high frequency follow up monitoring program of blazar sources using the LLAMA (Long Latin America Millimeter Array) Observatory is being planned. LLAMA is a joint initiative between Brazil and Argentina. In this presentation, I will also summarize the current status of the LLAMA and Pierre Kaufmann observatories.
05/09 - 01:00 pm
Robert Gruendl
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Robert Gruendl
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The Dark Energy Survey Y6A1 Production Overview (University of Illinois)
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Nesta sessão será apresentada como é feita a redução de imagens e os diversos produtos criados neste processamento.
29/08 - 02:00 pm
Kate Grier
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Kate Grier
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The Monsters of the Universe: Reverberation Mapping and Supermassive Black Hole Masses of Distant Quasars (University of Arizona)
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project (SDSS-RM) has completed its first six years of spectroscopic observations of a sample of ~850 quasars with the SDSS-III BOSS spectrograph. From January-July in 2014-2019 more than 80 epochs of spectroscopy were obtained for this quasar sample, and supporting photometric observations were also carried out at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Steward Observatory Bok telescope. I will present a status update on the SDSS-RM program, focusing specifically on recent reverberation mapping results from the wider 850-quasar sample using four years of combined photometric and spectroscopic data. In particular, we recently reported measurements of the CIV emission line in 52 quasars at redshifts ranging from z = 1.5 - 3. Our work has increased the previous sample size of reverberation-mapped active galaxies by about a factor of four, and represents the first large sample of high-redshift CIV reverberation mapping observations beyond the local Universe.
22/08 - 11:00 am
Sugata Kaviraj
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Sugata Kaviraj
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The low-surface-brightness Universe: a new frontier in the study of galaxy evolution (University of Hertfordshire)
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Low-surface-brightness (LSB) galaxies, a heterogeneous population ranging from dwarfs to large, diffuse spirals, are faint systems that are largely invisible in past surveys (e.g. the SDSS). However, LSB galaxies dominate the local number density and understanding their formation is central to a complete understanding of galaxy evolution. Using a cosmological hydro-dynamical simulation, we explore how these systems form and why they diverge so strongly from their high-surface-brightness counterparts over cosmic time. We show that, at high redshift (z~3), LSB progenitors have stronger, burstier star formation. The resultant stronger stellar feedback flattens their gas-density profiles, by displacing cold gas (but does not quench star formation). These flatter gas profiles, in turn, produce flatter stellar systems, which are more susceptible to tidal processes. Over time, heating and stripping due to the ambient tidal field drive rapid (cold) gas loss and a strong increase in effective radii, that produces today’s LSB systems. In clusters, ram-pressure stripping provides an additional mechanism that assists in this evolution (although tidal heating/stripping remains the principal mechanism of LSB galaxy formation even in these ultra-dense environments). The LSB Universe is a new frontier in the study of galaxy evolution and offers a vast, untapped discovery space that is perfectly aligned with the capabilities of new surveys like the Hyper Suprime Cam SSP and, in the near future, LSST.
08/08 - 02:00 pm
Edward Schlafly
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Edward Schlafly
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X-raying the Interstellar Medium (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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The interstellar medium (ISM) is the fuel of star formation, and its scattering and absorption of light transforms the Galactic radiation field. Despite its importance, most observations of the Milky Way\\\\\\\'s ISM are limited to two dimensions; its angular distribution is precisely measured, but its distribution in distance is much more uncertain. Large surveys of stars can be used to resolve this uncertainty. Because light from stars is absorbed and scattered by intervening material before observation on earth, the Galaxy\\\\\\\'s stars can be used as a dense network of lighthouses, effectively x-raying the ISM to reveal its 3D structure and properties. In this talk, I\\\\\\\'ll describe our ongoing program to use large surveys to map the ISM in 3D. We have mapped the density of dust in the ISM over the nearest 5 kpc at unprecedented resolution, highlighting complex networks of diffuse voids and dense star-forming regions. We have also been able to measure the size distribution of dust grains throughout the Milky Way, revealing kiloparsec-scale structures that may track variations in the Galactic star-formation rate and gas density. Numerous other projects are possible, ranging from studies of the 3D kinematics of the ISM to the Galactic magnetic field. New surveys and instruments like Gaia, SDSS-V, LSST, and JWST promise a bright future for 3D studies of the ISM, offering incredibly accurate distance measurements, order-of-magnitude larger samples of stars, and unrivaled sensitivity.
01/08 - 11:00 am
Joe Zuntz
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Joe Zuntz
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LSST/DESC Plans for Computing and Workflow (University of Edinburgh)
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DESC is the cosmology collaboration for LSST, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which is currently under construction at Cerro Panchon, Chile. Much of DESC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s work is computational, requiring large data processing facilities and tools. I will discuss DESC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s current plans for workflow and processing, starting from the catalogs provided by data management and ending with cosmological constraints
25/07 - 11:00 am
Bryan Miller
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Bryan Miller
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New Infrastructure and Processes for Time-Domain Followup (Gemini Observatory)
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Time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics are rapidly growing and important modes of observational astronomy. The commissioning of LSST and the increasing sensitivity of facilities such as LIGO and IceCube mean that both rapid-response and long-term flexible scheduling capabilities will be essential. Significant effort by a variety of groups is being put into developing the components of a follow-up system for dynamically turning survey alerts into data. This system consists of: 1) brokers that will aggregate, classify, and filter alerts; 2) Target Observation Managers (TOMs) that are used by science teams for prioritizing targets and managing observations and data; and 3) observatory interfaces, schedulers, and facilities along with data reduction software and science archives. These tools will also be beneficial to all users of these facilities. This presentation will review the current status of this developing network with emphasis on the efforts of the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON), a collaboration between Las Cumbres Observatory, NOAO/SOAR, and Gemini, and outstanding issues will be discussed.
18/07 - 11:00 am
Henk Hoekstra
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Henk Hoekstra
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Weak lensing by large-scale structure as an accurate probe of cosmology and much more! (Leiden University)
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Weak lensing by large-scale structure is one of the most promising techniques to learn more about the nature of dark energy by mapping the dark matter distribution in the Universe as a function of distance. Weak lensing has also developed into the main tool to determine the masses of collapsed structures, from clusters to galaxies, enabling new studies of scaling relations. I will review the recent progress in this active area of research and discuss the prospects for future projects, such as Euclid.
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11/07 - 11:00 am
Françoise Combes
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Françoise Combes
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Molecular tori, black hole fueling and feedback in nearby AGN (Observatoire de Paris)
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Recent molecular line observations with ALMA in several nearby Seyferts have revealed the existence of molecular tori, and the nature of gas flows at 10-20pc scale. At 100pc scale or kpc-scale, previous work on gravitational torques had shown that only about one-third of Seyfert galaxies experienced molecular inflow and central fueling, while in most cases the gas was stalled in rings. At higher resolution, i.e. 10-20pc scale, it is possible now to see in some cases AGN fueling due to nuclear trailing spirals, influenced by the black hole potential. This brings smoking gun evidence for nuclear fueling. In our sample galaxies, the angular resolution of up to 80mas allows us to reach the BH-zone of influence and the BH mass can be derived more directly than with the M-sigma relation.
04/07 - 11:00 am
Alexandre Le Tiec
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Alexandre Le Tiec
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Probing the vicinity of the galactic center black hole with LISA (Observatoire de Paris)
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The era of gravitational-wave astronomy was opened in 2015 with the first direct detection by LIGO of gravitational radiation emitted during the coalescence of two 30 Solar mass black holes. The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves generated during the coalescence of supermassive black hole binaries and the inspiral of stellar mass compact objects into massive black holes. I will present the first fully relativistic study of gravitational radiation from bodies in circular equatorial orbits around the massive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sgr A*. The signal-to-noise ratio in the gravitational wave detector LISA, as well as the time spent in LISA band, have been evaluated for main-sequence stars, brown dwarfs and compact objects. I will argue that Sgr A* is a valuable target for LISA.
27/06 - 11:00 am
Chihway Chang
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Chihway Chang
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Decoding the Universe with Cosmic Surveys (University of Chicago)
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Modern cosmology is built on a robust foundation termed the ΛCDM model. The ΛCDM model has been remarkably successful — it is able to explain a large range of observational data with only six parameters. There are, however, unresolved questions that leave cosmologists unsatisfied: What is Dark Matter? What is Dark Energy? With the increasingly powerful data, is ΛCDM still internally consistent within multiple cosmological probes? In this talk I describe a program where we seek to answer these questions using information in the large-scale structure, as recorded by state-of-the-art cosmological surveys. I will focus on a series of analyses using two-point functions of different cosmic fields and describe ongoing work to go beyond the standard two-point framework.
13/06 - 11:00 am
Hector Gil-Marin
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Hector Gil-Marin
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Measuring cosmological parameters in the large scale structure through redshift space distortions and Alcock-Paczynski effects (Universitat de Barcelona)
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In this talk, I will present an introduction on the concepts of redshift space distortions (RSD) and Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect and their applicability to measure cosmological parameters, such as the growth of structure or Omega_m, from large scale structure spectroscopic galaxy surveys. As an example, I will present such analyses for BOSS and eBOSS surveys and will review some of the future results for DESI, including both the power spectrum and bispectrum techniques.
06/06 - 11:00 am
Marika Asgari
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Marika Asgari
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Cosmology with KiDS and cosmic shear (Edinburgh University)
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The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) is a purpose-built gravitational lensing survey with high quality images and a wide photometric coverage, resulting in very high fidelity data. This dataset, therefore, provides an excellent playground where we can test our methods in preparation for future weak lensing surveys. Already the first KiDS data release (KiDS-450) shows a mild tension with CMB results, which has sparked both skepticism and excitement within the community. One of the major challenges for cosmic shear is the treatment of systematics in the data. Marginalised systematics, currently, comprise a significant portion of the error bars on the estimate of the amount of structures (S_8) inferred from the data. In this talk, I will focus on cosmic shear analysis of the latest KiDS data and compare the cosmological results given different two point statistics and I will go through complications that arise in this kind of analysis and the effect of systematics on the data. I will finally show results from the combination of KiDS and DES cosmic shear data.
30/05 - 11:00 am
Eva Grebel
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Eva Grebel
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Dwarf Galaxies - Fossils of Galaxy Evolution (University of Heidelberg)
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Dwarf galaxies are the most common type of galaxy in the Universe and include the most dark-matter-dominated objects known. They offer intriguing insights into evolutionary processes at low halo masses and low metallicities. Moreover, as survivors of a once much more numerous population of building blocks of larger galaxies, they are key to understanding very early star formation processes. The Local Group and particularly the Milky Way\\\'s dwarf galaxy entourage offer us the unique possibility to compare in detail dwarf and Galactic populations. This is an important step towards quantifying the magnitude and time scales of dwarf contributions to the build-up of the Milky Way and allows us to test predictions of cosmological theories and hierarchical structure formation.
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23/05 - 11:30 am
Fabian Schmidt
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Fabian Schmidt
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New approaches to galaxy clustering (Max Planck Institute - Garching)
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The large-scale clustering of galaxies contains a wealth of information on the geometry and expansion history of the universe, on gravity, and on the initial conditions. In order to extract this information, we need to deal with the complex formation process of galaxies. As a result, current observational constraints are largely based only on the robust BAO feature. However, thanks to significant advances in o ur theoretical understanding of galaxy clustering, we now have a well-defined approach for absorbing all the complicated, incompletely understood physics of galaxy formation into a set of free parameters (the bias parameters and stochastic amplitudes), which opens up considerable additional constraining power. The next challenge to tackle then is how best to connect this theory with data, as delivered by ongoing and future surveys such as BOSS, DESI, and Euclid. In my talk, I will review these developments, and discuss the prospects galaxy clustering as a robust probe of cosmology in the coming decade.
16/05 - 11:00 am
Katelyn Stringer
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Katelyn Stringer
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Identifying RR Lyrae in the Dark Energy Survey (Texas A&M University)
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RR Lyrae variable stars (RRL) are powerful distance indicators which can be used to locate stellar structures within the Milky Way halo. The Dark Energy Survey (DES), with its large observing footprint and depth, presents a rich opportunity to discover these variables to distances near the edge of the Galactic halo. However, the small number of observations in the DES wide-field survey data (fewer than 20 multiband observations over the first three years) pose a challenge for the traditional RRL detection techniques. In this talk, I will describe the multiband template fitting method and machine learning classifier we developed to identify 5783 RRL candidates in the first three years of DES data. These methods will enable RRL detection in other sparse multiband data sets that are not optimized for time series analyses.
09/05 - 02:00 pm
Wesley Fraser
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Wesley Fraser
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Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (Queen\'s University Belfast)
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The orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt is dynamically excited, with most objects found on highly inclined and eccentric orbits. It is this orbital structure that has provided the main evidence for the early migrations of the gas-giant planets, and the violent dispersal of the outer proto-planetesimal disk. Many observational properties have been used as constraints on numerical efforts to uncover the details of the migratory history, including the detailed orbital distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), and the compositional classes KBOs which are known to correlate with the different orbital classes in which KBOs reside. This chemo-dynamical structure appears to be the result of the dynamical processes experienced by KBOs during the dispersal of the early disk, and the compositional heterogeneity of that disk. As a dynamical tracer however, the chemo-dynamical structure of the Kuiper Belt remains largely untapped. It was around this idea that the Col-OSSOS project was created. The Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey is a large program executing on the Gemini-North and CFHT telescopes aimed to gather high quality optical-NIR colours of ~100 KBOs, in a brightness complete sample, and has designed to overcome various weaknesses of colour surveys that came before it. Col-OSSOS has been running since 2014 and has resulted in many exciting findings to date. With some anecdote about working very closely with Gemini and the excellent work they have done, I will present some of the main results of the Col-OSSOS, including a discussion about what the observed colour distribution informs us of the chemical structure of the early disk. Our results have provided some critical context for a number of otherwise curious objects, including an asteroid found in the Kuiper Belt, Phoebe’s unusual surface, and some odd blue binary KBOs found where no blue objects should be. I will conclude with a cosmogonic history that draws all of these disparate pieces together.
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25/04 - 11:00 am
Bruno Castilho
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Bruno Castilho
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Desafios da infraestrutura e instrumentação astronômica no Brasil para a próxima década (LNA)
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Nas últimas duas décadas a astronomia optica e infravermelha do Brasil teve um grande crescimento, tanto em número de pessoas quanto em publicações e isto reflete no reconhecimento internacional de nossa comunidade. Este crescimento foi alavancado em boa parte pelo maior acesso a novos telescópios e instrumentação, seja no país seja por acordos internacionais. Em 2020 e 2021 vencem os atuais acordos do SOAR e do Gemini e fazem 10 anos do workshop promovido pelo LNA para avaliar a questão da infraestrutura observacional. Quais são os desafios científicos para a nova década e o que nossa comunidade precisa em termos de instrumentação para poder participar ativamente das respostas a estes desafios? Neste seminário não trazemos as respostas prontas a estas questões, mas sim levantamos a discussão e os pontos a serem discutidos para que toda a comunidade possa participar.
18/04 - 11:00 am
Paola Dimauro
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Paola Dimauro
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Is morphology telling us the truth about quenching? (Observatoire de Paris)
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Passive and star forming galaxies have different morphology and structure, suggesting a link between the star formation activity and the formation/growth of internal components. Despite the numerous efforts, the details of how galaxies form and evolve, and in particular the mechanisms responsible of the decreasing/cessation of the star formation and the morphological transformations are still not fully understood. In the talk I will present results we obtained combining the morphology and the star formation activities for galaxies in the CANDELS survey. We first studied structural properties of the four main morphological classes (bulge dominated systems, pure spiral disk dominated, intermediate 2-component and irregular disturbed galaxies) and how their fractions change at different epochs (Huertas-Company et al,2016) to then move forward and analyze in more details the galaxy structure exploring bulge and disk properties and how they correlate with the morphology or the star formation activities of the host galaxies (Dimauro et al, 2018, 2019).
11/04 - 11:00 am
Hao-Yi Wu
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Hao-Yi Wu
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Probing Cosmic Acceleration with Galaxy Clusters (The Ohio State University)
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The acceleration of the Universe is one of the biggest puzzles in physics: is it due to a cosmological constant, dynamical dark energy, or modification of gravity? Galaxy clusters provide a unique opportunity to answer this question. In this talk, I will first discuss how we use cluster abundances to constrain cosmic acceleration, and how weak gravitational lensing effects play a key role in constraining cluster mass. I will then present my research on using simulations to understand cluster weak lensing signals and to accurately model covariance matrices. These results not only mitigate the systematic errors in current cluster surveys but also help the optimization of future ground- and space-based missions.
04/04 - 11:00 am
Adriano Pieres
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Adriano Pieres
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Describing the thick disk and halo of the Galaxy as seen by the Dark Energy Survey (LineA)
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In this webinar I will talk about the results of the MWFitting pipeline applied to the stellar content of the DES-Y3 Gold internal release, in a paper about to be published. We fit the thick disk and halo of the Milky Way, simulating the Galaxy with a combination of TRILEGAL models. The stellar density of the thick disk is modeled with an exponential dependence in the radial and vertical directions, and the halo is described as an oblate model with the density of stars decreasing following a radial power law. The pipeline shows robust parameters for those components and the residuals from photometric comparisons attest the excellent job of the method. I detailed the methods applied in the pipeline, the implications of the results, also regarding the upcoming surveys and finally preliminary outcomes with other surveys.
28/03 - 11:00 am
Jennifer Marshall
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Jennifer Marshall
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The future of massively multiplexed spectroscopy: the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (Texas University)
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Numerous international astronomy reports have recently highlighted the need for fully dedicated, large aperture, massively multiplexed spectroscopy in the optical and near-Infrared wavelength regimes. Such a facility is the most obvious missing link in the emerging network of ground-based observational facilities world-wide. The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is a planned 11-m telescope facility designed to fill this scientific gap. MSE is completely dedicated to multi-object optical and near-Infrared spectroscopy of samples of between thousands and millions of astrophysical objects at a range of spectral resolutions. In this talk I will overview the wide-ranging scientific capabilities of the MSE project and review the current design status of this next generation observatory.
21/03 - 11:00 am
Michael Wood-Vasey
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Michael Wood-Vasey
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LSST and Data Facilities to Enable Science with Billions of Objects (University of Pittsburgh)
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will open new frontiers in large-scale data analysis in astronomy. In this talk I will discus the opportunities and current implementation of data access and analysis in the LSST Project and in the Dark Energy Science Collaboration. The LSST Science Platform is being built to enable the LSST community to explore the rich and large datasets from from LSST. While the LSP may not be fully operational until the beginning of the LSST Operations in late 2022, development and prototyping efforts are currently underway to understand both the technical scope and user interactions with this ambitious platform. In parallel to the LSST Project construction efforts, the wider LSST scientific community is preparing for LSST. In particular, the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) was formed to fully exploit the ability of LSST to determine the nature of dark energy. In advance of data from LSST, DESC is preparing a series of Data Challenges to develop and verify scientific and basic data processing pipelines. These data challenges are helping both DESC and the LSST Project explore and understand the opportunities and challenges of exploring terabyte-scale image datasets with catalogs with billions to trillions of entries.
14/03 - 11:00 am
Brian Yanny
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Brian Yanny
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The Balrog simulation for DES Years 1-3 (Fermilab)
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We present details of the Balrog object injection and (re)measurement code which is used by DES to determine completeness and biases in detection and measurement of faint stars and galaxies.
07/03 - 11:00 am
George Beckett
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George Beckett
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UK Ambitions for Astronomy in the LSST Era (University of Edinburgh)
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope promises to revolutionalise many aspects of optical astronomy, most notably dealing with the transient universe. UK-based astronomers have a particular opportunity, since the UK is part of several other significant facilities on a similar timescale--for example, Euclid, 4MOST, and SKA--yielding a possibility to secure leadership in a number of areas, including dark energy, solar system science, and transients. Recognising this, the UK community has formed a consortium with representation from every UK-based astronomy group, to encapsulate its ambitious plans for LSST and to secure funding for a substantial programme of R&D, in the lead up to the beginning of telescope operations in 2022. Through this consortium, LSST:UK has secured data rights for 100 Affiliate PIs (plus the associated 400 Junior Associates), and embarked on an 8-year research and development programme that will yield a UK-based LSST Data Access Centre, tailored to the specific requirements of priority UK astronomy goals. In this talk, I will share highlights from the UK programme to date, including an alert-handling service that is being trialled on the Zwicky Transient Facility, large-scale database ingest and query experiments, toward the 35 billion objects that LSST is predicted to observe, and a fledgling cloud-based deployment of an analysis platform that will be at the heart of the UK DAC. I will also preview the plans for the next phase of work, during 2019--2023, which are likely to involve closer international collaboration on provisioning of data and associated analysis services as well as the finalisation of plans for UK-led User-generated Products, as we transition from the construction to the commissioning phase of LSST.