The Chandra X-Ray Center is excited to announce the next Chandra/CIAO workshop to be held at UMass Lowell, 19-23 May, 2025. For more details and to register go to https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/workshop/may25/index.html
#Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics #Harvard & #Smithsonian working with the #Chandra #Xray Observatory. Born in #Perugia and traveled around the world. Mother of 3 fantastic children. She/her.
The Chandra X-Ray Center is excited to announce the next Chandra/CIAO workshop to be held at UMass Lowell, 19-23 May, 2025. For more details and to register go to https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/workshop/may25/index.html
CIAO 4.16 should now be available at your friendly neighbourhood https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/
Our summer workshop is underway! #HRXS23, discussing High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy, has brought researchers -- from students to distinguished experts -- to Cambridge to discuss the past, present, and future of high-res spectra with Chandra, as well as our friends at XMM, XRISM, and missions yet to come!
#Astrodon #ChandraXray #Astronomy #Astrophysics #AstroConference #XraysAreTheBestRays #CambridgeMA
Chandra Cycle 25 Peer Review Results Released!
Lists of targets, archive proposals, and theory proposals recommended by the Cycle 25 Peer Review are now posted at:
https://cxc.harvard.edu/target_lists/cycle25/index.html
Congratulations to all successful proposers, and thank you to everyone involved in the peer review process!
#Astrodon #Astronomy #ChandraXRay
It's Throwback Monday at #APSApril: Last year Chad Kishimoto and his students came by our booth, and this year the tradition continued! We're looking forward to seeing University of San Diego students again next year at the APS April Meeting!
What the "H" is this?
Scientists using the #Chandra X-Ray Observatory have found an "H"-shaped structure in the multimillion-degree gas around Messier 84. The researchers mapped the hot gas to within 100 light years from the galaxy's central supermassive black hole with #ChandraXRay and compared that to #VLA radio images of the black holes jets to better understand how black holes feed from and impact their surroundings. #Astronomy #Astrodon
Learn more: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/m84/
Hello #AAS242 -- join us at 9:30 in the Exhibitor Theater (the left side of the exhibit hall when you walk in from the lobby) for a presentation by Ian Evans on the #Chandra Source Catalog. The CSC and its upcoming 2.1 release unlock the 24-year legacy of our mission to enable everyone -- even people who have never looked at an X-ray photon before -- to be an X-ray expert. #Astrodon #Astronomy
This weekend we celebrated our 24th Birthday! Since our launch on the Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999 (Eileen Collins commanding) we have been exploring the cosmos and bringing the high energy Universe into focus. Here's to 24 more years!
#Astrodon #Astronomy #ChandraXRay #NASA #Science #XRaysAreTheBestRays #SpaceShuttle #Astrophysics
Hello APS April! We're excited to have a presence at the meeting. If you're in Minneapolis, come by and learn about the observatory and our mission and collect some swag -- or, like these Drake University students, get your photo with Chandra! #APSApril #XRaysAreTheBestRays
We now turn to Francesca Civano, here to talk about a complete census of AGN across Cosmic Time. Part of the problem is that there should be a lot of obscured AGN. #HEAD20
Hello to everyone at @AAS_HEAD #HEAD20! The Chandra X-Ray Center is happy to have a booth, and we hope you swing by to say hi, pick up some swag, and ask whatever questions you have -- from how to get started with Chandra data to the nuances of your most complex analyses! #Astrodon #ChandraXRay
Hey everyone! The @ChandraScience Call for Proposals has officially released!
https://cxc.harvard.edu/proposer/
If you're on team #XRaysAreTheBestRays -- or if you want to be -- it's time to start thinking about March. Those of us at the CXC -- including the director's office, the instrument teams, and the data & software teams -- have been hard at work to give you all the tools you need. But there are some changes this year that I want to note, as they're kind of important! #Astrodon #Chandra #Astronomy
And I forgot to add that @planet4589 is my boss (how does he already have 5.1K followers?!) and my favorite #chocolate are #Baci Perugina (but maybe you guessed that from the picture). Yes I am from #Perugia ❤️
And posting https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/opportunities/sao-employment-opportunities/posting-23-31 is for a job with me. Available for any questions! (but read the job posting first 😉 )
To start us off here, we'd like to talk about jobs. The Chandra X-ray Center is #hiring at all career stages, including scientists, operations support, and software development. Current positions can be found here: https://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/cxc_opportunities.html, which we update regularly as jobs become available. Both the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research are equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in our workplaces.
@fionaerskine yeah but a nice useful medical doctor in the family? Or an artist? Or an English major? 😂
Wow my laptop has been beeping non-stop since my #introduction. Nice! Thank you! 😊
Never did my #introduction. Here! I am an #astrophysicist working for @ChandraScience since #Chandra was called AXAF. I am part of the Director's Office and the group who develops CIAO (by the way I invented the name 😁) I am from 🇮🇹 but also lived in 🇫🇷 and now the 🇺🇸 . I like to travel, I like beaches and mountains. I like to #swim where the water is warm and I like to #ski in the winter. Fun fact: all the 5 members of our family studied - or are studying - #Physics and #Astronomy! Boring no?