Antonella Fruscione

#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.

Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2025-03-27

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 cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/works

Flyer for the "Chandra/CIAO Workshop at UMass Lowell" titled A Journey Into X-ray Astronomy and Data Science, taking place May 19–23, 2025. Hosted by the Chandra X-ray Center and UMass Lowell, the workshop is designed for undergraduates, graduate students, and early-career scientists in STEM. Highlights include hands-on training in spectral and spatial X-ray analysis, source detection, Sherpa modeling, CIAO in Python, SAOImageDS9, the Chandra Source Catalog, and AI/ML for astrophysics.

Registration is free and open until April 25, 2025, with priority for UMass Lowell students. Space is limited to 30 participants. Notifications will go out by April 30, 2025. Students must attend in person and will be housed in campus dorms, with accommodations and meals likely covered. Travel funding may be available.

The flyer includes contact info, a registration link, and logos for Chandra X-ray Center, UMass Lowell, CIAO, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Background features space imagery with the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
Doug Burkedburke
2023-12-12

CIAO 4.16 should now be available at your friendly neighbourhood cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/

Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-08-04

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

A woman standing at a podium, speaking to a lecture hall full of attendees. The view is from stage right, looking outward.A large group of people mingling in a large room; they have name badges and are milling around a table with food.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-08-04

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:

cxc.harvard.edu/target_lists/c

Congratulations to all successful proposers, and thank you to everyone involved in the peer review process!
#Astrodon #Astronomy #ChandraXRay

Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-07-27

APS Physics is not (yet) on the Fediverse, but they nevertheless supplied this excellent shot of two of our scientists talking to an attendee at #APSApril. There's still two days of meeting left to come visit our booth! #APS

A woman talking to a man and a woman, separated by a small table with a black table cloth marked "Chandra X-Ray Observatory." In the background is a gorgeous picture of the Cosmos and an artist's impression of the Observatory itself.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-07-27

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!

Seven people standing in front of a large panel reading "Chandra X-Ray Observatory." One holds a model of the spacecraft.Six people standing in front of a large panel reading "Chandra X-Ray Observatory."
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-07-27

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: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023

Image of  a galaxy in the X-rays and radio. Pink gas (X-rays) form a structure like the shape of the upper-case letter H, with a bright central blob. Filling the holes of that H is blue emission, seen in radio.Four panel figure showing four views of the system. The top left is the same image as the previous image, but with figures labeled. The top right is an optical image of an elliptical galaxy, labeled M84. It is yellow, peaks in the center, oval, and otherwise featureless. The bottom left is a zoom-in on the center of the X-ray image; it is mostly diffuse globs of pink, with a bright central region labeled "Supermassive Black Hole." The bottom-right image is the radio data in blue: there is a central source, and two extensions -- one up, one down -- that disperse outward. The central source is the supermassive black hole and the extensions are the jets.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-07-27

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

A man standing at a podium on a dais. To his right is a TV showing a Title Slide with the title "Chandra Source Catalog."A man standing at a podium on a dais. To his right is a TV showing a distribution of sources observed by Chandra.A man standing at a podium on a dais. To his right is a TV showing a plot of how the Chandra PSF increases with off-axis angleA man standing at a podium on a dais. To his right is a TV showing a summary of his talk.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-07-27

Our #AAS242 booth is now packed up and ready for the trip home, but we wanted to thank everyone who stopped by; whether you were learning about us for the first time or are a long-time user, it was lovely to meet with and chat with you all. We will see everyone again in New Orleans for #AAS243!

A hand holding a button depicting eight people standing in front of a backdrop labeled "Chandra X-ray Observatory." In the defocused background, people walk around an emptying exhibit hall, where booths have already been disassembled.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-07-27

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

The open payload bay of the Space Shuttle, with the Earth underneath. A large, shiny, cylindrical object is stored inside the bay.The open payload bay of the Space Shuttle, with the Earth overhead. A large, shiny, cylindrical object is being lifted out of the bay at an angle.A rocket seen at some distance, with the blackness of space behind. It is a bright white with gold thruster stage, and on the back is a gray, cylindrical object, even larger in size.Eileen M. Collins in Space. She has short hair that floats freely in microgravity and wears a green sweatshirt. She is smiling as she looks at the camera, but in front of her are technical documents she was reading.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-04-16

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

A booth at a conference; it has a table, covered in a black table cloth marked "Chandra X-Ray Observatory" covered with handouts; behind it are two small pop-up images. To the left is a larger display, showing a large artist's impression of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a spacecraft with solar panels extended.Four people, with happy expressions on their faces, wearing lanyards with name tags over professional apparel, standing in front of a large display with an artist's impression of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-03-27

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

Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-03-27

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

Two tables, one draped in red and the other in black, both covered in promotional materials and labeled Chandra X-Ray Center / Observatory. Behind the red table are two smiling people looking at the camera; behind them are colorful banners for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-02-02

Hey everyone! The @ChandraScience Call for Proposals has officially released!
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

The Chandra X-ray Center logo: a stylized representation of the Chandra spacecraft formed to shape an "X" (for X-ray Astronomy) is in the center of the image. Around it are four concentric circles in the background represent the four shells of the Chandra mirror. At the bottom of the image is a representation of the detector grids in the Chandra science instruments.
Antonella Fruscioneafruscione@astrodon.social
2023-01-18

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 ❤️

Antonella Fruscioneafruscione@astrodon.social
2023-01-18

And posting pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/opportuni is for a job with me. Available for any questions! (but read the job posting first 😉 )

Antonella Fruscione boosted:
2023-01-18

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: cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/cxc_opport, 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.

Listing of six currently available positions in four categories: Scientific Staff, Postdoctoral Researchers, Developers, and Technical Assistants.
Antonella Fruscioneafruscione@astrodon.social
2023-01-18

@fionaerskine yeah but a nice useful medical doctor in the family? Or an artist? Or an English major? 😂

Antonella Fruscioneafruscione@astrodon.social
2023-01-18

Wow my laptop has been beeping non-stop since my #introduction. Nice! Thank you! 😊

Antonella Fruscioneafruscione@astrodon.social
2023-01-18

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?

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