A @NSF-funded Physics Frontiers Center using pulsars to search for low-frequency gravitational waves! They/Them/Theirs

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NANOGrav PFC retweeted
The six week course starts on Feb. 15th at 7:00 PM EST. All meetings via Zoom. Share with your friends and family! We would love to have you be a part of the collaboratory! For more info: pulsars.nanograv.org @NANOGrav
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NANOGrav PFC retweeted
Want to join the Pulsar Science Collaboratory? Now is your chance! We will be hosting a intro meeting on Feb. 8 at 7:00 PM EST. All who are interested are welcome to join us and ask questions.
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Stephen Taylor explaining the joy of finding gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries with the Hellings and Downs curve. #TexasInShanghai
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In today’s colloquium @VanderbiltU’s Stephen Taylor will take us on a journey with @NANOGrav, the international collaboration monitoring networks of pulsars across the Milky Way.
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Doing the "Lorimer Burst" with my Fellow @ShawPrize winners @DuncanLorimer and @pulsargirl in Hong Kong.
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We are pleased to announce that Joe Simon is our NANOGrav Hero for the month of November!
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Congratulations to Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin, who are two of only seven recipients of the 2023 Shaw Prize! Lorimer and McLaughlin, who are also credited with helping discover fast radio bursts, worked heavily with GBO over the years. wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/202…
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#AAS243 The Society's FAMOUS Travel Grants program helps members from historically underrepresented groups attend AAS meetings. Grant requests for the New Orleans meeting (7-11 January 2024) are due by 20 November. #ExploreAstronomy #AASNOLA aas.org/grants-and-prizes/fa…
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On my way home from an amazing trip to Hong Kong. More pictures to follow!
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NANOGrav PFC retweeted
From @Sumeet_kul and @jessie_thwaites: From PTAs to ground-based gravitational wave interfermeters, many exciting discoveries have been made in the field of gravitational wave astronomy. Today we have an overview of it for you in this guide! astrobites.org/2023/11/08/gu…
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Thank you so much to ⁦@micvallis⁩ ⁦@NASAJPL⁩ for the wonderful talk on ⁦@NANOGrav⁩ gravitational wave results in the nHz regime! Such a pleasure and honour to host you ⁦⁦@GRAPPAinstitute⁩ , also so grateful to you for being such a …
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Join the Search for Pulsars: Help Einstein@Home scientists to identify these amazing cosmic lighthouses! | Zooniverse zooniverse.org/projects/rsen…
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Want to help find new pulsars? Check out @EinsteinAtHome for more info!
We've just launched a new @the_zooniverse project called “Pulsar Seekers” to help classify radio pulsar candidates. Please, use your eyes and your intellect to help us to find new pulsars: ℹ️ einsteinathome.org/content/n…“pulsar-seekers” ➡️ zooniverse.org/projects/rsen… #CitizenScience
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We're thrilled to announce that Joseph D. Romano from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is now an APS Fellow! His work in detecting and characterizing stochastic gravitational wave signals has earned him this prestigious recognition. Congrats Joe!
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#AAS243 The AAS is delighted to honor Dr. Stephen Taylor & the NANOGrav Collaboration with the January 2024 Fred Kavli Plenary Lectureship. aas.org/press/aas-names-step…
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Save the date! 📅 Dr. Stephen Taylor from NANOGrav will headline the 243rd AAS Meeting in New Orleans on Jan 8, 2024, with the prestigious Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture. 🌌 aas.org/press/aas-names-step…
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Preparing my @NANOGrav talk in the Münster Planetarium next month!
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Still have questions about gravitational waves? Check out this excellent new video that explains what they are and the different methods for detecting them (including our own!): youtube.com/watch?v=vHukD3oa…
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Scott Ransom doing his best Socrates impression during a Q&A at Texas Tech yesterday (photo credit Ben Owen):
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