Fong Group at Northwestern retweeted
CIERA scientists have precisely traced one of the brightest fast radio bursts (FRBs) ever — “Root Beer FLOAT” to a spiral arm just 130M light-years away, accurate within 42 light-years! A huge leap in solving the FRB mystery. 🌌✨ #Astronomy #CHIME
🔗 bit.ly/4lI9Fbx
Fong Group at Northwestern retweeted
See that blue dot? That's the fast X-ray transient (FXT) EP 250108a—and the supernova that followed it 🔭
Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers found that FXTs can result from the "failed" explosive death of a massive star: spr.ly/60134QPCd
ALT This image shows the cosmic field in which the fast X-ray transient EP 250108a, and the supernova that followed it (blue dot), were detected by Einstein Probe (EP) in early 2025. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
In two works led by @NASA Einstein Fellow Tarraneh Eftekhari (@NUCIERA) and McGill PhD student Vishwangi Shah @astroVishwangi repeating FRB 20240209A is in the outer regions of a quiescent, massive galaxy, confusing if FRBs arise from young magnetars! news.northwestern.edu/storie…
Possibilities for its origin include dynamical formation in a (currently unseen) globular cluster, or the mergers of compact objects that could explain long delay times. mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/…
Happy holidays from the Fong Group & friends! 🎁
(📸 credit: @jillian_rast)
Woo! 🔭
We are pleased to welcome @NorthwesternU as the 9th American institution to invest in the Giant Magellan Telescope. With institutions from the US, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea, and Taiwan, they join one of the largest public-private partnerships in science advancing construction of one of the world’s most powerful observatories. giantmagellan.org/2024/12/13…
We were so proud to celebrate graduate student Jillian Rastinejad (@jillian_rast) at her official induction as a @NorthwesternU Presidential Fellow. Her research on origins of r-process clearly resonates across disciplines, and we are thankful to witness it! 📸: B. Robinson
🚨Paper Alert🚨
Recently graduated Dr. Anya Nugent questions the role of neutron star mergers in the Universe’s heavy r-process element enrichment in her new paper arxiv.org/abs/2410.00095v1. Fun collaboration with @alexanderpji! Check out the 🧵 for more details!
Anya + team also show that if a host has little to no ongoing star-formation, a neutron star merger will not be able to enhance the r-process stellar abundances: meaning an event like GW170817 (our prime r-process example!) was not able to enrich its old, massive host.
Fong Group at Northwestern retweeted
We are excited to share that @NUPhysicsAstro is recruiting for an Associate or Full Professor in Astrophysics who will become an active member of CIERA. Learn more about the position, our community, and institutional resources: ciera.northwestern.edu/oppor…
We are looking to grow our group by two postdocs next year! If interested in time-domain and/or multi-messenger astronomy, please see our ad for more! Deadline Dec 20: aas.org/jobregister/ad/60f59… 🔭
Wen-fai Fong visited @StewardAstro at @uarizona in Tucson this week to accept the 2024 Marc Aaronson Prize. Aaronson was a pioneer in an astonishing number of topics, from elliptical galaxies to globular clusters to the age of the Universe.
The Marc Aaronson Prize was created by his family and colleagues, turning tragedy into light and opportunity. We honor his memory by reading his papers in an attempt to get to know the scientist he was, and continuing to talk about his work. 💙
We thank @StewardAstro for the unforgettable visit to honor Marc Aaronson, and the opportunity to talk about Fast Radio Bursts and the origins of heavy elements!
