Outreach Coordinator LIGO Hanford, CERN HST participant, ASTA 2015 HS Sci Teacher of the year, passionate about modernizing physics curriculum (she/her)
Richland, WA
Joined March 2014
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Amber Strunk retweeted
On A Thurs Morning (right about now) 6-Yrs Ago Teams Of Astronomers Around The World Were On A Search.
Earlier on 8/17/17 (5:41am PT), #GravitationalWaves were recorded by @LIGO & @ego_virgo and 1.7 secs later gamma rays were detected by @NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope!! – at Washington, USA
Amber Strunk retweeted
#OTD in 2017, the @LIGO + Virgo collaboration detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.
Just 3 days later, it viewed for the first time colliding neutron stars in both gravitational waves and light.
bit.ly/3sg5XQ1
📷: @NSF/LIGO/@SSU_1961/A. Simonnet
ALT An artist's illustration of a collision of neutron stars depicted as two round cosmic objects merging in double whirls of yellow and blue gas and dust.
Amber Strunk retweeted
For those who would like to pay their respects to Ron, his family are collecting donations to bring him home from Illinois, where he worked at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to be laid to rest in his beloved mountains of Northern Arizona
gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-…
Amber Strunk retweeted
We are sad to share news of the passing of Dr. Rhondale (Ron) Tso. Ron was a valued member of our collaboration. You may learn more about him from this interview from his grad school days
humansofligo.blogspot.com/20…
Our thoughts are with Ron's family and friends
ALT Ron standing next to a Mars rover (not on Mars)
Come work with me!
Want To Join The @LIGO Team?
@LIGOWA has an opening for a Science Educator.
Apply and find out more at the link below.
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LINK: phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/…
#LIGO #GravitationalWaves #Science #Astronomy
Amber Strunk retweeted
"Suddenly I realised that I could follow my interests in astrophysics even without knowing where it would lead me as a career, and I haven't looked back since!"
Find out more about Leigh at #HumansOfLIGO:
humansofligo.blogspot.com/20…
ALT Leigh sitting at the top of a mountain eating a picnic, surrounded my panoramic views. She has light skin and straight blonde hair past her shoulders, and is wearing a white t-shirt and black leggings
Amber Strunk retweeted
🔔IceCube results to be published in @ScienceMagazine tomorrow!
For the first time, IceCube found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from our galaxy ➡️ bit.ly/3JBfqYa
📸: IceCube/NSF (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier)
#OurGalaxyInNeutrinos
Amber Strunk retweeted
The detection of neutrino emission from the Milky Way at the @NSF-supported IceCube represents the 3rd source of high-energy neutrinos. More sensitive analyses, coupled with the implementation of machine learning methods, were key in the breakthrough.
ALT A multimessenger view of the Milky Way
Amber Strunk retweeted
LIGO Hanford staff joined together this morning to listen to the exciting discussion of @NANOGrav year data set. Congratulations to the entire @IPTA_GW on these amazing results. #gravitationalwaves
Amber Strunk retweeted
Exciting news! An analysis of NANOGrav’s 15-year data shows evidence for the existence of low-frequency gravitational waves. Teams in Australia, China, Europe, and India have also independently reported their results today. @EPTAGW @InPTA_GW @ARC_OzGRav @CSIRO_ATNF
Amber Strunk retweeted
Join us now!!
nanograv.org/news/2023Announ…
Rumors of an upcoming announcement from @NANOGrav have not been grossly exaggerated. I can’t wait to share more with you on June 29th! More details about the event will be shared soon, for now, mark your calendars!
Amber Strunk retweeted
We see early signs of a Gravitational Wave background in our combined dataset with @EPTAGW.
These results corroborate with those from @NANOGrav and PPTA @CSIRO_ATNF @ARC_OzGRav
Read along in this thread to know this discovery was made and it's consequences!
Amber Strunk retweeted
We are founding members of the International Pulsar Timing Array (@IPTA_GW, ipta4gw.org), a consortium of consortia, in which we collaborate to cross-check our results and make plans for future improvemens of our work.
Amber Strunk retweeted
@EPTAGW, an international collaboration of European astronomers, together with Indian and Japanese colleagues from the Indian Pulsar Timing Array @InPTA_GW, have published the results of more than 25
years of observations from six of the World's most sensitive radio telescopes.
Amber Strunk retweeted
If you like this hum, you’ll love the discussion of our 15 year results tomorrow at 1pm EDT from NSF headquarters. nanograv.org/news/2023Announ…
Amber Strunk retweeted
Exciting news released by our colleagues @NANOGrav, @EPTAGW, @InPTA_GW, @CSIRO_ATNF and Chinese Pulsar Timing Array today. Congratulations on opening up the nanohertz frequency band of #gravitationalwave astronomy!!
Amber Strunk retweeted
The IPTA is truly an international collaboration with radio telescopes located across the globe. This graphic made by @HannahThankful breaks it down by collaboration. 📡🌍
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Amber Strunk retweeted
Great thread with literature references for those interested
I am excited for the upcoming news from pulsar timing arrays on their search for #GravitationalWaves. Results from @IPTA_GW teams will be shared at 0:00 UTC. I don't know what these will be. However… 1/🧵
Amber Strunk retweeted
Operated by @Caltech & @MIT, NSF's @LIGO which found the 1st evidence of gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space-time – is launching a new observing run with even better instruments.
What new marvels will they find next? bit.ly/43DHuBJ
📷 SXS
ALT An illustration of two black holes about to merge, surrounded by swirling, colorful waves of energy. Credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration