Growth - Global Relay Of Observatories Watching Transients Happen

For those who work on machine learning in astronomy or computational astronomy, this may be interesting...

INSAIT стартира нова лятна програма отворена за студенти, които в момента учат за бакалавър или магистър, от България и чужбина. Създадена по модел на подобни програми в най-елитните технически университети в света като Caltech, MIT и ETH Zurich, избраните кандидати ще работят заедно с изследователи от INSAIT по проекти в сферата на информатиката и изкуствения интелект. Програмата е с продължителност 8-10 седмици и предоставя месечна стипендия в размер на 1500 EUR. Приемаме кандидатури до края на януари. Научете повече на http://insait.ai/surf

Our INSAIT undergraduate summer research fellowship program is now open for applications. Motivated undergraduate students from around the world are welcome to apply. Modelled after similar programs at ETH Zurich, MIT and Caltech, selected students will conduct research at the frontier of computer science & AI under the supervision of world class advisors from INSAIT. A monthly stipend of 1500EUR & travel funding is also included. Learn more at http://insait.ai/surf

Cold desert, warm stars: Inside Indian Astronomical Observatory Scientists have found an opening in the sky and India’s highest telescope is poised to bring the Milky Way to Earth.

Astronomy Researchers Celebrate Mentors On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, three Caltech researchers share who has inspired them along their personal and professional journey.

Jobs, jobs, jobs in astronomy! From France and Stockholm to Illinois and California. There are so many new academic and research positions opened at the international partners of the Zwicky Transient Facility.
View all currently open positions at https://www.ztf.caltech.edu/page/ztf-job-opportunities

Check out the latest science vlog from the Zwicky Transient Facility (www.ztf.caltech.edu). In this short video, Yuhan Yao (PhD at Caltech) presents the discovery and milti-wavelength analysis of t black hole binary!
https://youtu.be/9iNxfnmpkRE

Discovery of a stellar mass black hole candidate with the ZTF wide-field optical survey In this edition of our ZTF science vlog, PhD student at Caltech, Yuhan Yao shares a multi-wavelength analysis of AT2019wey, a candidate black hole binary. U...

We're advertising nine postdoctoral positions at the OKC right now!

http://www.okc.albanova.se/about-us/news/nine-postdoctoral-positions-at-the-oskar-klein-centre-stockholm-1.577911

CO Meeting Organizer EPSC2021 The discovery, characterisation, and monitoring of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are critical for understanding and potentially mitigating the long-term threats to our civilisation from Potential Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). Current survey telescopes have a sensitivity of around 20–21 magnitude, which ...

Asteroid studies with the GROWTH-India telescope GROWTH India Telescope observations of asteroid 2020 UA1 and the episodically active object Gault.https://sites.google.com/view/growthindia/results/asteroids

The deadline to apply for the ZTF summer school (Aug 16-20 | virtual) just got extended to June 15! All graduate students interested to receive training in cutting-edge data science techniques for processing of data from transient surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility, are encouraged to apply.
Lear more at https://www.ztf.caltech.edu/page/ztf-summer-school-2021

Our principal investigator continues to think big and bold....

Small Telescopes, Big Science A quest to open up the dynamic, infrared sky begins.

Our community uses discovery engines (wide-field time-domain surveys) such as the Zwicky Transient Facility for transient alerts that we then follow up and study. The Zwicky Transient Facility has just published the first in a series of newsletters for the time-domain astronomy community. Check out and sign up for Cosmic Newsflash - the bi-monthly newsletter of ZTF.
https://preview.mailerlite.com/v8r1p0/1662554829769153036/w9k2/ (email version)
http://sites.astro.caltech.edu/ztf-newsletter/index.html (web version).
Sign up at http://sites.astro.caltech.edu/ztf-newsletter/ztf-newsletter-signup.html

Looking for a Ph.D. position in time-domain astronomy? Our partners at the Liverpool John Moores University are looking for a curious young to join the New Robotic Telescope team and study cosmic explosions, neutron star collisions, and other exotic transients. For details see https://www.robotictelescope.org/nrt-phd-scheduling
Deadline: April 9

Simply awesome.. Nothing is more exciting than exploring the universe! Congrats to everyone who has worked hard to make this mission a success!

Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet NASA's latest mission to Mars has successfully landed on the Red Planet.

in collaboration with IISER Pune Science Media Centre, IISER Pune is thrilled to announce the Gravitational Wave Science Communicator’s Programme (GWSCP) which will take place online from 25th Jan to 14 Feb 2021.

The is a unique initiative for students and educators interested in (GW) and . Shortlisted candidates will be provided with the necessary training in science communication and soft skills by experts. The programme will also provide the winners, possibility to collaborate and work with the team closely to communicate .

**This programme is open for UG-PG students, college teachers and educators from India having a science background.**

-> Programme highlights:
a) Exciting opportunity to Learn GW Science from GW Scholars and GW Scientists.
b) Recognition from LIGO-India as a "GW Science Communicator" (Valid for 1 year only).
c) Possibility for the students to collaborate with the LIEPO team.
d) One-of-a-kind opportunity for selected teachers to get recommended by LIEPO team for the LIGO IPA programme - International Physics & Astronomy Educator Programme - LIGO Hanford. (Link: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA/page/lho-ipa-pd)

******UG-PG Students and college teachers having physics/science background are highly encouraged to apply immediately!*****

-> Application Link: tiny.cc/GWSCP
-> Last date of Application: 18th Jan 2021
-> Limited Seats!

For more details visit: https://www.ligo-india.in/gwscp/

LIGO Scientific Collaboration LIGO Hanford Observatory LIGO - Livingston

Hey everyone, here are the details of Day 3 of the Astrophysics workshop in collaboration with Techfest, IIT Bombay. You can find the details and registration link in our earlier post here: https://www.facebook.com/138574169549160/posts/4728327093907155/?d=n. Please note, there is no capacity to register for only one day; if you are interested, you must register for the enitire 3 day event.

LECTURE: Prof. Mansi Kasliwal, of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), who is also the Principle Investigator for the GROWTH Collaboration, will talk about the Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves, and studying them in the very famous GW170817- the very first observation of Gravitational Waves from an inspiral neutron star inspiral.

WORKSHOP: Harsh Kumar and Gaurav Waratkar, Ph.D students at IIT Bombay, will start by talking about optical astronomy, and related instrumentations including Charged Coupled Devices (CCDs), telescopes, and the relevant data formats like FITS files. You will then be shown how to reduce raw images, and how bias, flats, dark images work. The session will be concluded with point spread function and aperture photometry.

The universe is dusty..but where does all this dust come from... GROWTH principal investigator is part of a team that will use the James Webb Space Telescope to tackle the question.
Read more at https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-57

The Cosmic Dust in Your Bones Dust may seem insignificant, but it plays a huge role in the universe, from the formation of stars and planets to facilitating the complex chemistry that becomes the stuff of life—including us. Big questions like “How did we get here?” come down to dust, and yet the origin and formation proces...

While we deal with some serious challenges here on Earth (covid19 pandemic), some great news coming from space
https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/17/spacex-dragon-capsule-astronauts-crew-docks-with-the-international-space-station-nasa

SpaceX Dragon capsule docks with the International Space Station Three Americans and one Japanese astronaut on Nasa mission will remain at orbiting lab until their replacements arrive in April

Our Indian partners looking into the future with a newly proposed mission called Daksha...

Daksha: Finding High Energy Emissions from Gravitational Wave sources What happens when two neutron stars collide? Are these really the sources of most of the gold, platinum, and other heavy elements in the universe? After deca...

Here's the first image of Gault coming from Mount Laguna Observatory (credit Josiah Purdum observing as we post this)

We are chasing an asteroid!!! Four of our observatories have created a relay to observe a weird asteroid in the next 24 hours continuously. Right now, we're observing with Caltech's Palomar Observatory and San Diego State University's Mount Laguna Observatory. Later, 國立中央大學 National Central University - NCU's Lulin Observatory and IIT Bombay's GROWTH-India telescope will take over.
Stand by as we'll post some images soon.

Our GROWTH Co-investigator Bhalerao is one of the speakers

Digging the grave: In search of the remains of merging black holes and neutron stars Snapshot of simulation showing two black holes colliding with each other. [Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons]Astronomers detect gravitational waves from the merging of neutron stars and black holes, but no electromagnetic waves.A century back, Albert Einstein proposed the general theory of relativity...

Searching for light from the yet-unseen collision of a neutron star and a black hole is what keeps many astronomers awake at night. GROWTH and ZTF - two large international collaborations, led by Caltech have published their latest findings in a paper published today in Nature Astronomy. Learn more at http://growth.caltech.edu/news-ligo-03-nsbh-search-growth-zft.html

Caltech | GROWTH News This image depicts a neutron star in the process of colliding with a black hole. Image credit: Francois Foucart, University of New Hampshire

Exciting, exciting.....
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54066586?fbclid=IwAR3njwTlqQYQPeiljQo3dwYMMii-xZ-tQXM5eX6-uUVOm5bCvZ5AT28MLHQ

Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli The camera detector for the Vera Rubin Observatory takes its first test images in the laboratory.

As usual, we are making the resources from our GROWTH astronomy school freely available to anyone. The material consists of recorded lectures and Python notebooks focusing on data analysis of astronomical transients at different wavelengths. Visit our website at http://growth.caltech.edu/growth-school-2020.html and start playing around.

The third observing run of LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo proved "quiet" for astronomers. What does that mean for the future of multi-messenger astronomy? Read this comment in Nature Reviews Physics by our GROWTH principal investigator and assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech Mansi Kasliwal
https://rdcu.be/b6Gsk

The future is now Mansi M. Kasliwal discusses the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaboration and shares her enthusiasm about the future of multi-messenger astrophysics.