Meetings | Post by kharidiron on June 3rd, 2007
Dissecting Supernova Remnants with Chandra
For the final SPS meeting of the year, we’re extremely fortunate to have Laura Lopez speak to us about supernovas and gamma-ray burst remnants. Ms. Lopez is a graduate student here in the UCSC Astronomy and Astrophysics department, and her current research focuses on…
“analyzing an archival Chandra ACIS observation of W49B, a barrel-shaped galactic supernova remnant (SNR) with infrared and X-ray morphology suggestive of a bipolar explosion”
…according to her website. And although I’m sure that many of the astrophysics majors reading this know full well what is meant by “bipolar explosion”, I’m having a *very* hard time refraining from making a bad joke about a manic depressive supernova.
And since this *is* the final SPS meeting of the year,
THERE WILL BE PIZZA.
Correct. Not just coffee, tea, soda, and snack-type stuff, but pizza. Think of it as the last completely stress-free moment you’ll have before finals. Spend it with friends, classmates, colleagues, supernovas, and pizza.
Pizza!
And a BBC article about a newly-discovered brown dwarf is here:
–James