Author: angabela

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) will investigate celestial X-ray objects in the Universe with high-throughput imaging and high-resolution spectroscopy. XRISM was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8:42 a.m on September 7, 2023 JST in Japan (23:42 on September 6, 2023 UT).

The XRISM launch date is now Sunday, August 27 at 9:30 JST (Saturday, August 26 at 20:30 EDT). You can watch the XRISM+SLIM launch in English here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTTJ20iRbs

LIFTING THE VEIL Alien planets are shrouded in hazes that hide clues to their makeup. Lab experiments could help clear the view

Five new hot-Jupiter transits investigated with Swift-UVOT Lia Corrales, Sasikrishna Ravi, George W. King, Erin May, Emily Rauscher, Mark Reynolds

Women of Color (WoC) – particularly Black, indigenous, and Latinx minorities – are the most underrepresented demographic from high paying industries, including software engineering.

X-ray imaging and spectroscopy can provide a powerful tool for measuring the large end of the dust grain size distribution — important for interpretting infrared extinction as well as understanding grain growth in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). In addition, X-ray photoelectric absorption edges observed in high resolution spectra of Galactic X-ray binaries directly reveal…

The X-ray energy band is sensitive to absorption by all abundant metals in the interstellar medium (ISM) — carbon, oxygen, neon, silicon, magnesium, and iron — whether they are in gas or dust form. Photoelectric edges seen in high resolution X-ray spectra of Galactic X-ray point sources allow us to measure absolute abundances of gas…

With accurate cross-sections and higher signal-to-noise, X-ray spectroscopy can directly measure Milky Way gas and dust-phase metal abundances with few underlying assumptions. The X-ray energy band is sensitive to absorption by all abundant interstellar metals — carbon, oxygen, neon, silicon, magnesium, and iron — whether they are in gas or dust form. High resolution X-ray…

We posted a statement, On the US Presidential Election, on the CSMA blog: Astronomy in Color.  An except is below.     “The undersigned express our solidarity with the people in the astronomy community who are directly and negatively affected by the outcome of this election. We are keeping you in our thoughts, we are feeling your…