Category: Astronomy

• OVRO-LWA Platform: Driving Accessibility 

  

  Partners: Casey Law, Nikita Kosogorov, Tanazza Khanam, Tom Morrell  SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core, Don Setiawan,  Ishika Johari  Research Goals and Domain The Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) is a low-frequency (15–85 MHz) all-sky radio telescope designed to detect and study phenomena such as auroral emissions from exoplanets, gravitational wave counterparts, cosmic-ray air showers, and the 21-cm signal from…

• Caustics: Simulating Gravitational Lensing

  

  Partners: Yashar Hezaveh, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, and Connor Stone SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan Research Goals and Domain Gravitational lensing occurs when a large mass (e.g. a galaxy) lies between an observer (Earth) and a light source (another galaxy). These chance alignments magnify and multiply the image and background source in a variety of…