Tag: astronomy

• 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…

• 2022 DSSG Teams Present Their Final Project Results

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell Student fellows at the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program presented the results of their 10-week summer projects on August 17th. The fellows conducted their work on four interdisciplinary teams, working with project leads and data scientists.  The DSSG program at the eScience Institute brings together students from universities around the country with data…

• Satellite Streaks in Astronomical Images

  

  Project leads: Dino Bektešević, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy; and Meredith Rawls, Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, and Data-intensive Research And Cosmology (DiRAC) Fellow, University of Washington Data scientist: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Abhilash Biswas, Kilando Chambers, Ashley Santos Participant bios available here. Project Summary: We are on the cusp of fundamentally altering the night sky, which has been a source…

• Interdisciplinary Team Creates Tool to Detect and Quantify Satellite Streaks

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell  The recent growth of low-Earth-orbit satellites is posing a threat to a range of groups who rely on the sky for science, spirituality and tradition, by leaving a plethora of bright streaks across the night sky. A project team at the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is…

• Pioneering New Platforms to Harness Astrophysical Data

  

  This week the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University announced a multiyear collaboration effort to create new software platforms to analyze large astronomical datasets generated by the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The open-source platforms are part of the new LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing — known as LINCC…