Tag: astronomy
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Caustics: Simulating Gravitational Lensing
Partners Yashar Hezaveh, Director, Ciela Institute Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Assistant Professor, Ciela Institute Connor Stone, Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Ciela Institute SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer Gravitational lensing occurs when a large mass (e.g. a galaxy) lies between an observer (Earth) and a light source (another galaxy). These…
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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…