Physics Newsblog » Astrophysics http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics Just another MTU Blogs site Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Top 25 Hottest Articles in Astroparticle Physics http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2012/04/top-25-hottest-articles-in-astroparticle-physics/ http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2012/04/top-25-hottest-articles-in-astroparticle-physics/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:00:01 +0000 Webmaster http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/?p=181 David Nitz and Brian Fick are each co-authors in 6 of the Top 25 Hottest Articles in Astroparticle Physics for the 2011 year. Four of those are in the top 10, including the top most downloaded article.

The number one article was “Search for first harmonic modulation in the right ascension distribution of cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory,” Astroparticle Physics, 34, Issue 8, March 2011, Pages 627-639. Other co-authors with or formerly with Michigan Tech are James Chye, Johana Chirinos Diaz, Roger M. Kieckhafer, Niraj Dhital, and Tolga Yapici. READ MORE

]]> http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2012/04/top-25-hottest-articles-in-astroparticle-physics/feed/ 0 astroparticle-physics Cosmic race ends in a tie http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2012/01/cosmic-race-ends-in-a-tie/ http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2012/01/cosmic-race-ends-in-a-tie/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:00:55 +0000 Webmaster http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/?p=197 Result puts limit on how ‘lumpy’ space-time can be.
A race between two energetic photons that began more than 7 billion years ago and spanned half the cosmos has ended in a virtual dead heat. The result, if it stands up to scrutiny, would tighten the limits, suggested by some theories, on how ‘lumpy’ space-time can be. The work, to be presented on 11 January at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, by Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University in Houghton and his colleagues, relies on an analysis of a short-lived, powerful stellar explosion known as a γ-ray burst that was recorded by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in May 2009 and dubbed GRB 090510A. The study focused on two photons, one with an energy of 25 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) and another of about 1.5 GeV, which were separated by just 0.00136 seconds. READ MORE

]]> http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2012/01/cosmic-race-ends-in-a-tie/feed/ 0 GammaRayBursts 45 Years of Space Research, The Highlights (A Reprise of the 2011 AGU Nicolet Lecture) http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2011/12/45-years-of-space-research-the-highlights-a-reprise-of-the-2011-agu-nicolet-lecture/ http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/2011/12/45-years-of-space-research-the-highlights-a-reprise-of-the-2011-agu-nicolet-lecture/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:00:52 +0000 Webmaster http://blogs.mtu.edu/physics/?p=109 Prof. Michael C. Kelley
James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng
Cornell University
Monday, December 12, 2011
3:00 pm, Fisher 139

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Ranjit Pati

Lessons from the Brain

 David Nitz and Brian Fick

Nitz, Fick Honored for Astrophysics Research

 Boron Nitride Nanotubes

Taming the divas of the nanoworld
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