Arun Kannawadi @astroarun.bsky.social
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Physics Faculty @Duke working on cosmology & LSST/Rubin Science pipelines dev. Dog parent. Opinions are my own, and I mostly keep them to myself.
Durham, NC
Joined May 2011
RT @marianojavierd1: @VRubinObs images are so big that astronomers are requesting Jumbotrons to could display it! And even using that are….
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We were working behind the scenes but also watching in front of this massive screen!.
With its 3,200-megapixel camera, the @VRubinObs will transform our understanding of the cosmos. Duke Cosmologists are behind the scenes, keeping everything in focus:
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If you're in the triangle region in North Carolina, come see this and more on a big scoreboard at the @DukeU watch party!.
Introducing. your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by @NSF–@doescience Vera C. Rubin Observatory!. Can you guess what regions of sky they are?. This is just a peek. join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos!.
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RT @KuthaliPu: Did you apply to a US university for the Fall term? Were you waiting for a #USvisa and are now confused about what will happ….
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RT @VRubinObs: 3200 megapixels. A new image every 40 seconds. Hundreds of petabytes of data. And a team that made it real. @NSF–@DOEscienc….
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RT @VRubinObs: Eye to the sky…on-sky engineering tests have begun at @NSF–@doescience Rubin Observatory with the world’s largest camera!. A….
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RT @VRubinObs: Studying billions of objects at once is so fetch! . okay, we'll stop trying to make fetch happen. The NSF–DOE Rubin Observ….
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RT @DScol: This is really hard to understand. Roman is at the finish line, on schedule and in budget. @ValerieFoushee - have you seen thi….
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RT @DScol: Amazing work by NASA and @DukePhysics's @michaeltroxel on the OpenUniverse simulations. We are using these to get ready for @NA….
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Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see
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RT @VRubinObs: With 189 CCD sensors, LSST Camera has a field of view *21 times* the size of ComCam’s. It will be installed in just a couple….
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RT @VRubinObs: When you turn it on and it works spectacularly!. The Rubin team has successfully completed the first on-sky engineering test….
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RT @astrogrant: #AAS245 with 3654 attendees as of this afternoon, this is the largest AAS meeting ever, beating the previous record set by….
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RT @DukePhysics: We mourn the passing of our colleague Tom Mehen, a long-serving @DukeU faculty and passionate teacher known for his resear….
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Tom Mehen, a highly regarded member of the faculty in the Department of Physics, passed away unexpectedly at his Chapel Hill home last weekend. He was 54.
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"By stacking together images of a piece of sky taken over multiple nights, the telescope will be able to spot fainter and fainter objects" - yup, and I am thrilled to be leading that effort!.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos
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RT @random_walker: This is exactly our view in AI Snake Oil. The bottleneck to human intelligence is not biology, but the difficulty of obs….
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RT @psbarbeau: The Department of Physics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina invites applications and nominations for a tenure-tra….
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RT @erikpeterson23: Just submitted a paper attempting to answer these questions: How many SN host galaxies are in galaxy groups? How much d….
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