�㽶��Ƶ News - Vicky Kaspi

New paper explores four nearby fast radio burst sources

webfull — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:51:21 +0000

Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.

Published: 11 January 2024

Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts

webfull — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:46:18 +0000

Astronomers from �㽶��Ƶ are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.

Published: 26 April 2023

Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

webfull — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:43:06 +0000

Astronomers at �㽶��Ƶ, MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy, that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. Classified as a fast radio burst, or FRB, this new signal persists for up to three seconds, about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB. Within this window, the team detected bursts of radio waves that repeat every 0.2 seconds in a clear periodic pattern.

Published: 13 July 2022

CHIME Fast Radio Burst Team to Receive 2022 Berkeley Prize

webfull — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:28:34 +0000

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment fast radio burst (CHIME/FRB) team, which discovered more than 500 new fast radio bursts in the first year of the detector’s operations, will receive the 2022 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy.

Published: 17 November 2021

Astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi wins top Cdn science prize

webfull — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:21:14 +0000

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom

McGill researchers Elena Bennett and Yasser Gidi also honoured by NSERC

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has named �㽶��Ƶ astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi as this year’s recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, NSERC’s highest honour, in recognition of the excellence and influence of her research contributions.

Published: 16 February 2016

McGill launches centre for space research

webfull — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:30:10 +0000

$1 million donation from Trottier Family Foundation to fund McGill Space Institute fellowships

Published: 28 October 2015