Astrobites@Austin: Monday Afternoon Sessions

Astrobites@Austin: Monday Afternoon Sessions

by | Jan 8, 2012 | Current Events

This year, Astrobites will be liveblogging AAS. In order to avoid inundating our readers’ RSS feeds, we’ll be updating this post with short paragraphs about the talks we’ve heard and posters we’ve seen. So keep checking back throughout Monday afternoon! Earlier, we covered the Monday Morning sessions. A side noteThanks to everyone who stopped by the Astrobites poster today! We loved getting to meet you all in person, and getting to hear about your work as well as chat about ours.  3:40 PM The Challenges and Achievements in 50 Years of Human Space flight, Steven Hawley (University of Kansas) Quoted in this talk:“Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world; knowing they’re going to light the bottom—and doesn’t get a little worried—does not fully understand the situation.” — John Young, shuttle commander, after being asked if he was worried about making the first Space Shuttle flight. 2:30 PM – Press Release: SCIENCE SO FAR FROM LOFARLOFAR: The Low Frequency Array Heino Falcke (MPI Für Radioastronomie/Radboud University/ASTRON, Germany) Michael Wise (ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)First Results from the LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey George H. Heald (ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)Pulsars & Fast Transients with LOFAR Jason Hessels (ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)LOFAR and the Epoch of Reionization A. G. de Bruyn (ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)LOFAR (a multi-purpose sensor array which stands for the LOw Frequency ARray) is a new science project comprised of 200 astronomers from 40 institutes in several countries. LOFAR has components at stations in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, the UK and France. This press conference is to...