It's fun how, even as a pretty senior person, you end up in research projects with PhD candidates or postdocs who assume you an expert while you panicky try to read up on what you are working on and at least understand the basics enough to be able to follow and usefully contribute.
In other […]
Back to being part of the NewAthena community science working groups: www.the-athena-x-ray-observatory.eu/en/athena-community
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Feels good to be back (I could not be part pf the official community for a bit due to work), Athena was/is such an integral part of who I am as a scientist […]
It’s been a heartbreaking few weeks 💔, but I’m glad the broader community can now understand what happened with AXIS.
I learned so much being part of the team, and I truly hope the X-ray community gets a new high-resolution imager one day.
#XraysAreTheBestRays
Screenshot of a search mask on NASA ADS searching for my name and finding 258 results with 2008 citations.
It's not about numbers, but still, they play some role. Here a nice one for me: sometimes during the last week, I've passed the 4000 citations limit.
#astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays
Once again I find myself living in a new neighborhood in March, and the late-night search for calzones begins…. #XraysAreTheBestRays
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“ciao” is challenging to spell when you’ve slept in 2 hour chunks the night before 😵💫
#iykyk #xraysarethebestrays #somanyvowelssomanycombos
(X-ray) Astronomer's mantra: we don't give up, we calibrate.
(Lovely statement from a colleague... 👌)
#astrodon #xraysAreTheBestRays #astrophysics
A banner for the astral-x xray astronomy capacity building workshop/school.
The reason I am in Argentina
More info here: https://congresos.unlp.edu.ar/astralx/
I'm really excited to teach here - I wanted to do one of the capacity building workshops for a while.
#astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays #iau #cospar #astrophysics
Bin dabei.
#XRaysAreTheBestRays
In Science News:
My postdoc, Luca Ighina, just published an analysis of a VERY FASCINATING high-redshift quasar. In short, not only is it radio-loud and ___the X-ray-brightest non-blazar at these redshifts___ it seems like it just might be super-Eddington!
Press release here […]
Slide showing a burning pentagram, the picture of a small device and the words "pray for the gate valve"
I miss my high energy astro community here who would find thie final slide of a talk absolutely amusing... 😭😭😭
#astrodon #xrism #XraysAreTheBestRays
Discovery Awaits! Highlights of the upcoming #ChandraXRay Cycle 27 Science Program. From what makes Jupiter's aurorae glow to counting black holes at the dawn of time, there's lots of science to be excited about for #NASA's Flagship X-ray astrophysics mission!
20 MB PDF […]
Sometimes someone just sits down and does the work that everybody thinks someone should do, but nobody does, because it's not a thankful kind of task.
My friend N. has published an amazing reference compilation that is unlikely to make it into a journal and asks not to be cited but instead to […]
Paper day! 🔥
Check out our newly published article on the discovery of a candidate hyperluminous X-ray source using Chandra:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
#XraysAreTheBestRays
