Dr. Norbert Schulz, Research Scientist
| Jan/14 | Tue | 03:15PM-04:15PM | 37-252, Tour originates in 37-252 |
Enrollment: Max 20 people, advance sign-up required by JANUARY 10
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 20 participants
Prereq: You must attend talks preceding tour: 2-2:30pm; 2:30-3
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the world's most powerful X-ray telescope, allowing scientists to study the origin, structure and evolution of our universe in greater detail than ever before. The spacecraft and science instruments are controlled from the Operations Control Center (OCC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We will take our visitors on a tour of the OCC and show where scientists and engineers direct the flight and execute the observing plan of Chandra, and where they receive the scientific data from the observatory. during the tour the visitors will learn about the basics of X-ray astronomy and about the latest, exciting discoveries made by MIT scientists with data acquired with Chandra.
Max 20 people, advance sign-up required by FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 by submitting full name to meinbres@mit.edu
Prerequisites: Attendance of two talks preceding the tour (2-2:30 talk "The Cost of Cosmic Real Estate"; 2:30-3:00 talk "Hunting Dark Matter")
For a complete listing of IAP Activites offered by MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, please visit our IAP website.
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics
Contact: Debbie Meinbresse, 37-241, 617 253-1456, MEINBRES@MIT.EDU