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Researchers Demonstrate Coulomb Crystallization of Highly-Charged Ions for the First Time

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig and the University of Aarhus in Denmark demonstrated for the first time Coulomb crystallization of highly-charged ions (HCIs).

13 Mar 2015

New Classification of Charge Density Waves Based Upon Their Nature

LSU Professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Ward Plummer and Jiandi Zhang, in collaboration with their colleagues from the Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 112, pg. 2367) titled "Classification of Charge Density Waves based on their Nature." This work is a result of a collaboration funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

13 Mar 2015

High School Students Participate in International Particle Physics Masterclass at UC Riverside

On March 10 and 11, approximately 35 students from San Jacinto High School and Valencia High School visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside to participate in the International Particle Physics Masterclass, an annual program of the European Particle Physics Outreach Group.

13 Mar 2015

Rice University Physicist Awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship

Rice University physicist Wei Li is among the 126 American and Canadian scholars awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships. The prestigious fellowships, awarded annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, are given to early career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential mark them as rising stars.

12 Mar 2015

Giant Stars in Cluster NGC 6193 Provide Main Source of Illumination for the Rim Nebula

At the centre of the image is the open star cluster NGC 6193, containing around thirty bright stars and forming the heart of the Ara OB1 association. The two brightest stars are very hot giant stars. Together, they provide the main source of illumination for the nearby emission nebula, the Rim Nebula, or NGC 6188, which is visible to the right of the cluster.

12 Mar 2015

Crucial Step Towards Better Understanding of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Shortly following the Big Bang, the Universe was filled with a chaotic primordial soup of quarks and gluons, particles which are now trapped inside of protons and neutrons. Study of this quark-gluon plasma requires the use of the most advanced theoretical and experimental tools. Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has taken one crucial step towards a better understanding of the plasma and its properties, and recently published the results of their latest analysis.

12 Mar 2015

Galactic Disk Contoured Into Several Concentric Ripples

The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples. The research, conducted by an international team led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Heidi Jo Newberg, revisits astronomical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey which, in 2002, established the presence of a bulging ring of stars beyond the known plane of the Milky Way.

12 Mar 2015

Researchers Spot Black Hole That Grew to Gargantuan Size

A black hole that grew to gargantuan size in the Universe's first billion years is by far the largest yet spotted from such an early date, researchers have announced. The object, discovered by astronomers in 2013, is 12 billion times as massive as the Sun, and six times greater than its largest-known contemporaries. Its existence poses a challenge for theories of the evolution of black holes, stars and galaxies, astronomers say.

12 Mar 2015

Astronomers Identify Nine New Dwarf Satellites Orbiting the Milky Way

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once. The findings, from newly-released imaging data taken from the Dark Energy Survey, may help unravel the mysteries behind dark matter, the invisible substance holding galaxies together.

12 Mar 2015

New VLA Helps Make "True Color" Radio Image of Fascinating Region with Colliding Galaxies

Researchers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have produced the most detailed image yet of a fascinating region where clusters of hundreds of galaxies are colliding, creating a rich variety of mysterious phenomena visible only to radio telescopes.

12 Mar 2015

Scientists Detect Rotating Dust and Gas Discs Hosting Exceptionally Large and Hot Stars

A team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of Bonn discovered an unusual phenomenon in the centre of the Milky Way: They detected about 20 rotating dust and gas discs in each cluster hosting exceptionally large and hot stars. The existence of these discs in the presence of the destructive UV radiation field of their massive neighbours came as a surprise. The science team is pondering how these rotating discs are able to withstand evaporation under these extreme conditions. The results are published in the most recent edition of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

11 Mar 2015

Gravitational Waves Have Characteristic Spectrum Similar to Spectral Lines of Atoms

It has not yet been possible to measure the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. They are so weak that they get lost in the noise of the measurements. But thanks to the latest simulations of the merging of binary neutron star systems, the structure of the sought-after signals is now known. As a team of German and Japanese theoretical astrophysicists reports in the Editor's choice of the current edition of the scientific journal "Physical Review D", gravitational waves have a characteristic spectrum that is similar to the spectral lines of atoms.

11 Mar 2015

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Researchers Demonstrate Coulomb Crystallization of Highly-Charged Ions for the First Time

New Classification of Charge Density Waves Based Upon Their Nature

High School Students Participate in International Particle Physics Masterclass at UC Riverside

Rice University Physicist Awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship

Giant Stars in Cluster NGC 6193 Provide Main Source of Illumination for the Rim Nebula

Crucial Step Towards Better Understanding of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Galactic Disk Contoured Into Several Concentric Ripples

Researchers Spot Black Hole That Grew to Gargantuan Size

Astronomers Identify Nine New Dwarf Satellites Orbiting the Milky Way

New VLA Helps Make "True Color" Radio Image of Fascinating Region with Colliding Galaxies

Scientists Detect Rotating Dust and Gas Discs Hosting Exceptionally Large and Hot Stars

Gravitational Waves Have Characteristic Spectrum Similar to Spectral Lines of Atoms

Scientists Discover Celestial Objects Belonging to Rare Category of Dwarf Satellite Galaxies

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