ICCUB SEMINAR – Gaia as gravitational wave detector

ICCUB SEMINAR – Gaia as gravitational wave detector

by | May 9, 2018 | Events, Talk

ICCUB SEMINAR – Gaia as gravitational wave detector ESA's second space astrometry mission Gaia started its scientific operations in July 2014. During its routine science operation Gaia is delivering an immense dataset of high-accuracy positional observations...
ICCUB SEMINAR – The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)

ICCUB SEMINAR – The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)

by | Apr 17, 2018 | Events, Talk

ICCUB SEMINAR – The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, has been selected by NASA as the next mission in the Small Explorer Program, for a launch in early 2021. IXPE, a collaboration between NASA and ASI (the Italian...
ICCUB SEMINAR – QCD Axion Searches with Microwave Filters

ICCUB SEMINAR – QCD Axion Searches with Microwave Filters

by | Apr 11, 2018 | Events, Talk

ICCUB SEMINAR – QCD Axion Searches with Microwave Filters We have proposed, designed and constructed a variant of the conventional axion haloscope concept that could be competitive in the search for dark matter axions of masses in the decade 10-100 μeV. Our...
ICCUB COURSE – Astrophysical Black Holes

ICCUB COURSE – Astrophysical Black Holes

by | Apr 10, 2018 | Events, Talk

ICCUB COURSE – Astrophysical Black Holes The course will provide fundamental notions about astrophysical black holes: the evidence for their existence, the behaviour of matter around them, the classes of sources in which they reside, the techniques to measure their...