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All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae: Big Science with Small Telescopes -Professor Kris Stanek

Supernovae
Thu, February 13, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Koffolt Laboratory (a.k.a. "CBEC") Room 130

All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae: Big Science with Small TelescopesProfessor Kris StanekThursday, February 13, 20208:00-9:00 pm, Koffolt Laboratory (a.k.a. "CBEC") Room 130

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae surveys the entire visible sky every night, the first such record in human history. The founders of ASAS-SN, OSU astronomers Kris Stanek and Chris Kochanek, were awarded the2020 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize of the American Astronomical Society,"For their innovative contributions to time-domain astronomy and, in particular, their leadership in the All-Sky Automated Survey forSupernovae (ASAS-SN)."

Professor Stanek will tell the story of ASAS-SN and its discoveries about supernovae, tidal disruption of stars by black holes, and many other phenomena of the variable night sky.

More details athttps://astronomy.osu.edu/events/osaa-public-lecture

This lecture is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

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