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LOCATION:online and UW Space Place
SUMMARY:Madison Astronomical Society meeting featuring Justin Vandenbr
 oucke\, Outreach\, Justin Vandenbroucke\, Physics\, WIPAC
DESCRIPTION:At the August 9\, 2024 meeting of the Madison Astronomical
  Society\, Justin Vandenbroucke\, UW Madison Associate professor of ph
 ysics\, will give a talk titled:<br>\nAstronomy with the highest energ
 y light in the Universe<br>\nMajor breakthroughs have been made in ast
 ronomy by expanding observations to far longer and far shorter wavelen
 gths than we can see with our eyes. The shortest-wavelength photons ar
 e gamma rays\, the highest energy photons in the Universe. Some of the
 se photons are trillions of times more energetic than the human eye ca
 n detect. There is a surprising variety of astronomical sources glowin
 g or flashing in these very-high-energy gamma rays. They are powered b
 y some of the most extreme objects in the Universe: exploding stars\, 
 white dwarfs\, neutron stars\, and black holes. I will describe the sc
 ience that very-high-energy gamma rays enable and the prospects for th
 e Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory\, an international project cur
 rently under construction.<br>\nJustin Vandenbroucke is an associate p
 rofessor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison\, in the Physics Dep
 artment and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center. His resear
 ch focuses on gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array O
 bservatory\, neutrino astronomy with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory\
 , and citizen science with the Distributed Electronic Cosmic-Ray Obser
 vatory. Vandenbroucke obtained his PhD in Physics from UC-Berkeley and
  held postdoctoral positions as a Kavli Fellow at Stanford University 
 and NASA Einstein Fellow at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Vand
 enbroucke is currently a UW–Madison Vilas Associate.<br>\nThis meeti
 ng will take place in person at our usual Space Place classroom locati
 on. It will also be streamed live to our YouTube channel at https://ww
 w.youtube.com/@madisonastronomicalsociety
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=8848
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