Astronomy Camp
Have a passion for the stars? High schoolers are welcome. Register for our inaugural Astronomy Camp!
The newly established Center for Astro, Particle, and Planetary Physics is an alliance of faculty and scholars dedicated to research in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary and astroparticle physics. For the next half decade, this alliance will work to provide answers to fundamental questions about the composition and evolution of our Universe. The Center seeks to tackle these questions from several points of view by combining state-of-the-art observational data from the ground and space on the nature of visible and invisible matter, with detailed theoretical and numerical modeling from planets to galaxies, and linking them together cohesively.
The Center has four interconnected, interdisciplinary research clusters:
Clusters encompass a range of topics, from elementary particles to planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. These groups overlap in their science goals, in the methodology used, and in taking advantage of sharing state-of-the-art experimental and observational data.
The aim of this Cluster is to apply the most recent detection, computational, and theoretical tools to open problems in the astrophysics and particle physics sectors. Current research topics include dark matter search, both direct and indirect, cosmic rays, solar neutrinos, neutrino astronomy and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). The Cluster hopes to shed light on astrophysical questions and at the same time help understand the properties of known and unknown particles and their production processes in astrophysical objects.
About
The NYUAD Astronomy Camp is a four-day long program that aims at promoting the topic of astronomy. Interested UAE high school students who enroll will receive a free crash course covering different astronomical topics, delivered by professional astronomers. Spots are limited so sign up today!
Topics
Basic topics are below. A full schedule of the program will be provided upon registering for the camp.
Sign up by clicking the image above or email nyuad.cap3.info@nyu.edu.
Scientists witness a star drawing in space material and expelling X-rays 1,,000 times brighter than our sun.
Discovery could shed light on how mysterious black holes form.
A new black-hole discovery sheds some light on the gray area between these extremes.
An NYUAD student group was awarded an Award of Excellence from the Worldwide Logo Design Award (WOLDA) for exemplary design and concept in the New Logo, Asia category. Over 223 logos and identities from 30 countries participated in the eleventh WOLDA awards.
The WOLDA is a worldwide competition for logos and corporate identity, honoring the world’s best work. It was founded in 2006 in Milan, Italy and is now organized by the International Editorial-Design and Research Forum in Meerbusch, Germany.
The NYUAD student group was composed of Manesha Ramesh, Ilya Akimov, and Jude Al Qubaisi. In fall 2019, the group took the Foundations of Graphic Design class with Assistant Professor of Practice of Visual Arts, Goffredo Puccetti. As part of the course, the whole class brainstormed, drafted and pitched new center visual identities for the Center for Astro, Particle, and Planetary Physics (CAP3). And mentored by Professor Puccetti, the winning team did a fantastic job!
Beneficiaries include doctors, researchers and innovators and Professor Andrea Macciò.
In the Arabic language show "Mesbar al Amal " (Hope Probe, in reference to the UAE Mars mission), the Professor discusses black holes
Professor Andrea Macciò has been searching his entire life for something that science knows is there but has never seen.
Watch Andrea Valerio Maccio discuss how he's trying to unravel the deepest mysteries of the universe using virtual galaxies built on a supercomputer.
December 2020: Macció, Andrea V, Prats, Daniel Huterer, Dixon, Keri L, Buck Tobias, Waterval, Stefan, Arora, Nikhil, Courteau, Stéphane, Kang, Xi https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.tmp.3522M/abstract
November 2020: Hattori, Soichiro; Straal, Samayra M.; Zhang, Emily; Temim, Tea; Gelfand, Joseph D.; Slane, Patrick O. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...904...32H/abstract
September 2020: Hattori, Soichiro; Straal, Samayra M.; Zhang, Emily; Temim, Tea; Gelfand, Joseph D.; Slane, Patrick O. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020arXiv200910330H/abstract
September 2020: Gotthelf, E. V., Safi-Harb, S., Straal, S. M., and Gelfand, J. D., https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200906616G/abstract
September 2020: Russell, T. D.; Lucchini, M.; Tetarenko, A. J.; Miller-Jones, J. C. A.; Sivakoff, G. R.; Krauß, F.; Mulaudzi, W.; Baglio, M. C.; Russell, D. M.; Altamirano, D.; Ceccobello, C.; Corbel, S.; Degenaar, N.; van den Eijnden, J.; Fender, R.; Heinz, S.; Koljonen, K. I. I.; Maitra, D.; Markoff, S.; Migliari, S.; Parikh, A. S.; Plotkin, R. M.; Rupen, M.; Sarazin, C.; Soria, R.; Wijnands, R. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.tmp.2040R/abstract
August 2020: Goodwin, A. J.; Russell, D. M.; Galloway, D. K.; Baglio, M. C.; Parikh, A. S.; Buckley, D. A. H.; Homan, J.; Bramich, D. M.; in't Zand, J. J. M.; Heinke, C. O.; Kotze, E. J.; de Martino, D.; Papitto, A.; Lewis, F.; Wijnands, R. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.498.3429G/abstract
August 2020: Marino, A.; Malzac, J.; Del Santo, M.; Migliari, S.; Belmont, R.; Di Salvo, T.; Russell, D. M.; Lopez Miralles, J.; Perucho, M.; D'Aì, A.; Iaria, R.; Burderi, L. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.498.3351M/abstract
July 2020: Zaw, Ingyin; Rosenthal, Michael J.; Katkov, Ivan Yu.; Gelfand, Joseph D.; Chen, Yan-Ping; Greenhill, Lincoln J.; Brisken, Walter; Noori, Hind Al https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020ApJ...897..111Z/abstract
July 2020: Maccarone, Thomas J.; Osler, Arlo; Miller-Jones, James C. A.; Atri, P.; Russell, David M.; Meier, David L.; McHardy, Ian M.; Longa-Peña, Penelope A https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.498L..40M/abstract
June 2020: Espinasse, Mathilde; Corbel, Stéphane; Kaaret, Philip; Tremou, Evangelia; Migliori, Giulia; Plotkin, Richard M.; Bright, Joe; Tomsick, John; Tzioumis, Anastasios; Fender, Rob; Orosz, Jerome A.; Gallo, Elena; Homan, Jeroen; Jonker, Peter G.; Miller-Jones, James C. A.; Russell, David M.; Motta, Sara https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020ApJ...895L..31E/abstract
May 1, 2020: D M Russell, P Casella, E Kalemci, A Vahdat Motlagh, P Saikia, S F Pirbhoy, D Maitra, The appearance of a compact jet in the soft–intermediate state of 4U 1543−47, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 495, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 182–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1182
April 30, 2020: Sera Markoff, David M Russell, Jason Dexter, Oliver Pfuhl, Frank Eisenhauer, Roberto Abuter, James C A Miller-Jones, Thomas D Russell, Infrared interferometry to spatially and spectrally resolve jets in X-ray binaries, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 495, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 525–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1193
The Center's core team is diverse and includes:
Please find the core members below.