NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forums |
Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu
Events During the Week of December 8th through December 15th, 2019
Monday, December 9th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
- No events scheduled
Friday, December 13th, 2019
- Exploring the Cosmic Dark Ages: the Lunar Orbit Array
- Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
- Place: Sterling B343 (NOTE NEW LOCATION)
- Speaker: Xuelei Chen, National Astronomical Observatories of China/ Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
- Abstract: Radio observations of the redshifted 21 cm line of hydrogen will allow exploration of cosmic epochs before the first luminous objects formed: the epoch of reionization, cosmic dawn, and the cosmic dark ages. This talk will describe the Lunar Orbit Array, a Chinese instrument under study to orbit the Moon to measure the global spectrum of the sky and make sky maps from 1 MHz to 200 MHz, corresponding to redshifts from ~ 1000 to 7.
- Host: Peter Timbie