LSST & BLACK HOLES, Public Lecture
Channel: NOIRLabAstro
Date: 14/07/2023

Thursday, August 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm Hilton El Conquistador Turquoise Ballroom
10000 North Oracle Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85704 The Large Synoptic Survey
Telescope (LSST) is approaching completion on the Cerro Pachón ridge in north-
central Chile. When science operations begin in 2022, LSST will scan the sky
with the world’s largest digital camera, creating a 500 petabyte set of images
and data products that will address the most pressing questions about the
structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it. Among these
objects are black holes, objects so dense they warp the fabric of space-time,
objects whose incredible properties are only recently becoming known to us.
You are invited to join us for an evening of black hole science and learn
about Tucson’s leadership role in LSST’s voyage of scientific discovery.
During this public event, LSST Project Manager Victor Krabbendam will provide
an update on LSST construction progress, University of Arizona astrophysicist
Feryal Özel will discuss the latest black hole discoveries from the Event
Horizon Telescope (EHT) and Northwestern University’s Raffaella Margutti will
describe what we have learned from the first multi-messenger observations of a
neutron star merger with gravitational waves and light, and what might be
revealed when LSST begins its ten-year survey. Speakers: Raffaella Margutti,
Northwestern University Raffaella Margutti is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Physics & Astronomy at Northwestern University. She utilizes
observations of transient astrophysical phenomena including stellar explosions
and stellar tidal disruptions by supermassive black holes. She serves as the
chair of the Gravitational Wave source follow-up with LSST within the LSST
Transient and Variable Stars science collaboration. As an astrophysicist, her
research specifically focuses on the biggest explosions and disruptions that
occur in our Universe: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, compact stellar mergers
that are sources of gravitational waves and tidal disruption events. Dr.
Margutti investigates the physics of these events by combining broad-band
observations across the electromagnetic spectrum, including X-ray, UV,
optical, IR, and radio. The primary goal of her research is to understand the
nature of the physical processes that regulate such dramatic displays. Feryal
Özel, University of Arizona Feryal Özel is a Professor of Astronomy and
Astrophysics in the Department of Astronomy at University of Arizona. She has
made pioneering contributions to the physics of neutron stars and black holes,
as well as to the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies in the early
Universe. Dr. Özel led the Model Comparison group for the Event Horizon
Telescope (EHT) that released the first image of a black hole in April of
2019. She made the first accurate measurements of the neutron star radii that
constrain the ultradense matter equation of state. Based on her work on
accretion flows, she made the first size predictions of the images of nearby
supermassive black holes at different wavelengths. Victor Krabbendam, LSST
Victor Krabbendam has been LSST Project Manager since 2012, after eight years
as Project Manager for the LSST Telescope & Site subsystem. Trained as a
mechanical engineer, Victor has worked in industry, government, and with major
astronomical research facilities including the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at
McDonald Observatory and the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope,
a 4.1 meter telescope that is LSST's neighbor on Cerro Pachón. Slides: https:/
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Credit:
LSST Project/NSF/AURA