Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Originally broadcast on July 13, 2024.
The AAVSO and the SuperNova Early Warning System team (SNEWS) are collaborating to monitor potential supernova progenitors. Because our targets are bright, broadly distributed across the sky, and accessible to many different methods of observing, this campaign offers an exciting opportunity to any interested observer.
This webinar looks at the AAVSO-SNEWS campaign's progress to date, featuring talks from both Prof. Alec Habig (Co-Principal Investigator of SNEWS) and Dr. Bert Pablo (AAVSO's Staff Astronomer).
*Alec Habig* is a professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota Duluth. As a PhD student at Indiana University, he volunteered to do some cool work in a fun place on a cosmic ray experiment at the Gran Sasso lab in Italy. Ever since then he's been doing particle astrophysics using experiments designed for particle physics, usually from underneath the mountains instead of on top of them like a proper astronomer.
*Bert Pablo's* science interests are, unsurprisingly, in the realm of stellar variability in all its various forms. He has worked on spots, wind variability, oscillations, and even a possible planetary transit. However, his main passion has always been binary stars. He believes that binaries are crucial to our understanding of stellar evolution and believes every star should have one. For the most massive stars this is most likely the case, and as such he has brought his focus to these stars in more recent years.
*View more information about the AAVSO-SNEWS campaign here:*
aavso.org/snews-campaign
Originally broadcast on July 13, 2024.
The AAVSO and the SuperNova Early Warning System team (SNEWS) are collaborating to monitor potential supernova progenitors. Because our targets are bright, broadly distributed across the sky, and accessible to many different methods of observing, this campaign offers an exciting opportunity to any interested observer.
This webinar looks at the AAVSO-SNEWS campaign's progress to date, featuring talks from both Prof. Alec Habig (Co-Principal Investigator of SNEWS) and Dr. Bert Pablo (AAVSO's Staff Astronomer).
*Alec Habig* is a professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota Duluth. As a PhD student at Indiana University, he volunteered to do some cool work in a fun place on a cosmic ray experiment at the Gran Sasso lab in Italy. Ever since then he's been doing particle astrophysics using experiments designed for particle physics, usually from underneath the mountains instead of on top of them like a proper astronomer.
*Bert Pablo's* science interests are, unsurprisingly, in the realm of stellar variability in all its various forms. He has worked on spots, wind variability, oscillations, and even a possible planetary transit. However, his main passion has always been binary stars. He believes that binaries are crucial to our understanding of stellar evolution and believes every star should have one. For the most massive stars this is most likely the case, and as such he has brought his focus to these stars in more recent years.
*View more information about the AAVSO-SNEWS campaign here:*
aavso.org/snews-campaign
