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Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Safeguarding The Early Universe", Suvinay Goyal

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Physics
Location
Loomis 464
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Feb 1, 2024   5:00 pm   6:00 PM
Speaker
Suvinay Goyal
Contact
Tushar Mohan
E-Mail
tusharm4@illinois.edu
Phone
848-702-1630
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Originating Calendar
Physics - Undergraduate Student Events
The earliest light in the universe released as the shockwave of the Big Bang is today viewed in the form of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB). On December 22, 2022, the Illinois Observational Cosmology group launched the 2nd flight of SPIDER Balloon Borne telescope to look for the evidence of the primordial gravitational waves for the B-mode Polarization of the CMB. Underneath all the fanciful science goals of SPIDER, lay the annoying irritants, Starlinks! The modern-day bane of observational astrophysics. In this talk I mainly talk about the development, and the goals of SPIDER,  how do Starlink satellites hinder those science goals, and what I did to probe those Starlinks for SPIDER and make it a tool useful enough for all observational telescopes across the globe. I also devote some time to the upcoming ballooning project with Illinois involvement, TIM (Terahertz Intensity Mapper), which aims to study the cosmic star formation history. 
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