Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Probing Stars at Cosmological Distances with Gravitational Lensing", Athish Thiruvengadam
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Physics
- Location
- Loomis 464
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Mar 6, 2025 5:00 pm
- Speaker
- Athish Thiruvengadam
- Contact
- Tushar Mohan
- tusharm4@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 848-702-1630
- Views
- 70
- Originating Calendar
- Physics - Undergraduate Student Events
The observation of the first lensed star in 2016 opened up a new frontier in extragalactic astronomy. By studying stars outside the Milky Way, we can start to answer hypotheses that were previously unrealisable. In this talk, I will begin with an introduction to gravitational lensing and then present a brief history of lensed star observations. Finally, I conclude with our contributions to this field using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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