Podcaster: Rob Sparks. Guest: Dr. Xiaosheng Huang, William Shu, Chris Storfer, Andy Gu
Title: Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses
Organization: NOIRLab (NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory)
Links: https://www.facebook.com/NOIRLabAstro ; https://www.instagram.com/noirlabastro/ ; https://www.youtube.com/noirlabastro ; @NOIRLabAstro
Description: Gravitational lenses are rare objects caused by a galaxy bending light traveling to us form a more distant galaxy or quasar. Until recently only a few hundred gravitational lenses were know. In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Xiaosheng Huang and some of his students who led a project that has discovered hundreds of new gravitational lenses, the techniques they used to analyze the data and the challenges they faces.
Bio: Rob Sparks is in the Communications, Education and Engagement group at NSF’s NOIRLab in Tucson, Arizona
Dr. Xiaosheng Huang is professor at the University of San Francisco and an affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and works on observational cosmology.
William Shu is an undergraduate student at Berkeley where he studies physics and computer science.
Chris Storfer is a recent graduate of the University of San Francisco and recently received his degree in physics.
Andy Gu is a rising junior at Berkeley where he studies physics and computer science.
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