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Bring One, Get One at Gemini South!

As part of the “Bring One, Get One” Student Support Program, Allison Noble, from the University of Toronto, Canada, is participating in observations at the Gemini South telescope this week. Along with observers Ricardo Demarco and Julie Nantais, the team, led by Michael Balogh are using the new Hammamatsu detectors (page 12 & 13 of the current GeminiFocus) in the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph to study distant galaxy clusters. Allison is the first visitor to Gemini South to take advantage of Gemini´s new program that helps bring young researchers to our telescopes.

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2014B STAC Report & Gemini Board Resolutions

The latest report of the Gemini’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) and the Gemini Board Resolutions are now available to view at:

http://www.gemini.edu/science//STAC/Reports/stac2014b_report.pdf

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www.gemini.edu/science//GBOD/resolutions/gbod201411_resolutions.pdf

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Live from Gemini @Mocksville, NC

Gemini science staff members Andreea Petric and Adam Smith join host Peter Michaud (facing away) in a video connection with 6th graders from the South Davie Middle School in Mocksville North Carolina. The program, called Live from Gemini, is a video field trip where students experience Gemini’s latest science and discover the excitement of scientific exploration of our universe. During this program Andreea shared her research on interacting galaxies and Adam described the extreme conditions experienced while working on Hawaii’s highest mountaintop.

Teachers, would you like your class to take a virtual field trip to Gemini? Request a Live from Gemini event here: http://bit.ly/1u9huM9

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Gemini Instrument Feasibility Studies Request for Proposals

On October 31st Gemini Observatory will host an interactive remote Bidders Conference for participants to learn more about the GIFS RfP. Participants can attend by phone or by Polycom. Gemini will host two equivalent sessions to allow for participation across different time zones.

  • Session 1: 11:00 – 13:30 CLST
  • Session 2: 19:00 – 21:30 CLST

If you plan on attending one of the sessions, please email gifs_rfp “at” gemini.edu and let us know which session you plan on attending and how.

Click through for phone or Polycom connection details and other useful information: http://bit.ly/1rsfFaf

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A Pair of Stellar Corpses Surrenders Secrets

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Mukremin Kilic of the University of Oklahoma, led a team that observed a unique, very close pairing of stellar corpses that have very different evolutionary histories: a white dwarf and a pulsar. The Gemini data that Kilic et al. acquired is the basis for a recently accepted paper (pending publication) in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

More at the Gemini Web Feature.

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