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Spotlight - Edo Berger

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Edo Berger is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences and, as of July, Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. He is pictured above with graduate student, Wen-fai Fong, in front of a model of colliding neutron...

Berger is Winner of 2016 Star Family Challenge

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Prof. Edo Berger has been named one of the winners of the third annual Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research, a faculty research award program established at the suggestion of James A. Star ’83. The Star Family Challenge provides seed...

Edo Berger

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Research interests: The study of gamma-ray bursts, optical transients (mainly from the Pan-STARRS project), and magnetic fields in low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. He uses observations across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to γ-rays.

 

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Berger, Drout, and Bieryla lead the Astronomy 100 Observing Trip to the Fred L. Whipple Observatory in Arizona

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Each year undergraduate students enrolled in Astronomy 100 hone their practical astronomy knowledge by using the 48-inch and 60-inch telescopes at the Fred L. Whipple Observatory in Arizona. This unique week-long trip during Spring Break includes a visit...

Grad Network Lunch with Edo Berger

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Edo Berger CfA Colloquium Presentation

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Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion Helps Understand Far-Off Galaxy

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An international research team, led by Edo Berger of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, made the most of a dying star’s fury to probe a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years distant. The dying star, which lit the galactic scene, is the...

Interviews with Harvard Astronomers about the Joint Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Detection of a Binary Neutron Star

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Below are links to interviews with CfA Team Members Prof. Edo Berger, Graduate Student Kate Alexander, Graduate Student Phil Cowperthwaite, Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Nicholl

Leo Goldberg prize for excellence in a senior thesis: Danielle Frostig

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At the annual Awards Ceremony for the Department of Astronomy Edo Berger presented Leo Goldberg prizes for excellence in a senior thesis to Danielle Frostig,graduating senior.

Undergrad Seminar

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Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Biggest Explosions Since the Big Bang Prof. Edo Berger

FAS Hoopes Prizes for Undergrad senior theses awarded

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Congratulations to the 2023 FAS Hoopes Prize winners for best senior theses: Brian Hsu, working with Edo Berger Maya Skarbinski, working with Daniel Eisenstein

Earth's gold came from colliding neutron stars

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A gamma-ray burst is a flash of high-energy light (gamma rays) from an extremely energetic explosion. Associate Professor of Astronomy Edo Berger, Harvard graduate student Wen-fai Fong and Ryan Chornock recently observed data from a gamma-ray burst GRB...