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Peter Boorman

Postdoc, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Czech Republic

About Peter Boorman

I'm a postdoc at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, studying obscured accretion of supermassive black holes located at the centers of galaxies outside of the Milky Way, known as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).

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Astrophysical disks Astrophysical dust Compact astrophysical objects Computational astrophysics Galaxies and clusters High-energy astrophysics Transient astrophysical phenomena

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Celebrating the Birth of a NuSTAR
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Celebrating the Birth of a NuSTAR

On 2012 June 13th, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) -- a NASA Small Explorer mission -- was launched into a near-Earth orbit, providing the first satellite X-ray observatory capable of focussing high-energy X-rays.

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