Igor Andreoni
Hi! My name is Igor Andreoni and I am an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the Andreoni Transient Astronomy Lab (ATALab), we discover and study the most extreme events happening in the Universe.
The night sky is a restless place. Massive stars die in spectacular explosions that we can observe out to billions of light years away. Black holes and neutron stars crash against each other, releasing gravitational waves that we can capture with instruments such as the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA interferometers. Thanks to the visionary work of scientists, we are now able to look & listen to the Universe. We are ready to learn.
I am very involved in wide-field surveys. I serve as Co-Chair of the Rubin Transients and Variable Stars Scientific Collaboration and Chair of the Argus Array Science Leadership.
Photo by Carl Knox
Research interests:
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Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves and multi-messenger Astronomy
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High Energy transients
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Tidal Disruption Events
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Fast transients and high time resolution optical astronomy
Check the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4
gravitational-wave sources found so far
The Argus Array is a collection of telescopes that will watch the entire night sky continuously with more than 1,200 "eyes". It is part of the Schmidt Observatory System and is being built at the University of North Carolina, my home institution. Exciting times ahead!
I work on the NSF-DOE Vera Rubin Observatory. Its Legacy Survey of Space and Time will provide an unprecedented deep view of the Southern Hemisphere.
I discover and study astronomical transients using many telescopes, including the Dark Energy Camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, and telescopes part of the GROWTH network.
During my PhD I worked on the "Deeper Wider Faster" program, aiming at discovering the fastest bursts in the sky including counterparts to fast radio bursts and gravitational wave events.
GitHub handle: igorandreoni
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Top image: "The Transient Beauty"
Background image: Astrophysics school "Look & Listen", Playa del Carmen, Q. Roo, Mexico, 2014