The latest "Insights & Outcomes" includes news of "fuzzy radio emissions" from the deepest reaches of the cosmos, continues with Yale expertise in evolution and astrophysics, and rounds out with major accolades for faculty - including physicist Leonid Glazman and astrophysicist Meg Urry - and postdoctoral researcher Maria Luisa Buzzo.
As always, you can find more science and medicine research news on Yale News' Science & Technology and Health & Medicine pages.
CHIME's time to shine
In a milestone moment, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a novel radio telescope that aims to resolve major questions in astrophysics and cosmology, has shown that its ground-based radio telescope in British Columbia can detect the faint glow of hydrogen gas from the early universe without needing to cross-correlate the data with other telescopes.
Laura Newburgh, an assistant professor of physics in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), is co-author of two new studies in The Astrophysical Journal, detailing the findings. Additional Yale co-authors are Alex Reda and Kana Sakaguri.
"The goal of the CHIME experiment is to probe the expanding universe using a vast survey of galaxies, with a twist that we are measuring the galaxies with their fuzzy radio emission instead of making beautiful pictures of them with optical light," Newburgh said. "We have been taking survey data since 2018, and this result finally demonstrates that this radio mapping technique works for measuring very distant galaxies."
