DIAS Headquarters, 10 Burlington Road - D04C932 contact@dias.ie 00353 (0) 16140100

DIAS Astrophotography competition goes mobile for 2024

‘Reach for the Stars’, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies’ (DIAS) astrophotography competition, has returned for the fourth year running and is calling on Ireland’s budding astro-photographers to submit their images. This year the competition has added a… Read More

2024-04-09 Leonardo Testi (University of Bologna)

The Planets of Dawn Abstract: Planetary systems are assembled around young stars within the so-called “protoplanetary” disks, which are the byproduct of the formation of the star itself. Over the last decade, observations of protoplanetary disks in nearby… Read More

Mohamed Nedal

Name: Mohamed NedalTitle: Postdoctoral Research FellowAddress: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Cosmic Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics Section, Dunsink Observatory, D15 XR2R, IrelandEmail: mnedal (at) dias.iePersonal website: dias.ie/mnedal (coming soon!) Research Interests Biographical Sketch Mohamed is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Solar Physics… Read More

2024-03-25 Jessie Duncan (NASA GSFC)

Understanding the Hot Solar Corona via X-ray Observations with NuSTAR Abstract: NuSTAR is a highly sensitive direct-focusing hard x-ray (HXR) observatory optimized to observe astrophysical sources. In certain conditions, NuSTAR can also observe the Sun – and characterize faint x-ray emission from sources… Read More

Dr Affelia Wibisono

Name: Affelia Wibisono Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow E-Mail:  wibisono@cp.dias.ie Address: School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS Dunsink Observatory, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 15, Ireland. Biographical Sketch: Affelia’s research uses measurements taken by space telescopes and spacecraft such… Read More

Yang Wang

Name: Yang Wang Title: PhD Student Address: School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS Dunsink Observatory, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 15, Ireland. Biographical Sketch: Yang Wang is a PhD Student at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at… Read More

Irish scientists are part of groundbreaking discovery with James Webb Space Telescope

Irish astronomers, in cluding researchers from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), are part of an international team that has detected radiation from a veiled neutron star in the Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), using the James Webb Space… Read More

2024-03-05 Jordan A. Guerra (CU/CIRES and NOAA/SWPC)

Estimating the Impact of the Magnetometer Network on the SWPC Geoelectric Field Model We performed a leave-one-out analysis in order to study the impact of the operational network of magnetometers on the SWPC Geoelectric field model. The Geoelectric… Read More

2024-02-27 Leonardo Testi (University of Bologna)

The Planets of Dawn Planetary systems are assembled around young stars within the so-called “protoplanetary” disks, which are the byproduct of the formation of the star itself. Over the last decade, observations of protoplanetary disks in nearby star… Read More

2024-02-13 Leigh Fletcher (Leicester)

JWST: A New Voyager for the Outer Solar System The first 18 months of JWST scientific operations have produced a treasure trove of new discoveries for the four giant planets, whilst challenging the community to develop innovative software… Read More