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Seminar 13 September @ 6:00pm (AEST)

 

 

Data Science and Imaging the Black Hole Shadow.

Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2022

 
Time: 6:00pm (AEST)

 
Speaker:  Prof. Shiro Ikeda (Institute of Statistical Mathematics)  


Contact the organizer: Andriy Olenko a.olenko@latrobe.edu.au

Abstract:

In April 2019, the EHTC (Event Horizon Telescope collaboration) released the first image of the M87 black hole shadow and this May, the black hole shadow image of our Milky Way galaxy was released. The EHTC has more than 300 members from different backgrounds and countries. I have been involved in this project as a data scientist for more than 8 years and collaborated with EHTC members to develop a new imaging method. The EHT is a huge VLBI (very long baseline interferometer), which is different from optical telescopes in that a lot of computation is required to obtain a single image. Black hole imaging is also very interesting from the data scientific viewpoint. In this talk, I will explain how the new imaging technique has been developed and the final images were created through our discussions.

See zoom meeting details below.
This seminar is a part of an international online seminars series on Statistics and Data Science applications in Astronomy:
This seminar is an initiative of the International Astrostatistics Association and the IAU Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics Commission. The seminar alternate between Europe-US and Australasia-Europe on a monthly basis.
 
The seminar boardStefano Andreon - INAF-OA Brera, Italy    (chair)Fabio Castagna - INAF-OA Brera, University of Insubria, ItalyAndriy Olenko - La Trobe University, AustraliaTsutomu T. Takeuchi - Nagoya University, Japan
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