Greg Aldering to serve on Landolt science team
The new Landolt NASA Space Mission will put an artificial “star” in orbit around the Earth, allowing scientists to calibrate telescopes and more accurately measure the brightness of stars ranging from those nearby to the distant explosions of supernovae in far-off galaxies. Greg Aldering will serve on the Landolt science team to ensure that it is designed and performs as needed for precision cosmology measurements. Once the Landolt satellite is in orbit, Aldering and his team plan to observe the calibrated light from Landolt with ground-based instruments, including the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) in Hawaii, built in part by Berkeley Lab, and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, equipped with a 3.2 billion pixel camera built by DOE.
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