HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.
The Polarimeter Light (PolarLight) mission is a technology demonstration
instrument on-board a CubeSat named Tongchuan-1 (or Zhaojin 1 (TY 4-02)).
It uses a gas pixel detector sensitive
to polarized X-ray light. The satellite was launched into a sun synchronous
polar orbit on October 28, 2018 and is currently still
operating. Ths mission is led by the China Center for Astrophysics at Tsinghua
University in Beijing, China.
PolarLight carries a Gas Pixel Detector (GPD) instrument filled with
dimethyl ether at approximately 0.8 atmosphere pressure, and sealed with a
100 micron thick beryllium window. The detector has an effective area of
1.4 x 1.4 mm. The detector is mounted on a 6U size Cubesat for supporting
electronics, power supply, data recording, and solar panels.
HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.
