IAS October Talk - Herschel - Dr. Brian O'Halloran

Announcing a very special talk that I'm sure you will all be interested in attending, October 19th 8PM in Dunsink.Please note that places are limited and must be booked by emailing me (johnmurphy474[at]gmail.com).

The speaker is a popular contributor to this site - Dr. Brian O'Halloran (Herschel Space Telescope). Be the first to see some of the amazing images unfolding from this remarkable piece of Science Engineering.

Speaker:
Dr. Brian O'Halloran is a Research Associate at Imperial College London. His research interests focus upon the evolution of dwarf galaxies, in particular on the evolution of the interstellar medium in such objects. He is a member of the Herschel SPIRE Instrument Control Centre team, and a member of the Herschel Specialist Astronomy Group 2 consortium. He is also a member of the Spitzer Legacy SAGE team, as part of the 30 Doradus and SAGE-Spec teams studying the Large Magellanic Cloud."

Talk outline:
"The Herschel Space Observatory: Herschel carries the largest, most powerful infrared telescope ever flown in space. Herschel is the first space observatory to observe from the far-infrared to the submillimetre waveband, unveiling the mysterious hidden cold Universe to us for the first time. It will explore further in the far-infrared than any previous mission, studying otherwise invisible dusty and cold regions of the cosmos, both near and far. In this talk, we will explore the history of space-based infrared astronomy and the nature of the recently launched Herschel mission, its instruments, (PACS: the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer, a bolometer array photometer and a photoconductor array imaging spectrometer operating at a wavelenght range between 60 and 210 µm; SPIRE: the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, consisting of a 3-band imaging photometer and a Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer and will operate at wavelengths between 200 and 670 µm; HIFI, the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared, a high-resolution spectrograph that operates in the range of 480 to 1250 GHz in five bands and 1410 to 1910 GHz in two additional bands) and the exciting observing programs that lie ahead for the Herschel program."

Places are still available for this talk, if you wish to attend then just PM or email me and I will reserve a place for you.

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Places are still available for this talk, if you wish to attend then just PM or email me and I will reserve a place for you.

Hope to see you at the talk tonight.

Hi everyone.

Just a quick post to say hi and many thanks to John, Deirdre, Michael and all at the IAS for a very enjoyable trip back to Dunsink and hope that everyone enjoyed my ramblings on far-IR astronomy!

All the best,

Brian