{"id":17942,"date":"2019-09-30T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=17942"},"modified":"2020-06-11T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:33:07","slug":"multi-faceted-data-analysis-of-blazars-highly-time-variable-cosmic-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2019\/09\/30\/multi-faceted-data-analysis-of-blazars-highly-time-variable-cosmic-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-faceted Data Analysis of Blazars, Highly Time-Variable Cosmic Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PI:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/alan-marscher\/\">Alan Marscher<\/a>, Professor OF Astronomy, CAS<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Co-PIs:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/profile\/svetlana-jorstad\/\">Svetlana Jorstad<\/a>, Senior Research Scientist of Institute for Astrophysical Research; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/profile\/manasvita-joshi\/\">Manasvita Joshi<\/a>, Research Assistant of Institute for Astrophysical Research<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Track:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/\">HIC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>The team proposed to develop procedures to cross-compare astronomical time series data, obtained at different wavelengths, of highly variable cosmic objects called \u201cblazars\u201d. The analysis will require new techniques that can correlate, in an objective manner, time variations of brightness at both visible and gamma-ray wavelengths, and linear polarization at optical wavelengths. In this case, the team seeks to develop machine-learning algorithms that can identify both random components and underlying patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI:\u00a0Alan Marscher, Professor OF Astronomy, CAS Co-PIs:\u00a0Svetlana Jorstad, Senior Research Scientist of Institute for Astrophysical Research; Manasvita Joshi, Research Assistant of Institute for Astrophysical Research Track:\u00a0HIC The team proposed to develop procedures to cross-compare astronomical time series data, obtained at different wavelengths, of highly variable cosmic objects called \u201cblazars\u201d. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11733,11732],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions\/20612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}