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The DiRAC Institute

@uwdirac

Seeking a universe understood through data-intensive discovery.
Seattle, WA dirac.astro.washington.edu Joined July 2017
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The DiRAC Institute @uwdirac
Congratulations to the entire @VRubinObs project, including our dedicated team at @UW's @uwdirac!
Mario Juric Verified account @mjuric Apr 17, 2025
🚨Two nights ago @VRubinObs, the largest sky survey system in the world, took its first image. Absolutely gorgeous 🤩🤩.

By last night it had sub-arcsec image quality across most of the 10deg^2 focal plane 🤯.

Congratulations to 100s of ppl working 20+ years for this moment!!
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The DiRAC Institute @uwdirac
New paper including @phbernardinelli:

Highights:
• Orbital distribution of TNOs constrains Sun’s birth environment.
• Effects of close stellar encounter explain the radial profile of distant TNOs.
• Sun formed in a stellar cluster with a ~high number density of stars.
Icarus Journal @IcarusJournal Aug 4, 2023
Radial distribution of distant trans-Neptunian objects points to Sun’s formation in a stellar cluster dlvr.it/StChsf
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