April 08, 2022
Daniela Hikari Yano '23 used data from both the Fermi-LAT satellite and the VERITAS telescopes to study blazars, extremely powerful astrophysical objects powered by a black hole! She performed temporal and spectral analyses for a sample of bright TeV blazars using Bayesian blocks to define periods with steady flux and accounting for the absorption effect from the extragalactic background light (EBL). She presented her results at Undergraduate research session of the April 2022 meeting of the American Physical Society. Read more about Daniela's journey and research in this interview! https://yearofscience.barnard.edu/news/physics-major-daniela-hikari-yano-23