{"id":72782,"date":"2024-08-26T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=72782"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:54:45","slug":"in-the-spotlight-aug-26-30-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-aug-26-30-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Aug. 26-30, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">E-mail your announcements to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, or use our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems associate professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Michael Gowanlock<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (DAPS) chair <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">David Trilling<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, NAU alumni <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Andrew McNeill <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Daniel Kramer <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and graduate research assistant <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maria Chernyavskaya <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">co-authored the paper \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.04096\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Asteroid Period Solutions from Combined Dense and Sparse Photometry<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d which determined the rotation periods of over 180 astronomical objects using asteroid observational records from multiple ground- and space-based telescopes.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\">DAPS<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\"> student<\/span> <\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\">Hunter Brooks <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\">co-authored the paper \u201c<\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW170473925 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024ApJ...971L..25B\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Di<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">scovery of a Hypervelocity L Subdwarf at the Star\/Brown Dwarf Mass Limit<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\">,\u201d recently published in The Astrophysical Journal. This study, detailing the observation of a high-velocity, low-mass star or brown dwarf traveling through the Milky Way, was <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\">covered on <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW170473925 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/21\/science\/hypervelocity-star-escape-milky-way\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">CNN<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\">and <\/span><\/span><em><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW170473925 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/21\/science\/speeding-star-escape-galaxy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek4.5KGg.u8I6GZdf_9j0&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170473925 BCX0\">.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW170473925 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-aug-26-30-2024\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0\u00a0 E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form.\u00a0\u00a0 School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems associate professor Michael Gowanlock, Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (DAPS) chair David Trilling, NAU alumni Andrew McNeill&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}