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Research in the Astronomy Department is both theoretical and observational in nature. The
observational work covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to
gamma-rays. A wide variety of national observatories, satellites, and supercomputers are used on a
guest investigator basis. Department research falls naturally into a number of groups,
described below. Members of the department are typically involved with more than one
group.
The Department of Astronomy maintains several cooperative research agreements with NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center which is about 5 miles from the University of Maryland College Park campus. These agreements allow our faculty and graduate students to participate in a wide variety of space physics and astronomy research projects. These are usually satellite based projects in high-energy astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic-ray physics, and solar system astrophysics. Other Research-related Links:
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Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-2421 Phone: (301) 405-3001 FAX: (301) 314-9067 Comments and questions may be directed to webmaster@astro.umd.edu
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16-Nov-2007.
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