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Andrea Sacchi

Center for Astrophysics

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Andrea Sacchi

andrea.sacchi@cfa.harvard.edu

About

Dr. Sacchi studies accretion onto supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes, with a particular focus on tidal disruption events and other peculiar X-ray transients.

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Chandra

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA’s flagship X-ray observatory, providing essential data on everything from the environment surrounding newborn stars to the emissions from hot plasma inside galaxy clusters. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), as part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, manages Chandra’s day-to-day operations, providing spacecraft control, observation planning, and data processing for astronomers. Chandra is one of NASA’s orbiting Great Observatories, along with the Hubble.

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