The Center of Astrostatistics is a collaborative effort between the Astronomy Department and the Statistics Department. The center serves as a crossroads where researchers at the interfaces between statistics, data analysis, astronomy, space and observational physics collaborate, develop and share methodologies, and together prepare the next generation of researchers. In doing so the Center hopes to finds ways around the challenges that now face the modern astronomer such as the growing volume of data out there to research.

Find Out More

• Center for Astrostatistics at Penn State University
• Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP)
• StatCodes - On-line Statistics Software
• Dr. Feigelson's Astrostatistics Site

Recent Developments

• 11 May 2005 - Scientists have for the first time detected and pinned down the location of a so-called "short" gamma-ray burst, lasting only 50 milliseconds which marks the birth of a blackhole. Read the Article

• 10 May 2005 - New results from observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which imply that X-ray super-flares torched our young Solar System. Such flares likely affected the planet-forming disk around the early Sun, and may have enhanced the survival chances of Earth. Read the Article