This episode, Michelle and Payel discuss the Solar birth cluster, young stars with high alpha abundances, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, decelerated expansion of the Universe, strong lens detection in Euclid and predicting solar flares. Listen below, on Spotify, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

Check out the papers we discussed below

Spectroscopic Follow-up of Young High-α Dwarf Star Candidates: Still Likely Genuinely Young – Yuxi Lu

Limits on Stellar Flybys in the Solar Birth Cluster – Amir Siraj, Christopher F. Chyba, Scott Tremaine

Strong Progenitor Age-bias in Supernova Cosmology. II. Alignment with DESI BAO and Signs of a Non-Accelerating Universe – Junhyuk Son

Seeds to success: growing heavy black holes in dense star clusters – Lavinia Paiella

Solar flare forecasting with foundational transformer models across image, video, and time-series modalities – S. Riggi et al.

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Searching for giant gravitational arcs in galaxy clusters with mask region-based convolutional neural networks – Euclid Collaboration, L. Bazzanini, et al.