Welcome to the StarXiv! A monthly podcast that delves into the latest astronomy papers & results from the arXiv.
Hosted by Michelle, Payel, and Nicole.
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Episode 27: Making a Milky Way, searching for dwarfs, and elusive black holes
In this episode, Michelle and Payel explore various astrophysical topics, including the Solar birth cluster, young stars, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, and the universe’s decelerated expansion. They also discuss strong lens detection by Euclid and solar flare predictions.
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Episode 26: A tail of tales, little galaxies, and starspots
In this episode, Michelle and Payel explore various astrophysical topics, including the Solar birth cluster, young stars, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, and the universe’s decelerated expansion. They also discuss strong lens detection by Euclid and solar flare predictions.
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Episode 11: Whirling planes, wandering black holes and alien supernovae
In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss whether wandering intermediate black holes are mythical or not, how planes of satellites may form from cosmic accretion, how to form double hot Jupiters, whether Kelper’s supernova remnant is an ‘alien’, whether Unions I is the faintest star cluster or the faintest galaxy, and just how old our
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Episode 10 – Mixing dark matter, surviving black holes and hunting for planets
This episode, Michelle and Payel delve into the latest constraints on mixed dark matter from the Lyman alpha forest, what happens to stars that get a little too close to a black hole, how machine learning can help identify stars likely to host an Earth-like planet, studying the dark ages from the Moon and witnessing
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Episode 9 – slowing bars, growing black holes, pasta sauces and AI
In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss how you can slow down a galaxy’s bar, scaling relations for black holes, whether we can use intracluster light to learn about dark matter, little red dots, AI cosmologists and pasta sauce for all your plotting needs! Check out our episode – and the papers that inspired it
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Episode 8 – Cosmology, pulsars and dark matter in disk galaxies
In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss the longest period pulsar, the formation of nuclear star clusters, the recent data releases from ACT and DESI, dark spiral arms and the problem with rotation curves. Papers in this episode: The discovery of a 41-second radio pulsar PSR J0311+1402 with ASKAP – Yuanming Wang et al. Seeding
The Hosts
Payel Das & Michelle Collins are astronomers at the University of Surrey. They love research, but struggle to find time to read a lot of papers. They’re hoping this podcast fixes that. Nicole Buckley is a PhD student at the University of Surrey. She loves reading papers!
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