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 7: black holes, stealthy satellites and the distance to DF2
In this episode of The Starxiv, Michelle and Payel discuss a revised distance for the controversial ultra-diffuse galaxy, DF2; a discovery of a supermassive black hole in an ultra compact dwarf; 2 galaxies hiding in plain sight; and how statistical mechanics may help with dark matters cusp-core problem. Michelle and Payel also have to put
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Episode 6: Einstein rings, black holes and ringed galaxies
In this episode, Payel and Michelle delve into the arXiv and discuss standard sirens, gravitational lenses, a very metal poor stellar stream and a cosmic bullseye! Candidate intermediate-mass black hole discovered in an extremely young low-metallicity cluster in the tadpole galaxy KUG 1138+327 – Wang & Ott Spinning spectral sirens: Robust cosmological measurement using mass-spin
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Episode 5: Galaxies, gas accretion & Aliens
Arriving in your ears on February 10th, our latest installment includes transfer learning to detect low surface brightness galaxies, hot and cold gas accretion, an unusual finding in a filament, details of our proto-Galaxy, and the search for intelligent life! DES to HSC: Detecting low surface brightness galaxies in the Abell 194 cluster using transfer
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Episode 4: January 2025
In this month’s edition, Michelle and Payel dive into the New Year with papers on machine learning, star formation in low mass galaxies and working out just how early in the Universe planets can form. Papers discussed this month: Habitable Worlds Formed at Cosmic Dawn Whalen et al. The puzzle of isolated and quenched dwarf
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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