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 30 – Direct collapse black holes, nuclear stellar discs, and machine learning merger histories
In this episode, Payel and Nicole delve into more JWST discoveries and further pushing the frontier of machine learning in astronomy – ultra-deep view of the cosmic web, machine-learning deep images to look for mergers, a direct collapse black hole explanation to Little Red Dots, machine-learning the Milky Way to reveal complex star formation histories…
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Episode 29 – Exploding stars, carbon stars, and starbursting pseudo little red dots
In this episode, Michelle and Nicole explore recent findings on Thamnos, carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Supernova Type Ia as cosmic probes, and an intriguing object identified as a ‘pseudo little red dot’.
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Episode 2: October
This month, Payel and Michelle sit down to discuss a range of exciting new results including a disappearing star, news moons of Uranus, star formation in extremely metal poor galaxies and unusual young stars in the Milky Way disk. Plus, we make a plug for the extremely useful local_volume_database project. Papers discussed this month: The…
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Episode 1: The pilot!
In our first podcast, we sit down to discuss a few papers from September, including a trio of new galaxies, the initial mass function, the building blocks of the Milky Way and are we alone in the Universe? Papers in this month’s episode: Three Quenched, Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Direction of NGC 300: New…
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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