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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…
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Episode 3: December
In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss six papers covering topics like ultra-diffuse galaxies, the Omega Centauri cluster, and insights from JWST. The extended podcast aims to explore diverse research while transitioning to biweekly episodes in the New Year, maintaining a 30-minute format. They’ll return in 2025.
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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…
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