CfA astronomers Morgan MacLeod, Caroline Huang, Andrea Dupree, and Avi Loeb just presented a new explanation for Betelgeuse's Great Dimming of early 2020. They think that the outburst was caused by a particularly hot, energetic convective plume bursting out of the star's boiling surface, and simulated the process in a new paper ...
A planet, roughly the size of Jupiter, was swallowed by its host star. We got to watch the energetic "burp" that followed. This discovery is the culmination of a collaborative effort between many observational and theoretical facilities. The observations, led by Kishalay De (MIT), were interpreted by Morgan MacLeod (CfA), shaping our understanding of this event as the swallowing of a planet.
Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Research Positions in the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. One of the primary objectives of the ITC is to integrate conceptual theory with computational modeling. We are, therefore, interested in candidates working in any field related to theoretical and/or numerical astrophysics. Successful candidates will have access to our new computing facilities and will have the opportunity to interact and work with researchers in both the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Smithsonian...
