2023-24

Yifei Jin (CfA): "Towards the comprehensive nebular emission-line modeling." Emma Esparza-Borges (IAC): Detecting molecules in the atmosphere of WASP-39b applying standard cross-correlation techniques to JWST data Eric Koch (SMA Fellow) Resolving the...

Dipto Mukherjee (Carnegie Mellon) Rachel Patton (Ohio State): Binary Interaction and the Explodability of Massive Stars S. Furkan Ozturk (Harvard): Origin of biological homochirality by crystallization of an RNA precursor on a magnetic surface Daichi...

Jacob Shen (MIT) "The Implication of UV Variability for the Bright Galaxy Abundance at Cosmic Dawn" Rahul Jayaraman (MIT) "Finding and Characterizing Gamma-Ray Bursts with TESS" Claire Lamman (Harvard): "The Intrinsic Alignment of DESI Galaxies" Igor...

Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro: Machine learning for astrophysics What discoveries in astro have been powered by machine learning? How much more will we be able to do in the future? What particular areas of astro benefit from ML? What are the risks?

Juliana Cherston (new Brinson Fellow) The Well-Dressed Spacecraft: Thermal Blankets and Textiles For Interstellar Dust Metrology Konstantin Gerbig (Yale) Underwater Sand Ripples but in Dusty Protoplanetary Disks: New Diffusive Instabilities Olga Borodina...

Cassi Lochhaas (new Hubble & ITC Fellow) "The Non-equilibrium Circumgalactic Medium in the FOGGIE Simulations" Mike Foley (Harvard) "Shock-Turbulence Interactions in Star Formation" Eric Keto (CfA) "Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds by Entropy...

SMBHs in Milky Way Satellite Galaxies The case for a SMBH in Leo I is gaining steam, and a discussion of the implications of such discovery could be interesting for several aspects of astrophysics, including galaxy formation, evolution, and black hole...

Beatrice Kulterer (new postdoc) "Post-outburst Chemistry in a VeLLO" Akos Bogdan (CfA) "Supermassive black holes in the highest redshift galaxies" Yvette Cendes (CfA) "On Ubiquitous Late Radio Emission in Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs)" Vadim Semenov (ITC...

Fast Blue Optical Transients A new class of transients - Fast Blue Optical Transients - has recently been discovered, with around 5 such objects observationally confirmed. As yet, there is no fully fleshed-out theoretical explanation for these objects...

The New Milky Way near the Sun Combinations of 3D dust maps of the ISM and 3D measurements of the motions of young stars have recently revealed two previously unseen phenomena: 1.) a gigantic undulation in the Local Arm of the Galaxy ("The Radcliffe Wave"...