Discussion

Jake Bennett: The growth of the earliest quasars

Daniel Eisenstein: High-redshift galaxies with JWST Access to z>10 galaxies is being revolutionized by JWST, both with imaging and spectroscopy. Sources are reasonably plentiful and reveal a wide range of behaviors, but the uncertainties in the estimation...

Jesse Han: Cold (1e4K) gas in the Galactic CGM As simulations of the CGM become more sophisticated, there are increasingly more diverse predictions of the dynamical/physical state of the cold phase. Until future-generation X-ray telescopes come online...

Igor Chilingarian: Intermediate-mass black holes: joining observations, simulations and theory Finding and characterizing the population of intermediate-mass black holes will allow us to answer one of the key questions in extragalactic astrophysics: "How...

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?

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...

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"...