Event Type: Journal Club

TBA & Eric Oelker

November 29, 2024

TBA & Joel Villasenor

November 29, 2024

TBA & Lina Necib

October 11, 2024

Talk 1: Talk 2: Lina Necib

TBA & Misha Ivanov

October 11, 2024

Talk 1: Talk 2: Misha Ivanov

TBA & Anna Frebel

October 11, 2024

Talk 1: Talk 2: Anna Frebel

Ethan Taylor & Hans Moritz Gunther

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Ethan Taylor The emergence of star clusters, dwarf galaxies, and something in-between within the EDGE Simulation Suite Talk 2: Hans Moritz Gunther Estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures          Paper  

Meredith Neyer & Claude Canizares

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Meredith Neyer Advisor: Mark Vogelsberger Connecting ionized bubble sizes to their environments in THESAN             Paper Talk 2: Claude Canizares Hidden cooling flows in clusters of galaxies          Paper …a wider sample                           

Joheen Chakraborty & Benjamin Schneider

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Joheen Chakraborty Advisor: Erin Kara EMRI+TDE=QPE: Periodic x-ray flares from star-disk collisions in galatic nuclei               Paper Talk 2: Benjamin Schneider JWSTs first glimpses of gamma-ray burst progenitors    

Devin Becker & Salvatore Vitale

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Devin Becker Advisor: Scott Hughes Binary black holes on the brink of death: eccentric transition to plunge                Paper Talk 2: Salvatore Vitale The impact of selection biases on tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave inspirals       

Kaitlyn Shin & Max Tegmark

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Kaitlyn Shin Advisors: Kiyoshi Masui Updating the first CHIME/FRB catalog with voltage data Talk 2: Max Tegmark    

Emma Chickles & Adam Lanman

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Emma Chickles Advisors: George Ricker, Kevin Burdge Searching for short-period white dwarf binaries using ATLAS and TESS Talk 2: Adam Lanman Overview and commissioning results of the CHIME/FRB Outrigger KKO         

Geoffrey Mo & Nuno Loureiro

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Geoffrey Mo Advisors: Erik Katsavounidis Searching for gravitational-wave counterparts using TESS                      Paper Talk 2: Nuno Loureiro Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence          Paper  

Wenxuan Jia & Deep Chatterjee

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Wenxuan Jia Advisors: Matthew Evans Broadband quantum enhancement of the LIGO detectors with frequency-dependent squeezing                      Paper Talk 2: Deep Chatterjee Low-latency gravitational wave alert products and their performance in anticipation of the fourth LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA observing run           Paper  

Xiaowei Ou & Vincent MacKay

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Xiaowei Ou Advisors: Lina Necib, Anna Frebel Detection of the Keplerian decline in the Milky Way rotation curve                       Paper Talk 2: Vincent MacKay Low-cost, low-loss, ultra-wideband compact feed for interferometric radio telescopes            Paper  

Kai-feng Chen & Brett McGuire

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Kai-feng Chen Advisor: Jacqueline Hewitt Cosmology with weak-lensing peaks in the Hyper Supreme-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Talk 2: 2021 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules          Paper  

Swati Ravi & Kishalay De

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Swati Ravi Advisor: Herman Marshall Dramatic drop in the x-ray polarization of Swift J1727.8-1613 in the Soft Spectral State                   Paper Talk 2: Kishalay De A star (black hole) is born  

Sofia Alvarez-Lopez & Edmund Bertschinger

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Sofia Alvarez-Lopez Advisor: Salvatore Vitale Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5 – 4.5 M compact object and a neutron star            Paper Talk 2: Edmund Bertschinger Critical analysis of a Physics Mentor Program  

Xiaowei Ou & Avi Shporer

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Xiaowei Ou Advisors: Lina Necib, Anna Frebel Signatures of tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Talk 2: Avi Shporer GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth radios planet orbiting an M2.5 dwarf star at 15.2 pc  

Jacob Willis & Xuejian ‘Jacob’ Shen

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Jacob Willis Advisor: Kiyoshi Masui FLIMFLAM DR1: the first constraints on the cosmic baryon distribution from 8 FRB sightlines              Paper Talk 2: Xuejian ‘Jacob’ Shen Challenges for galaxy formation models at the cosmic frontier  

Cailin Plunkett & Xinghui Yin

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Cailin Plunkett Advisor: Salvatore Vitale Beyond the far side: observing black hole mergers beyond the pair-instability mass gap with next-gen gravitational wave detectors              Paper Talk 2: Xinghui Yin Table-top quantum gravitation experiments  

Honggeun Kim & Jeroen Audenaert

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Honggeun Kim Advisor: Jacqueline Hewitt Identifying ionizing bubbles in HERA observations using a U-Net Deep Learning Network Talk 2: Jeroen Audenart Leveraging Machine Learning to discover variable stars in TESS  

Teodora Bulichi & Andrew Vanderburg

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Teodora Bulichi Advisors: Christina Eilers & Mark Vogelsberger Modeling quasar proximity zones in a realistic cosmological environment with a self-consistent light curve               Paper Talk 2: Andrew Vanderburg The Tempo Survey.I.predicting yields of transiting exosatellites, moons, & planets from a 30 days survey of Orion with the Roman

Noah Wolfe & Oliver Zier

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Noah Wolfe Advisor: Salvatore Vitale Close encounters of the primordial kind, Too small to fail                       Paper Talk 2: Oliver Zier Preparing cosmological simulation codes for exascale computing

Dominika Durovcikova & Kevin Burdge

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Dominika Durovcikova Advisor: Christina Eilers First rest-frame infrared spectrum of a z>7 quasar: JWST/MRS observations of J1120+0641                      Paper Talk 2: Kevin Burdge

Carol Cuesta Lazaro & Alex Gagliano

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Carol Cuesta Lazaro MLizing cosmology: the what? how? and why? and really, why? Talk 2: Alex Gagliano Catching on quickly: reconstructing the lives of massive stars through low-latency inference                                                

Noah Wolfe & Catherine Grant

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Noah Wolfe Advisor: Salvatore Vitale Talk 2: Catherine Grant Towards precision particle background estimation for future x-ray missions: correlated variability between Chandra ACIS and AMS         Paper

Christopher Layden & Riccardo Arcodia

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Christopher Layden Advisor: George Ricker Talk 1: Strong lensing of high-energy neutrons                       Paper Talk 2: Riccardo Arcodia Introducing the eROSITA x-ray telescope and the upcoming data release: can it be useful for you?                          

David DePalma & Erin Kara

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: David DePalma Advisor: Rob Simcoe Talk 1: Directly tracing cool filamentary accretion over>100 kpc into the interstellar medium of a quasar host at z=1              Paper Talk 2: Erin Kara UV/optical disk reverberation lags despite a faint x-ray corona in the AGN Mrk 335         

Rahul Jayaraman & Matthew Evans

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Rahul Jayarman Advisor: George Ricker Talk 1: Tidally perturbed g-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries               Paper Talk 2: Matt Evans A horizon study for Cosmic Explorer: science, observatories, and community                         Paper

Alexander Yelland & Christos Panagiotou

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Alexander Yelland Advisor: Peter Fisher Talk 2: Christos Panagiotou

Michael Reefe & Kevin Burdge

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Michael Reefe Advisor: Michael McDonald UV and Ha HST observations of 6 GASP jellyfish galaxies                          Paper Talk 2: Kevin Burdge A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple

Eleanor Rath & Sarah Trowbridge Heine

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Eleanor Rath Advisor: Jacqueline Hewitt A first detection of neutral hydrogen intensity mapping on Mpc scales at z=0.32 and z=0.44                            Paper Talk 2: Sarah Trowbridge Heine Soft x-ray polarimeter development and prototype measurements  

Abdelaziz Hussein & Tracy Slatyer

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Megan Masterson Advisor: Lina Necib Evaporation barrier for dark matter in celestial bodies                             Paper Talk 2: Tracy Slatyer  

Megan Masterson & Daniele Michilli

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Megan Masterson Advisor: Erin Kara Tidal disruption event demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: volumetric rates, luminosity function, and implications for the local black hole mass function Talk 2: Daniele Michilli Detecting strongly-lensed FRBs  

Katiya Fosdick & Minghao Yue

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Katiya Fosdick Advisor: Michael McDonald A z=1.85 galaxy group in CEERS: evolved, dustless, massive Intra-Halo Light and a Brightest Group Galaxy in the making Talk 2: Minghao Yue Physical pairs of quasars: theory and observations                                    Paper

Tri Nguyen & Peter Kosec

October 4, 2024

Talk 1: Tri Nguyen Advisor: Lina Necib Not so fuzzy: excluding FDM with sizes and stellar kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies Talk 2: Peter Kosec Vertical wind structure in an x-ray binary revealed by a precessing accretion disk  

Christopher Layden & Kenzie Nimmo

August 22, 2024

Talk 1: Christopher Layden Advisor: George Ricker CHIMERA occultation constraints on the abundance of kilometer-scale Kuiper Belt objects                                                     Paper Talk 2: Kenzie Nimmo Using scintillation to constrain the emission physics

Xiaowei Ou & Kishalay De

August 22, 2024

Talk 1: Xiaowei Ou Advisors: Lina Necib, Anna Christina Eilers The rise of the R-process in the Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus dwarf galaxy                  Paper Talk 2: Kishalay De The largest infrared camera scanning the skies

TBA & Xuejian Shen

August 22, 2024

Talk 1: TBA Talk 2: TBA Image

Yadira Gaibor & Mark Vogelsberger

August 22, 2024

Talk 1: Yadira Gaibor Advisors: George Ricker, Andrew Vandenburg Talk 2:

Michael Reefe & Vincent McKay

August 22, 2024

Talk 1: Michael Reefe Advisor: Michael McDonald Talk 2: Vincent McKay