Event Type: Journal Club
Jacob Willis & Xuejian ‘Jacob’ Shen
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Cailin Plunkett & Xinghui Yin
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Honggeun Kim & Jeroen Audenaert
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Teodora Bulichi & Andrew Vanderburg
October 4, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 1: Dominika Durovcikova Advisor: Christina Eilers First rest-frame infrared spectrum of a z>7 quasar: JWST/MRS observations of J1120+0641Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Paper Talk 2: Kevin Burdge
Carol Cuesta Lazaro & Alex Gagliano
October 4, 2024Talk 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                        Â
Noah Wolfe & Catherine Grant
October 4, 2024Talk 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 AMSÂ Â Â Â Â Paper
Christopher Layden & Riccardo Arcodia
October 4, 2024Talk 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?             Â
David DePalma & Erin Kara
October 4, 2024Talk 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=1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Paper Talk 2: Erin Kara UV/optical disk reverberation lags despite a faint x-ray corona in the AGN Mrk 335Â Â Â Â Â
Rahul Jayaraman & Matthew Evans
October 4, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 1: Alexander Yelland Advisor: Peter Fisher Talk 2: Christos Panagiotou
Michael Reefe & Kevin Burdge
October 4, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 1: Eleanor Rath Advisor: Jacqueline Hewitt A first detection of neutral hydrogen intensity mapping on Mpc scales at z=0.32 and z=0.44Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Paper Talk 2: Sarah Trowbridge Heine Soft x-ray polarimeter development and prototype measurements Â
Abdelaziz Hussein & Tracy Slatyer
October 4, 2024Talk 1: Megan Masterson Advisor: Lina Necib Evaporation barrier for dark matter in celestial bodies               Paper Talk 2: Tracy Slatyer Â
Megan Masterson & Daniele Michilli
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Katiya Fosdick & Minghao Yue
October 4, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 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 Â
Christopher Layden & Kenzie Nimmo
August 22, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 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
Yadira Gaibor & Mark Vogelsberger
August 22, 2024Talk 1: Yadira Gaibor Advisor: Andrew Vanderburg Common envelope evolution and exoplanets around white dwarfs Talk 2: Mark Vogelsberger The Thesan Project: a brief overview
Emma Chickles & Xuejian Shen
August 22, 2024Talk 1: Emma Chickles Advisors: Kevin Burdge, George Ricker Shifting perspectives on Type Ia supernova progenitors Talk 2: Xuejian Shen First results from the THESAN-ZOOM simulations
Michael Reefe & Melinda Soares-Furtado
August 22, 2024Talk 1: Michael Reefe Advisor: Michael McDonald Cold gas and star formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWSTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Paper Talk 2: Melinda Soares-Furtado Constraints from planets in young, nearby moving groups
Alexander Yelland & Vincent MacKay
August 22, 2024Talk 1: Alexander Yelland Advisor: Anna Frebel Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars in nearby systems Talk 2: Vincent MacKay Designing uv-complete radio arrays
Laurel Violet White & Adam Lanman
August 22, 2024Talk 1: Laurel Violet White Advisor: Michael McDonald Abell 1885: a case study on AGN feedback in galaxy clusters Talk 2: Adam Lanman The first CHIME/FRB Outrigger FRB host galaxies
Joheen Chakraborty & Riccardo Arcodia
August 22, 2024Talk 1: Joheen Chakraborty Advisor: Erin Kara An IMBH lurking in a galactic halo caught alive during outburst               Paper Talk 2: Riccardo Arcodia X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions: where do we stand?
Abdelaziz Hussein & Deep Chatterjee
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Abdelaziz Hussein Advisor: Lina Necib Constraining the Milky Way’s inner dark matter distribution using hydrodynamic simulations Talk 2: Deep Chatterjee Machine Learning algorithms for real-time gravitational wave science          Paper
Megan Masterson & Michael McDonald
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Megan Masterson Advisor: Erin Kara Millihertz oscillations near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole Talk 2: Michael McDonald A new window into ICM cooling via JWST
Xiuyuan Zhang & Eric Miller
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Xiuyuan Zhang Advisor: Lina Necib Constraints on dark photon dark matter from Lyman-a forest simulations and an ultra-high signal-to-noise quasar spectrum                                                             Â
Devin Becker & Matthew Mould
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Devin Becker Advisor: Scott Hughes Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge for eccentric binaries                Paper Talk 2: Mathew Mould Surprises from the spins of black holes in relativistic binaries… Endpoint of the up-down instability in precessing binary black holes Â
Rahul Jayaraman & Sara Seager
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Rahul Jayaraman Advisor: George Ricker Gamma-ray bursts observed by TESS: Prompt optical counterparts and afterglows of Swift-XRT localized GRBs            Paper Talk 2: Sara Seager Fully fluorinated non-carbon compounds NF3 and SF6 as ideal technosignature gases        Â
Haochen Wang & Kevin Burdge
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Haochen Wang Advisor: Kiyoshi Masui Demonstration of hybrid foreground removal on CHIME data             Paper Talk 2: Kevin Burdge Lightspeed: a new ultrafast imager for Magellan
Eleanor Rath & Paul Schechter
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Investigating mutual coupling in the HERA and mitigating its effects on the 21-cm power spectrum Talk 2: Falor’s exact, forward, differentiable solution to the quadruply lensed quasar problem MIT undergrad Chirag Falor has come up with an exact, forward, differentiable solution to a problem that, for the past 45 years, has only been
Kai-feng Chen & Minghao Yue
August 21, 2024Talk 1: Kai-feng Chen Advisor: Jacqueline Hewitt Status report on the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (CCHP): Three independent astrophysical determinants of the Hubble Constant using JWSTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Paper JWST validates HST distance measurements: Selection of supernova subsample explains differences in JWST estimates of local H0Â Â Â Â Â Â Â