Event Type: Journal Club

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

Yadira Gaibor & Mark Vogelsberger

August 22, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 1: Michael Reefe Advisor: Michael McDonald Cold gas and star formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWST                                  Paper Talk 2: Melinda Soares-Furtado Constraints from planets in young, nearby moving groups

Alexander Yelland & Vincent MacKay

August 22, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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                                                                                              

Devin Becker & Matthew Mould

August 21, 2024

Talk 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   

Rahul Jayaraman & Sara Seager

August 21, 2024

Talk 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                 

Haochen Wang & Kevin Burdge

August 21, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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, 2024

Talk 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 JWST                Paper JWST validates HST distance measurements: Selection of supernova subsample explains differences in JWST estimates of local H0           Â