Event Type: Journal Club

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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                                                                                              

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   

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                 

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

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

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