Event Type: Journal Club
Ethan Taylor & Hans Moritz Gunther
October 4, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 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             Â
Joheen Chakraborty & Benjamin Schneider
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Devin Becker & Salvatore Vitale
October 4, 2024Talk 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   Â
Kaitlyn Shin & Max Tegmark
October 4, 2024Talk 1: Kaitlyn Shin Advisors: Kiyoshi Masui Updating the first CHIME/FRB catalog with voltage data Talk 2: Max Tegmark Â
Emma Chickles & Adam Lanman
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â Â Â Â
Geoffrey Mo & Nuno Loureiro
October 4, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 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, 2024Talk 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 Â
Kai-feng Chen & Brett McGuire
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Swati Ravi & Kishalay De
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Sofia Alvarez-Lopez & Edmund Bertschinger
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
Xiaowei Ou & Avi Shporer
October 4, 2024Talk 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 Â
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