🔭 fantastic article about the SAGA survey!
A very cool research+outreach postdoc opportunity: aas.org/jobregister/...
This is seriously lifechanging I can now copy files in peace
This is amazing!!
Apropos to recent events in the literary world, I have written a long essay on why a) you should not idolize creative people, b) come to think of it, you shouldn't idolize anyone, c) holy fuck you really should not idolize ME. whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...
In the wake of the various recent allegations involving Neil Gaiman, people have been both very sad that someone who they looked up to as an inspiration has, allegedly, turned out to be something l…
I am very excited about this paper by Yuan-Sen Ting and myself on arxiv tonight! We show that local dwarf galaxies can retain signatures of early bursty star formation in their chemical patterns, and show that the Sculptor dSph could have such a signature. arxiv.org/abs/2408.06807 🔭
Dwarf galaxy star formation histories are theoretically expected to be bursty, potentially leaving distinct imprints on their chemical evolution. We propose that episodic starbursts with quiescent...
This type of model pushes the limits of current data, needing large numbers of precise abundances that will be possible in coming years with PFS/4MOST/ELTs. It’s also extremely powerful, providing unprecedented time resolution in low-mass dwarf galaxies inaccessible with direct observations.
YST and I realized that you can get really large metallicity gaps due to Type Ia SNe enrichment during long quiescent periods in a galaxy’s star formation history. The SNe keep going off even though you stop forming stars, which can show up in chemical evolution.