I'm in Rome for the Euclid Consortium Meeting
🔭🧪🎢🧑🔬Educators: Do real research with NASA Astronomers! The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) invites US-based teachers to apply for its one-year program. Travel costs are included! Deadline: September 13, 2024 for the 2025 program year. nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu
NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program
This is as good as it will get from LA. I'm hoping that everyone that has traveled far will have clear skies.
I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750). To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
Oh hey I did not see that JWST-MIRI imaging of HR 8799 had come out!! Hey look, planets!!!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2310.134...
Proof that every picture is worth a thousand words! The James Webb Space Telescope observed a quasar (an active supermassive black hole) and captured information about the motions of gas in several nearby galaxies. Each color represents the relative speeds of the gas: webbtelescope.pub/3SkWPnQ
I'm hiring a postdoc! If you are or know anyone interested in working on black hole transients and variability, please apply or pass along the word! jobregister.aas.org/ad/cbafba08
Paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2401.16469 We use the background galaxies in the SAGA survey to infer the efficiency of winds driven by star formation in low-mass galaxies. We find a mass-loading factor of ~1: consistent with direct observations, but smaller than what some sims predict at these masses.
