StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papers
StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papers
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Hello! Welcome to the StarXiv, hosted by Dr Michelle Collins and Dr Payel Das. This is a biweekkly podcast that delves into the latest astronomy papers & results from the arXiv. Michelle and Payel are astronomers at the University of Surrey. They love research, but struggle to find time to read a lot of papers. They’re hoping this podcast fixes that. The beautiful logo is designed by Izzy Gray, a PhD student currently studying at the University of Surrey.
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The podcast covers a variety of astronomical topics, including dark matter, black hole research, planetary discovery, and machine learning applications in cosmology, with episodes exploring themes such as constraints on mixed dark matter, black hole survival, and the potential detection of Earth-like planets.

Hello! Welcome to the StarXiv, hosted by Dr Michelle Collins and Dr Payel Das. This is a biweekly podcast that delves into the latest astronomy papers & results from the arXiv. Michelle and Payel are astronomers at the University of Surrey. They love research, but struggle to find time to read a lot of papers. They’re hoping this podcast fixes that. The beautiful logo is designed by Izzy Gray, a PhD student currently studying at the University of Surrey.
In this episode, Nicole and Payel discuss a stellar system located towards the Galactic bulge, the structure of filaments in the cosmic web, the homogeneity of the chemical compositions of exoplanets born in the same disc, and the possibility of water-rich hot super Earths.
Check out the papers below:
The multi-age stellar populations of Terzan 5 as revealed by JWST Giorga Zullo et al.
Universal Dark-matter Density Profiles of Cosmic Filaments Peng Xu et al.
A Chemical Mismatch Between Young Stars and Their Inner Disks Diogo Souto et al.
Super-Earth masses and stellar abundances from NIRPS reveal tentative evidence for water-rich formation around M dwarfs Drew Weisserman et al.

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