by William Lamb | Oct 12, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expect them to have!
by Ryan Golant | Aug 26, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries, Teaching
Do you like LEGOs? Do you like power laws? If you answered yes to both (which, if you’re an astronomer, you most likely did), then you’re in luck — today’s authors demonstrate how to use LEGOs to teach about power laws and mass functions!
by H Perry Hatchfield | Jan 17, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
Making a star cluster from scratch is no easy task. Today’s paper addresses the big question: what does it take to get the recipe right?
by Paddy Alton | Mar 14, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
Gravitational lenses provide an opportunity to study distant galaxies in detail. In today’s article we explore an example of how these phenomena are contributing to our understanding of galaxy evolution.
by Jesse Feddersen | Jun 29, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries
Low-mass stars are much more common than massive ones. But massive stars outshine the smaller ones a thousand to one! How can astronomers account for this hidden majority? Maybe alcohol will help…
by Josh Fuchs | Aug 5, 2014 | Daily Paper Summaries
The number and luminosity distribution of white dwarfs stars can be used to help figure out the past history of the Galactic halo.