Astrobites takes over Reddit – June 11
Starting tomorrow (Thursday June 11), Astrobites will be hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” on /r/science! The thread will go live at 8 AM Eastern, and Astrobiters will be responding to your questions by 1 PM.
Forming Rings in a Protoplanetary Disk
The authors of today’s paper show that the locations of the protoplanetary gaps in HL Tau are to be expected from the condensation points of common ices in the disk.
C-3PO, PhD: Machine Learning in Astronomy
AutoScan was able to correctly identify real sources in the validation set 96% of the time, with a false detection (claiming an artifact to be a source) rate of only 2.5%.
A Possible Detection of Dark Matter in a Dwarf Galaxy!
If dark matter particles can collide to release gamma-rays, the best place to see them will be in the centers of dwarf galaxies. Archival Fermi-LAT images around Reticulum 2 show the first ever detection of gamma-rays from a dwarf galaxy. Dark matter detection may be close at hand!