UR: Mass segregation in star clusters: nature or nurture?
In today’s undergraduate research post, we see that massive stars are often found in the centers of stellar clusters. Are they born there or do they move there at a later stage?
UR: Constraining the Circumbinary Disk Tilt in the KH 15D system
In today’s undergraduate research post, the unusual brightness changes of the famous ‘Winking Star’ binary system is used to constrain properties of the disk that surrounds this intriguing system.
UR #32: Simulations of Black Hole Evolution over Cosmic Time Periods
Today’s undergraduate research post features a student who uses computer simulations to simulate black holes and how they evolve over billions of years.
UR #31: Using electron-beam lithography to improve X-ray gratings
EBL is capable of producing gratings with high enough resolutions to be used in next-generation X-ray observatories.
UR #30: How do you grow a galaxy?
Using new observations from the UVCANDELS survey, a possible link between recent star formation, merger frequency, and the size-mass evolution of massive, quiescent galaxies is investigated.
UR #28: Photometry and Analysis of a Sample of Quasars on Archival Yerkes Observatory Photographic Plates
Today’s guest post looks at the work of undergraduate physics student Buduka Ogonor on using astronomical photographic plates to study quasars.