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I’ve Got Some Ocean Front Property… around a White Dwarf
Stars like the Sun will eventually become white dwarfs, and some planets might hang on through the process. Today’s paper investigates whether such planets could hold onto their water.
Over the Limit: Accretion and Feedback of Early Black Holes
Merry Christmas! In today’s bite, learn how simulations of black hole accretion and feedback are informing our understanding of the evolution of the earliest black holes.
It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your H2O
Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface?
LISA Pathfinder: These magnetic results will attract your attention
This organized magnetic noise is so fresh, so clean.
A Little Red Dot by any other name would smell just like a Green Pea!?
Are Green Pea galaxies the local counterparts of the famous Little Red Dots that are found in the early universe? Read ahead to find out!
AGB stars can have a little PIE, as a treat
Proton ingestion events in AGB stars are thought to trigger i-process nucleosynthesis. Today’s authors construct detailed stellar models to investigate this phenomenon!
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How to Attend your First Conference
Last month I attended my first conference as a graduate student — I went to Extreme Solar Systems II (joined by my fellow Astrobites authors Courtney, Ellie, Lauren, and Sukrit). I learned a lot about what to do (and what not to do!) from my experiences during the conference.
Applying for the NSF: Our own experiences
In this post, some of the astrobites authors share their experiences applying for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). In a previous astrobite, we discussed the application process and materials. Applications for the 2012 fellowship are now open (at http://www.nsfgrfp.org/) and the deadline for astronomy is November 15th. Ellie: My officemate at the time was the first to read my essays and probably had the biggest impact (thanks Anna P!) She helped me structure my essays so that they presented my accomplishments clearly and concisely, such that a hurried reader would easily be able to get a sense of who I am and what I’ve done. The result was that my essays had a thesis, a conclusion and topic sentences for each paragraph. My advisors also read them; one memorable piece of advice they gave me is to say “I” instead of “we” when talking about my research project. I also asked an exoplanet expert to check the facts in the proposed research essay (who kindly obliged despite having only just met me). On that subject – I wrote my project proposal on a different area of astronomy than I had done my undergrad research. That meant I spent a lot of time on astro-ph, familiarizing myself with totally new material; additionally, I made sure to point out that the skills I had learned were applicable to a new subject. I think that it would have been helpful to enlist the aid of someone familiar with exoplanets early on, but the benefit of going at it myself is that I really had to read the papers and think about…
Getting Out of a Research Slump
Odds are, if you’re doing research, you’ve experienced a research slump. The bad news is that this is fairly unavoidable: it happens to everyone. The good news is that there are tricks you can try to help get yourself out of the slump and become more productive and efficient. Read on to find out more!
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