Women’s History Month: Dr. Ekta Patel
In today’s post, we interview Dr. Ekta Patel, a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, about her astronomy journey.
Weighing scales for galaxy groups: Dynamical mass of the Centaurus A system
Today’s authors use orbital measurements to dynamically “weigh” a group of galaxies. Read on to learn about this method and how the Centaurus A group may be missing some matter!
Adversarial Networks, Collaborative Cosmology
Can fake data help to make real computational gains? In today’s paper, the authors describe using machine learning to boost the resolution of cosmological simulations.
Exploring the Invisible Milky Way
Today’s paper looks at our own galaxy to measure its dark matter halo mass.
A story of light and darkness
There’s a problem with dark matter, and two possible solutions: bright, luminous supernovae, or dark matter itself.
A Dark Matter Fossil Record: Using Geology to Probe Time-Varying Dark Matter Signals
Move over, dinosaurs — the search for fossilized dark matter is the new trend in (galactic) geology.