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Polka-Dotted Stars: Searching for Spots on KOI-340

Polka-Dotted Stars: Searching for Spots on KOI-340

by Catherine Clark | Aug 3, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s authors search for polka dots of concentrated magnetic flux on the surface of a subgiant star.

Finding young exoplanets with machine learning

Finding young exoplanets with machine learning

by Guest | Jul 30, 2022 | Course Assignments, Daily Paper Summaries

Astronomers have a challenging task ahead of them — to find young exoplanets in protoplanetary disks. Machine Learning could potentially come to the rescue.

Defining Gravity: Can Wide Binaries be a Definitive Test of Modified Newtonian Gravity Theories?

Defining Gravity: Can Wide Binaries be a Definitive Test of Modified Newtonian Gravity Theories?

by Aldo Panfichi | Jul 23, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s paper posits that precise observations of wide binaries can be used, in conjunction with simulations, to test the validity of modified gravity theories!

The First Inference of A Magnetic Field Inside A Main Sequence Star

The First Inference of A Magnetic Field Inside A Main Sequence Star

by Lindsay DeMarchi | Jul 19, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

History has been made! The first magnetic field inside a main-sequence star has been measured!

Interview with Prof. Alicia Aarnio, Assistant Professor and AAS WGAD Founding Member

Interview with Prof. Alicia Aarnio, Assistant Professor and AAS WGAD Founding Member

by Briley Lewis | Jul 15, 2022 | Accessibility, Career Navigation, Interviews, Personal Experiences

An interview with Professor Alicia Aarnio, founding member of AAS WGAD, talking about her stellar science, and the joy and rage of navigating science with a disability.

The bared minimum: Revealing a new phase of stellar activity in HD 166620

The bared minimum: Revealing a new phase of stellar activity in HD 166620

by Graham Doskoch | Jul 13, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Four centuries ago, the Sun entered a long phase of low activity. Newly-presented data suggests that the star HD 166620 is now doing the same thing!

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