Astrobites at AAS 239 Virtual Events: Day 4-5
We report on Days 4 and 5 of the virtual events based around the cancelled winter AAS meeting.
These stars are never ever getting back together!
Happy Red’s release week, swifties! Today we discuss a paper about RED giants, and how you can tell if they had undergone a merger or not!
UR: Phase Difference and Metallicity of RR Lyrae Variable Stars
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, explore how Anna McElhannon is investigating the relationship between pulsation and metallicity in RR Lyrae stars!
Searching for Megastructures
New research models how megastructures such as Dyson Spheres can influence the properties of their host star.
UR: Using Gaussian Processes to Study Exoplanet Transits and Stellar Variability Simultaneously
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Larissa Palethorpe finds a way to get more information out of transit light curves.
Video Did Not Kill the Radio Star
What if the northern lights danced around the poles of…stars? Today’s authors investigate strange radio emission from our smallest stellar neighbors.