In this episode, Michelle and Payel squash in more papers than ever, as Michelle delves into a flurry of papers about new newly discovered interstellar comet: 3I/ATLAS. They also discuss what sets the metallicities of the faintest galaxies, how nitrogen enrichment relates to gas density, the molten properties of a new ultra-short period planets, and how to find 'dak' galaxies!

Find the papers we discuss in this episode below!

What Sets the Metallicity of Ultra-Faint Dwarfs? - Vance Wheeler et al

CLASSY XIV: Nitrogen Enrichment Shaped by Gas Density and Feedback - Karla C. Arellano-Cordova et al.

Where are all the dark galaxies? Predicting galaxy/halo locations from their bright neighbors - Alice Chen & Niayesh Afshordi

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf - Kaya Han Tas et al.

From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Åtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population model - Matthew J. Hopkins et al.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: discovery and physical description - Bryce T. Bolin et al.

Initial VLT/MUSE spectroscopy of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS - Cyielle Opitom et al.

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This episode, Michelle is back and she and Payel discuss long period pulsars, population III galaxies, latent variables in Galactic archaeology, accreted globular clusters, planets that cause their star to flare and avoiding photo0z catastrophes.

Check out the papers we discussed this episode below!

Metal-polluted PopIII galaxies and How to Find Them – Elka Rusta et al.

Close-in planet induces flares on its host star – Ekaterina Ilin et al.

Accreted Globular Clusters and Horizontal Branch Morphology in the Outer Halo of M31 – Gracie McGill et al.

A binary origin of ultra-long period radio pulsars – Ying-Han Mao et al.

Avoiding (photo-z) Catastrophe – A. J. Battisti et al.

Causal Discovery of Latent Variables in Galactic Archaeology – Zehao Jin et al.

In this episode, we had Payel and Nicole filling in for Michelle who’s away on holiday. Nicole is a PhD student, also at the University of Surrey Astrophysics research group. They discuss the direct detection of HI beyond the local universe, how the Milky Way seems unusually cold, a planetary system with two misaligned planets, detecting stars of common origin through the ratio of alpha elements produced through hydrostatic channels to those produced through explosive ones, twin collisional-ring galaxies, and the impact of the initial mass function on chemical evolution at high redshift.

Read this episode's papers through the links below!

MIGHTEE-HI: The direct detection of neutral hydrogen in galaxies at z>0.25 - Matt J. Jarvis et al.

Stellar Velocity Dispersion versus Age: Consistency across Observations and Simulations, with the Milky Way as an Outlier - Fiona McCluskey et al.

JWST Coronagraphic Images of 14 Her c: a Cold Giant Planet in a Dynamically Hot, Multi-planet System - Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi et al.

Hydrostatic and explosive α-element chemical abundances of Milky Way globular clusters, halo substructures, and satellite galaxies - Danny Horta and Melissa Ness

The Cosmic Owl: Twin Active Collisional Ring Galaxies with Starburst Merging Front at z=1.14 - Mingyu Li et al.

Impact of initial mass function on the chemical evolution of high-redshift galaxies - Boyuan Liu et al.

In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss why dark matter halos have a Universal density profile, how to age-date Pluto's surface with craters, delayed Pop III star formation, dwarf candidates in the UNIONS survey, a problem with Europium and whether Little Red Dots are really AGN. Listen below, on Spotify, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

Read this episodes papers through the links below!

Collisionless relaxation to quasi-steady state attractors in cold dark matter halos: origin of the universal NFW profile - Uddipan Banik, Amitava Bhattacharjee

Pluto Geologic Map: Use of Crater Data to Understand Age Relationships - Kelsi N. Singer et al.

Bursty or heavy? The surprise of bright Population III systems in the Reionization era - Alessandra Venditti et al.

Galaxies OBserved as Low-luminosity Identified Nebulae (GOBLIN): a catalog of 43,000 high-probability dwarf galaxy candidates in the UNIONS survey - Nick Heesters et al.

Europium, we have a problem. Modelling r-process enrichment across Local Group galaxies - Marco Palla et al.

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions - María de las Mercedes Carranza Escudero

This episode, Michelle and Payel are very on-theme as they discuss whether Little Red Dots can be explained by super Eddington accretion; the high abundances of nitrogen to oxygen in the most distant galaxies and whether this is tied to globular cluster formation; the stellar graveyard in galaxies, and claims of signs of life in distant world. Listen below, on Spotify, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

Check out this episode's papers on the arXiv below!

Super-Eddington accretion in high-redshift quasar hosts: black-hole driven outflows, galaxy quenching, and the nature of Little Red Dots - Giada Quadri et al.

Connecting JWST discovered N/O-enhanced galaxies to globular clusters: Evidence from chemical imprints - Xihan Ji et al

Insufficient evidence for DMS and DMDS in the atmosphere of K2-18 b. From a joint analysis of JWST NIRISS, NIRSpec, and MIRI observations - R. Luque et al.

Chandra Rules Out Super-Eddington Accretion For Little Red Dots - Andrea Sacchi and Akos Bogdan

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at zspec=14.44 Confirmed with JWST - Rohan Naidu et al

Stellar population modelling of neutron stars and black holes: spatially-resolved graveyards in MaNGA/SDSS-IV galaxies - Claudia Maraston et al.

In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss whether wandering intermediate black holes are mythical or not, how planes of satellites may form from cosmic accretion, how to form double hot Jupiters, whether Kelper's supernova remnant is an 'alien', whether Unions I is the faintest star cluster or the faintest galaxy, and just how old our globular clusters are. Listen below or check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

You can check out all the papers we discuss this episode using the links below!

Wandering intermediate-mass black holes in Milky Way-mass galaxies in cosmological simulations: myth or reality? - Floor van Donkelaar

Zippers and Twisters: Planes of Satellite Galaxies Emerge from Whirling and Shocking Gas Streams in the Cosmic Web - Janvi P. Madhani et al.

Double Hot Jupiters Through ZLK Migration - Yurou Liu, Tiger Lu and Malena Rice

Alien-Type-Ia supernovae from the Milky Way merger history and one possible candidate -- Kepler's supernova - Wenlang He et al.

Reevaluating UMa3/U1: star cluster or the smallest known galaxy? - Scot Devlin et al.

The Absolute Age of Milky Way Globular Clusters - Jiaqi Ying et al.

This episode, Michelle and Payel delve into the latest constraints on mixed dark matter from the Lyman alpha forest, what happens to stars that get a little too close to a black hole, how machine learning can help identify stars likely to host an Earth-like planet, studying the dark ages from the Moon and witnessing the birth of nuclear star clusters! Check out the episode and papers below!

Constraining Mixed Dark Matter models with high redshift Lyman-alpha forest data - Olga Garcia-Gallego et al.

Black Hole Survival Guide: Searching for Stars in the Galactic Center That Endure Partial Tidal Disruption - Rewa Clark Bush et al.

Earth-like planet predictor: A machine learning approach - Jeanne Davoult et al.

Detecting the 21 cm Signal of the Cosmic Dark Ages - Willow Smith and Jonathan Pober

Evidence of star cluster migration and merger in dwarf galaxies - Mélina Poulain et al.

In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss how you can slow down a galaxy’s bar, scaling relations for black holes, whether we can use intracluster light to learn about dark matter, little red dots, AI cosmologists and pasta sauce for all your plotting needs! Check out our episode – and the papers that inspired it – below.

Tidal interaction can stop galactic bars: on the LMC non-rotating bar– Óscar Jiménez-Arranz & Santi Roca-Fabrega

Evidence for evolutionary pathway-dependent black hole scaling relations – Jonathan Cohn et al.

pastamarkers 2: pasta sauce colormaps for your flavorful results – The PASTA collaboration

Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters – J. Butler et al.

Formation of the Little Red Dots from the Core-collapse of Self-interacting Dark Matter Halos – Fangzhou Jiang et al

The AI Cosmologist I: An Agentic System for Automated Data Analysis – Adam Moss