One of the most fundamentally surprising discoveries from #JWST about the high-redshift universe. Whopping absorption features like this everywhere we look! Props to Kasper Elm Heintz for his perseverance in seeing this all the way, and grateful to play a part in the adventure!

Proud to present our work on extremely strong damped Lyman-alpha absorption in high-redshift galaxies, now published in Science Magazine 🤩

See here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

And with a fantastic news story from the NASA / STScI team here: science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/…

Two weeks ago I posted to the arXiv the result of an unbiased search for 6.8<z<9.0 [OIII] emitters in the GOODS fields using FRESCO data. Lots of high-z galaxies, interesting constraints for theorists, and hopefully lots of legacy science. arxiv.org/abs/2405.05111

JWST took a selfie today.

Looking for an independent Postdoctoral Fellowship position in Europe, with a project on Asteroseismology or Stellar dynamics? You can join the Asterics group (asterics.at) in Vienna, Austria with an ISTA Fellowship or a NOMIS-ISTA Fellowship. Feel free to reach out!

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Current prize postdocs fellows including myself will help edit proposals, brainstorm ideas, and more: aas.org/posts/news/202…

Dr. Jane Rigby is a groundbreaking astrophysicist in charge of the most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Her work embodies the American spirit of adventure and wonder.

Check out this cool work led by Minghao Yue who was able to reveal the elusive stellar light of some of the brightest quasars in the high-redshift universe, thanks to amazing data from JWST as part of the EIGER survey!

Dr. Jane Rigby, AAS Trustee, is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.

Rigby is being honored for her role in the success of the JWST mission, as well as her longtime support of diversity and inclusion in science. aas.org/press/aas-trus…

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PSA: If you are not an American citizen and are arrested in a campus protest (even in good faith -- meaning, your desire to protest is in keeping with our American traditions), it may interfere with your visa and you may not be able to complete your studies in the USA. That is a

No big deal, just a first look at spatially resolved star formation just after the epoch of reionisation with JWST FRESCO NIRCam Slitless Spectroscopy 😜.

arxiv.org/abs/2404.17629

Is your brain ready for a LOT of interdisciplinary exoplanet knowledge! 🧐🤯 You know it is!

🧵In Jan 2021, Keith Putirka, Siyi Xu, and I joined forces to put together 15 chapters (and a workshop!**) written by experts in their field, where the core of each chapter was:

Breaking my long silence to share results from a project I have been working on for more than a decade. Marla Geha and I were discussing how frustrating it was that there were so many comparisons of models to just ONE Milky Way. Why not 100 MWs, we thought? 🤔
sagasurvey.org

possible EM counterpart to S240422ed LIGO source which is possible NS-BH merger...

m_i ~ 23 M_i ~ -14
z ~ 0.049 -> d ~ 213 Mpc
IF associated with nearby (in projection) galaxy

=> L_bol ~ 10^40 - kilonova range...

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h/t Leo C. Stein is @duetosymmetry on bsky/threads/🐘
gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/36267

Absolutely beautiful and amazing work! Sometimes one is truly lucky, I mean what are the odds that the 2nd heaviest BH in the MW (after Sgr A*) is part of a stream (ED-2 for our Emma Dodd and characterized by Eduardo Balbinot) that we were studying using spectra from ESO?! 🤩🤩

A fellow astronomer (and my undergrad professor!) on the #TIME100 ! 🎉🎉🎉

Super proud to see this paper on the arxiv today! Alberto visited my new group at ISTAustria for 3 months in the end of 2023, and this is the result of that visit! Thread:

academia has you beefing with someone 3k miles away who is also one of only 4 people on earth who likes the same stuff as you