My paper was published!!!
15.12.2025 14:13
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My paper was published!!!
Our chosen M24 ionizing spectra for solar metallicity with ages varying from 10^6 to 10^8 yr, shown with dashed lines at the wavelengths associated with the energies required to ionize H^0 to H^+, He^0 to He^+, and O^+ to O^(2+).
Published in #MNRAS: "Cloudy-Maraston: integrating nebular continuum and line emission with the Maraston stellar population synthesis models", Newman et al. This is Fig. 1: read the paper at academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
Hi friends! Please go give love to my new astro Instagram account! www.instagram.com/sophie_phys?...
Even with the break, this is so beautiful!!!
me right now in nyc
ee thanks!! I had so much fun making them
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Thank you Ryan!! 😊
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Using white dwarf lensing to resolve accretion flows. Sophie L. Newman et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10674
Using this simulated X-ray binary disc, we find that a very exciting result:
The spin and temperature profile of a black hole can be discerned by studying how much their light is magnified during a microlensing event! 4/4
With co-authors Matthew Middleton and Adam McMaster, maps showing how the brightness of X-ray binaries, for a given black hole spin and temperature profile, vary with distance were then generated! 3/4
In this work we started by generating mock microlensing events caused by white dwarfs moving in front of X-ray sources in the Andromeda galaxy (M31)! For each of these events, we use the angular separation between the white dwarf and source to calculate the resulting magnification A. 2/4
I'm excited to announce that after two years, my Masters project has finally been submitted to MNRAS and is available to read on arXiv! 1/4
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10674
I'm SO excited to write the follow up paper to our April Fools Day paper after The Life of a Showgirl comes out - was our Taylor expansion correct? Will there be 12 ± 5 unique astrophysics words in her next album?! arxiv.org/abs/2503.24188
Yay @jengupta.bsky.social !!
These are so cool!! I am in need of some JWST earrings..
Some fun facial expressions while giving a talk to 90 teenagers considering if astrophysics is for them! #astroedu
A super fun video tour of the amazing outreach work done we did this week! #astroedu
Team photo
Our building
Our lensing experiment
Tim Peake!
Had such a fun time explaining the wonders of @eucliduk.bsky.social to those at @goodwoodrrc.bsky.social yesterday! Time to spot some F1 cars today! 🏎️
Some of the Euclid team at the Euclid exhibit. Five people are standing together smiling for the camera. One person is knelt in front of them, also smiling for the camera. Behind them in the background is a spiral galaxy, one of Euclid’s images displayed on a huge screen.
It’s Day 3 at the the @goodwoodrrc.bsky.social #FestivalofSpeed Future Lab.
Our #HumansOfEuclid have had an early start, back and ready to share the mysteries of the dark Universe all over again! 🌌🕸️
Excited to be helping out with this tomorrow!!
finally got through my official offer letter from @flatironinstitute.org ... Alexa play Welcome to New York by Taylor Swift 🗽
being given money to buy books because I like talking to teenagers about physics and happen to be good at it? sounds like a great deal to me
game changer
RIP, Ed, you steely-eyed missile man
real heroes use duct tape
these are so beautiful 🥹
A collage of four photos: 1) a queue of characters in cosplay, 2) a girl in cosplay with a JWST model she made, 3) me dressed as Feyre from ACOTAR with corresponding prop wings, 4) some fun book merch!
A bizarre day of doing physics outreach at Portsmouth Comic Con! Never thought I'd be dressed as Feyre from ACOTAR while teaching others how to make a JWST model 👀
There's a press release out now for a galaxy discovered in JWST data described as the "oldest known spiral galaxy" noirlab.edu/public/news/...
..which is funny, because from a different (perhaps more correct) perspective, it's the youngest!
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eeeee thank you Thomas!!!
April Fools papers on ArXiV are always a good bit of fun, but this one from @sophienewman.bsky.social and Ana Sainz de Murieta on the Astrophysical implications of the Eras Tour is one of the best I've seen.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.24188
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