Ashwathi Nair

Dr. Simon Stevenson's exciting talk on 'Formation of merging binary blackholes from massive binary stars' using a rapid binart population synthesis code COMPAS!
He is one of the coolest and kindest PhD. supervisors someone could ask for! @simon-stevenson.bsky.social

#GR24 #Amaldi16

Meet the newest member - GW231123. An amazing talk by Amanda Farah on the observed population of compact binary mergers. Cool graphics by Simona Miller.

Favorite plots from the day, which were presented by Prof. Yuta Michimura. The plots summarized some key points on the technique for minimizing noise for different parts of the power spectrum.l, sensitivity evolution of LVK, and all the cool science that can be done by next gen detectors!

Had a major flashback of my Master's research on shadows of compact objects. What an amazing update talk by Dr. Lia Medeiros!
#GR24 #Amaldi16 #GRAmaldi

What a rich experience to have all the scientists working in the field of general relativity and gravitational waves in one place.
Thanks to the entire organizing team. In frame -
@cplberry.bsky.social

24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR24) and the 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi16) started with a bang today!

Do you love TDEs/ transients in general, and potentially living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest? I’m hiring a postdoc! Come work with me! 🔭🧪🎢

careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

❤️ ❤️ Black hole binary
💕 Compact binary
💞 Late inspiral, merger
💓 Ringdown
❤️ Remnant

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Sharing a basic introduction to the literature of my field

Binary Neutron star papers (created with observablehq.com/@guillaume-l...)

It's been an intense year of reading BNS papers, and modeling them - had to make this.

A subtle hint on upcoming changes to Altmetric

A plot of the number of astronomy feed posts per week since the middle of 2023. It has held steady-ish around 400 posts/week, climbing recently to 600, and then last week jumping to 1200!

A plot of the number of unique astronomy feed post authors per week since mid 2023. Last week, it jumped from around 150 to around 300.

Some #astronomy feed statistics:

Last week saw about twice as much activity on the feed - twice as many posts, from twice as many users!

A sky map showing the position of radio stars (in white) superimposed on our Galaxy (grey). Map is in Galactic coordinates.

1/ This month we published our Sydney Radio Stars Catalogue! #Astronomy and #RadioAstronomy people - check it out and let us know if your favourite star isn't there🙂

@astrolaura.bsky.social @funfactscience.bsky.social @georgeheald.bsky.social @fringetracker.bsky.social @elenchically.bsky.social

I was(am) a BNS person still! We have a deal.

People who study relativity like to "conformally compactify" spacetime, creating a finite patch of coordinates, and attaching a boundary. This makes it possible to talk about going to "infinity" more precisely. This turns Minkowski space into what they call a "diamond".
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Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome!

We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

Are people working on formation channels of gravitational wave sources (DNS) welcome? If yes, is it possible to add me? Would love to connect with more stellar + GW researchers!

Initial sky localization. 90% area 9,900 sq deg

Initial three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 780 Mpc

Midnight gravitational-wave candidate S241114bi

If real, the source is probably a binary black hole

False alarm rate 1 in 1.8×10^5 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38...
Rating ❔🐈‍⬛👍

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Seems like this app is getting busier - lots of very cool people in these starter packs! 😎