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"Being one of the first people to lay eyes on these images reminded me of the sense of wonder and discovery that drew me toward this field in the first place."

Serena Cronin (M.S. ’23), Astronomy Ph.D. Student

said of James Webb Space Telescope images of starburst galaxy Messier 82's (M82) glowing core and galactic wind

Read about Serena's research published in The Astrophysical Journal

Recent Graduate Student Publications

Kinematics of the southern outflow lobe in NGC 253


Serena Cronin
First-author paper in The Astronomical Journal
"Physical Conditions of the Ionized Superwind in NGC 253 with VLT/MUSE"

The location of the VHE emission production, combined over all of the simulation snapshots analyzed in this paper.


Siddhant Solanki
First-author paper in The Astronomical Journal
"Modeling of Lightcurves from Reconnection-powered Very High-energy Flares from M87*"

Mean zonal wind speeds (eastward = positive) in each of the GCM models used in this work as a function of latitude and pressure.


Brian Davenport
First-author paper in The Astronomical Journal
"An Analysis of Spitzer Phase Curves for WASP-121b and WASP-77Ab"

The 2D auto power spectra of all matter (top center), H  i (top right), and blue (bottom left), red (bottom center), and all-galaxies (bottom right) at z = 1 .


Calvin Osinga
First-author paper on arXiv
"Lost in the FoG: Pitfalls of Models for Large-Scale Hydrogen Distributions"