CRA Seminar by Dr. Juliette Becker (Caltech)

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/jcbecker/ Title: Forming hot Jupiters: observational constraints on gas giant formation and migration Abstract: The three commonly considered pathways for hot Jupiter formation are in situ formation, runaway accretion in the outer disk followed by disk migration, and tidal migration (occurring after the disk has dissipated). None of these explains the entire observed sample … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Dr. Juliette Becker (Caltech)"

CRA Seminar by Prof. Marianne Vestergaard (Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen)

Web: https://dark.nbi.ku.dk/people/marianne/ Title: Determining black hole masses of active galactic nuclei across cosmic time Abstract: Observations show that supermassive black holes can affect their environment through outflows and other feedback processes. In order to establish the exact role that supermassive black holes play for galaxy evolution, we need to determine accurately the mass of the … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Prof. Marianne Vestergaard (Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen)"

CRA Seminar by Prof. Katherine Rawlins (U. Alaska)

web: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/physics-and-astronomy/faculty/rawlins.cshtml Title: "Cosmic Rays: are they light or heavy?" Abstract: With energies greater than a PeV, cosmic rays from galactic (and extra-galactic) sources are too rare to detect directly.  Instead, large ground-based detector arrays catch the secondary particles from the extensive air showers that cosmic rays produce in the atmosphere, and attempt to determine … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Prof. Katherine Rawlins (U. Alaska)"