StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papers

In this episode, Michelle and Nicole hit the arXiv and dig into the latest on Thamnos - an ancient Milky Way merger, carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Stars, Supernova Type Ia as cosmic probes, and a little red dot that isn't a little red dot. Tune in here, on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. And check out the papers below

In this episode, Michelle and Payel both dissect interesting results from varying stars, including follow up on Betelgeuse's elusive companion. They also talk about the imprints of digested and transiting stars on their hosts spectra, and an unusual lensing signal that could pose difficult questions for warm and cold dark matter. Listen below, on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

This episode, Payel and Nicole discuss how to generate alpha-bimodalities in Milky-Way-like galaxies without major mergers or radial migration, a new search for radio emission from the elusive intermediate-mass black hole of Omega Centauri , detailed chemical DNA measurements of the oldest stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, and searching for dwarfs using HI measurements.
Check out the papers we discussed below:
Portrait of a Galaxy on FIRE: Is the $α$-bimodality a natural consequence of inside-out disc growth in a hierarchical formation scenario? - Maria Benito
No evidence for accretion around the intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri - Angiraben D. Mahida
The chemical DNA of the Magellanic Clouds V. R-process dominates neutron capture elements production in the oldest SMC stars - Lorenzo Santarelli
TiNy Titans HI: Discovering Satellites via HI Gas in an Isolated, Compact Group of Dwarf Galaxies - Sabrina Stierwalt

This episode, Payel and Nicole discuss streamer-like structures around protostellar sources, a multiply imaged Little Red Dot with an apparent blue companion, age and metallicity of low-mass galaxies, starspots and flares, and exploring the ultra-faint dwarf Bootes I using JWST and HST.
Check out the papers we discussed below:
A tale of three tails: A misaligned streamer and mysterious structures around [BHB2007]1 - Aashish Gupta
VENUS: When Red meets Blue -- A multiply imaged Little Red Dot with an apparent blue companion behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383 - Miriam Golubchik
Age and metallicity of low-mass galaxies: from their centres to their stellar halos - Elisa A. Tau
Starspots and Flares are Generally Not Correlated - Andy B. Zhang
Exploring the ultra-faint dwarf Bootes I using JWST and HST: Metallicity distribution and binaries - Fabrizio Muratore

This episode, Michelle, Payel, and Nicole discuss simulating individual stars, exoplanets born outside of the Milky Way, the intracluster medium as a window to past merging activity, the chemical versus kinematic thin and thick discs of the Milky Way, early formation of supermassive black holes, and galaxy mergers as cosmic ray sources.
Check out the papers we discussed below
EDGE-INFERNO: How chemical enrichment assumptions impact the individual stars of a simulated ultra-faint dwarf galaxy - Eric Anderson
Searching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design - Robert Aloisi
The Quiescent Merging Nature of the Coma Cluster Revealed by ICM Velocity Structure - Efrain Gatuzz
Impact of selection criteria on the structural parameters of the Galactic thin and thick discs - Simon Alinder
Early Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Dark Star Gravitational Instability - Katherine Freese
Galaxy Mergers Collectively Illuminate the γ-Ray Sky - Jaya Doliya