Star Boi. Astronomer and occasional musician. Postdoc @ Oxford, formerly MPIA, thinking mainly about stars and dust. Opinions (mostly) my own
Joined November 2012
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30 Jan 2024
hi all our phangs-jwst data processing paper is out on arxiv (under review). take home messages:
1) you can download the data from archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/phang…
2) our pipeline is easily python-installable: pip install pjpipe
3) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.15142
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7 Jan 2025
accidentally referring to a diaeresis as a diuretic and bringing on the scorn of my peers
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25 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas everyone (:
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19 Dec 2024
they're putting my name on the stamps!! nobody dare reject my fellowship application for a "lack of international profile" again!! im travelling the world while staying in the corner!!
18 Dec 2024
wow✨
@PHANGSteam @NASAWebb imaging of NGC628 is being turned into a US POSTAGE STAMP✉️!!
The imaging has truly taken a life of its own. Grateful for the amazing village of collaborators, comms folks, @USPS for bringing the universe to people's doorsteps. space.com/usps-james-webb-sp…
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5 Nov 2024
one pdra application off, i guess i'm officially back on that horse. if folk have any things that would be good for my skills (ism, star formation, nearby galaxies) in the uk then please let me know the lowdown (and also hire me pls)
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22 Oct 2024
it me work!
Featured Image: Bringing PHANGS Data to Life
Nineteen nearby spiral galaxies surveyed by JWST are presented in one grand ensemble along with a customized image-processing pipeline. aasnova.org/2024/10/21/featu…
ALT images of 19 spiral galaxies
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4 Oct 2024
woohoo!
The PRIMA team is pleased to share the news that NASA has selected our concept for phase-A study. We are grateful for all the community effort that has brought us this far, and we are excited to continue to grow the PRIMA community going forward! nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-e…
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9 Sep 2024
ahoy! i've got a new paper out today (with accompanying python package) on how we can best fit complicated spectra for interstellar medium studies. because if i'm one thing, it's lazy enough to not want to fit millions of spectra by hand. arxiv.org/abs/2409.03835 (1/11)
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9 Sep 2024
so, takeaways:
1) the ism is complex
2) characterising that is hard but doable
3) you should absolutely be doing it
mcfine is open-source and pip installable (pip install mcfine), so please go and use it for your science!
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9 Sep 2024
also just to say we've been working on this on and off since lockdown, so very excited to finally have it out!
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