Erika Holmbeck

NASA Hubble Fellow at Carnegie Observatories, stellar spectroscopist, nuclear theorist, and friend to imposter syndrome

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

I feel like I've "made it;" an experimentalist just showed my (an observer/theorist's) plots in their talk. Thank you, Alfredo Estrade! 😭 #JINAFrontiers

[Dr. Jake Turner @Astro_journey]

The deadline to apply to the 'NHFP graduate student mentorship program' is today!

Senior astronomy graduate students take a look 👀

More info here: https://t.co/NBOhcug9hk

I'll be one of the mentors this year if you have any questions

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Only a few more days left! Apply now!

[Johanna @johannateske]

Call open for year 2 of the NHFP graduate student mentorship program! Current & former postdoc fellows provide professional & academic support & advice to senior graduate students writing their first postdoc apps in 2023. Please check out and share! 😊https://t.co/2wQL0iQrUx

[Johanna @johannateske]

Call open for year 2 of the NHFP graduate student mentorship program! Current & former postdoc fellows provide professional & academic support & advice to senior graduate students writing their first postdoc apps in 2023. Please check out and share! 😊https://t.co/2wQL0iQrUx

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

📣 Prospective NHFP Applicants: here are some resources to strength your application this year. Spread the word!

[Megan Weiner Mansfield @cornerof_thesky]

Hi everyone, an important update for anyone applying to the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) this year: current/past NHFP fellows are running a program to provide application feedback!
Sign up here: https://t.co/WEFSkXkqcv
Details in the thread

[STARtorialist @startorialist]

Just met @Starlock_Holmes at the @sdssurveys booth — wearing their amazing handmade star dress!! #spacefashion

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Somdutta Ghosh ends this #JINAFrontiers with an explosion...a core-collapse supernova explosion, that is, and shows the systematic effects of the Equation of State on supernova explosion properties and nucleosynthesis. Check out Ghosh+(2022)!

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Ruchi Garg gets us hyped for SECAR results (coming to FRIB this Spring) and shows how it can be useful for understanding the weak r-process signature we see in some metal-poor stars #JINAFrontiers

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Alfredo Estrade is part of a team that measures new beta-delayed neutron-emission probabilities, which can impact the abundances of the second r-process peak elements (like tellurium) #JINAFrontiers

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Biying Liu show nuclear mass measurements in the rare-earth region with the Canadian Penning Trap and compares them to reverse-engineering predictions. Check out the results in Orford, Vassh, et al. (2022). The N=126 factory will do even more this year! #JINAFrontiers

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Most compact object merger codes model the neutron star as a fluid. Irina Sagert works on a code that is able to model the neutron star crust and core as a fluid+solid combination. "The crust is a jelly, but it's the strongest jelly we know!" #JINAFrontiers

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Tsung-Han Yeh motivates the need to constrain the d(p,g) reaction rate for Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Did you know the uncertainties on the d/H abundance from theory are larger than from observation? Experiments from LUNA have reduced the uncertainties by about x2! #JINAFrontiers

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Shahina shows her work characterizing the resonances in the 22Ne(a,g) reaction. Keep an eye out for her paper in PRC! #JINAFrontiers

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

@sanjanacurtis presented her amazing (and surprising) work on heavy-element formation in compact object mergers at #JINAFrontiers. It's still hard to explain the blue kilonovae in neutron star mergers, but black hole-neutron star mergers are bluer than previously thought

[Dr. Anna Frebel @annafrebel]

Congratulations @AnirudhChiti for winning the @IAU_org Division H PhD thesis prize! So proud of you and all the amazing work you did at @MIT 🤩👏🏻🤩

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Amber Stinson shows us that nuclear pasta is the strongest material in the universe..."but please don't eat it" #JINAFrontiers

[Erika Holmbeck @Starlock_Holmes]

Filomena Nunes: "The downside is you have to work with a nuclear reaction theorist" 😂 #JINAFrontiers