UC Davis Astro

Official Twiter account for the UC Davis Astrophysics department

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

Check out Victoria's paper on the ArXiv today!

[March For Science @MarchForScience]

Please read this letter by Particles for Justice, and pledge your support: https://t.co/mfkwUC5f7D

#Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia #BlackLivesMatter

[March For Science @MarchForScience]

This Wednesday, June 10th we will join the call to #ShutDownSTEM! We urge all scientists and STEM workers to stop business as usual for a day to focus on actionable plans that work towards ending anti-Black racism.

#Strike4BlackLives #BlackLivesMatter #ShutDownAcademia

[Astronomy on Tap Davis @AoTDavis]

Hey AoT fans, we miss seeing you @sudwerkbrew! Since we don’t know when our next in person Davis Astronomy on Tap will be, we thought we’d do a Davis AoT team Q&A.
So... what are your most burning questions about space?

[azalee bostroem @astro_az]

I had plans to have a big celebration with @UcdAstro for Hubble’s 30th birthday, but instead I’ll have to settle for baking cookies. Happy Bday Hubble! I am honored to be part of your history.

[Andrew Wetzel @AndrewWetzel]

#CosmicDwarfs19 @j_hirtenstein from @UcdAstro telling us about her work on observationally testing effects of stellar feedback and it's relation to inducing DM core formation in dwarf galaxies at z~1

[Andrew Wetzel @AndrewWetzel]

#CosmicDwarfs19: Alyson Brooks opens our meeting by highlighting the nice work of Samantha Benincasa (now @UcdAstro) about the weak dependence of galaxy properties on star-formation model, because star formation + feedback is self-regulating

[Geoff Chih-Fan Chen @GCFChen]

Just got a new data set of J0924 with four different bands (three from HST, one from Keck AO). It looks amazing. Can't wait to know what's the value of H0 from this lens! More work need to be done. Stay tuned...

[Imran Hasan @astroImmie]

great quick read from @nytimes on the space travel achievements of diverse people in the USSR during the space race. After Yuri followed the first woman, asian man, and black man into space, years before US did so
https://t.co/jHFF78NGcR

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

If that wasn't enough Prof Michael Gregg will show us how breaking apart the light stars emit can tell us a lot about them with a *live demo*. You will also get super neat refraction glasses for the demo!

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

We will also be joined by Professor Tucker Jones, who will show us how shooting lasers into space can give you extremely high resolution images

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

We will also be joined by Professor Tucker Jones, who will show us how shooting lasers into space can give you extremely high resolution images

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

Please join @AoTDavis at @sudwerkbrew on Thursday the 18th for another edition of Astronomy on Tap. We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, along with the ongoing legacy of space exploration(!)

[Andrew Wetzel @AndrewWetzel]

Excited that Dr. Sarah Loebman @sloebman, Hubble Fellow with us @UcdAstro, will start as Assistant Professor @ucmerced in fall 2020! Excited particularly because Sarah will start a new astrophysics program within the UC Merced physics department. Congratulations Sarah!!!

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

Geoff lead a recent paper combining high resolution AO imaging with @NASAHubble data to measure H0, confirming he tension with Planck after doing a blinded analysis. Congrats Geoff!

[Geoff Chih-Fan Chen @GCFChen]

We present a 3.4% measurement of H_0, with three time-delay strong lenses with adaptive-optics imaging. We obtain H0=76.8+/-2.6 kms^-1 Mpc^-1. https://t.co/e2w0sVYpMH

[UC Davis Letters and Science @UCDLandS]

Does complex life only emerge in a universe with three dimensions? Maybe not, physicist James Scargill argues in new paper. Scargill is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP) at UC Davis. https://t.co/xPGdHpbsx5

[Andrew Wetzel @AndrewWetzel]

Sierra Chapman graduates with Highest Honors https://t.co/szHrSsMy4P

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

After graduation, she will join USTC to conduct her postdoctoral research, to continue her studies on the effect of environments on the galaxy evolution.

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

Please join us in congratulating Lu Shen for her enormous achievement of graduating from the UC Davis with a PhD on Friday!

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

Lu has become involved with research on radio galaxy and their environmental effect at z~1 in ORELSE survey under the direction of Professor Lori Lubin, pictured with Lu below.

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

Next Thursday, June 20, at @AoTDavis you can also hear our local @NASAJPL Solar System Ambassador, David Takemto-Weerts tell us about Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, as we near the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing

[UC Davis Astro @UcdAstro]

Our department is hosting our monthly Astronomy on Tap (@AoTDavis). We will be regaled by the @sumnerd, a @ucdavis professor who worked on the @MarsCuriosity (!!!!!) Come to @sudwerkbrew next Thursday to have your mind blown at 6:00 pm