Anna Wright

Postdoc @FlatironCCA | Member of @theNbodyShop and FOGGIE | I use cosmological simulations to study the low surface brightness universe | She/her

[Jimmy Juno @JunoRavin]

The latest runs of the large catron collider have produced great excitement

[Jimmy Juno @JunoRavin]

Me filing the pull request on GitHub

[Space Telescope Science Institute @SpaceTelescope]

#NASAWebb provides a never-before-seen look at the five galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet. This image, composed of 150 million pixels, is Webb’s largest picture to date so far: https://t.co/GxUeFJFvfK

#UnfoldTheUniverse

[ALMA Observatory📡 @almaobs]

🧵[3/8] Astronomers had already observed stars orbiting around the compact, massive, ‘invisible’ SgrA*🌀, and suspected it to be a black hole. The EHT has zoomed-in to provide the first direct visual proof #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole

[Anna Wright @anchwr]

@pl_pierce If your friends don't mind a YA book, Mackenzi Lee's "This Monstrous Thing" is a great book that fits the criteria (and is by someone I'm fairly sure you know)!

[Anna Wright @anchwr]

@niki_kayt Happy Birthday!! I'm so glad that you get to celebrate with people who love you.

[Tim Carleton @tim_carleton]

Exciting news if you are interested in Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (or if you are interested in any galaxies, imo): our study of the formation of globular clusters (GCs) in UDGs is on the arXiv: https://t.co/GR5mqY6KsT

[N-body Shop @theNbodyShop]

Hot off the press! The N-body shop is thrilled to officially introduce the Mint Condition DC Justice League Simulations, with a paper led by @elaadapplebaum ! (https://t.co/RXoBLEraEJ). https://t.co/ommKfEtQ1M

[Anna Wright @anchwr]

It turns out that most of our field UDGs had early mergers (z>1) that temporarily spun them up and redistributed their star formation. In many UDGs, we see bursts of star formation at high radii for billions of years post-merger: https://t.co/UTGayIlwJV

[Anna Wright @anchwr]

New paper day! We use the Romulus25 cosmological simulation to study the formation and evolution of 100+ ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the field: https://t.co/ogTvsrEvJN
#nbodyshopgotchu

[Anna Wright @anchwr]

However, field UDGs have typical star formation rates for their stellar masses, so what’s really happening is that star-forming gas is spreading out! This results in bright, new stars forming at larger radii, leading to an increase in size over time. But why?

[Michael Tremmel @MichaelTremmel]

Check out my iposter tomorrow on the origins of ultra-diffuse galaxies using one of the ONLY cosmo sims capable of resolving the evolution of dwarf galaxies in a cluster environment, RomulusC. I'm also giving an "iposter-plus" presentation tomorrow morning at 9:10am #AAS235

[Jimmy Juno @JunoRavin]

I'm in Hawaii this week for #AAS235 and I presented my thesis research (A Deep Dive into the Distribution Function: Phase Space Dynamics of Plasma Instabilities in the Early Universe) as a dissertation talk! You can watch here: https://t.co/fugNagfRkj