Phil Wiseman

I research stars exploding in distant galaxies. Ran 7 marathons in 7 days for Multiple Sclerosis

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

7 marathons, 7 days. Finished off in wild style by asking my legs to speed up at mile 20, and they responded with more than I could imagine. I've learned so much about myself this last week, but mostly I've learned how kind other people are. Thank you. https://t.co/wM3ad6ONPr

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@Spacetrombone @jimalkhalili Yes, although we finally are building datasets capable of testing these things -- like the evolving dark energy model that fits the DES and DESI data well!

[Lisa Kelsey @supernova_lisa]

I’m thrilled to share that I have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, to work on “The Local Environments of Supernova Siblings”, starting in September! 🌟Thank you to everyone who has supported me! 🌌

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

https://t.co/fcgp4upENV

Promise is one thing, funding is another, but even then we need actually to deliver useful schemes instead of putting literal barriers in front of cyclists like @SouthamptonCC did on Glen Eyre Road...

[STAG Research Centre @stag_centre]

This year's STAG Lecture, on 23/10/24, will be given by Prof Sera Markoff and entitled Observing the unobservable: a multi-messenger view of black holes in the Event Horizon Telescope era. Further information and how to book: https://t.co/krCLm84Zp0

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@alz_zyd_ Think there's still massive benefit in being able to communicate your science in ~10-15 mins live (it's also how we get jobs/grants) but this format allowed for deeper detail for people who were interested and shorter overview for those not so keen.

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@alz_zyd_ During Covid we hosted a virtual conference on the Hubble constant tension. Each speaker uploaded a 30-min talk, available for 1-week prior to conference. Live conference was 5-minute overviews plus long discussion sections. Worked super well!

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@KarinaVoggel Allez allez allez @MatBethermin

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@jps_astro Yep! I'm a Dark Energy Survey builder and that plus a few other bits and bobs put me on ~40 so far in 2024. (Our analysis is culminating this year, so this is likely somewhat above average for DES publication rate)

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

Excited to carry on searching for more in the future with @VRubinObs @LSSTUK and the @ESO 4MOST instrument, and big thanks to my collaborators for their wisdom, observations and interpretation! (Including @SebHoenig @lgalbany @iairarcavi @bhagya_subrayan @MarkSulAstro)

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

Paper Day: remember that outrageously long-duration, extremely luminous black hole accretion event AT2021lwx? We went searching for similar things in @ztfsurvey. This paper presents what we found!
https://t.co/xDc9IEfGnd
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[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@LSSTUK @bhagya_subrayan @LMakrygianni which rises to absolute magnitude of brighter than -24 mag in <20 days but takes over 2 years to decline. If anyone has a physical mechanism that can explain this one in particular, please get in touch!

5/n

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@PlotAstro For clarification: the light curves presented in the plot (and published in the alphabetical DES Collaboration paper) are released in the Sanchez paper :)

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

This is a really neat paper. Very distant supernovae appear to explode more slowly because they're moving away from us, and relativity slows time down. We can use this as a probe of cosmology!

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

@tamarastro @PlotAstro look at all the pretty plots in this thread. Super proud of what we've done at @theDESurvey!

[Phil Wiseman @astro_pwise]

Look how pretty our @theDESurvey supernova light curves are!

[Tamara Davis @tamarastro]

Next we have the light curves and data release paper led by Bruno Sánchez @BrunoSanchez63. All the data are public and we'd love other people to use it! (Image from key paper showing the light curves!) https://t.co/WgTAd59aPA

[Tamara Davis @tamarastro]

Next we have the light curves and data release paper led by Bruno Sánchez @BrunoSanchez63. All the data are public and we'd love other people to use it! (Image from key paper showing the light curves!) https://t.co/WgTAd59aPA