Decker French

Astronomer. She/her. Tweets are my own.

[Decker French @astrodecker]

On bluesky as deckerkf. I have some invite codes if anyone needs one, DM me.

[Decker French @astrodecker]

Check out the paper to learn more! https://t.co/KHWRhnZxUv

[Decker French @astrodecker]

New Paper Day! https://t.co/KHWRhnZxUv I'm especially happy to see this one out in the world both scientifically (an idea I've been trying to implement for a long time) and because it involves contributions from my new research group at UIUC!

[Decker French @astrodecker]

In this paper, we used data from MaNGA to look for things like Hanny's voorwerp in post-starburst galaxies, finding 6 in the 93 galaxies we looked at! This lets us constrain the AGN duty cycle and how many post-starburst galaxies might have just-missed AGN activity.

[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

[Patrick Aleo @PatrickAleo]

Still in awe that I got to lead the Young Supernova Experiment First Data Release, an immense multi-institutional effort from ~100 scientists over 2.5 years! This data will help usher in the next age of supernova science💥 @NCSAatIllinois @AstroIllinois

https://t.co/rVbqwTJrDm

[NCSAatIllinois @NCSAatIllinois]

Check out the first data release from the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), which has discovered thousands of new cosmic explosions and other astrophysical transients with the help of NCSA's Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) and @AstroIllinois.

https://t.co/prnzhq2Scl

[U. Illinois Archives @UIarchives]

Please join us on Thursday, February 9, 12-1pm, for a talk by @astrodecker on the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes for the #WomenInScience Lecture Series! You can register here to attend in person or by Zoom: https://t.co/GeRRb2R28D #astronomy

[Decker French @astrodecker]

Please encourage any interested students to apply!

[Decker French @astrodecker]

Know anyone looking for undergraduate research opportunities in Astrophysics? We're launching a new program at UIUC: IDEAS (Illinois Developing Equity in Astrophysics Summer school) https://t.co/JhvHYgujDr

[Decker French @astrodecker]

IDEAS aims to pair undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups in Astrophysics with faculty research mentors -- underrepresented is defined broadly (a non-exhaustive list would include students who are Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or Women)

[Charlotte Angus @astro_angus]

Now, this is a story all about how
A star got ripped-up, strewn around
When it wandered by a not-so big black hole
In centre of its small dwarf galaxy home
🧵👇

[IL Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe @IllinoisCASU]

A very special @AstroOnTapCU this Friday! Part of @thisispygmalion.

[Decker French @astrodecker]

@Vega18h37m @StephaJuneau I'm so excited to see the data!

[Decker French @astrodecker]

@astronomills Some local analogs are NGC 1266 (@astrokatey 's paper s), M51b (although somewhat lower mass), and a handful of other "spogalogs" like IC860 (forthcoming results by Yuanze Luo: https://t.co/Jx74zhBgbB)

[Decker French @astrodecker]

Thread on a few recent post-starburst galaxy papers to come out. Dalya Baron led a paper out today (https://t.co/C8qwQozZ1D) where we look at the total IR - based SFRs for several samples of PSB galaxies.

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

Astronomy if we could just know the true star formation rate of things for a fact.

[This paper and thread are very interesting and very 👀👀👀]

[Decker French @astrodecker]

@dustobscured @timdavisastro @kerowlands @astrokatey @astrosmercina Yes, ++ Adam's comment below. The number in the sample would probably not be terribly high, but I think we're aiming for 5-10 representative/interesting objects

[Decker French @astrodecker]

@dustobscured @timdavisastro @kerowlands @astrokatey @astrosmercina Longer thread with more thoughts here: https://t.co/9NdGJ9ZrFL

[Decker French @astrodecker]

Thread on a few recent post-starburst galaxy papers to come out. Dalya Baron led a paper out today (https://t.co/C8qwQozZ1D) where we look at the total IR - based SFRs for several samples of PSB galaxies.

[Decker French @astrodecker]

@dustobscured @timdavisastro @kerowlands @astrokatey @astrosmercina It's a mix, in the sample that's in my 2015 paper and Smercina+18, they were selected to have no/little optical emission (H alpha EW <3). But, there are other samples that either use a different cut against SF or make no cut, that also have CO