Dhvanil Desai

Astronomy padawan | grad student @UHIfA | former undergrad @OSUAstro | he/him | 🌰➡️🌈

[Benjamin Shappee @BenShappee]

It's rare for a grad student paper to spark a new subfield—but this collab between @UHIfA’s Colby Haggerty and the Shappee transient group might do just that, solving key mysteries in supernovae & kilonovae! Check it out!
https://t.co/gYldKUjtJq
In it, Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299 shows that relativistic electrons and positrons from radioactive decay stay trapped in the ejecta far longer than expected. Hoisted by their own petard, they generate magnetic fields that confine them and facilitate the transfer of decay energy to ions, ultimately responsible for the luminosity we observe.

[Benjamin Shappee @BenShappee]

I am despicable, me, my minions, and Lucy are taking over the @UHIfA this Halloween!

[Benjamin Shappee @BenShappee]

The entire original goal of ASAS-SN was to produce a minimally-biased SN survey to compute rates. It has been a crazy decade, but @UHIfA grad student @dhvanil12299 has finally done it:
https://t.co/zTSe5UKSU2
Check it out if you want to see the best nearby SNe Ia rate to date.

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

In case you're too lazy to click on the link, here's the abstract:

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

My newest paper is fresh out the box! Read about the fantastic ASAS-SN rates and luminosity functions of Type Ia supernovae and their sub-types right here:

https://t.co/pO76tTWROZ

Tell your colleagues, friends, parents, relatives, and whoever else will listen!

[Event Horizon 'Scope @ehtelescope]

We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*. It’s the dawn of a new era of black hole physics. Credit: EHT Collaboration. #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole
Link: https://t.co/Ax7ECRVg8A

[smallest astronomer @murphboro]

just had a professor rant at us that needing to google unit conversions means you’re gonna be a bad scientist with a shitty career🤡

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

End of an era and beginning of another! Super excited! Thank you @SuperASASSN!

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

@SuperASASSN @UHIfA Workday is being scary. I'm thinking about getting bodyguards and changing my identity.

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

Second stab complete. I am now indestructible!

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

I have been successfully stabbed! Microchip inserted. I feel powerful.

Get yo vaccines!

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

@ZachWay96 Congrats! 🥳

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

@samwalkerastro @UHIfA Absolutely @samwalkerastro !! Super excited to see you and get to know you soon! 🤩🥳

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

A customary tweet to announce the commencement of my life as an island boy!

Really excited to spend my next few years at @UHIfA as an Astronomy graduate student starting this Fall! Living and working in Hawaii should be a treat!

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

@cosmos_lukas Mahalo!

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

@serspace @UHIfA Thanks🤩

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

@SuperASASSN @UHIfA

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

@SuperASASSN @UHIfA Thank you!

[Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299]

More #Starlink crap as seen by ASAS-SN from South Africa!

#Starlinked