Cameren Swiggum

PhD student — University of Vienna –– Astronomy — Star Formation/Galactic Structure

[Sky & Telescope @SkyandTelescope]

Astronomers have pressed rewind on a cosmic video of the solar neighborhood, tracing the origins of young star clusters within 3,000 light-years of the Sun.
https://t.co/y5PBLvKXR5

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

I love this new paper on the history of this neck of the galaxy!

[Emily Hunt is on Bluesky @emilydoesastro]

Over a hundred young star clusters near to the Sun can be traced back to just *three* distinct star-forming regions. This is a *huge* result for studying our own galaxy!

The work is out today in Nature, led by Cameren Swiggum in Vienna: https://t.co/P7hTOyd3Mg

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Most nearby young star clusters formed in three massive complexes https://t.co/K2f9fs79VO

[University of Vienna STEM @stem_univie]

Read the #publication here:
https://t.co/kBEK8PGUhp

[University of Vienna STEM @stem_univie]

New research led by @mac0598 & @joaoalves from #univienna and @bobabenjamin from @UWWhitewater reveals that many nearby star clusters originate from just three "families." ✨
📷 (c) ESO/STScI Digitized Sky Survey

[Universität Wien @univienna]

Die Forschung, unterstützt von der @esa und @NASA, wurde in @Nature veröffentlicht. Mehr über die Sternenfamilien hier: ⤵
https://t.co/vNrkfsFWcp
#Astronomie

[Universität Wien @univienna]

Ein internationales Astronom*innenteam, unter Leitung von @mac0598 und @joaoalves der #univie, hat herausgefunden, dass nahegelegene Sternhaufen von nur drei „Familien“ stammen. Supernovae aus diesen Regionen haben vermutlich auch die Gasverteilung in der Milchstraße beeinflusst.

[Ralf Konietzka @RalfKonietzka]

Our Sun’s backyard not only looks like a wave – it also moves like one.
The Radcliffe Wave is Waving! 🔭💫
Curious? Read about it now in @Nature https://t.co/EmMR4Ywupg
#RadWave #RadWaveWaving #RadWaveMotion #astrophysics #astronomy #Harvard

[Universität Wien @univienna]

Benachbarte Sternhaufen bewegen sich als Welle! ✨🌊 @joaoalves der #univie und Forscher*innen von @Harvard und @LMU_Muenchen entdeckten, dass die geheimnisvolle "Radcliffe-Welle" nicht nur wie eine Welle aussieht, sondern sich auch so bewegt.
https://t.co/BNOVBlbYjP

[ESO @ESO]

Did you see the new infrared images of star-forming regions we just released? One of them has 520 megapixels! 🤯

Here's a game:
🔍 zoom all the way in with the link below
🖼️ take a screenshot of an interesting area
🗨️ and post it as a reply below

🔗 https://t.co/VHadVOpj7F

[A&A journal @AandA_journal]

Cover: Near-infrared view of star formation in Ophiuchus (Meingast, S., et al., 2023, A&A, 673, A58)
https://t.co/RtwTQgXvRd

[Ronald Drimmel 🇺🇦 @rdrimmel]

Cool. We made the cover. Great work (and great figure) by @mac0598. HT @joaoalves

[astrobites @astrobites]

From @perryhelion: Dust mapping with Gaia has changed our perspective on the sun's neighborhood, but how do revelations about the nearby structure of dust fit in with our understanding of the Milky Way's large scale skeletal structure? https://t.co/YYQiKwzfdT

[Universität Wien @univienna]

Vier @ERC_Research Advanced Grants gehen an Wissenschafter*innen der #univie! 🥳 Wir gratulieren Astrophysiker @joaoalves, Wissenschafts- & Technikforscherin @Ulrike_Felt, Politikwissenschafter Oliver Marchart und Kommunikationswissenschafter Jörg Matthes! https://t.co/VCLtY3pLXX

[Cameren Swiggum @mac0598]

Many thanks to my co-authors! @joaoalves, Elena D’Onghia, Lekshmi Thulasidharan, @bobabenjamin, @cszucker, Eloisa Poggio, @rdrimmel, Jay Gallagher, and @AlyssaAGoodman

[Cameren Swiggum @mac0598]

My first paper (letter) of my PhD— read here: https://t.co/Ag5D6uZliF.

[Cameren Swiggum @mac0598]

This picture is reminiscent to the arms of external spiral galaxies, indicating that the Radcliffe Wave and its individual star-forming regions are a great laboratory for studying density-wave theories in the Milky Way.

[UW-Madison Astronomy @uwastro]

New student-led paper by @uwastro astronomers, exploring a vertical undulation in Milky Way structure known as the “Radcliffe Wave”. N-body simulations indicate it could arise from impact by a satellite galaxy; DR3/DR4 from @ESAGaia will confirm. https://t.co/6KEHaIJOc8