Episode notes
This episode, Michelle and Payel discuss the Solar birth cluster, young stars with high alpha abundances, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, decelerated expansion of the Universe, strong lens detection in Euclid and predicting solar flares. Check out the papers we discussed below:
Spectroscopic Follow-up of Young High-α Dwarf Star Candidates: Still Likely Genuinely Young - Yuxi Lu
Limits on Stellar Flybys in the Solar Birth Cluster - Amir Siraj, Christopher F. Chyba, Scott Tremaine