Recent IoA Publications
- Comparing gravitational wave background predictions from cosmological simulations to pulsar timing observations 16 hours 51 min old
- Mass-Orbital Period Distribution of Massive White Dwarfs Formed Through Stable Mass Transfer 17 hours 5 min old
- Planetary Accretion Is Less Frequent in Wide Binaries: Evidence from Metal-Enriched White Dwarfs in DESI DR1 3 days 17 hours old
Cosmology and Fundamental physics
- Comparing gravitational wave background predictions from cosmological simulations to pulsar timing observations 16 hours 51 min old
- Follow-up of SN 2025wny IV: Photometric Time-delay Measurements of a Strongly Lensed Superluminous Supernova 1 week 3 days old
- Follow-up of SN 2025wny V: Lens Modelling and Cosmography of a Strongly Lensed Superluminous Supernova at $z = 2.015$ using Space Data 1 week 3 days old
Stars and stellar evolution
- Mass-Orbital Period Distribution of Massive White Dwarfs Formed Through Stable Mass Transfer 17 hours 5 min old
- The DESI Data Release 1 white dwarf catalogue 1 week 16 hours old
- DESI Data Release 1: Stellar Catalogue 1 week 3 days old
Astronomy News
- The cosmic coincidences that made our universe – and us – possible 17 hours 25 min old
- Five night sky events to look out for this autumn 1 day 9 hours old
- NASA’s Chandra Spots Galactic Gem 2 days 11 hours old
Planetary systems
- Planetary Accretion Is Less Frequent in Wide Binaries: Evidence from Metal-Enriched White Dwarfs in DESI DR1 3 days 17 hours old
- Dust Substructures and Line Perturbations driven by a Forming Planet in J16120 1 week 10 hours old
- A Homogeneous Survey of JWST MIRI Transmission Spectra of 10 Exoplanets 1 week 15 hours old
Near-field cosmology
- A Novel Approach to 3D Dust Mapping of the Central Molecular Zone 3 days 18 hours old
- Neighbors, Not Kin: Kinematic evidence for tidal tails from NGC 7492 along the Sagittarius stream 1 month 2 weeks old
- The disrupted chemical enrichment history of the Milky Way driven by gas accretion 1 month 2 weeks old
Galaxy Evolution and AGN
- BINDing the lightcone: A suite of astrophysical ray-traced weak lensing and SZ maps 3 days 19 hours old
- BIND (Baryonic INpainting with Deep learning): A Field-level Emulator for Galaxy Groups and Clusters 3 days 19 hours old
- Optical Depths from the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT DR6 and DESI DR1 Spectroscopic Galaxies and Optically-Selected Clusters 4 days 16 hours old
Vacancies
- Research Associate (Grade 7) or Assistant Research Professor (Grade 9) in AI for Fundamental Physics (Fixed Term) 4 days 2 hours old
- Research Assistant/Associate in Protoplanetary Discs (Fixed Term) 2 months 1 week old
- Data Validation Scientist (Fixed Term) 2 months 2 weeks old
Instrumentation and Surveys
- Euclid preparation. Testing template-fitting models for the multipoles of the two-point clustering of galaxy clusters 1 week 4 days old
- Agentic research is oxymoronic 1 week 4 days old
- Leveraging rapid parameter estimates for efficient gravitational-wave Bayesian inference via posterior repartitioning 3 weeks 4 days old
Latest News
- Cambridge astronomers play leading role as world's most ambitious sky survey begins 2 months 2 weeks old
- Astronomers find nearby planets to be small, strange, and utterly uninhabitable 2 months 3 weeks old
- Paul Hewett (1956 - 2026) 3 months 12 hours old
Next External Talks
- Thu 16 Apr 11:00: CANCELLED: James Rogers 5 months 1 day old
- Wed 29 Apr 16:00: Descending into the Modular Bootstrap 5 months 2 days old
- Wed 29 Apr 16:00: Descending into the Modular Bootstrap 5 months 2 days old
IoA Institute of Astronomy Talk Lists
- Thu 30 Apr 16:00: From stellar twins to double black holes – what gravitational waves are telling us about stars 5 months 3 days old
- Fri 08 May 11:30: Cosmology on Small Scales: The Baryonic Frontier Abstract: 5 months 4 days old
- Tue 12 May 16:00: Strange New Worlds 5 months 1 week old
Next Colloquia
- Thu 30 Apr 16:00: From stellar twins to double black holes – what gravitational waves are telling us about stars 5 months 3 days old
- Tue 12 May 16:00: Strange New Worlds 5 months 1 week old
- Tue 12 May 16:00: Strange New Worlds 5 months 1 week old
Next Wednesday Seminars
- Wed 18 Mar 13:45: Physical properties and redshift distributions of KiDS-1000 galaxies using pop-cosmos 6 months 3 days old
- Wed 18 Mar 13:15: Emulating the Climates of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets with Machine Learning 6 months 3 days old
- Wed 11 Mar 13:15: A systematic analysis of exoplanet transmission spectra with JWST-MIRI 6 months 1 week old