Episode 19 - Peering into the Local Universe, distant black holes, forming planets and alien signatures

This episode, Michelle and Payel reunite to discuss the chemistry of nearby M-dwarf stars, where the majority of stars form in the Milky Way, whether giant planets naturally form at large distances from their hosts, extending the search for supermassive black holes and the search for alien technosignatures. Check out the papers we discussed below!

The origin of extreme N-emitters in star-forming galaxies at z<0.5 with DESI DR1 - Souradeep Bhattacharya & Chiaki Kobayashi

How many stars form in compact clusters in the local Milky Way? Alexis L. Quintana, Emily L. Hunt & Hanna Parul

Chemical evolution imprints in the rare isotopes of nearby M dwarfs - Dario Gonzalez-Picos et al.

WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): A Gap-clearing Planet in a Multi-ringed Disk around the Young Solar-type Star WISPIT 2 - Richelle van Capelleveen et al.

Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn. III. On the Photometrically Determined Black Hole Mass to Stellar Mass Relation Across Cosmic Time - Alice Young et al.

Technosignature Searches of Interstellar Objects - James Davenport et al.