Reader in Astrophysics and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Our MSc Astrophysics Program: https://xitter.cf/t.co/9BfqnTqnaf
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Joined February 2012
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Today we have a paper from Luke Keyte and @TomHaworthAstro studying the role of externally driven winds in planet-forming disk chemistry. Planet forming material is shone upon by nearby stars, which may affect the chemistry. (1/4)
arxiv.org/abs/2501.05172
Thomas Haworth retweeted
It’s giving rainbows and unicorns, like a middle school binder 🦄🌈
Meet NGC 602, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where astronomers using @NASAWebb have found candidates for the first brown dwarfs outside of our galaxy. esawebb.org/news/weic2425/
ALT A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.
Thomas Haworth retweeted
🇬🇧🇮🇳 @QMUL and @ShooliniUniv announce dual master's degree programme, allowing students from India to earn both Indian and UK qualifications.
"It will equip students with competitive skills for today's market," said Professor Helen Bailey.
Read more⬇️
qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2024/p…
Thomas Haworth retweeted
A cool paper today from @QMULSPCS's Alex Ziampras. Sometimes the inner part of a planet-forming disc can misalign, casting a shadow on the outer disc (left image). This can lead to all sorts of observable dynamical features (right images). Read more here
arxiv.org/abs/2410.13932
Thomas Haworth retweeted
Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.
A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.
The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.
Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.
A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.
You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!
These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.
If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.
Thomas Haworth retweeted
ALT To Gavin Coleman (SPCS). Gavin is a very independent senior postdoc who is prolific in exploring and publishing his exciting ideas. I want to extend my thanks for the key role he plays in my team. He is leading many studies of protoplanetary disk evolution in different environments, and without him we would not have been able to lead the world in understanding how this affects the resulting planets. I look forward to working on many more things together. From Thomas Haworth.
A pair of externally photoevaporating discs in Orion. JWST observations from the dataset of @markmccaughrean
And now for something completely different...
It feels odd but somehow nice as an astronomer being on a paper in the journal "photosynthesis research"
link.springer.com/10.1007/s1…
Thomas Haworth retweeted
This is a video. This is not a rendering. There are real persons in the video.
Having been there half a year ago, it sounds incredible to me, but it is true.
History in the making
@ESO
Do you want to feel small? Check out this drone video of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope. Look how tiny those engineers look compared to the massive cell that will hold the #ELT 39 m mirror! 1/
#ELTprogress
📹 ACe/Cimolai
And a fantastic day two as well. Tomorrow we have a day at the @RoyalAstroSoc for group discussions and collaborative work
Also probably my best ever #ALMA cycle, with a large number of super exciting co-I proposals given time. Congrats to all of the successful PIs
A fantastic first day at the @royalsociety discussing externally irradiated discs. One takeaway is there is so much going on, so quickly, that noone actually has a good view of the state of the field.
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@QMULSPCS 's Gavin Coleman has an extremely cool paper out today providing the first predictions of the mass distributions of free-floating planets (FFPs), also known as rogue planets, that do not orbit a parent star
arxiv.org/abs/2407.05992
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Massive congratulations to @mariecgoldman. I can't remember ever having such strong conviction in my vote before.
What a time to be studying external photoevaporation 🤩. Great review talk from Sierk van Tereisga at #EAS2024
Thomas Haworth retweeted
A new paper by Alex Ziampras from @QMULSPCS showing that low mass planets do not stall in their inwards migration towards their parent star when buoncancy torques are properly accounted for (1/2)
arxiv.org/abs/2406.08555