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Hey, it’s another new paper from our UW Massive Stars research group! This one was led by Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein, one of our UW grad students (entering the final year of his PhD!) and builds on his previous work studying short-term variability of evolved massive stars with TESS. In this paper Trevor reports the discovery of a new class (!) of […]

There’s another new paper from the UW Massive Stars research group, this time led by one of our fantastic undergrads, Keyan Gootkin! Keyan, a rising senior at UW, has been working for two years on an immensely complex dataset comprising thirteen years of spectropolarimetry observations of the famous luminous blue variable P Cygni. Thanks to wrangling this data, Keyan’s paper […]

My first popular science book, The Last Stargazers, is now available wherever books are sold!   The Last Stargazers shares the stories and adventures of life as a professional astronomer and gives readers a behind-the-scenes tour of this unusual and rapidly-evolving field. You can read more about the book at its website, and follow announcements of upcoming virtual talks, podcast […]

Kathryn Neugent, one of the graduate students in our UW Massive Stars research group, has just published the latest first-author paper for her PhD thesis research, and it’s a major one! Following on her previous research, she’s now measured the binary fraction of red supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud! We know that red supergiants have B-star companions, and Kathryn’s […]

In our latest Research Note from the UW Massive Stars research group!, undergraduate researcher Tzvetelina Dimitrova – advised primarily by UW grad student Kathryn Neugent – has identified a heap of red supergiants in the Local Group galaxy IC10. IC10 is a fascinating nearby galaxy since it’s currently undergoing a huge burst of star formation, so identify this big batch […]