Astrophysics Seminars

This talk explains the formation of galaxies of different morphological types (aka the Hubble Sequence): spirals vs ellipticals, disks vs spheroids. The talk includes theory, observation, and simulation, and is aimed at a general astrophysics...

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NOTE TIME CHANGEThe historic first detection of a gravitational waves from merging black holes came with an unexpected windfall: the first observation of a black hole ringdown. The ringdown of a black hole through damped ``quasinormal'' oscillation...

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Spectral distortions of the CMB provide a powerful new probe of early Universe processes. Even if so far no average spectral distortion has been seen, LCDM does predict several signals that are within reach of current technology. In this talk, I...