StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papers

Episode 43 - early dark energy, the fate of Venusian moons, and the power of forbidden lines

In this week's episode, Michelle and Payel ask whether early dark energy leaves a detectable imprint on large-scale structure, and whether Venus once had a moon — and wha

Episode 42 - disk clumps, triple systems and an exciting new stream!

Michelle and Nicole sit down to discuss the latest papers from the arXiv, including the discovery of a globular cluster stream outside the Milky Way, how disk clumps migr

Episode 41 - the age of the Universe, AI and literature reviews, and giant companions

Payel and Michelle delve into another group of wonderful papers on the astronomy arxiv! They discuss dating the Universe, comparing 2025 large language models in their ab

Episode 40 - globular clusters, extended disks, high redshift galaxies and aliens!

In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss results from the searches for extra-terrestrial life, a natural mechanism for producing light element variations in globular c

Episode 39 – data-driven stellar population studies, multi-scale AGN feedback, and solar flare ribbons

In this episode, Payel and Nicole discuss machine learning methods to to transform composite galaxy spectra and determine key features of galaxy evolution. They also exam

Episode 38 - merging galaxies, exploding stars and the beauty of individual galaxies

In this episode, Michelle and Nicole discuss machine learning methods to classify merging galaxies and different classes of supernova. They also look into whether planeta

Episode 37 - Lunar craters, primordial black holes & growing galaxies

In this episode, Michelle and Payel talk about the asymmetry in the number of craters across the moon, using microlensing to find primordial black holes, tracing the grow

Episode 36 - Dead Earths, magnetic fields and Galactic amnesia

In this episode, Michelle and Nicole discuss primordial magnetic fields, Galactic merger memory, the origin of Venus's carbon dioxide rich atmosphere and using Galactic s

Episode 35 - More Milky Way mayhem, Fast Radio Bursts, and very cold disks

In this episode, Nicole and Payel discuss an accurate dating of the Gaia-Enceladus Sausage merger with the Milky Way, a new probe of matter clustering on small scales usi

Episode 34 - The cosmic web, the ancient Milky Way, and planets around small stars

In this episode, Nicole and Payel discuss a stellar system located towards the Galactic bulge, the structure of filaments in the cosmic web, the homogeneity of the chemic

Episode 33 - Bananas, blueberries, planet eating stars and the fate of the Milky Way

In this episode, Michelle and Payel delve into the story of UV bright galaxies at high redshifts, hints of population III stars, black hole binaries, planet eating stars,

Episode 32 - Ancient star clusters and growing black holes

In this episode, Michelle and Nicole were on-theme with their paper choices. They discuss whether and how stars from ancient globular clusters populate the stellar halo o

Episode 31 - Near Earth Objects, Little Red Dots, bursty star formation and life around massive stars

In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss the latest theories of little red dot formation, bursty star formation at high redshift, triple-double radio galaxies, where a

Episode 30 - Direct collapse black holes, nuclear stellar discs, and machine learning merger histories

In this episode, Payel and Nicole delve into more JWST discoveries and the frontier of machine learning in astronomy - an ultra-deep view of the cosmic web, machine-learn

Episode 29 - Exploding stars, carbon stars, and starbursting pseudo little red dots

In this episode, Michelle and Nicole hit the arXiv and dig into the latest on Thamnos - an ancient Milky Way merger, carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Stars, Supernova

Episode 28 - Fading stars, digesting planets and dark matter conundrums

In this episode, Michelle and Payel both dissect interesting results from varying stars, including follow up on Betelgeuse's elusive companion. They also talk about the i

Episode 27: Making a Milky Way, searching for dwarfs, and elusive black holes

This episode, Payel and Nicole discuss how to generate alpha-bimodalities in Milky-Way-like galaxies without major mergers or radial migration, a new search for radio emi

Episode 26: A tail of tales, little galaxies, and starspots

This episode, Payel and Nicole discuss streamer-like structures around protostellar sources, a multiply imaged Little Red Dot with an apparent blue companion, age and met

Episode 25: Extragalactic exoplanets, simulating individual stars, and galaxy mergers as cosmic ray factories

This episode, Michelle, Payel, and Nicole discuss simulating individual stars, exoplanets born outside of the Milky Way, the intracluster medium as a window to past mergi

Episode 24 - Strong lenses, Solar Flares and young, high alpha stars

This episode, Michelle and Payel discuss the Solar birth cluster, young stars with high alpha abundances, the formation of intermediate mass black holes, decelerated expa