Denis Erkal

@railair Is there any information on the 11:10am bus from Guildford to Heathrow Terminal 2? This bus hasn’t arrived yet.

I’ve done it! I’m now a doctor of astrophysics! 🥳🎉🎈 We have a little tradition of a PhD viva hat- mine has an axolotl eating the SMC, with the LMC on the other end 😂

This is our current "greatest hits" collection of stellar tidal streams from our poster in the meeting "The Milky Way Assembly Tale" celebrated in Bologna this week, selected from our current sample of more than 100 streams (and increasing) from our "Stellar Stream Legacy Survey"

Congratulations to Jason Hunt who won an ERF to work on disequilibrium in the Milky Way at Surrey!

Here's how the Milky Way's gravity pulled apart the Messier-10 cluster of stars over 2 billion years. Surrey scientists correctly predicted it - now, new data from the @esa_euclid telescope confirms it! surrey.ac.uk/news/surrey-as… #space #astrophysics #innovation

It's great to see the first tranche of Euclid results coming out. Here's a highlight of our contribution on 2 Milky Way globular clusters led by Davide Massari - surrey.ac.uk/news/surrey-as…

We can detect the tidal distortion in the outskirts of the cluster thanks to Euclid’s depth and wide field of view

For the Euclid release, I made a fun movie of the globular cluster M10 (NGC 6254) showing its tidal disruption in the Milky Way. The frames are every 100000 years so it’s fun to watch the stars in the outskirts of the cluster. youtu.be/2VMycoO3oU8?si…

@astro_pwise @STFC_Matters @unisouthampton @AstroPhysSoton @LSSTUK Congratulations!

I'm very happy to have been selected as an @STFC_Matters Ernest Rutherford Fellow. Grateful for the opportunity to spend the next 5 years uncovering the causes and consequences of the largest explosions in the Universe! @unisouthampton @AstroPhysSoton @LSSTUK

@Cosmic_Horizons I’ll take that friendly little guy over a funnel web any day!

@borja_anguiano @AgEInves @CienciaGob I am well and glad to hear you are too!

@deniserkal @AgEInves @CienciaGob Thanks @deniserkal ! I am very excited about all this! Hope everything is going well with you.

I am overjoyed to announce that next September I will join the "Center for Studies of Astrophysics and Cosmology of Aragon" (CEFCA) as a new Ramon y Cajal Fellow. Wonderful news! Thank you very much for this great opportunity! LET'S DO IT! @AgEInves @CienciaGob

@AJamesMcCarthy Even more awesome! 30 hours does sound pretty deep.

@deniserkal That stream is why I need so much data. It's visible in my shot just super noisy and affected by the light pollution in my area!

Here's a shot of the Sombrero galaxy I captured last night with my scope. It's quite small, so it is much harder to get details on than say, Andromeda galaxy. Overall I'm still thrilled at how this capture is coming along! This is just 90 min out of a planned 30 hour capture.

Check out Madison’s paper on how we can use streams to measure the dark matter haloes external galaxies

@ReedsSchoolGolf @SurreyUnion @GuildfordAS @ReedsSchool @ReedsScience I’m glad you all enjoyed it!

Thanks @SurreyUnion + @GuildfordAS for hosting a brilliant evening last week. @ReedsSchool @ReedsScience 6th Form physicists were enraptured by @deniserkal and his lecture on masses of galaxies and inference to dark matter, whilst the opportunity to ‘look up’ was enjoyed by all.

@Alexis35703648 Congratulations!

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@DrEOChapman Congratulations!

@gleet_tweet 2025 is going to be a special year!

@oneillleo @caltechipac Congratulations!