
Sean Linden, PhD
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Sean Linden, PhD
@SeanLinden
Strittmatter Fellow @azstewobs - Arsenal fan - I study galaxy mergers all day so my dog can have a good life - Prev. @CWRUAstro, @UVaAstro, and @UMassAmherst




The Arecibo Observatory is closing down this Monday, including its computers. I have been very busy downloading and setting everything to continue working on other computers. 😬




Turns out it's Double #GOALSJWST week! @UCIPhysAstro postdoc @marinavbianchin found what appears to be consistent with inflowing gas as evidence of self-regulating feeding-feedback process in the heart of NGC 7469 using JWST NIRspec data! 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2308.00209



@NANOGrav This is a staggeringly difficult measurement - requiring, amongst much else, knowing the position of the centre of mass of the solar system to a precision of less than 100m. Previous results were confused because we didn't know where Jupiter was accurately enough (5/n)

🚨🚨🚨 The legendary Koichi Itagaki, using his small observatory in Yamagata, has found yet another supernova, this time in M101. Details: wis-tns.org/object/2023ixf… Point those telescopes! RA (J2000): 14:03:38.580, Dec +54:18:42.10











