Christian Aganze

2025 Joseph A. Johnson Award Goes to Morgan State University Assistant Professor Stacyann Nelson - AIP.ORG Stacyann Nelson recognized for research to understand fundamental properties of hadronic matter at high energies and for inspiring students to become leaders in physics research; Christian Aganze rece...

Thanks to the NSBP for the nomination. Honored ! www.aip.org/aip/2025-jos...

Congratulations Dr @capricephillips.bsky.social !!

These are first deep-space images from the Vera Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade.

Check out this article from National Geographic to hear from @caganze.bsky.social and other scientists who worked hard to make the @vrubinobs.bsky.social and its massive camera a reality: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

These are first deep-space images from the Vera Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Empowering voices and building bridges across the space community with Black In Astro - Nature Astronomy Black In Astro is a grassroots organization that offers support and networking for Black people working in or studying astronomy and space-related fields across the globe. Now five years old, it is es...

Black In Astro is a grassroots organization that offers support and networking for Black people working in or studying astronomy and space-related fields internationally. Now 5 yrs old, it is established & looking to grow the range of support it offers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... / rdcu.be/esaqr

We are t-10 days from Rubin first light! www.scientificamerican.com/article/bloc...

Listening to Angèle during an observing to keep me awake

A Nice write-up by Astrobites of our preprint that went up on Axiv last week astrobites.org/2025/05/02/c...

Congratulations Caprice !

I'm unfortunately not at #aas245, but here are some awesome student talks to catch!
Kiyan Tavangar (Galactic dynamics, 125.02) 10:20 today
Micah Oeur (Cosmo sims, 147.03) 14:30 today
Ella Mathews (binary stars, 352.07) poster Wednesday
@tomwagg.bsky.social (multiple stars, 449.07D) 15:00 Thursday
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Folks who follow me but aren’t astronomers—you might not realize how MANY astronomers live in Pasadena—home to JPL, CalTech, & Carnegie Observatories, among others.

Of 3 close friends, at least 2 have lost their houses. Many non-astronomers (including support staff like janitors) have also.

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Promotional graphic for the LSST Discovery Alliance data science fellowship program. The program logo is at the center of a grid of headshots of previous fellows.

🚨Calling astronomy graduate students!

Want to build your data science skills while preparing for the deluge of Rubin data?

Applications are open for the 2025 LSST-DA 2025 Data Science Fellowship Program! 🔭🧪

Apply by Jan. 22: https://lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/programs/data-science-fellowship

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Something to look forward to in 2025 www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/01/1...

I can’t believe it’s 2025. 2015 was just two weeks ago!

Hi everyone, I'm looking to hire a postdoc this upcoming year, so if you're interested in coming to San Diego to work on low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets, please apply!
aas.org/jobregister/...

Caprice is an outstanding scientist, a great speaker, and on the postdoc job market this year! 🔭🧪⚛️

Beth Brown Memorial Award Winners for 2024

Three winners of the AAS-sponsored Beth Brown Memorial Awards announced at the recent joint meeting of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists. aas.org/node/245460 🔭

I remember my first southern observing run as a young pup grad student, going out to check the sky and coming back in to tell my advisor: "It's pretty clear, just a few small clouds up in the south...."

Zig-zagging across the universe What’s better than a single gravitational lens? A double gravitational lens! Learn about how light from a distant quasar zig-zags across the universe because of the first double gravitational…

From @astrolamb.bsky.social: What’s better than a single gravitational lens? A double gravitational lens! Learn about how light from a distant quasar zig-zags across the universe because of the first double gravitational lens to be observed! 🔭✨️

astrobites.org/2024/11/20/z...

Lots of brown dwarfs ?

Here is how Bernie can still win

I enjoyed giving a public lecture at Lick Observatory last night

An illustration. An oval disk, which represents the Andromeda galaxy, is angled, pointing to the bottom left and top right, and takes up about one third of the view. Its core appears the brightest white and is surrounded by a thinner oval that is slightly less bright white and has a few brown lines running through it. Its edges have many small blue points representing stars. A few irregularly shaped lines representing globular cluster streams are present. A fainter blue arc is at top left. To its right is a larger, somewhat wider white line that is less than half the length of the galaxy. This straighter line has a gap, and then continues in a rough triangle. Near the bottom left of the galaxy’s blue star-filled region is another streamer that looks like an arc. It also has a gap, toward its right side. More irregular, fairly dim blue lines appear just below the right side of the galaxy. The background is black.

After the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches—by May 2027—astronomers will use its images to explore what exists between looping tendrils of stars that are pulled from globular clusters to potentially reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before: www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

www.nasa.gov/missions/rom...

Our paper has been accepted to ApJ ⬇️
Using mock observations, we show that Roman will detect gaps in streams created by subhalos with masses > 5 x 10^6 Msun in galaxies within 3 MPC, for ~1-hour exposures. Counting these gaps will help constrain the subhalo mass function. arxiv.org/abs/2305.12045