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 emission from the elusive intermediate-mass black hole of Omega Centauri , detailed chemical DNA measurements of the oldest stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, and searching for dwarfs using HI measurements.

Check out the papers we discussed below:

Portrait of a Galaxy on FIRE: Is the $α$-bimodality a natural consequence of inside-out disc growth in a hierarchical formation scenario? - Maria Benito

No evidence for accretion around the intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri - Angiraben D. Mahida

The chemical DNA of the Magellanic Clouds V. R-process dominates neutron capture elements production in the oldest SMC stars - Lorenzo Santarelli

TiNy Titans HI: Discovering Satellites via HI Gas in an Isolated, Compact Group of Dwarf Galaxies - Sabrina Stierwalt