2 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Ghosts of eruptions past: Searching for historical Galactic supernovae using variable thermal dust echoes and machine learning
Justin Vega, Kishalay De, Ashish Mahabal +4
The Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) rate is estimated at per century; however, no optically visible SN has been discovered in the past 400 years. Although recor…
astro-ph.IM2024
squishyplanet: Modeling Transits of Non-spherical Exoplanets in JAX
Ben Cassese, Justin Vega, Tiger Lu +3
While astronomers often assume that exoplanets are perfect spheres when analyzing observations, the subset of these distant worlds that are subject to strong tidal forces and/or ra…