Jason Hinkle

It's rare for a grad student paper to spark a new subfield—but this collab between @UHIfA’s Colby Haggerty and the Shappee transient group might do just that, solving key mysteries in supernovae & kilonovae! Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2504.15335 In it, Dhvanil Desai @dhvanil12299 shows that relativistic electrons and positrons from radioactive decay stay trapped in the ejecta far longer than expected. Hoisted by their own petard, they generate magnetic fields that confine them and facilitate the transfer of decay energy to ions, ultimately responsible for the luminosity we observe.

If you have telescope time in the south, ASASSN021kl is a good direction to point it. ;-)

Is this a crime drama or a science paper? @UHIfA grad student Aaron Do pieces together a story almost 50 years in the making, translating the position of the nearest Ia in 120 years (SN1972E) from photographic plates to HST to unravel this whodunit. arxiv.org/abs/2102.07796

Who just posted his 5th(!*#!) paper? Who is just a 2nd-year @UHIfA grad? Who now needs to finish/pass their finals? (Hint: the answer to all is @AstroHinkle) arxiv.org/abs/2012.08521 Take a gander. This paper should be of great use to the TDE/changing-look AGN communities.