I made a new way to tell between bound and unbound star clusters, as well as measuring more cluster masses than ever before!
I was one of the 2023 recipients of the Ernst Patzer award.
Twitter was an amazing resource for networking and discussion in astronomy. But since Elon Musk's increasingly disastrous takeover of the platform, everyone has been looking for better alternatives to Musk's Twitter. Bluesky is one such option that I'll explain in this post.
I created a catalogue of star clusters in the Milky Way using multiple machine learning methods to analyse 729 million sources from Gaia DR3. Here's how!
Over a dozen papers have reported new discoveries of open clusters in Gaia data at the time of writing, in less than three years since the release of Gaia DR2. At the core of all papers in this field are clustering algorithms. But which is best at recovering them in Gaia data?
Citation managers are a fantastic tool for keeping track of research - but there are so many different options out there. Which one should you use and why?