Episode 5 - Galaxies, gas accretion, and aliens

Arriving in your ears on February 10th, our latest installment includes transfer learning to detect low surface brightness galaxies, hot and cold gas accretion, an unusual finding in a filament, details of our proto-Galaxy, and the search for intelligent life!

Papers discussed this month:

DES to HSC: Detecting low surface brightness galaxies in the Abell 194 cluster using transfer learning – Thuruthipilly et al.

Gas accretion at high redshift: cold flows all the way – Waterval et al.

Pearls on a string: Dark and bright galaxies on a strikingly straight and narrow filament – Arabsalmani et al.

Discovery of A Starburst in the Early Milky Way at [Fe/H] <−2 – Chen et al.

The Local Galactic Transient Survey Applied to an Optical Search for Directed Intelligence – Thomas et al.