Dr. Rebecca Davies, PhD
@astro_bec
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Astrophysics postdoc at Swinburne. I tweet intermittently about astronomy, renewable energy and science in general. Opinions are my own.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined July 2013
Interested in learning about quasars, pulsars, Mars landing zones and more? Come along to @CASastrophysics on Thursday May 11 at 6pm for talks and telescope viewing!
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Here's a recording of my Clubhouse presentation and Q&A in case you couldn't attend:
clubhouse.com
You were invited to join this live room
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Keen to hear about my research? I'll be discussing how “Black holes shed light on carbon in the early universe 🕳🪐“ with @ceciletamura, @bobprayd, @sierra_photon, Hansen F., Rebecca Davies. tomorrow at 12:00 pm AEDT on @clubhouse!
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Tracing 13 billion years of history by the light of ancient quasars. A paper today led by @astro_bec @ARC_ASTRO3D @Swinburne has found new evidence for rapid heating in the early universe. In @RAS_Journals
https://t.co/WOtfuIcc4J. Media release at https://t.co/JqRsLqfwtq
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arxiv.org
There is growing evidence for physical influence between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. We present a case study of nearby galaxy NGC 7582, for which we find evidence that...
Sneak Preview! Animated figure showing the rotating ionized gas in [NII] and H-alpha from a VLT/MUSE datacube of galaxy NGC 7582 (coming soon to an @arxiv near you) #thread
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Having fun at the @ARC_ASTRO3D Trivia Night at the ASTRO3D retreat… see the name of our table, and I PROMISE it was not my idea, but I strongly supported it as soon as it was mentioned by @ThemiyaN ! cc @astro_bec @rmcdermid
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The Australian government's response to climate change so far is hugely inadequate. Sign this petition to let them know that stronger action is needed at COP26!
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Get to know her our celebrated women astronomers like Jean Brodie, Virginia Kilborn, Rebecca Allen and more. Learn how they are improving our understanding of space ➡️ https://t.co/Dd8zVK4Fcl
#WorldSpaceWeek
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Check out our new paper on separating emission from stars and black hole accretion in optical integral field data!
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It's all systems go and we are finally collecting our first external galaxy photons for this @SAMI_survey observing run! :)
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Great view of fog in the valley at @SidingSpring :) Our @SAMI_survey observing run starts tomorrow night.
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Celebrating the launch of the brand new Careers with Science & Engineering website! https://t.co/ls2AVJ1zVN
#STEMplusX @STEMedOZ #STEM
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Our latest paper is out today, this one is about how radiation pressure impacts the gas in AGN narrow line regions:
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Our @keckobservatory data as presented in @astro_bec's paper is featured on the @astroucr blog today!
Age of #stars reveals the story of colliding #galaxies, scientists at @UCRiverside discover: https://t.co/mTc1Nc2xLT
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