In January, we received the exciting news that our MeerKAT Local Universe Legacy Survey (PI: D. J. Pisano), was accepted as an Extremely Large Program. Over the next two years, our team will build a landmark view of 188 nearby galaxies in the southern sky by mapping their atomic hydrogen gas, the raw material fromContinueContinue reading “Extremely Large Program with MeerKAT got accepted! The MeerKAT Legacy Local Universe Survey (LLUS)”
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Exiting news! My VLA Large Program got accepted
Our Very Large Array (VLA) Large Program of ~55o hours that I am the PI of got accepted (PI: Eibensteiner, co-PI: Koch, Chown, Chiang). We will use the B, C and D configurations to get exquisite maps at ~8″ angular resolution (300-800 pc) of neutral atomic gas of the most studied nearby spiral galaxies -ContinueContinue reading “Exiting news! My VLA Large Program got accepted”
Public outreach talk for Charlottesville Astronomical Society (CAS)
Two weeks ago, I gave a public talk for the Charlottesville Astronomical Society (CAS) at the Leander McCormick Observatory. I really enjoyed it, and if you want to see some pretty pictures (& more) of nearby galaxies, go check out the recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8xgpVfXJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8xgpVfXJc
My Research (and I) were highighted in the July NRAO eNewsletter
Go check it out: https://science.nrao.edu/enews/18.7/
Invited talk at GALRES25
I was in Garching at ESO for the “Galactic ecosystems under the microscope: lessons from highly-resolved studies” workshop at the beginning of July. I was invited to give a talk about highly resolved HI observations and how I use them together with observations from ALMA and space telescopes for my research.
CosmicAI Bootcamp
In May, I participated at the CosmicAI Bootcamp in Austin, Texas at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Lectures and hands-on sessions included: Machine Learning and Supervised Learning, Advanced Supervised Learning, Deep Learning, Distributed Deep Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Generative AI and LLMs, Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Astro-AI Software Demos. It was an intensive and very informativeContinueContinue reading “CosmicAI Bootcamp”
PHANGS team meeting in Nice, France
In February of each year, members of the Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) usually meet in person to discuss our achievements of the previous year and set goals for the new year. Since 2022, I’ve been co-leading the HI and Radio Continuum Science Working Group within PHANGS. Similar to the yearsContinueContinue reading “PHANGS team meeting in Nice, France”
I won a prize talk! (Poster prize)
I attended the conference Dust and Gas throughout Cosmic Time in Hiroshima, Japan. I won the poster prize and was able to present my research as part of a Prize talk. Below you can see my poster and some pictures from my talk. Poster_PHANGS-MeerKATHerunterladen
Study about what drives the molecular gas fraction in nearby galaxies using new MeerKAT HI observations is published
My paper with the title “PHANGS-MeerKAT and MHONGOOSE HI observations of nearby spiral galaxies: Physical drivers of the molecular gas fraction, Rmol” was published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in November 2024.
Master Student’s paper is published
Sebastian Laudage (Master Student I supervised) published his paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics in October 2024. Here is the link: Neutral atomic and molecular gas dynamics in the nearby spiral galaxies NGC 1512, NGC 4535, and NGC 7496
Cosima Eibensteiner, PhD 