Just published in JOSS: 'A Python API for OTTER' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09516

Exploring the remains of a destroyed (death) star Today's paper explores the potential connection between two transient astronomical phenomenon: Tidal disruption events and extreme coronal line emitters.

From Noah Franz: Today’s paper explores the potential connection between two transient astronomical phenomenon: Tidal disruption events and extreme coronal line emitters. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/03/08/e...

Left: A picture of Aldana Grichener on top of an artistic rendition of a binary neutron star merger with the title "Celestial Alchemy: Turning Neutrons into Gold". Right: A picture of Haowen Zhang on top of a picture of background objects being gravitationally lensed by numerous foreground black holes with the title "Too Many Black Holes Near and Far!!!".

Space Drafts #104 is happening next Tuesday (Feb. 18) at 7:30p Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts104. Aldana Grichener will be teaching us how to make gold out of neutrons and Haowen Zhang will be telling us about black holes near and far!

I also found this to be a great book for an overview of astrophysics!

As a 2nd year undergrad taking a similar class we used “Principles of Astrophysics” by Charles Keeton. I really enjoyed it and thought it did a fantastic job with the order of magnitude part of astronomy with lots of dimensional analysis to understand topics :)