Starting off Friday's session 2 is @astro-jje.bsky.social talking about BPASS, binary evolution, and (one of my favourites) helium stars! #AstroTDU 🌟🏳️‍🌈🌟

#AstroTDU I did my normal: head for something labeled observatory on the city map! #melbourne #royalbotanicgardens

Christine Lee presents results on using Bayeswave to examine the detection efficiency of having more GW detectors. The take away message seems to be that Virgo needs to do better? #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

Redback (by Nikhil Sarin) is an open source software to obtain data for, interpret, and model/fit transients. And nice that the talk comes with coding examples! #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

Conference fatigue is hitting but I’m back posting! Earlier we heard from Francisco Forster on ALeRCE, a broker that helps us sort out large amount of survey data and find transient events for rapid follow ups with other facilities. #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

FiNK classification of various transient phenomena - 6 categories shown

Starting our identification session at #AstroTDU is Swinburne's DECRA Fellow Anais Möller discussing FiNK source classification 🔭🧪 #Rubin #LSST

Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv) talking about tidal disruption events #TDEs #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

PhD student Luke Harvey from TCD Ireland talks about high-velocity features in SNeIa with #ZTF #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

ANU's @Bailey_Cosmo talking about type Ia supernovae #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

Paul Lasky introduces multi messenger observations of double neutron star mergers, including the successful observations of GW170817, and the missed opportunity of GRB 211211A. #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

Teagan Clarke introduces tidal disruptions in neutron star black hole binaries, and the possibility of observing such disruptions in FRBs before the next gen GW observatories come online #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

We’re back! Kicking off todays Compact Objects/Gravitational Waves session is Lili Sun explaining the existing GW observatories and their achievements, and what we are hoping to achieve with the next gen GW facilities, and benefits of having one in Oz #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

GW progenitors cartoon - final products

Lilli Sun from ANU discussing outcomes of compact binary mergers with future #gravitational wave observatories #GW #CE #ET #LISA #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

At the Transients Down Under #AstroTDU conference in Melbourne Australia ... Stellar lineup of speakers, guests and delegates from all over the world!
Did a wonderful interview with amazing researcher Prof Orsola De Marco ...
Kudos to the local organising committee.
More to come 🌟

And last talk of the day by Kovi @funfactscience.bsky.social on a brown dwarf with 700K surface temperature (same as your pizza oven) emitting radio. Does it also emit in gamma-rays?? Should I check??? #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

galaxy image with supernova crosshairs

SN2018zd: was it electron-capture or Fe core-collapse supernova? Masato Sato is the last talk of the Supernova Theory session #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

Joshua Pritchard: Stellar activities can induce radio emission (and of course gamma-rays too!) ASKAP is now under full motion to discover a lot more of dwarf stars in radio. I’m gonna look for gamma-rays from them 😆😆 #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

Intriguing. Dougal Dobie found a single, non repeating, bright radio transient that’s not like a flare star, pulsar, FRB, or Galactic Centre radio transient. And we’re still not sure what it is after the talk #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

Laura Driessen giving an absolutely amazing talk on in image-plane searches of radio transients. Lots to look forward to when SKA comes online! #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

My long-time colleague Wolfgang Kerzendorf talking about understanding supernovae with machine learning #AI #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

Jielai Zhang introduces multi wavelength observations of two FRBs by the Deeper, Wider, Faster team. Unfortunately no high energy emission from these FRBs were seen. #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

And over from supernova theory to the parallel session on FRBs and Radio Transients - Dr J. Zhang talking about DWF 🔭🧪 #AstroTDU

Lachlan Marnoch explaining in details their effort to try to find the host galaxy of the z=1 FRB but didn’t find it. #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

...this is was my first interview with Bryan Crump and you can hear how much fun it was.

It's kind of strange to contribute to something people can listen to while flying around the world.

Also cool to listen to myself talking about supernovae while heading to #AstroTDU...

Alexa Gordon on using properties of host galaxies to identify FRB progenitors #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

Chin-Ping Hu talks in details about the connection between magnetars and FRBs #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

Stuart Ryder talking about FRB observed at redshift = 1 and its implications #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

Manisha Caleb starts off the afternoon FRB session! It was a brilliant summary of the current affairs in FRBs. #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

Thomas Janka starts the #supernova theory session #MPA #AstroTDU

Busy running things so not posting much but #AstroTDU is well underway! Duane Hamacher gave a great intro on the crossroads of Indigenous knowledge in #astrophysics