Events and Activities

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Oct
03
2023

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Spinning into darkness: the slowing bar and Galactic structure
Ralph Schönrich
10:30am|Wolfensohn Hall

In the inner Milky Way stars trek together in a bar-shaped, rotating overdensity: the central bar, which dominates the inner disc out half-way to the Sun. The rotation velocity/pattern speed of this bar has been intensely debated. The best insight...

Oct
10
2023

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

The Dynamical Evolution of Exoplanet Systems Over Billions of Years
Kevin Schlaufman
10:30am|Wolfensohn Hall

Exoplanet systems are expected to evolve with time as they age. In most cases though, the dynamical evolution of exoplanet systems over billion-year timescales are hard to observe. I'll describe how Galactic kinematics can provide accurate and...