StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papers

The hosts open by saying they've spent the last few weeks reading papers and are ready to get started.

Episode 27 opens with Christmas cheer and the note that it is the last episode of the year, so the show takes a three-week break.

Starchive opens by marking a year of recording and thanking listeners.

Michelle Collins opens episode 21 with Nicole Buckley back at the table and three papers lined up.

The episode moves from a DESI DR1 study of 944 star-forming galaxies at redshift below 0.5 to a Gaia-based estimate that more than 80% of stars could form in open clusters.

StarXiv comes back after an extra week away and works through three papers, with two of them handled as quick half-segments.

The three hosts meet for a first triad crossover and immediately treat the setup like a live experiment.

Episode 22 opens with a discussion of Andrea Carillo et al.'s Gaia Enceladus Sausage paper from Carleton College, which uses eight Auriga-simulation satellites to test whether the progenitor had a metallicity gradient before merging with the Milky Way about 10 giga years ago.

StarCive Episode 28 features astronomy researchers discussing two red supergiants showing mysterious changes: Betelgeuse's unexpected dimming and variable brightness, and WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud showing similar patterns.

StarXiv episode 29 opens with Phil Wiseman et al.’s MNRAS response to a 2025 supernova paper that claimed host-age trends could erase the dark-energy signal, and the hosts say the modern g-host and selection-bias corrections make that trend disappear.

Episode 24 opens with both hosts finally back together after a run of mismatched schedules.

Michelle and Pyle are back together for episode 31 and jump straight into three papers.

StarXiv episode 23 moves from JWST little red dots and quasi-stars to Milky Way fossils, dark-matter limits, and rare RR Lyrae chemistry.

StarXiv episode 32 centers on two astronomy threads: whether nitrogen-rich field stars really came from globular clusters, and how black holes grow in dwarf galaxies and nuclear star clusters.

StarXiv Episode 18 moves from galaxy rotation curves to dwarf-galaxy morphology, deep imaging of Malin 2, globular-cluster chemistry, and planet-forming disk alignment.

Two astronomers discuss recent astronomy papers from arXiv, starting with casual chat about holidays and April Fools' papers.

Hosts Michelle and Payel discuss recent astronomy papers, starting with a paper on detecting dark matter from pulsars.

Two astronomers discuss recent astronomy papers, starting with a paper on the metallicity of ultra-faint galaxies.

Two astronomers discuss recent astronomy papers, starting with a paper on finding metal-polluted population three galaxies.

This episode discusses a paper on detecting neutral hydrogen in galaxies at high redshift using the MeerKAT telescope.

Two astronomers discuss recent astronomy papers, starting with a paper on detecting low surface brightness galaxies using transfer learning.

Hosts Michelle Collins and Payel Das discuss recent astronomy papers from arXiv, sharing their reading habits and the latest research trends.

The hosts introduce the podcast, discuss their holiday spirit, and explain their plan to cover recent astronomy papers from arXiv.

Two astronomers introduce themselves and their research areas before discussing recent astronomy papers from arXiv.

Two astronomers introduce a new podcast that will discuss recent astronomy papers from the arXiv to help themselves and others keep up with research.