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Episode 35 - More Milky Way mayhem, Fast Radio Bursts, and very cold disks

April 28, 2026·34 min
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In this episode, Nicole and Payel discuss an accurate dating of the Gaia-Enceladus Sausage merger with the Milky Way, a new probe of matter clustering on small scales using Fast Radio Bursts, a new analysis of the retrograde stars in the Milky Way, and a simulation perspective on the very cold disks found at high redshift by ALMA. And check out the papers below:The Last Galactic Firework: Timing the last significant merger with stars, globular clusters and 𝜔 Centauri Chervin Laporte and Matthew OrkneySignatures of Suppressed Matter Clustering revealed by Fast Radio Bursts Kritti Sharma et al.Substructures of the Milky Way's Retrograde Halo: Evidence for Multiple Accretion Events Young Kwang Kin et al.Dynamically cold discs in high-redshift galaxies: comparison between ALMA observations and TNG50 Yi He et al.

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