A MEGATRON Day!

Today we published four papers at the Open Journal of Astrophysics all related to the Megatron Project which is co-led by Martin Rey of the University of Bath (UK), Harley Katz of the University of Chicago (USA) and Corentin Cadiou of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris in France. I will include this quartet in my regular weekly update on Saturday but there is a press release accompanying these publications so I thought I’d splash them a bit here too. I’ll show the overlays on Saturday but in the meantime here are some pretty graphics from three of the papers: In no particular order the four papers are: MEGATRON: Reproducing the Diversity of High-Redshift Galaxy Spectra with Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations MEGATRON: how the first stars can create an iron metallicity plateau in the smallest dwarf galaxies MEGATRON: the impact of non-equilibrium effects and local radiation fields on the circumgalactic medium at cosmic noon MEGATRON: The Physical Origins of Steep UV…