For three days in June (20-23, 2022) a – broader – meeting of the VFTS project took place in Heidelberg. Stephan de Wit represented the ASSESS project by contributing with the talk: ” ASSESSing Red Supergiants, in the Local Group … and beyond!”. After a short presentation of the whole …
For the 17th year, Penn State’s Center for Astrostatistics offered its week-long Summer School in statistical methodology for astronomy. The School provides an intensive program in statistical inference covering topics such as principles of probability and inference, regression and model selection, bootstrap resampling, multivariate clustering and classification, Bayesian data analysis, …
Grigoris got an invitation in March to give a talk to the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, scheduled for June 21 (the summer solstice 2022). With the title “The ASSESS classifier: a machine-learning tool to uncover populations of evolved massive stars in nearby galaxies” he gave an introduction to the massive stars …
Aimilia Tsopela joined the ASSESS team as a summer student (2022), to gain experience with astronomical observations and fitting with DUSTY.
The IAU Symposium 361: “Massive Stars Near and Far” was held in Ballyconnell, Ireland in the week of 8-13 May 2022. That was our first in-person meeting since the start of the pandemic, and the ASSESS team took advantage of the opportunity to travel to Ireland to present our work. …
Stathis Athanasiou joined the ASSESS team recently. He is mainly working on target cross-matching with Hubble Space Telescope images, so that we can retrieve more information for our sources.
The ASSESS team has weekly meetings since its assembly, without losing the momentum due to the pandemic. And it is becoming more vital as the group has expanded!
A machine-learning photometric classifier for massive stars in nearby galaxies I. The method Grigoris Maravelias, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Frank Tramper, Stephan de Wit, Ming Yang, Paolo Bonfini Context. Mass loss is a key parameter in the evolution of massive stars. Despite the recent progress in the theoretical understanding of how …
We welcome onboard the ASSESS team Manos Zapartas, who specializes in stellar evolution and will contribute to the theoretical interpretation.
Evangelia Christodoulou and Konstantinos Antoniadis are the two new PhD students that joined our group on February. Both of them will work on the analysis of the data collected over the previous successful runs in order to understand better the episodic mass loss.
