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Noel Richardson
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Astronomer studying massive stars and binaries with an amazing group of students.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I wrote back to arXiv and said "if this is an accepted publication, and you are refusing it, then can you please explain why April Fool's Joke papers are allowed?" They responded with a link for how to appeal their decision - but it seemed to say that if I give the RNAAS link, then it should be good
September 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I have two additional projects that my students are already working on, so more to come in the future.
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And one surprising thing, around WR 48a, which is in a cluster of stars, we not only find the dust shells - we find dusty clumps or young stars that look like the Orion proplyds.
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This allowed us to measure how old the oldest detected dust was based on knowing the orbital periods of the systems. The dust was up to hundreds of years old!
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Immediately, we were able see a large dust structure around each binary. We also managed to measure radial profiles in some directions allowing us to see how many shells we detect:
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
After we found the dust survived in this harsh environment, I led a team to ask the question: Is it long-lived for all of the harsh environments? So, we proposed for JWST observations in Cycle 2, and finally had observations taken last summer. Here are the four systems we observed
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This paper was the result of a follow-up on the famous WR 140 image from JWST
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I submitted mine early (Monday late?) and the number was 6201.
April 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM