Episode 8 – Cosmology, pulsars and dark matter in disk galaxies

In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss the longest period pulsar, the formation of nuclear star clusters, the recent data releases from ACT and DESI, dark spiral arms and the problem with rotation curves.Papers in this episode:The discovery of a 41-second radio pulsar PSR J0311+1402 with ASKAP – Yuanming Wang et al.Seeding Cores: A Pathway for Nuclear Star Clusters from Bound Star Clusters in the First Billion Years – Fred Angelo Batan GarciaDark matter spiral arms in Milky Way-like halos – Marcel Benet et al.Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument – The DESI collaborationThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models – Ermina Calabrese et alDecoding the Galactic Twirl: The Downfall of Milky Way-mass Galaxies Rotation Curves in the FIRE Simulations – Xiaowei Ou et al.