Today I'm thinking about some in-progress work that builds off of my very first paper . The original paper The gist is that the things we can observe about the Milky Way's satellites (their luminosities, velocity dispersions) have to come from the baryons, but I'd like to know properties of their DM halos. To bridge the gap between observed quantities and the DM, you can forward-model a huge…
Welcome to my blog! Earlier today, I stumbled on David Hogg's blog and was inspired to make a blog for myself. I initially thought to add this to my website , since it's built with Jekyll (which is configured to make blogging very easy), but I ended up running into annoyances setting up a subdomain with GitHub Pages. During my attempts to set up a secondary Jekyll site, I found Shashank's blog…