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Joheen Chakraborty

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Physics PhD student at MIT interested in high-energy astrophysics, black holes, and gravitational wave sources
Cambridge, MA
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    Joheen Chakraborty
    @joheenc
    Apr 29
    It's me, I'm astronomers
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    AAS Nova
    @AASNova
    Apr 29
    A Black Hole’s Puzzling X-Ray Bursts A supermassive black hole awakened seven years ago, and it’s now behaving in a way astronomers can’t explain. aasnova.org/2026/04/29/a-b…
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    Joheen Chakraborty
    @joheenc
    Jan 15
    The price of vibe coding is that nobody can have a new coding problem ever again
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    Pedro Domingos
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    Jan 12
    RIP Stack Overflow.
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    Joheen Chakraborty
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    Nov 22, 2024
    Belated paper day: arxiv.org/abs/2411.12796 We discovered three ultracompact binaries with accreting white dwarfs (WDs), by their photometric and spectroscopic variability. With orbital periods of 13.2/8.7/7.9 mins, they are the most compact binaries with accretion disks! (1/6)
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    Joheen Chakraborty
    @joheenc
    Oct 24, 2024
    Apparently Amtrak has not heard of the efficient market hypothesis
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    Joheen Chakraborty
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    Oct 23, 2024
    Attending the LISA symposium this year revealed some amusing implicit condescension from the fundamental physics/gravity crowd: they call binary white dwarfs "verification sources" & accretion disks "environmental effects"! But this intro from Novikov & Thorne '73 takes the cake:
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