JSM 2019 Student Paper Competition

Above, the finalists await Prof. Chad Schafer to reveal the winner of the student paper
competition at JSM 2019 in Denver, CO. 

See the Session Program for abstracts and more information. 
Here is a link to the current student paper competition.

Winner -- Axel Widmark
Widmark, A., 2019, A&A, 623, A30, Measuring the local matter density using Gaia DR2
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2019/03/aa34718-18.pdf

Finalist -- Francesca Capel, KTH Royal Institute if Technology
Capel, F. & Mortlock, D.J., 2019, MNRAS, 484, 2324, Impact of using the ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray arrival energies to constrain source associations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/484/2/2324/5287987?redirectedFrom=PDF

Finalist -- Daniel Muthukrishna, University of Cambridge
Muthukrishna, D., Narayan, G., Mandel, K.S., Biswas, R., and Hlozek, R., 2019, arXiv: 1904.00014, RAPID: Early Classification of Explosive Transients using Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.00014.pdf

Finalist -- Xixi Yu, Imperial College of Science & Technology
Yu, X., Del Zanna, G., Stenning, D.C., Cisewski-Kehe, J., Kashyap, V.L., Stein, N., van Dyk, D.A., Warren, H.P., and Weber, M.A., 2018, ApJ, 866, 146, Incorporating Uncertainties in Atomic Data into the Analysis of Solar and Stellar Observations:A Case Study in FeXIII
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aadfdd/pdf