Brandt Gaches

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Disabled astronomer/astrochemist. Emmy Noether group leader @ University of Duisburg-Essen.

The disability pride flag. A charcoal grey flag bisected diagonally from the top left corner to the lower right right corner by five parallel stripes in red, pale gold, pale grey, light blue, and green
Photo showing a garage destroyed by a fire, with two piles corresponding to bikes that were totally destroyed, and a metal frame of a cart.
Example bibliography section of a Typst template showing links for the journal section of the reference that point to the DOI if it exists
Initial mass function plotted as a function of stellar mass. Indicated are different mass categories: "Does not burn - just summer", "Brown dwarf", "Low mass", "Sun-like", "Intermediate", "High mass", "Very high mass", "Extremely high mass", "Super massive", and finally "Kaiju class".
A picture from Kofio for the container of the coffee concept of LOVE from Concept coffee roasters. Shows the tasting notes of vanilla, white chocolate, strawberries, chocolate-covered cherries, and amaretto. The container is a dark brown cylinder with a screw on top and a pink middle band saying "filter roast, concept of love".
Screenshot of a new Typst template for the Open Journal of Astrophysics, highlighting the title block, abstract, and section headings.
Typst version of the Gaches 2020 A&A Letter paper "An analytic formalism to describe the Neff(H)-nH relationship in molecular clouds"
Conference poster for the Olympian Symposium 2026: The Evolution of Interstellar Medium Across Cosmic Times. Conference dates are May 18 - 22, 2026. Location: Paralia Katerini, Greece. Conference deadline Jan 30, 2026.
Image abstract for the review article "High-energy astrochemistry in the molecular interstellar medium." The image has two halves. One the left side it shows the gas-phase chemistry response to cosmic rays and X-rays, including the production of ions such as H2+, H3+, HCO+ and N2H+. On the right side is the ice-chemistry response showing production of complex prebotic molecules, including formamide and glycine by radical-radical reactions. The top left and top right show thumbnail images of a radio telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. Bottom caption reads "Enegetic radiation processes in the molecular interstellar medium."
Cassiopeia A as observed from JWST, shown using four different color maps, clockwise from top left: lilac (cmasher), rainbow (matplotlib), torch (cmasher), gist_stern (matplotlib)
Disability pride flag - a charcoal grey flag bisected diagonally from the top left corner to the lower right right corner by five parallel stripes in red, pale gold, pale grey, light blue, and green (Credit: Wikipedia for alt text)
Silly meme about a special session accepted for the EAS2025 conference in Cork, Ireland
An AI generated movie poster for a parody of A Beautiful Mind called Nabootiful Mind, starring the Star Wars character Jar-Jar Binks.
Accretion onto a solar mass protostar with a strong magnetic field.