Arshia Akhtarkavan

Undergraduate Student in Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics at the University of Arizona.

Publications & Conferences

Publications

  1. The First Photometric Evidence of a Transient/Variable Source at z > 5 with JWST
    DeCoursey C, Egami E, Sun F, A. Akhtarkavan, et al. (2025).

  2. Slitless Areal Pure-Parallel HIgh-Redshift Emission Survey (SAPPHIRES): Early Data Release of Deep JWST/NIRCam Images and Spectra in MACS J0416 Parallel Field
    Sun F, Fudamoto Y, Lin X, Helton J. M., Hsiao T. Y-Y, Egami E, Akhtarkavan A, et al. (2025).

  3. Discovery of 39 Transients/Variables (z_host = 0.437–5.271) in GOODS-N using JADES and CONGRESS JWST/NIRCam Images
    DeCoursey C., Egami E., Sun F., Akhtarkavan A, et al. (2024).

Conferences & Presentations

Bold text in quotation marks indicates the title of the talks or posters presented.

  1. “Forward-Modeling Galaxy Kinematics and Morphology with JWST NIRCam Grisms”
    Poster presentation, Surveying the Universe in 4D: Beating Cosmic Variance with Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy from HST, JWST, Euclid, Roman, and Beyond Workshop
    Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, MD, August 2026 (planned)

  2. “Modeling RR Lyrae Spectra in the Draco Dwarf Galaxy”
    Contributed Talk, Yale/CeNAM Nuclear Asteroseismology Workshop
    Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2026

  3. “Modeling RR Lyrae Spectra in the Draco Dwarf Galaxy”
    Contributed Talk, Summer Research Symposium
    Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2026

  4. “Islands Project and the Nahm Equations”
    Talk, Third Annual Cross-Campus Undergraduate Research Forum and Questionarium
    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 2026

  5. “Forward-Modeling Emission-Line Galaxy Kinematics and Morphology with JWST NIRCam Grisms”
    Contributed Talk, Steward Observatory Internal Symposium
    Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 2026

  6. “Forward-Modeling Emission Line Galaxy Kinematics and Morphology with JWST NIRCam Grisms”
    iPoster presentation, 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247)
    Phoenix, AZ, January 2026

Workshops & Trainings

  1. Arizona Winter School on Multi-Probe Cosmology in the Roman ST Era
    Arizona Cosmology Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, January 2026