This is CBSI on the World, Hotel Mars episode, and with David Livingston, and Megan Masterson is here from MIT, the lead author on a new paper about black holes gobbling up stars.

However, we now give Megan an unlimited budget.

What next, Megan?

Anything you want.

Wow.

Yeah, this is a really fascinating question to think about, to ponder.

I think so we were just talking about the field of time domain astronomy.

And one of the things with this study in particular was that we didn't actually, we didn't

find these TDE with James Webb.

We found them with another observatory, but we were able to do really detailed follow-up with

James Webb that helps us kind of determine the properties of these sources.

But James Webb has a really small field of view that I can look at, basically a very small

patch of the sky. And so you can't survey the entire sky in these time domain studies the way

you can with other missions. So I think one thing that would be really exciting is to be able to survey the entire sky

with James Webb.

That would require basically many more James Webb's.

That would be extremely expensive.

The other thing that I think would be really exciting is to do scan the sky all the time

in the x-rays. So this is something we've been kind of

working on as a field, but we currently don't have an operating mission in the x-ray band

that's surveying the sky on a regular cadence. And so this is kind of a powerful way. We basically

need photons from across the electromagnetic spectrum

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