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<egg>
UmbralRaptor: have observed M42 with bofh
<egg>
uneggspeggted window between the clouds
<UmbralRaptor>
eggscellent
<bofh>
'twas amazing
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* UmbralRaptor
attempts to move the clouds away from the various winter open clusters.
<NomalRaptor>
< xdroop> ...we've literally replaced a small shell script with a person
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<NomalRaptor>
Submitted an abstract 73 minutes before a deadline. Am I a real academic yet?
<e_14159_>
NomalRaptor: Let me guess, you're submission #20?
<NomalRaptor>
e_14159_: 63, actually
<SnoopJeDi>
NomalRaptor, you have been since you were admitted, and even before then no doubt :P
<SnoopJeDi>
for reference, my prof usually likes to submit about 5 minutes before the deadline
<SnoopJeDi>
the extended deadline, which he invariably counts on?!
<NomalRaptor>
aaaaaaaaaaa
<SnoopJeDi>
the upshot is that he only ever writes/manages his own abstracts, we're left to our own judgement
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<e_14159>
Why would you do that to yourself?
<NomalRaptor>
SnoopJeDi: well, are you familiar with how I got into a PhD program through a side door? (This naturally feeds into the impostor syndrome)
<SnoopJeDi>
not intimately NomalRaptor, but I am familiar with the feeling of "slipping by"
<SnoopJeDi>
things got marginally better when I realized that believing those things about myself was technically disrespect for the ability of my dept to manage itself. They get by alright, so I'm probably alright :P
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<bofh>
22:00:12 <@SnoopJeDi> for reference, my prof usually likes to submit about 5 minutes before the deadline
<bofh>
22:00:23 <@SnoopJeDi> the extended deadline, which he invariably counts on?!
<bofh>
this feels like me in the rare case I do my own submissions instead of sending to my prof
<SnoopJeDi>
it's a pretty common trend I think
<SnoopJeDi>
just because conferences/etc. are kinda in shambles logistically?
<SnoopJeDi>
or maybe deadlines are a bad pattern
<raptop>
Anyway, the conference has 120 participants, and apparently a waitlist(!?)
<egg|cell|egg>
Meow
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn egg|cell|egg
<SnoopJeDi>
oh wow, still no Qboid?
<egg|cell|egg>
Tfw no qboid
<raptop>
SnoopJeDi: The side-door thing is because after generally failing to get into PhD programs, I got into an MSc at Missouri State. While there, my advisor got a job offer at George Mason University. As part of his acceptance, he brought 2 grad students (I was one) over. So after a year at MSU, I got into a Real Astronomy Program(tm) at GMU.
<egg|cell|egg>
And no whitequark
* raptop
scritches egg|cell|egg
<SnoopJeDi>
raptop, I see! I'm glad you're pursuing it, even if you don't feel the best about the trajectory.
<raptop>
It, uh, leads to some self-doubt. Also, there was attempting to apply to 2(?) PhD programs in the first semester at MSU at my advisor's behest.
<e_14159>
raptop: So, your advisor, after knowing you and working with you for a year, hand-picked you to go to another university with him?
<SnoopJeDi>
I recommend keeping a literal list of accomplishments to fight the doubt, but I hear you.
<SnoopJeDi>
raptop, what are you presenting at the conference?
<raptop>
SnoopJeDi: survey simulations to try to figure out how to optimize the usage of (near) future radial velocity instruments. Notably the ground-based side of a ground/space tradeoff. Generally, trying to get as many nearby eggsoplanets as possible, especially if they can make HabEx spend its valuable time more effectively.
<raptop>
Since we're doing RVs, this can act as a check on TESS planets, as well as find ones that it can't (but are still useful for direct imaging)
<SnoopJeDi>
ooh
<SnoopJeDi>
so you're simulating survey strategies or somesuch?
* egg|cell|egg
meows at raptop
<raptop>
Yeah. We're using a "dispatch scheduler" so we've automated the Time Allocation Commitee.
<SnoopJeDi>
now *there's* an abstract
<SnoopJeDi>
:D
<raptop>
It turns out that you can replace a bunch of senior astronomers with <1 kloc of Python
<raptop>
But, uh, I've mainly just been messing with ways to weight the scheduler to get as many observations total with relatively similiar numbers per star. This work already eggists, if we can get the MINERVA people to publish. >_>;;
<raptop>
I've also worked on getting RV precision estimates for each observation given instrument/telescope/star/observation site properties.
<raptop>
Currently we (mostly myself and another student who's dealing with space based simulations) are working on getting fitting a set of observations with injected planet signals. Can we reasonably recover planets? With what masses and periods? (this depends on the survey properties)
<SnoopJeDi>
particularly because it's multiple instruments?
<raptop>
Less that then the precision of any given instrument, how frequently it can observe a given star (including gaps from time of year/bad position, or just really long observations), and how long the survey lasts.
<SnoopJeDi>
the QR codes are making me suddenly wonder why conference apps don't support QR codes with metadata that would let you earmark a poster for later review
<raptop>
unsure
<SnoopJeDi>
or at least not the ones I've used. I hate the app stuff so I just carry dead trees
<raptop>
The QR codes are basically a way to say "here
<raptop>
er
<raptop>
The QR codes are basically a way to say "here's my code" >_>;;
<SnoopJeDi>
ah those are links to your codes
<raptop>
(I've you're wondering about the planet injection stuff in the right column, Shannon Dulz has done a lot of work on assembling eggsoplanet demographics into a coherent whole, and generating realistic systems / injecting RVs into my rigorously sized gaussian noise)
<raptop>
Uh, that's not a put down. A big part of the simulations is getting errors scaled right, so that the worst assumption about the various noise sources is that they're uncorrelated gaussians.
<SnoopJeDi>
Worst as in worst-case, or worst as in least representative of actual data?
<raptop>
least representative
<raptop>
Unfortunately, star spots and flares eggsist