00:03 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06016 https://yihanwangastro.github.io/#posts2

00:03 <galois> [url] Yihan Wang (王艺涵) | yihanwangastro.github.io

00:03 <galois> [arXiv] “Floating binary planets from ejections during close stellar encounters” Yihan Wang, Rosalba Perna, Zhaohuan Zhu — «The discovery of planetary systems beyond our solar system has posed challenges to established theories of planetary formation. Planetary orbits display a variety of architectures not predicted by first principles, and free-floating planets appear ubiquitous. The recent discovery of candidate Jupiter Mass…»

00:04 <raptop> Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs)

00:04 <SnoopJ> !how lorge

00:04 <galois> SnoopJ: 515 lorges

00:18 <raptop> [misinformation voice] Approximately 15% of the budget of a typical astronomical project is spent on coming up with a clever name

15:53 <raptop> vague greetings from santa fe

15:55 <raptop> apparently Voyager data is still producing papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06884

15:56 <galois> [arXiv] “Plasma line detected by Voyager 1 in the interstellar medium: Tips and traps for quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy” N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, M. Moncuquet et al. — «The quasi-thermal motion of plasma particles produces electrostatic fluctuations, whose voltage power spectrum induced on electric antennas reveals plasma properties. In weakly magnetised plasmas, the main feature of the spectrum is a line at the plasma…»

15:56 <SnoopJ> !

15:56 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07134

15:56 <galois> [arXiv] “The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES): driving science cases and expected outcomes” Steph Sallum, Andrew Skemer, Deno Stelter et al. — «The Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) is a $2-5~\mu$m, high-contrast integral field spectrograph (IFS) currently being built for Keck Observatory. With both low ($R\lesssim250$) and medium…»