07:47 <raptop> !8ball sleep?

07:47 <galois> raptop: yes

07:48 <raptop> Impressive IMF update: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03639

07:48 <galois> [arXiv] “The Initial Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20-pc Census of $\sim$3,600 Stars and Brown Dwarfs” J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Federico Marocco, Christopher R. Gelino et al. — «A complete accounting of nearby objects -- from the highest-mass white dwarf progenitors down to low-mass brown dwarfs -- is now possible, thanks to an almost complete set of trigonometric parallax determinations from Gaia, ground-based surveys, and…»

07:54 <raptop> !u ☉

07:54 <galois> ☉: U+2609 v1.1 (So) SUN

07:54 <raptop> !u ⊙☉

07:54 <galois> ⊙: U+2299 v1.1 (Sm) CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR

07:54 <galois> ☉: U+2609 v1.1 (So) SUN

14:39 <SnoopJ> pondering the orbs

20:25 <raptop> *sad trombone* https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03786

20:25 <galois> [arXiv] “Large Exomoons unlikely around Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b” René Heller, Michael Hippke — «There are more than 200 moons in our Solar System, but their relatively small radii make similarly sized extrasolar moons very hard to detect with current instruments. The best exomoon candidates so far are two nearly Neptune-sized bodies orbiting the Jupiter-sized transiting exoplanets Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b, but…»

20:31 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04057

20:31 <galois> [arXiv] “UOCS-XI. Study of blue straggler stars in open cluster NGC 7142 using UVIT/AstroSat” Anju Panthi, Kaushar Vaidya, Nagaraj Vernekar et al. — «We present a study of blue straggler stars (BSSs) of open cluster NGC 7142 using AstroSat/UVIT data and other archival data. Using a machine learning-based algorithm, ML-MOC, on Gaia DR3 data, we find 546 sources as cluster members. Based on the location on the Gaia…»

20:32 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03847

20:32 <galois> [arXiv] “The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) VIII: Characterising the orbital properties of the ancient, very metal-poor inner Milky Way” Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Giacomo Monari, Anna B. A. Queiroz et al. — «The oldest stars in the Milky Way (born in the first few billion years) are expected to have a high density in the inner few kpc, spatially overlapping with the Galactic bulge. We use spectroscopic data from the Pristine…»

20:33 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03935

20:33 <galois> [arXiv] “The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). X: Hot Gas Reveals Deeply Embedded Star Formation” Natsuko Izumi, Patricio Sanhueza, Patrick M. Koch et al. — «Massive infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are considered to host the earliest stages of high-mass star formation. In particular, 70 $\mu$m dark IRDCs are the colder and more quiescent clouds. At a scale of about 5000 au using formaldehyde…»

22:43 <raptop> commit -am "to the bit"

22:47 <raptop> git commit clearly needs a -r option, so you can commit crimes and arson

22:47 <raptop> ...though in principle you could commit sin