19:30 <raptop> exoplanet studies are weird: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11470

19:30 <galois> [arXiv] “Seven white dwarfs with circumstellar gas discs II: Tracing the composition of exoplanetary building blocks” L. K. Rogers, A. Bonsor, S. Xu et al. — «This second paper presents an in-depth analysis of the composition of the planetary material that has been accreted onto seven white dwarfs with circumstellar dust and gas emission discs with abundances reported in Paper I. The white dwarfs are accreting planetary bodies…»

19:41 <raptop> ...you what? https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11644

19:41 <galois> [arXiv] “Detecting Planetary Oblateness in the Era of JWST: A Case Study of Kepler-167e” Quanyi Liu, Wei Zhu, Yifan Zhou et al. — «Planets may be rotationally flattened, and their oblateness thus provide useful information on their formation and evolution. Here we develop a new algorithm that can compute the transit light curve due to an oblate planet very efficiently and use it to study the detectability of planet oblateness…»

19:45 <raptop> It's in the abstract, but astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10309

19:45 <galois> [arXiv] “The European Low Frequency Survey on the Simons Array” Aniello Mennella, Kam Arnold, Susanna Azzoni et al. — «In this paper we present the European Low Frequency Survey (ELFS), a project that will enable foregrounds-free measurements of the primordial $B$-mode polarization and a detection of the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, to a level $\sigma(r) = 0.001$ by measuring the Galactic and extra-galactic emissions in the…»

19:46 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10363

19:46 <galois> [arXiv] “The Focal-plane Actualized Shifted Technique Realized for a Shack Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (fastrSHWFS)” Benjamin L. Gerard, Aaron Lemmer, Bautista R. Fernandez et al. — «Astronomical adaptive optics (AO) is a critical approach to enable ground-based diffraction-limited imaging and high contrast science, with the potential to enable habitable exoplanet imaging on future extremely large telescopes. However, AO systems…»

19:47 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11502

19:47 <galois> [arXiv] “The Optical Design Concept for the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST)” Patricio A. Gallardo, Roberto Puddu, Tony Mroczkowski et al. — «The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) aims to be the premier next generation large diameter (50-meter) single dish observatory capable of observations across the millimeter/sub-millimeter spectrum, from 30 to 950~GHz. The large primary mirror…»