19:35 <raptop> Hm, GMU is talking about nominal GTA stipends of $24k

19:39 <raptop> while it's not an acronym, I think this counts as astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21671 https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21733

19:39 <galois> [arXiv] “A study in scarlet -- I. Photometric properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients” G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, A. Reguitti et al. — «We investigate the photometric characteristics of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classical novae and standard supernovae. We present the multi-wavelength photometric follow-up…»

19:44 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21235

19:44 <galois> [arXiv] “The OATMEAL Survey. I. Low Stellar Obliquity in the Transiting Brown Dwarf System GPX-1” Steven Giacalone, Fei Dai, J. J. Zanazzi et al. — «We introduce the OATMEAL survey, an effort to measure the obliquities of stars with transiting brown dwarf companions. We observed a transit of the close-in ($P_{\rm orb} = 1.74 \,$ days) brown dwarf GPX-1 b using the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) spectrograph to measure the…»

19:44 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21268

19:44 <galois> [arXiv] “SPECtrophotometer for TRansmission spectroscopy of exoplanets (SPECTR)” Yeon-Ho Choi, Myeong-Gu Park, Kang-Min Kim et al. — «The SPECtrophotometer for TRansmission spectroscopy of exoplanets (SPECTR) is a new low-resolution optical (3800 {\AA} - 6850 {\AA}) spectrophotometer installed at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) 1.8 m telescope. SPECTR is designed for observing the transmission spectra of…»

19:54 <raptop> wait, what? https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21696

19:54 <galois> [arXiv] “GEO and LEO: The Final Frontier for Plutonic FFP Parallax” Andrew Gould — «I show that microlens parallaxes, $\pi_{\rm E}$, can be derived for free-floating planets (FFPs) with masses down to that of Pluto, by combining observations from a satellite in geosynchronous (GEO) orbit with another observatory that is on or near Earth's surface, i.e., either ground-based or in low Earth orbit (LEO). Because these low-mass FFPs…»

19:57 <raptop> It's in the abstract, but astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21743

19:57 <galois> [arXiv] “The frequency of transiting planetary systems around polluted white dwarfs” Akshay Robert, Jay Farihi, Vincent Van Eylen et al. — «This paper investigates the frequency of transiting planetary systems around metal-polluted white dwarfs using high-cadence photometry from ULTRACAM and ULTRASPEC on the ground, and space-based observations with TESS. Within a sample of 313 metal-polluted white dwarfs with available TESS…»

20:02 <raptop> astrobiologists naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21183

20:02 <galois> [arXiv] “SSPACE Astrobiology Payload-1 (SAP-1)” A Lokaveer, Thomas Anjana, Maliyekkal Yasir et al. — «The SSPACE Astrobiology Payload (SAP) series, starting with the SAP-1 project is designed to conduct in-situ microbiology experiments in low earth orbit. This payload series aims to understand the behaviour of microbial organisms in space, particularly those critical for human health, and the corresponding effects due to…»

20:06 <raptop> ...you named the pipelines what? https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21583

20:06 <galois> [arXiv] “Non-radial oscillations mimicking a brown dwarf orbiting the cluster giant NGC 4349 No. 127” Dane Spaeth, Sabine Reffert, Emily L. Hunt et al. — «Several evolved stars have been found to exhibit long-period radial velocity variations that cannot be explained by planetary or brown dwarf companions. Non-radial oscillations caused by oscillatory convective modes have been put forth as an alternative explanation, but no…»

20:06 <raptop> I already knew about SERVAL, but apparently there's also a RACOON

23:38 <raptop> !wpn