11:38 <raptop> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

12:54 <raptop> (this screaming supplied by both low key illiness and a project somehow taking forever)

13:37 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06454

13:37 <galois> [arXiv] “TESERACT: Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT” Tyler deLoughery, Clayton Lauzon, Haydn Sims et al. — «In this paper, we evaluate the viability of CubeSats as an attractive platform for lightweight instrumentation by describing a proof of concept CubeSat that houses an astrophotonic chip for transit spectroscopy-based exoplanet atmosphere gas sensing. The Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT (TESERACT) was designed…»

13:39 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06487

13:39 <galois> [arXiv] “Implementation and Characterization of the Vector Vortex Coronagraph on the SEAL Testbed” Ashai Moreno, Vincent Chambouleyron, Rebecca M. Jensen-Clem et al. — «The Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL) testbed is an optical bench meant to design and develop new wavefront control techniques for high-contrast imaging for segmented telescopes. These techniques allow for astronomical efficiency in exoplanet imaging and…»

13:39 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06974

13:39 <galois> [arXiv] “ESCAPE: Efficient Synthesis of Calibrations for Adaptive optics through Pseudo-synthetic and Empirical methods” Jacob Taylor, Robin Swanson, Parker Levesque et al. — «With the commissioning of the refurbished adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) for the 6.5-meter MMT Observatory under way, special consideration had to be made to properly calibrate the mirror response functions to generate an interaction matrix (IM). The…»

23:46 <raptop> !choose hepatotoxicity|heptotoxicity

23:46 <galois> raptop: Your options: hepatotoxicity, heptotoxicity. My choice: hepatotoxicity

23:46 <raptop> (caution: excessive amounts of the number 7 may induce liver failure)