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drphilmarshall

  1. Spent today trying to start a Tractor in the middle of NY city with @davidwhogg. Going to try it in rural Princeton tomorrow instead
  2. Zwicky 18: a nearby dwarf galaxy with a lot of gas (that is emitting 1/3rd of the galaxy's light!), and wind @apontzen blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2…
  3. "If you must introduce new ideas, try to build up to them from things the audience knows" Shalizi on how to give a talk cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/web…
  4. @astroapplegate Final depth I believe - but with dithering there will be some variation, and greater depth in the overlaps.
  5. @kevinschawinski @KarenLMasters @galaxyzoo Wisotski et al came close dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6… Next: simultaneous multi-filter deconvolution
  6. @kevinschawinski @KarenLMasters @galaxyzoo Capak simply colored in the HST images. I'm advocating slower, sharper joint image reconstruction
  7. @KarenLMasters @galaxyzoo I'm pushing for joint pixel-level analysis of B&W Euclid and multi-colour ground-based imaging. I'm optimistic!
  8. Expected Euclid image quality: 0.18" FWHM, depth equivalent to half an HST orbit. WFC3/IR snapshots over 15,000 sq deg of sky?
  9. First light on new 1-m telescope @LCOGT at McDonald Observatory! Eight more to be deployed this year, worldwide lcogt.net/blog/dpetry/lc…
  10. @chrislintott That's what Magdis told me, anyway. Here he is on the Oxford Astro blog: www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blo…
  11. Beacons and fireworks, spectacular star formation in mergers and gas-rich disks at z=1-4, Magdis et al, Herschel, VLA www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blo…
  12. @AstroKatie Do we conclude some expts are in systematic error, or that the DM distribution is different than expected? If the latter, how?
  13. @wikimir @dh4gan But the bar is low. The mass function is v poorly constrained, and only at the massive end: simple models may help a lot!
  14. @AstroKatie Someone should point out that coordinated competition is more efficient than a rat-race: it avoids crosstalk, and cross talk!
  15. @AstroKatie Are they going to coordinate their results announcements in future then? Double the splash!
  16. #ff 1 day early, while conferences are still on: @astrokatie @apontzen at #OxfordDM, @RickDNewton @e_astronomer @KarenLMasters at #NAM2012
  17. @RickDNewton Aha! Well, that is interesting: physical reasons for *un*-concentrated dark matter in massive galaxies... More pressure on IMF!
  18. @wikimir @e_astronomer An upper limit on the nomad abundance from protostellar disk physics would be great! 10^5 should be easy to beat down
  19. MT: Ellis insists the SUSE prediction for Higgs below 130GeV is a prediction. It just happened to come after the data. #OxfordDM @apontzen
  20. Following @AstroKatie and @APontzen at the #OxfordDM meeting. New Paths to Particle Dark Matter! indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisp…