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upright Greek letters for constants as opposed to variables by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
Some journals require upright Greek letters for constants as opposed to variables, for example $\upi$ when used to denote 3.14159... as opposed to a variable...
May 23rd 20 07:10 PM
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easy(?) cosmology question: what to integrate to get R(t) by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
When discussing Friedmann models, the usual approach is to start with the Friedmann equation then express dr/dt as a function of R, Omega, lambda, and so on,...
April 30th 20 06:56 PM
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How should one cite the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics? by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
They do have a rather strange numbering scheme. There are 12 "issues" per year, and the volume number is the same as the year number, and really is 4...
April 17th 20 06:39 AM
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mnras.cls, hyperref, url: urls do not break across lines by Phillip Helbig
On an old LaTeX installation, things work fine, with one bug I can correct: the URL gets broken by a % (i.e. to make LaTeX ignore the line break) if it is a...
April 16th 20 12:10 PM
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Fate of Outer Planets in the Sun's Red-giant Phase by No Name
In a number of documentaries i've watched over the years when discussing the fate of the inner terrestrial-planets when the Sun enters its' red-giant phase it...
April 11th 20 12:56 AM
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On "Nonstationarity of AGN variability" -- selection effect by Eric Flesch
A new paper accepted by ApJL, arXiv:2001.04471 "Nonstationarity of AGN variability: The only way to go is down!" by Caplar et al, concludes that visible quasar...
February 27th 20 05:59 AM
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Luminosity Evolution in Supernova Cosmology by Richard D. Saam
Early-type Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae. II. Evidence for Luminosity Evolution in Supernova Cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04903 The authors...
January 20th 20 12:04 AM
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fourth "live post" from the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
The concluding talk on open problems in cosmology was given by Joe Silk. I'll mention below a few things I found particularly interesting. Although the...
December 29th 19 08:57 PM
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third "livepost" from the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
There has been much discussion, including some here in this newgroup, regarding the "tension" between various measurements of the Hubble constant. In general,...
December 20th 19 07:46 AM
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second "livepost" from the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
At most of the last few conferences I've been to, including this one,=20 there has been a talk pointing out that primordial black holes could make=20 up most...
December 18th 19 10:54 AM
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"live post" from the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
A few weeks ago, fellow moderator Jonathan suggested that I "live-post" from a conference, so I'll do so this week. He was actually thinking about another...
December 17th 19 06:47 AM
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Felix Schmeidler, 1985 by [email protected]
Hello! The German astronomer Felix Schmeidler published two works in 1985. "Messung der Lichtablenkung während der Sonnenfinsternis am 15. Februar...
November 14th 19 09:40 PM
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electronic-only publication at Astronomy and Astrophysics by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
For a while back in the 1990s, A&A published some things (such as appendices to papers) ONLY electronically. However, ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr doesn't seem...
August 23rd 19 05:43 PM
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Resolving Mars methane isotopes, as bio probe? by stargene
The subject of Martian methane blowouts keeps arising. Assuming that they will be confirmed, is there any way yet on-site or in-orbit, to then measure the...
July 2nd 19 05:22 AM
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Milliquas v6.3 released, now has double-lobed galaxies by Eric Flesch
The Million Quasars (Milliquas) catalogue v6.3 is released with data from publications to 15-June-2019, with the count of type-I quasars & AGN up to 623,004. ...
June 16th 19 03:19 PM
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Can someone confirm that I have found some typos in some 1960s Soviet astronomy papers? by Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)[_2_]
Consider the following papers: DZ65: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965SvA.....8..854D @ARTICLE { VDashevskiiYZeldovich65a , AUTHOR ...
May 30th 19 03:20 PM
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Reionization by Steve Willner
Not long ago, we had some discussion here of reionization. I've just seen a terrific colloquium by Steve Finkelstein on the subject. It's available...
May 11th 19 07:15 PM
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Revise age of the universe? by root[_2_]
Can the recent findings of the Space Telescope Institute be used to revise the age of the universe. What would the estimate of 13.7E9 years become if the...
May 10th 19 11:37 PM
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EHT Picture of the black hole in M87 by Tom Roberts
The picture from the Event Horizon Telescope: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190411.html Why is the center black? Does the accretion disk just happen to be in...
April 27th 19 08:55 AM
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supermassive black holes at z 7 by jacobnavia
A team of astronomers have conducted a search for distant super massive black holes and they have found 83 of them....
March 28th 19 10:56 PM
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