Thayne Currie 🇺🇦

more of this is coming, I'm afraid.

You are on this council meme but we do not grant you the rank of master, but with quantum computing

congrats!

because I like planets I can see :)

can I get four? HR 8799 bcde

I got so many of these recently that I finally set an email away message saying something like:

"Today and tomorrow (and possibly later) are Thayne's 'bureaucracy free' days.

For urgent *science* issues please send your note to my Subaru email address. "

A baby planet is caught feeding AB Aurigae b is a young, massive planet still pulling material in to grow

Astronomers have caught a bouncing baby exoplanet feeding and growing pretty big!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-baby-pla...

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This system looks familiar ... =)

I encounter this situation periodically. Yes, the authors write the paper THEY (not you) decided to write. But the paper still has to make sense within their world: i.e. it has to be methodologically sound and the conclusions have to follow.

A referee insisting on these two things is not "mean".

You are doing due diligence. If the missing stuff is needed to verify methodological soundness or justify the conclusions in the paper THEY wanted to write, it still needs to be added. If new things are problematic, they are problematic.

Be cordial. But critique-as-such /=mean: it's ok to insist

Congratudolences on your new position!

The Self-Driving Cars

yes there are some. The definition of a planet is one such example. :)

This is a long conversation (I have a new paper addressing the topic for the n+1th time). Let's chat!

Regardless of what you call this object, though, it is remarkable. And should be the focus of significant follow up.

yet the peer reviewed lit supports this exact position: i.e. that a planet is intrinsically tied to how it formed (so not quite a chair analogy). It's the reason why the direct imaging community largely thinks HR 8799 bcd were the first imaged planets, not 2M 1207 B.

Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets Direct imaging and spectroscopy is the likely means by which we will someday identify, confirm, and characterize an Earth-like planet around a nearby Sun-like star. This Chapter summarizes the current...

depends on who you ask. I would say no, for reasons described here:

arxiv.org/abs/2205.05696

tl;dr: mass ratio of ~0.5-0.6. This is typical of binaries formed from the star formation process: not that unusual. Not a planet.

A firm bipartisan statement to protect NASA if we go into a CR.

I have the biggest shocked face right now ... :P

Also this is Utah Valley University, well known as a bastion of conservative college campus activism. Imagine if Notre Dame was a breeding ground for atheists ...

Demonstrating Improved Contrast on the Roman Coronagraph with Spatial Linear Dark Field Control The baseline contrast floor from the Roman Coronagraph's High-Order Wavefront Sensing and Control strategy likely degrades over the course of time, requiring periodic recalibration of the dark hole. H...

arxiv.org/abs/2509.08905

Our Roman Coronagraph white paper on trying Spatial Linear Dark Field Control (SLDFC) during the technology demonstration phase.

This will be challenging to make work, but the payoff will be worth it. Medium-high risk, high reward. YOLO.

Excellent advice

A blond woman stands behind a lectern, with a slide reading “2025 DPS Awards ceremony” with a list of prizes and names. To the left of the lectern, a tall man holds a certificate, while a shorter bespectacled woman smiles and waves, also holding the certificate.

Congrats to @joneskuma.bsky.social, co-winner of the DPS Urey Prize for early career researchers! #EPSCDPS

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www.abc-nins.jp/en/a-glimpse...

A short little press article on our VLT/MUSE AB Aurigae result ...

definitely the deep state at work

I believe this is called the dictator-grip forehand. Very different than Alcaraz's semi-western grip forehand.

(Er, sorry: "such form! You truly are an athlete to behold, Dear Leader!")

Code violation. [basically the last 9 years with this guy]. Default Trump.

just don't say "rosetta stone" anywhere in your applications. :)

Good luck!

ah. I'm the wrong person to talk to then. Maybe contact Xinting Yu?

potentially? Which detection method?