@trovemaster.bsky.social
Physics prof at UCL applying quantum mechanics to study atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
Nico Orce taking final questions
11.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nico Orce: our motto is from the book Monday starts on Saturday: “happiness lies in the constant cognition of the unknown, which is also the meaning of life by Strugatsky brothers
11.07.2025 12:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orce: road map is well defined. N1 goes to Joburg and not to Durban! The principle of least action
11.07.2025 11:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orce: Origin of the Universal pattern of elemental a abundance in r-processes
11.07.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: shift of the neutron drip, suggested years ago, but Never proven
11.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: calculation of reduction
11.07.2025 11:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: need to go down to 0.5 eV
11.07.2025 11:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: symmetry energy described by the model very well.
11.07.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca:
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Nico Orca: how do we explore nuclear matter at different temperatures. The outphase motion of neutrons and protons creates a dipole like interaction. Measuring energy allows access the temperature?
11.07.2025 11:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: cooling down of neutron star mergers , from kilonova to ground state.
11.07.2025 11:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nico Orca
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Nico Orca: breaking news , JWST spectrum after a burst of an RGB
11.07.2025 11:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: After searching for more than 6 decades new elements were detected in Neutron star mergers , Y+, Sr+, SrII
11.07.2025 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Nico Orca: in sensitivity studies of r-processes , both theoretical and experimental studies reached a dead end .
11.07.2025 11:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: the challenge is that the number of particles is too large for the direct solution of quantum mechanics and too small for statistics methods
11.07.2025 11:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: we can measure within the stability island, but there is no way to reach the terra incognito
11.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: stellar fusion for elements up to Fe, Einstein formular, neutron capture for the rest
11.07.2025 11:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: an interesting story of fail and rise.
11.07.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: how elements from iron to uranium made?
11.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orca: using SALT to search for extreme metal poor stars in the Southern Hemisphere, r-process in neutral star mergers
11.07.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nico Orce is the special guest
11.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AMOPP seminar: Tony is introducing a guest from Western Cape with a special seminar in r-process elemental abundances , a well regulated conspiracy of astro properties
11.07.2025 11:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Exo-Molly or ExoMol Monster: exoplanet toy handmade by ollga.org
#AllTheWavelengths
Five conference poster prizes (exomol Mosters) go to: Miroslava Kassayova, @astromarco.bsky.social, Ryan Brady, Arianna Saba, Taylong Zhang
30.06.2025 19:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Conference Quiz prizes (@ExoMol monsters) are going to the best team .... @astroyami.bsky.social, Patrice Cubb, Vatsal Panwar, @astrohazra.bsky.social, Elias Ehl with Alex Smola and Ryan Brady as Amazing Quiz Masters.
#AllTheWavelengths
Final photo from #AllTheWavelengths
29.06.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you @distantworlds.space and @drjovian.bsky.social for bsky covering the conference.
29.06.2025 11:07 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0J Tennyson: CubSats are very encouraging
29.06.2025 11:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0H Wakeford: we hear we need more UV observations, but it is hard. The window for HST is 5 years max, we need to use it asap and as much.
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