#aas242 — Public Fediverse posts

Our #AAS242 booth is now packed up and ready for the trip home, but we wanted to thank everyone who stopped by; whether you were learning about us for the first time or are a long-time user, it was lovely to meet with and chat with you all. We will see everyone again in New Orleans for #AAS243!

Safety first at #AAS242

I’m standing by my iPoster at #AAS242 – station 32, if you want to come past, say hi, and find out about #Arecibo monitoring of the outburst in #NGC660

The Optical Constants database (OCdb) is a new data repository developed to provide published, peer-reviewed, optical constants of organic refractory materials and ices relevant to planetary and astrophysical environments to the scientific community for the analysis and interpretation of observational data.

#AAS242 #OpenScience #astrodon #NASA

https://ocdb.smce.nasa.gov

In Tony Beasley’s talk, he tracks the history of Open Skies back to 1959 and the start of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

The best ideas, regardless of where they come from, produces the best science.

#OpenScience #AAS242

Tracy Chen shares the Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature. A great resource for how to share your scientific information including sharing the name, source code and citation practices, open methodology, accessibility, data availability statement, DOIs, and peer review.

#OpenScience #AAS242 #astrodon

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJS..260....5C/abstract

And now on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4GzGiXHCvA the final #AAS242 presser (or rather Seminar for Science Writers) "Get Ready for the North American Solar Eclipses" 2023/2024 - topics (and links re. the other four press conferences) at https://aas.org/meetings/aas242/press-kit#Wed_am

Hello #AAS242 -- join us at 9:30 in the Exhibitor Theater (the left side of the exhibit hall when you walk in from the lobby) for a presentation by Ian Evans on the #Chandra Source Catalog. The CSC and its upcoming 2.1 release unlock the 24-year legacy of our mission to enable everyone -- even people who have never looked at an X-ray photon before -- to be an X-ray expert. #Astrodon #Astronomy

All the submitted or published papers coming with the first four #AAS242 press conferences I've found:

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09256
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05998-6.epdf?sharing_token=52HuFZf2g8JxOileZPYF79RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NsacSU9Qw8kkLK5hq5wLhPfjuuL3wTe8j9-Ndexo7QWiMRr7WpgCQ7Iaus0FwBOelMKFgBMx2D4KeSz44qSbyEY068EZkmqGONFUuGuZFF5pbacQIqcFlbyf_0t0ZO-Xk%3D
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05054

2: https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/hst/instrumentation/acs/documentation/instrument-science-reports-isrs/_documents/isr2208.pdf

3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05419

4: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbf3f
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/521/4/6143/7086128

The final presser tomorrow will be devoted completely to "the North American Solar Eclipses", the annular this and the total next year.

Illustration below from https://greenbankobservatory.org/cosmic-collision-space-nessie-spawns-newborn-star/ (no related paper found).

And here comes already the 4th and penultimate #AAS242 press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnrM1Bpt5og - the subject is "Hot Jupiters and Hungry Black Holes", topics at https://aas.org/meetings/aas242/press-kit#Tue_pm

Call for Community Input into the Definition of the Roman Space Telescope’s Core Community Surveys

Due: June 16

#astrodon #aas242

https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs_community_input.html

My favorite - and most surprising - #AAS242 result so far: for *alll* galaxies in the #JWST #JADES fields for which spectroscopic #redshifts exist they confirm the photometric redshifts (which are often seen with great skepticism), without a single exception. More JADES stuff in https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/AAS242_Mon1_MarciaRieke.pdf and https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/1665761278244028428 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02465 and https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/jades and https://jades-survey.github.io and https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/ and https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-127 - the latter a viewer.

The 3rd of 5 press conferences with the #AAS242 meeting - about "Resolving Stars and Hunting Nearby Galaxies" - is now streaming on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8KgzkYKqA with the topics listed at https://aas.org/meetings/aas242/press-kit#Tue_am

Recording of the second #AAS242 press conference at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3S-8d9rWVM - links for the first two pressers have since been added to https://aas.org/meetings/aas242/press-kit#Mon_am

Talking about the Year of Open Science, @ChelleGentemann shares the federal definition of Open Science:

Open Science is the principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity.

#OpenScience #AAS242

For this at #AAS242, we are about to start the ‘The What and Why of Open Science’ session in Room 220 at 10 am MT. We will be taking about a Year of Open Science, NASA and NSF’s Open Science plans, and how the AAS supports Open Science.

#AAS242 #OpenScience #Astrodon

I'll be giving a talk tonight at Astronomy on Tap Albuquerque on #JWST's first look at the universe.

7pm at the Marble Brewery

If you are at #aas242 or are near Albuquerque, come grab a drink and hear about some of the epic science that the observatory has done in its first year.

#AstroOnTap #AoT

I'll be giving a talk tonight at Astronomy on Tap Albuquerque on #JWST's first look at the universe.

7pm at the Marble Brewery

If you are at #aas242 or are near Albuquerque, come grab a drink and hear about some of the epic science that the observatory has done in its first year.

#AstroOnTap #AoT

I'll be giving a talk tonight at Astronomy on Tap Albuquerque on #JWST's first look at the universe.

7pm at the Marble Brewery

If you are at #aas242 or are near Albuquerque, come grab a drink and hear about some of the epic science that the observatory has done in its first year.

#AstroOnTap #AoT

I'll be giving a talk tonight at Astronomy on Tap Albuquerque on #JWST's first look at the universe.

7pm at the Marble Brewery

If you are at #aas242 or are near Albuquerque, come grab a drink and hear about some of the epic science that the observatory has done in its first year.

#AstroOnTap #AoT

I'll be giving a talk tonight at Astronomy on Tap Albuquerque on #JWST's first look at the universe.

7pm at the Marble Brewery

If you are at #aas242 or are near Albuquerque, come grab a drink and hear about some of the epic science that the observatory has done in its first year.

#AstroOnTap #AoT

#AAS242 – Into the AAS-verse

Really informative talk by Leinani Lozi on the Future of TMT in Hawi’i. She highlights the importance of genuine dialogue and engaging with those that you are not reaching.

Being stuck in an affinity bias meant only reaching those who were already interested in astronomy. As they have reach out further they were able to uncover underlying issue and develop more meaningful ways to engage with the community.

#aas242 #openscience #astrodon

Leanne Guy on the Vera Rubin Observatory: ‘The LSST is one giant open source software project.’ It includes over 1.5 million lines of code made available on GitHub with well develop documentation and open discussions on discourse.

https://github.com/lsst

#aas242 #Opendata #OpenScience #Astrodon

Do you think it's obvious who we are?

#AAS242 folks, the Chandra booth awaits! Come pick up the daily button and chat with the folks at your favorite NASA Flagship X-ray Observatory!

#Astrodon #Astronomy #ChandraXray

Are you at #AAS242? Be sure to swing by the #ChandraXray booth every day -- we have limited edition buttons for each day of the conference. Today's button is M101, a nearby spiral galaxy. With our excellent angular resolution, we are able to reveal the parts of this galaxy where energetic events are happening! #Astrodon

The AAS committee on #LightPollution/#Satellites/etc. gets a shoutout in this week's #AIP Science Policy news roundup. #AAS242

https://www.aip.org/fyi/fyi-this-week/week-june-5-2023

I'm at the American Astronomical Society's summer meeting this week in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico.

If you are at #aas242 come by the STScI booth and say hi!

Now streaming on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xckKqX6s6k the first of 5 press conferences - about "Discoveries in Distant Galaxies" - from the #AAS242 conference in Albuquerque - topics (and later also links to related press releases) at https://aas.org/meetings/aas242/press-kit#Mon_am

Great talk by @danscolnic on the history and current state of measurements of the Hubble constant.

One of the great things is that they've made all their data available on GitHub: https://github.com/PantheonPlusSH0ES

#OpenScience #Astrodon #AAS242

I'll be attending #AAS242, the American Astronomical Society. Virtual only, unfortunately, but it's my first time and I'd like to learn a lot. Interested in computation, open science, reproducibility, visualization, machine learning, radio, transients, multi-messenger, planets, education & outreach, … I'm on the Slack and here on fedi! #ExploreAstronomy

Goodby Seattle! Had a blast at the "Superbowl of Astronomy" the American Astronomical Society meeting #AAS241.

See everyone at #AAS242 in Albuquerque.