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Ho ho ho!

Category: astro
Posted on: December 10, 2007 2:46 PM, by Steinn Sigurðsson


Now do you believe in elves?



Santa-Xl.jpg

Santa Claus in Orion.
Got a long way to go still.

From ESA, XMM, via Spitzer

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1

uhh, that's supposed to look like Santa? i'm not seeing it.

pretty desperate, ESA, pretty desperate....

Posted by: mihos | December 10, 2007 3:02 PM

2

Hrmph. Coal for you, me lad.
You kinda have to squint. And be six.

Anyway, er, he's still just taking form, as it were...

Posted by: Steinn Sigurdsson | December 10, 2007 3:23 PM

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Ha! That's great!

Any news (or speculation) on a CoRoT press release? The rumor was for a December 10th press briefing in Paris, but, apparently, that didn't happen. Just as one can predict things about the US armed forces from carrier deployments, can one predict a CoRoT press briefing from conferences or journal deployments? Any predictions?

Posted by: Eric G. | December 10, 2007 4:17 PM

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I have no definite knowledge on this, and those who know ain't talking.
That people are not talking, and they haven't been for a while now, is the biggest clue that they got something interesting.
The rumoured specs for Corot are good enough for a few sigma detection of an Earth mass planet around an interesting star, don't know how they'd confirm it though...


There are three likely places for Corot papers, if they have serious new results - Nature, Science or A & A letters (the latter has made a big push to be the place for hot planet results from European teams).

A&A news/press release web page has no data, nor has their "upcoming papers".
A monday press release is incompatible with Nature or Science, both of which have strict embargo rules.
If I were a Corot PI, and the results are good, I'd have negotiated a "special issue" in Science or Nature (I'd personally have tried Science, they have been actively wanting extrasolar planet stuff, while Nature has been more cosmo/high energy inclined).
There is nothing in Science Express and no pre-press of a Science special issue. If it is Science, the press release would be late thursday French time, I'd think.
Nature is a day earlier - so they'd be wednesday.

It could be there was a hiccup with referees or typesetting and everything is delayed. Or the whole thing could be taking more time than planned and we'll be waiting a while.

Or maybe they got nuthin'.... maybe the whole thing was a science sociological experiment in rumour propagation ;-)


Posted by: Steinn Sigurdsson | December 10, 2007 11:57 PM

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Well, we know they've found something. It wouldn't hurt if they told us only about the less Earth-shattering discoveries. If only they give us something, the silence is deafening...

Posted by: Dunkleosteus | December 11, 2007 7:55 AM

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