@astrojonny.bsky.social …but once we have discovered the planets, they are almost always followed up by polarization observations, because that could indicate oblateness or the presence of rings/dust around them
@astrojonny.bsky.social …but once we have discovered the planets, they are almost always followed up by polarization observations, because that could indicate oblateness or the presence of rings/dust around them
@astrojonny.bsky.social (almost) none of them. Polarization picks up the light scattered from circumstellar disks, but simple intensity imaging is used for direct detections.
@sarahkendrew.bsky.social I don’t care what tools someone uses to make the measurement, do the analysis and make a new discovery, but I care very much if they don’t understand how they got the results with them.
@pkgw.bsky.social I am a Luddite, but not quite under your definition - I’m not extentially concerned that I’ll stop being an academic, I’m far more disturbed that it gives AI users the impression that they’re learning and practising science when it appears to do exactly the opposite.
@mattkenworthy.bsky.social And my symapthies with the hapless academic asked to review this - not only do you have to correct the slop, you now have to explain to the author what they did as well, apparently.