Comments on: It’s raining stars!

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:55:57 +0000

hi i enjoyed the read

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:21:42 +0000

Thanks! I’ve actually moved onto something completely different: magnetic fields in irregular galaxies. The Kepley et al. paper started out as my senior thesis project back in 2001. I think Heather Morrison (my undergraduate advisor and second author on the paper) has plans to investigate the metallicity distribution of stars in the halo portion of the sample.

By: pamela

pamela — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:11:09 +0000

Sorry for the typo, Amanda. I got overly excited with the 0 button

This was a nice piece of research! What is the next thing you are hoping to look for?

Cheers,
Pamela

By: Amanda Kepley

Amanda Kepley — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:14:39 +0000

Hi all,

It’s the first author of Kepley et al. here. I’m excited to see my paper made your blog! This paper has been in the works for a while (the boring tables took a lot of work to assemble), so it’s very exciting to see it finally published.

Just a teensy-tiny correction though: we took stars from the nearest 2,500 parsecs. I only wish we could get full kinematic distances for stars 25,000 parsecs away.

Cheers,

Amanda

By: astrogeek

astrogeek — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:41:07 +0000

@llewelly; Just goes to show you, *everything* can be reduced to lots of boring tables.

By: llewelly

llewelly — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:30:11 +0000

I am amused to read that the evidence for colliding galaxies (among other things) boils down to lots of boring tables … such is information processing.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:00:09 +0000

Retrograde stars… Just like driving South in the Northbound lane on the interstate!

I suppose retrograde comets don’t have many collisions.

By: Jorge Schrauwen

Jorge Schrauwen — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:12:14 +0000

Interesting…

PS: the link without the google image header is this:
http://www.iac.es/project/sattail/