Tootfinder

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Vashti Bunyan:
🎵 Diamond Day
#VashtiBunyan
https://globelamp.bandcamp.com/track/vashti-bunyan-just-another-diamond-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jaT3wEcPJSVkkGcEEp7s6

Identifying Habitable Exoplanets with Radio Telescopes on the Lunar Farside
N. Mahesh, J. D. Bowman, J. O. Burns, S. D. Bale, T-C. Chang, S. Furlanetto, G. Hallinan, A. Hegedus, J. Mirocha, J. Pober, R. Polidan, D. Rapetti, N. Thyagarajan, J. Turner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14126

Identifying Habitable Exoplanets with Radio Telescopes on the Lunar Farside
The search for habitable conditions beyond Earth is a top priority in astrophysics. The discovery of habitable exoplanets beyond our solar system will require a suite of instruments providing long-term monitoring for detection (e.g. with space and ground-based radial velocity observations), spectroscopic characterization of atmospheric and surface properties, and eventually deep chronograph-aided observations from e.g. JWST, Roman Space Telescope, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Det…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Johann Friedrich Fasch, Hermann Baumann, Radovan Vlatković, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Iona Brown:
🎵 Concerto in D major for two horns, 'Die Jagd' (1st mvt)
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qXtHR6XXrdJF5fX2Rf7U5

I'll bet $1000 right now, #Trump & #StephenMiller's next target are #Asians.
Just watch. Bannon's already complained about "Asian CEOs".
☑️ Trump’s chief strateg…

Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon suggests having too many Asian tech CEOs undermines ‘civic society’

JWST/MIRI observations of the young TWA 27 system: hydrocarbon disk chemistry, silicate clouds, evidence for a CPD
P. Patapis, M. Morales-Calder\'on, A. M. Arabhavi, H. K\"uhnle, D. Gasman, G. Cugno, P. Molli\`e re, E. Matthews, M. M\^alin, N. Whiteford, P. -O. Lagage, R. Waters, M. Guedel, Th. Henning, B. Vandenbussche, O. Absil, I. Argyriou, D. Barrado, P. Baudoz, A. Boccaletti, J. Bouwman, C. Cossou, A. Coulais, L. Decin, R. Gastaud, A. Glasse, A. M. Glauser, S. Grant, M. M…

JWST/MIRI observations of the young TWA 27 system: hydrocarbon disk chemistry, silicate clouds, evidence for a CPD
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) enables the characterisation of young self-luminous gas giants at previously inaccessible wavelengths, revealing physical processes in gas, dust, and clouds. We characterise the young planetary system TWA 27 (2M1207) in the mid-infrared (MIR), studying the atmosphere and disk spectra of the M9 brown dwarf TWA 27A and its L6 planetary-mass companion TWA 27b. We obtained data with the MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer (…

Can high-redshift AGN observed by JWST explain the EDGES absorption signal?
Alexandra Nelander, Christopher Cain, Jordan C J DSilva, Peter H Sims, Rogier A Windhorst, Judd D Bowman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21230

Can high-redshift AGN observed by JWST explain the EDGES absorption signal?
The Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Signal (EDGES) has reported evidence for an absorption feature in the sky-averaged radio background near 78 MHz. A cosmological interpretation of this signal corresponds to absorption of 21 cm photons by neutral hydrogen at $z \sim 17$. The large depth of the signal has been shown to require an excess radio background above the CMB and/or non-standard cooling processes in the IGM. Here, we explore the plausibility of a scenario in …

Detection of CO$_2$, CO, and H$_2$O in the atmosphere of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b
N. Crouzet, B. Edwards, T. Konings, J. Bouwman, M. Min, P. -O. Lagage, R. Waters, J. P. Pye, L. Heinke, M. Guedel, Th. Henning, B. Vandenbussche, O. Absil, I. Argyriou, D. Barrado, A. Boccaletti, C. Cossou, A. Coulais, L. Decin, R. Gastaud, A. Glasse, A. M. Glauser, F. Lahuis, G. Olofsson, P. Patapis, D. Rouan, P. Royer, N. Whiteford, L. Colina, G. \"Ostlin, T. P. Ray, E. F. van Dishoeck

Detection of CO$_2$, CO, and H$_2$O in the atmosphere of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b
The chemical composition of warm gas giant exoplanet atmospheres (with Teq < 1000 K) is not well known due to the lack of observational constraints. HAT-P-12 b is a warm, sub-Saturn-mass transiting exoplanet that is ideal for transmission spectroscopy. One transit of HAT-P-12 b was observed with JWST NIRSpec in the 2.87-5.10 $μ$m range with a resolving power of $\sim$1000. The JWST data are combined with archival observations from HST WFC3 covering the 1.1-1.7 $μ$m range. The data are analyse…