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Today, my #lunchwalk was "a bit" rainy.
But I thought a bit of rain can't stop an outdoor jacket, rain pants and rubber boots.
After saving a Cockchafer[1] that I saw on lying on his back, it decided to stay on my jacket for the whole walk 😄
So I even had company!
After the walk I gently removed it from my jacket and placed it near our house. It seems they …

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Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-Epoch Photometry
Maya Steen (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy, Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University), J. J. Hermes (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy), Joseph A. Guidry (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy), Annabelle Paiva (Department of Astronomy, Boston Univeristy), Jay Farihi (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London), Tyler M. Heintz (Department …

Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-Epoch Photometry
White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards, some can be highly variable, which can reveal unique details about the endpoints of low-mass stellar evolution. In this study we characterize a sample of high-confidence white dwarfs with multi-epoch photometry from Gaia Data Release 3. We compare these Gaia light curves with light curves from the Zwicky Transiting …