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The TESS SPOC FFI Target Sample Explored with Gaia
Lauren Doyle, David J. Armstrong, Daniel Bayliss, Toby Rodel, Vedad Kunovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02407

The TESS SPOC FFI Target Sample Explored with Gaia
The TESS mission has provided the community with high-precision times series photometry for $\sim$2.8 million stars across the entire sky via the Full Frame Image (FFI) light curves produced by the TESS Science Processing Operations Centre (SPOC). This set of light curves is an extremely valuable resource for the discovery of transiting exoplanets and other stellar science. However, due to the sample selection, this set of light curves does not constitute a magnitude limited sample. In order to…

Isn't #Python / #RustLang doing great?
Remember back when #Cryptography was rewritten in Rust, to improve security? Guess what, against all premises, they still get vulnerabilities. They get *segfaults* (i.e. literally the thing that the Rust rewrite was supposed to address).
What's even better? Because of the PyO3 bug, PowerPC users still can't upgrade to a non-vulnerable version. And they won't be able to, until new #PyO3 version is released, setuptools-rust is updated and released, and cryptography is updated and released. Great design, isn't it?!
[EDIT: just to be clear, the segfault is in FFI, not Rust code, but PyO3 is blocking the fix.]
#Gentoo #security