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Did you know there is actually a website of spurious correlations? https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations?page=4

Hello, You may call me Onyx. The best way I can describe myself as a transhumanist, futurist, amateur 3D modeler, a writer, and a wannabe scientist/physicist/astronomer. I’ve had an interest in the topic of extraterrestrials and ETI for a very...

You're right to question the radii here, my bad. I said that this commit "fixed the MNRAS 2022 60 arcmin/sec bug" without re‑reviewing the actual spike code. That unit bug (arcmin vs arcsec) is real, but it was already addressed earlier in the...

No, it's not. It's reducing the PS1 bright star fetch from 35' to 3.0' (which should actually be 45' to cover the 60x60' tile). The 90' is still there.

That's fixed in my version of the code, vasco/external_fetch_usnob_vizier.py Hunk 1 — default cap bumped: - row_limit: int = 20000...

But it seems in your code, the 5-arcsecond Gaia cone match is done before the PM back-propagation, and the back-propagation is then only applied to the sources that matched — i.e., the ones already eliminated as known Gaia stars. The sources that...

But it seems in your code, the 5-arcsecond Gaia cone match is done before the PM back-propagation, and the back-propagation is then only applied to the sources that matched — i.e., the ones already eliminated as known Gaia stars. The sources that...

Yes. I fixed it in the calling code without touching the original SpikeConfig. https://github.com/jannefi/vasco60/commit/6c9e393c3b79406ec3734661b44dce485994f3e8 - this is the fix commit

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Your code also uses 90', is this to replicate their code? https://github.com/jannefi/vasco60/blob/5dbf452/vasco/mnras/spikes.py#L117 class SpikeConfig: rmag_key: str = "rMeanPSFMag" rules: List[Any] | None = None...

Thank you. "Firstly, the range of a "nearby" star was coded as 90' when it should be 90" This is incorrect and a clear bug in MNRAS 2022. I have posted and commented about it. Correct range is 90' (arcsecs) and not 90" (arcmins). 90" is huge...

You can find a script in the repo that creates these inspection images. These images are directly related to the SHAPE stage inspired by Busko's work. From left to right: - raw pixels + contour overlays at opencv thresholds. It is about one...

I got some of the code running and experimented with visualizing the filtering. What the pipeline is doing is finding all the blobs of light in the planes, and then rejecting ones that are known stars or that don't look like points of light...

Important correction: I made a mistake. This subset of 5,399 candidates is not mentioned in the latest papers. This catalogue is frequently cited but is not the statistical parent population used in the 2025 papers (MNRAS and PASP), which...

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