Tom Wagg

Excited to share the release of my new code cogsworth (cogsworth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) that YOU can use to make seamlessly self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations! The paper is out on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2409.04543) but read on here for more details 🥳

@jkarpin2 That makes sense, there's no specific random seed set so each instance of the tutorial will produce a different population of binaries (with different orbits) :)

@tomjwagg Working through the tutorials. On “Saving and loading simulations” the documentation shows one orb.cylindrical.plot while the Python code shows another: 🤔🤔🤔

Excited to share the release of my new code cogsworth (cogsworth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) that YOU can use to make seamlessly self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations! The paper is out on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2409.04543) but read on here for more details 🥳

@SabinaAstro @farrwill Oh well in that case you're going to be utterly delighted to hear that cogsworth uses a basis function expansion in spherical harmonics to fit the galactic mass distributions from hydro sims - just check out section 2.5.2 ;P

@jkarpin2 Thank you!

@tomjwagg Shared the links with screen prints on my Facebook group, with some 11K members: astronomers, postdocs, students, etc from countries all over the world.

@SabinaAstro Am I not Rodrigo enough for you? 🙃

Excited to get started? The online documentation (cogsworth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) includes nearly 20 tutorials, a gallery of quick examples and several in-depth case studies to give you everything you need to become a cogsworth expert in no time😎 Can't wait to see what you do with it!

cogsworth is built on top of the COSMIC and Gala codes, letting you access any of the awesome features in those packages through cogsworth. I'm so grateful for my wonderful co-authors @spacetimekatie, Mathieu and @adrianprw on this project who made it a joy to work on!

I had a great time developing this with @FloorAstro, we're really hoping it can be useful for the community! Very fun seeing what a random conversation at @FlatironCCA can turn into 😁

Today's the day to donate to support our awesome summer research program at UW astronomy, any amount counts!

@tigerclu Thank you sir!

@tomjwagg Incredible paper sir

In a new paper today we coin the new acronym RATRATARRATRATTS! We explore how Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) could come together with Runaway T-Tauri Stars (RATTS) to form a binary RRATRATTS and how irradiated rats could evolve on a planet nearby. tomwagg.com/pdf/rats.pdf

@chrislintott Thanks!

@tomjwagg This looks great. Sorry about arxiv on their high horse

More in the paper about how much irradiation a planet might have, the fundamental nature of rats in our Universe and some important conclusions. Use the link above or just go to tomwagg.com and type "\rats"

@MarkPopinchalk @astrobites Thanks! Not sure honestly, I asked for clarification but they just said "arXiv only accepts April Fools’ Day at the moderators' discretion. At the request of the moderators we have declined to accept your work."🤷

From @astrobites: There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2024 and provided some “peer review". 🔭🧐 astrobites.org/2024/04/01/apr…