Yavin and I spent some time working through the draft of our note on very fast exoplanet fitting to radial velocity data. We discussed a bit the best applications for a super-fast system. Basically, we realized that we are making it fast because we can.
In the afternoon, Bovy and I discussed the Oort problem of reconstructing the potential of the Milky Way disk from observations of the positions and velocities of stars. The standard methods rely on a set of assumptions, all of which are wrong at some level; Bovy has started to estimate the quantitative wrongness of each of them.
Avery Broderick (CITA) explained to us (in a seminar) that we are very close to directly imaging the horizon of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way with VLBI and similar techniques. That's pretty awesome.
If your code is too fast that means you should meta-up!
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