This weekend I returned to my summer project of distinguishing faint quasars and brown dwarfs via proper motions. I made image-stacking code that compares the stack at zero proper motion with the stack at best-fit proper motion. Unfortunately, the images are so low in signal-to-noise, there is very little difference between the stacks. But I now have tons of data analyzed so it is time to write it up.
I've been thinking about this--the idea of 'I have tons of data reduced *and* analyzed, so it's time to write it up'--and then I turn to the stack of 'to read' papers that I have. Are we just 'adding to the noise' or are we helping to reduce redundant analyses? There *must* be a better venue than ApJ/AJ/MNRAS/A&A for us to work with...but the arXiv just doesn't cut it. Alas. 2008......
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