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Mexican Burrowing Toads as gravitational wave detectors
Frederic V. Hessman, Christian Jooss
It is generally assumed that gravitational waves are extremely difficult to detect. However, we show that the call of the Mexican Burrowing Toad has an amazing resemblance to cosmi…
Detection of an extraterrestrial technical civilisation on the extrasolar planet GJ 1132b
Frederic V. Hessman, Andrew Collier Cameron, Keith Horne
We report the detection of whisky in the atmosphere of the extrasolar super-Earth planet GJ 1132b from transmission spectroscopic data. It is seen both in atmospheric absorption as…
The LIGO HET Response (LIGHETR) Project to Discover and Spectroscopically Follow Optical Transients Associated with Neutron Star Mergers
M. J. Bustamante-Rosell, Greg Zeimann, J. Craig Wheeler +20
The LIGO HET Response (LIGHETR) project is an enterprise to follow up optical transients (OT) discovered as gravitational wave merger sources by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration (LVC).…
Spontaneous Human Combustion rules out all standard candidates for Dark Matter
Frederic V. Hessman, J. Craig Wheeler
We argue that the reported cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) are most likely due to the impact of the human body with an extremely high energy particle like cosmic rays o…
pyobs -- An observatory control system forrobotic telescopes
Tim-Oliver Husser, Frederic V. Hessman, Sven Martens +3
We present a Python-based framework for the complete operation of a robotic telescope observatory. It provides out-of-the-box support for many popular camera types while other hard…
An Eclipsing Substellar Binary in a Young Triple System discovered by SPECULOOS
Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Adam J. Burgasser, Artem Burdanov +18
Mass, radius, and age are three of the most fundamental parameters for celestial objects, enabling studies of the evolution and internal physics of stars, brown dwarfs, and planets…