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What is the threshold for remark? I certainly wasn't aware there was a contest where only the faintest could be submitted?
by s1artibartfast 2y ago
What is the threshold for remark? I certainly wasn't aware there was a contest where only the faintest could be submitted?
- sega_sai 2y agoI am not a policeman of what could be submitted, but some results are remarkable enough/interesting enough because they are record breakers or unusual in one way or another. This is run of the mill galaxy in Andromeda. And because Andromeda is quite far away the faintest galaxies we can detect there are in fact much brighter than what we can detect around the MW.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI guess I'm fundamentally pushing back on the idea that it has to be at the extreme end of a phenomenon to be interesting. I think the phenomenon of tiny satellite galaxies is interesting, full stop. far more remarkable than something being the smallest. Any distribution will have a smallest element, it follows from the distribution existing at all. Similarly, if satellite in orbit of Andromeda I don't see the value of bringing whataboutism into it.
- sega_sai 2y agoI was just puzzled to see this paper posted, when we have discovered tens of objects like this over last years. Again, no harm done here, really, but I thought the context is useful.