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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 25 2018, @07:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-easy-to-detect dept.

WASP-104b is Darker than Charcoal

By analysing the K2 short-cadence data from Campaign 14 we detect phase-curve modulation in the light curve of the hot-Jupiter host star WASP-104. The ellipsoidal modulation is detected with high significance and in agreement with theoretical expectations, while Doppler beaming and reflection modulations are detected tentatively. We show that the visual geometric albedo is lower than 0.03 at 95% confidence, making it one of the least-reflective planets found to date. The light curve also exhibits a rotational modulation, implying a stellar rotational period likely to be near 23 or 46 days. In addition, we refine the system parameters and place tight upper limits for transit timing and duration variations, starspot occultation events, and additional transiting planets.

WASP-104b's albedo was previously thought to be 0.4 (absorbing 60% of incoming light).

Also at ScienceAlert.

Related: NASA Finds a Pitch-Black Hot Jupiter Exoplanet (WASP-12b)


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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:36PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:36PM (#672306) Journal

    Al-dente copy-pasta is good copy-pasta. Both were more or less direct replies to what you were asking about. You don't have to accept the argument I put forth. Do you not believe in Free Will?

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:38PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:38PM (#672334) Journal

    First of all, no, neither of those were even close to direct replies. They were of the following form:

    (Freeman) I believe X Y and Z
    (Hazuki) Look, X Y and Z don't work because X and Y are mutually contradictory and Z is disproven due to A and B
    (Freeman) *states X Y and Z again with some links*

    What I believe is irrelevant. You must believe in a very specific, libertarian type of free will for your theology even to have a single toehold (it self-destructs elsewhere, but let's not get into that). That idea is incompatible with not only your theology but, I suspect, with some of the more recent discoveries in QM, which may be one reason so many scientists are compatibilists.

    Are you going to actually read what the fuck i said up there, or are you just going to sit here constantly asserting the same things and wondering why I'm not falling on my face in religious awe?

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday April 26 2018, @10:14PM (1 child)

      by Freeman (732) on Thursday April 26 2018, @10:14PM (#672351) Journal

      How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin? / Prove the existence of Free Will.

      What you believe is relevant, if you're actually trying to have a conversation. Otherwise, you're just tossing wood on the fire.

      Here's a definition, if you need to know what "Free Will" is referring to. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/free-will [dictionary.com]

      Without it, there can be no meaning to your "choices", and you can't be held accountable for your actions. Since, you had no choice. The idea that we don't have Free Will is akin to the practice of indulgences. Except, you don't have to pay someone to feel better.

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      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 27 2018, @03:09AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday April 27 2018, @03:09AM (#672448) Journal

        Why does talking logic with you feel like trying to explain mountaineering to an oyster? You're so deep in Dunning-Krugerland you can't even see where my objections are coming from or why they're being made.

        Go back up to that post where I was asking you why an omniscient etc etc etc God needs a plan, and read those words carefully. The supposed attributes of your God-figure make this plan a transparent sham. Make sure you understand the implications of omniscience (as opposed to just knowing a hell of a lot), omnipotence (as opposed to just being really strong) and especially absolute sovereignty (as opposed to just "being in charge") before you respond again.

        Not for nothing is it said that unbelievers take Yahweh much more seriously than his partisans. That is why we tend to be unbelievers in the first place...

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        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...