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The vagueries of newspaper reporting....
Mar. 14th, 2006 09:56 amPlanet discovery opens up worlds
( NZ Herald 14.03.06 )
Ouch... Nice science, though I really want to see the original paper*. But as far as I am aware, while good people, said 3 NZ scientists did not pioneer the subject of planet discover using gravitational microlensing techniques. You really do want to occasionally slap journalists...
Edit: Similar style article in the Canberra Times, also focussing on the NZ authors... which are kind of in the middle of the author assortment ( A. Gould, A. Udalski, D. An, D.P. Bennett, A.-Y. Zhou, S. Dong, N.J. Rattenbury, B.S. Gaudi, P.C.M. Yock, I.A. Bond, G.W. Christie, K. Horne, J. Anderson, K.Z. Stanek, D.L. DePoy, C. Han, J. McCormick, B.-G. Park, R.W. Pogge, S.D. Poindexter, I. Soszynski, M.K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, O. Szewczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, B. Paczynski, D.M. Bramich, C. Snodgrass, I.A. Steele, M.J. Burgdorf, M.F. Bode, C.S. Botzler, S. Mao, S.C. Swaving (The MicroFUN, OGLE, and PLANET/RoboNet collaborations))
Some of these authors may well have pioneered stuff given that is what the OGLE and PLANET collaborations specialize in. The 3 mentioned may be responsible for some refinements using extreme high magnification events, but not to the extent implied in the newspaper articles.
ie not as bad as I originally thought, but still...
* Will add the journal reference if I can.
Edit: Article on astro-ph0603276. Should be free access. Does mean this isn't actually peer reviewed yet...
( NZ Herald 14.03.06 )
Ouch... Nice science, though I really want to see the original paper*. But as far as I am aware, while good people, said 3 NZ scientists did not pioneer the subject of planet discover using gravitational microlensing techniques. You really do want to occasionally slap journalists...
Edit: Similar style article in the Canberra Times, also focussing on the NZ authors... which are kind of in the middle of the author assortment ( A. Gould, A. Udalski, D. An, D.P. Bennett, A.-Y. Zhou, S. Dong, N.J. Rattenbury, B.S. Gaudi, P.C.M. Yock, I.A. Bond, G.W. Christie, K. Horne, J. Anderson, K.Z. Stanek, D.L. DePoy, C. Han, J. McCormick, B.-G. Park, R.W. Pogge, S.D. Poindexter, I. Soszynski, M.K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, O. Szewczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, B. Paczynski, D.M. Bramich, C. Snodgrass, I.A. Steele, M.J. Burgdorf, M.F. Bode, C.S. Botzler, S. Mao, S.C. Swaving (The MicroFUN, OGLE, and PLANET/RoboNet collaborations))
Some of these authors may well have pioneered stuff given that is what the OGLE and PLANET collaborations specialize in. The 3 mentioned may be responsible for some refinements using extreme high magnification events, but not to the extent implied in the newspaper articles.
ie not as bad as I originally thought, but still...
* Will add the journal reference if I can.
Edit: Article on astro-ph0603276. Should be free access. Does mean this isn't actually peer reviewed yet...
