Tom Wagg

PhD student @uwastronomy | Former post-bacc @CenterForAstro | @Harvard '20
🌊 Gravitational waves, 🛰️ LISA, 🔭 LSST, 🏑 field hockey, 🧗 rock climbing

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

Excited to share the release of my new code cogsworth (https://t.co/0sCYUObUWe) that YOU can use to make seamlessly self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations! The paper is out on arXiv (https://t.co/7jab6IvF84) but read on here for more details 🥳

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

@jkarpin2 That makes sense, there's no specific random seed set so each instance of the tutorial will produce a different population of binaries (with different orbits) :)

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

Excited to share the release of my new code cogsworth (https://t.co/0sCYUObUWe) that YOU can use to make seamlessly self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations! The paper is out on arXiv (https://t.co/7jab6IvF84) but read on here for more details 🥳

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

@SabinaAstro @farrwill Oh well in that case you're going to be utterly delighted to hear that cogsworth uses a basis function expansion in spherical harmonics to fit the galactic mass distributions from hydro sims - just check out section 2.5.2 ;P

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

@jkarpin2 Thank you!

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

@SabinaAstro Am I not Rodrigo enough for you? 🙃

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

Excited to get started? The online documentation (https://t.co/0sCYUObUWe) includes nearly 20 tutorials, a gallery of quick examples and several in-depth case studies to give you everything you need to become a cogsworth expert in no time😎 Can't wait to see what you do with it!

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

cogsworth is built on top of the COSMIC and Gala codes, letting you access any of the awesome features in those packages through cogsworth. I'm so grateful for my wonderful co-authors @spacetimekatie, Mathieu and @adrianprw on this project who made it a joy to work on!

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

I had a great time developing this with @FloorAstro, we're really hoping it can be useful for the community! Very fun seeing what a random conversation at @FlatironCCA can turn into 😁

[Floor Broekgaarden 💫 @FloorAstro]

Software is increasingly important for research, but is often not cited. This is why @tomjwagg & I introduce the Software Citation Station 😎👩‍💻🚉 https://t.co/8sM1ZYv1bB:
a public website and tool to quickly find or add software citations! Try it here: https://t.co/GqyLb9Wssi

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

Today's the day to donate to support our awesome summer research program at UW astronomy, any amount counts!

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

@tigerclu Thank you sir!

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

In a new paper today we coin the new acronym RATRATARRATRATTS! We explore how Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) could come together with Runaway T-Tauri Stars (RATTS) to form a binary RRATRATTS and how irradiated rats could evolve on a planet nearby.
https://t.co/TeknrEu520

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

@chrislintott Thanks!

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

More in the paper about how much irradiation a planet might have, the fundamental nature of rats in our Universe and some important conclusions. Use the link above or just go to https://t.co/sUtCrDxiEm and type "\rats"

[Tom Wagg @tomjwagg]

@MarkPopinchalk @astrobites Thanks! Not sure honestly, I asked for clarification but they just said "arXiv only accepts April Fools’ Day at the moderators' discretion. At the request of the moderators we have declined to accept your work."🤷