Posts by wynx

1) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Science Summary (Message 70502) Posted 2 Feb 2021 by wynx Post: Thank you for the links Jan Henrik, interesting content. The 2019 paper with title "An Algorithm for Reconstructing the Orphan Stream Progenitor with MilkyWay@home Volunteer Computing" clearly benefited from MilkyWay@Home computing, paper (draft version) here; http://chttp://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/papers/Nbody_ApJ_19.pdf I'm not sure if it ever was pressed, but supposedly it was accepted by The Astrophysical Journal. Couldn't find it anywhere though, other than the RPI site. The N-Body simulations for this study were executed on MilkyWay@Home. Another paper I found is this one; "Fitting the Density Substructure of the Stellar Halo with MilkyWay@home" which is slightly older 2018, linked here; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aadb92/pdf I believe that is using the Separation model for simulations. Yet another paper is "The Virgo Overdensity Explained", 2019 by Donlon et al. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4f72/pdf, which does reference the N-body simulator from MilkyWay@Home, but not mentioning the community to run it (if I understand correctly, only specific runs had to be completed, limiting computational needs?). When I looked for the paper that's being discussed in the most recent (2020) content and related Facebook posts, I end up here; https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08764 Title is "The Milky Way's Shell Structure Reveals the Time of a Radial Collision" and it is published in The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 902, Issue 2, id.119, 27 pp. I don't think this study utilized any of the Milkyway@Home distributed computing resources. My liberal and highly uninformed interpretation is that the researchers have drawn most of the conclusions based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey program data that was used for the initial MilkyWay@Home crunching. It seems that the more recent Gaia dataset and the GaiaData Processing and AnalysisConsortium (DPAC) now have a more prominent role in furthering their research. Of course keeping in mind that science is progressed by standing on the shoulders of Giants. On the other hand, it could well be that a new study has spun up, executing silently, which one day will lead to new insights and publications. Or would we be expecting some changes in the Milkyway@Home model program (over Separation and N-body) or version-nrs to accommodate this? And perhaps increased engagement with the community? The update by Eric in another thread is most recent on the direction maybe? Suggesting new models are in the works; https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2619&postid=69897 Generally, I do think it would be nice if papers/results that benefited from MilkyWay@Home would be updated on the main page. In fact, having contributed to this project for some time, I now dug into the above content to verify whether my commitment has led anywhere. So in addition to gaining new community support, it would be good to have this content easy to find to retain community commitment as well. And before anyone asks; Yes, my checking was triggered by the WU generation server issue just now ;).