dagorym

Spanish Fork, UT

http://www.thomasstephens.info

Self-taught programmer, Astronomy Ph.D. formerly a contractor for NASA as a developer on the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Now the Physics, Astronomy, Math, and Computer Science librarian at BYU.

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Getting ssh to execute a command in the background on target machine

bash ssh csh asked Aug 26, 2008 at 22:55

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How do the “hot Jupiter” planets get so close to their host star?

exoplanets asked Jun 1, 2011 at 21:23

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20 votes

What open-source n-body codes are available and what are their features?

software simulation asked Jun 2, 2011 at 5:07

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16 votes

What is the probability that a star of a given spectral type will have planets?

astronomy spectroscopy stars exoplanets asked Jun 5, 2011 at 16:14

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13 votes

Why are binary objects so critical to astronomy?

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How do air Cherenkov telescopes work?

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What causes millisecond pulsars to speed up?

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9 votes

How to make a wxFrame behave like a modal wxDialog object

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6 votes

Linking in test libraries with CppUnit

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Is it possible to limit the total time a user can be logged in on Windows XP Pro?

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How do you rotate a two dimensional array?

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What's the scope of the "using" declaration in C++?

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Can the apparent equal size of sun and moon be explained or is this a coincidence?

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How do astronomers measure the distance to a star or other celestial object?

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What is the current status of Pluto?

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Cameras in Voyager probes

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Why don't more rocky planets/moons have appreciable atmospheres?

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What is the strongest evidence that anti-matter exists?

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Does the Moon's core still contain significant heat?

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Significance of letters in Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram

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What is an asterism compared to a constellation?

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What is a "Trojan Moon"?

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How would the night sky appear at the edge of the galaxy?

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Given a photo of the Moon, taken from Earth, is it possible to calculate the position of the photographer's site?

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Has everything we see happened in the past?

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Why is the Ritchey–Chrétien telescope preferred in professional astronomy?

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Is there any evidence for the claim that the moon was once part of the Earth?

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Eclipse has two C/C++ indexers (fast & full): what's the difference?

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How to find the Andromeda galaxy without using a go-to telescope?

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What does the sky look like to human eyes from orbit?

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Why did the june 2011 lunar eclipse last so long?

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What is the name of our Galaxy?

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Which is the strongest meteor shower expected in the next years in the Northern hemisphere?

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Binary stars' apparent magnitude

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In what ways can a lunar eclipse occur?

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What age to start kids with astronomy

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How would you describe a black hole to a complete layman?

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Are there websites or programmes that permit a simulation of the night sky in the past and the future on an ordinary computer?

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How are Cepheids used to evaluate their distance?

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How to convert a FITS file to .xls Excel file?

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