Pedro Bernardinelli
@pbernardinelli.com
DiRAC fellow @ UW, PhD from Penn. Discoverer of minor planets and C/2014 UN271, Brazilian, coffee dependent, geek. He/him/ele, pt-br/en
Reposted by Pedro Bernardinelli
Hello! I'm the grad program coordinator and past admissions chair summoned to answer your questions.
It is a multi-part decision (one many departments are currently navigating.) For us, we got an awesome class last year that was larger than our larger than our target by ~x2.
It is a multi-part decision (one many departments are currently navigating.) For us, we got an awesome class last year that was larger than our larger than our target by ~x2.
October 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hello! I'm the grad program coordinator and past admissions chair summoned to answer your questions.
It is a multi-part decision (one many departments are currently navigating.) For us, we got an awesome class last year that was larger than our larger than our target by ~x2.
It is a multi-part decision (one many departments are currently navigating.) For us, we got an awesome class last year that was larger than our larger than our target by ~x2.
Lots of science aside, I love this (unintentionally!) out of focus image of 3I taken on June 24
July 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Lots of science aside, I love this (unintentionally!) out of focus image of 3I taken on June 24
Cool! Very happy to see this out. Looking forward to reading it when I don’t have hundreds of Slack messages to go through ;)
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Cool! Very happy to see this out. Looking forward to reading it when I don’t have hundreds of Slack messages to go through ;)
Half of our timeline: “Oh sh…. How did you hack my overleaf?!?!?!?”
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Half of our timeline: “Oh sh…. How did you hack my overleaf?!?!?!?”
The best part of the main sorcha paper is the Acknowledgements section ( @megschwamb.bsky.social , I had forgotten we had this paragraph!)
June 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The best part of the main sorcha paper is the Acknowledgements section ( @megschwamb.bsky.social , I had forgotten we had this paragraph!)
And, finally, our approach to optimize ephemerides calculations: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02140
Sorcha: Optimized Solar System Ephemeris Generation
Sorcha is a solar system survey simulator built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and future large-scale wide-field surveys. Over the ten-year survey, the LSST...
arxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
And, finally, our approach to optimize ephemerides calculations: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02140
The main paper describing Sorcha: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02804
Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time
The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to revolutionize solar system astronomy. Unprecedented in scale, this ten-year wide-field survey will c...
arxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The main paper describing Sorcha: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02804
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02779 for @astjoephysics.bsky.social ‘s simulations of Centaurs
Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern night sky. One of its ma...
arxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02779 for @astjoephysics.bsky.social ‘s simulations of Centaurs
And also, four papers on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2506.02487 for our simulations of near Earth objects, main belt asteroids, Jupiter Trojans and trans-Neptunian objects
Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a new 8m-class survey facility presently being commissioned in Chile, expected to begin the 10yr-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by the end of 2025...
arxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
And also, four papers on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2506.02487 for our simulations of near Earth objects, main belt asteroids, Jupiter Trojans and trans-Neptunian objects