Claire Lamman, Jingjing Shi, Niko Šarčević, Susan Pyne, Elisa Legnani and Tassia Ferreira tell us about the intrinsic alignments guide they wrote (along with Eleni Tsaprazi, who couldn’t make the video recording).
They wanted to write something that wasn’t quite a review, but also wasn’t quite a set of lecture notes. Instead they aimed for what might be best framed as a “cheat sheet” for intrinsic alignments. Everything you need to know about the topic, compressed into one article. However, there’s still a lot about the topic, so the compression is still 33 pages and 10 figures big.
To construct the guide they broke the topic of intrinsic alignments into sub-fields and then asked questions like “what are the key equations for this sub-field?”, “what are the different notations people use?”, “what might be confusing to a newcomer?” They then wrote the guide to answer those questions, even including subsections with quick definitions of each common term, and short lists of common alternative notations.
In this video they go over both the guide and the topic of intrinsic alignments.
Claire: https://cmlamman.github.io/
Jingjing: https://www.jshiastro.com/home
Niko: https://nikosarcevic.com/
Susan: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/astrophysics/susan-pyne-honorary-research-fellow
Elisa: https://elisalegnani.github.io/
Tassia: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/ferreirat
Eleni: https://tsaprazi.eu/
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