Waste heat. Sorry, my internal editor cringes at that...
As to the object, I notice something interesting. In the writeup:
Nobody had ever bothered to look at it in mid-IR before, because as a general rule things that are dim in the near-IR are also dim in the mid-IR.
And then I look at the paper—and it was submitted in December 2010, only a few years ago. Which then leads to the question—has anyone looked for things that are dim in near-infrared but bright in far-infrared? Do we actually know how much apparent dark matter is (or isn’t) pumping out waste heat all over the place?
Waste heat. Sorry, my internal editor cringes at that...
As to the object, I notice something interesting. In the writeup:
And then I look at the paper—and it was submitted in December 2010, only a few years ago. Which then leads to the question—has anyone looked for things that are dim in near-infrared but bright in far-infrared? Do we actually know how much apparent dark matter is (or isn’t) pumping out waste heat all over the place?
(That is a very interesting page, by the way...)