General

[Nangush]

Add issues which aren't specific to any particular subsection.

[Nangush]

Replace OzHF with EMO

• [ ] Many references, including within figures, still reference OzHF instead of EMO. This needs to be updated.

[jade-powell]

• [x] I think if EMO is the detectors name then a better title would be "The Extreme Matter Observatory: A high-frequency gravitational-wave interferometer". I also don't like in the paper where you have "our EMO" or "an EMO", I prefer almost always "the EMO". Also in Fig 1 caption "of EMO". Even if you don't agree with me that "the EMO" is the best, then you should at least be consistent.

[A-Graham]

• [x] I'm not a fan of the acronym EMO, given that the term emo is popularly used to describe goths, people who dress in Gothic style with black clothing and black makeup. I suspect that you wouldn't want to call the experiment BOGAN, and I suggest you don't call it EMO. An ill-chosen name might put off a politician from signing-off on tax-payers dollars, and/or it could put off your peers from supporting the project. Probably best not to gamble with the title in this way.

[j-oak]

Since OzHF, OzGravHF, EMO and XMO all don't seem to be great choices, what are possible alternatives that roll off the tongue? EMGO for extreme matter gravitational-wave observatory maybe?

[plasky]

One that has been floated is ExMO. I prefer that over EMGO.

[A-Graham]

A couple of random things

I spotted the recent paper by Weih et al. (2020: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020PhRvL.124q1103W/abstract) in the media - binary NS mergers and quark stars - which you may like to consider citing: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-gravitational-quark-gluon-plasma.html

I saw that WFIRST was renamed the Roman Space Telescope yesterday, in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-named-for-mother-of-hubble-nancy-grace-roman
Nancy had a high-impact paper regarding high-velocity stars. I know that individual NSs can receive a good kick at birth, but I was wondering if NS-NS merger remnants might receive a decent kick from the gravitational wave recoil. If so, it might be timely to mention this and also cite Nancy's work: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1955ApJS....2..195R/abstract

[ethrane]

I don't like the way ExMO rolls off the tongue. And it reminds me of the Sesame Street character, Elmo. What about NEMO = Nuclear Extreme Matter Observatory? It has positive connotations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Nemo

There's neutrino-less double-beta decay called NEMO, but I think it's quite old, and the two experiments are unlikely to be confused.

[kwwette]

Re. name/acronym, one could also switch out Observatory for something else: EMT / XMT: EXtreme Matter Telescope (cf Einstein Telescope) EME / XME: EXtreme Matter Explorer (cf Cosmic Explorer)

[kwwette]

Other possibilities with "gravitational wave" thrown in: GREAT: GRavitational-wave Extreme Astrophysics Telescope EMRGE: Extreme MatteR Gravitational-wave Explorer

[ethrane]

@kwwette, thank you for the suggestions! There's a discussion on the #high-frequency slack channel. @johannes has a great suggestion, which is getting a lot of support:

NEMO = Neutron star Extreme Matter Observatory

This is my new favourite.

[plasky]

For anyone still playing at home, a decision has been made to adopt the new name:

NEMO - Neutron star Extreme Matter Observatory