Dr. Timothy Brown, STARE, TrES data
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:37 pm
Not sure if I'm placing this in the right forum or not, please feel free to move as appropriate.
I sat through Dr. Tim Brown's presentation on the Transient Method for detecting Extra-Solar planets during last night's Longmont Astronomical Society meeting last night (a reference to this work can be found here). As part of his presentation Dr. Brown pointed out that his 6º x 6º fields generally containing 10,000 to 20,000 R=12 or brighter stars, collected on both sides of the Atlantic are generally underutilized, scientifically. I, of course, immediately thought of the CONCAM data and wondered what sort of correlations could be utilized between the two datasets.
Now I haven't spent nearly as much time thinking about these things as the NSL researchers have, but I wanted to make sure that you folks knew of the existence of this data and whether you could find this generally useful for your own nefarious purposes.
In a very funny (and appropriate to my post, here) moment, Dr. Brown was asked for the URL to his research. He told to crowd to Google STARE, TrES, et al. I immediately cracked an Einstein phone-number joke. The space.com was one of the first URLs I came across when I ran my own search -- I have no idea where the actual data is located.
~Neal
I sat through Dr. Tim Brown's presentation on the Transient Method for detecting Extra-Solar planets during last night's Longmont Astronomical Society meeting last night (a reference to this work can be found here). As part of his presentation Dr. Brown pointed out that his 6º x 6º fields generally containing 10,000 to 20,000 R=12 or brighter stars, collected on both sides of the Atlantic are generally underutilized, scientifically. I, of course, immediately thought of the CONCAM data and wondered what sort of correlations could be utilized between the two datasets.
Now I haven't spent nearly as much time thinking about these things as the NSL researchers have, but I wanted to make sure that you folks knew of the existence of this data and whether you could find this generally useful for your own nefarious purposes.
In a very funny (and appropriate to my post, here) moment, Dr. Brown was asked for the URL to his research. He told to crowd to Google STARE, TrES, et al. I immediately cracked an Einstein phone-number joke. The space.com was one of the first URLs I came across when I ran my own search -- I have no idea where the actual data is located.
~Neal