Discovering Transiting Extra Solar Planets
People:
Raul Jimenez, Dae-Won Kim, Charles Alcock, Pavlos Protopapas.We have developed an algorithm that allows fast and efficient detection of transits, including planetary transits, from light-curves. The method is based on building an ensemble of fiducial models and compressing the data using the MOPED algorithm. We will be searching for extra solar transit signatures in a huge collection of existing light curves (150 million light curves are in place at TSC right now).
Publications:
- The IIC Time Series Center: How Astronomers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians together are working to tackle hard problems in Astronomy (SEMINAR)
- The IIC Time Series Center: How Astronomers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians are working together to tackle hard problems in astronomy (SEMINAR)
- Fast identification of transits from light-curves (PAPER)
Last Updated at: 2007-09-29 01:48 PM.