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Colorado Space Grant Update Western State College Suzanne Taylor September 9, 2011
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Exoplanet transit light curves Goals: 1.To provide students with astronomical observing and data processing experience 2.To accurately reproduce light curves of known transiting exoplanets 3.To confirm and characterize light curves of exoplanet candidates
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Current status All instrumentation is in place and operational Camera Autoguider Filter wheel Rough light curves have been obtained
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Rough light curve Wasp-10b
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Successes Stumbling blocks Learned operational limits of instrumentation informed target selection → better data Student has gained extensive experience in telescope and associated instrumentation operation Poorly designed telescope gears numerous tracking/guiding issues Conflicting schedules, broken ankle, cloudy nights Far less summer observing than originally planned
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The Future Need to improve telescope gearing Possibility of using better designed (but smaller) telescope Once we can consistently reproduce known light curves we’ll start looking at unconfirmed Kepler candidates Testing out the new filters
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