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Colorado Space Grant Update Western State College

Colorado Space Grant Update Western State College. Suzanne Taylor September 9, 2011. Exoplanet transit light curves. Goals: To provide students with astronomical observing and data processing experience To accurately reproduce light curves of known transiting exoplanets

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Colorado Space Grant Update Western State College

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  1. Colorado Space Grant UpdateWestern State College Suzanne Taylor September 9, 2011

  2. Exoplanet transit light curves Goals: To provide students with astronomical observing and data processing experience To accurately reproduce light curves of known transiting exoplanets To confirm and characterize light curves of exoplanet candidates

  3. Current status • All instrumentation is in place and operational • Camera • Autoguider • Filter wheel • Rough light curves have been obtained

  4. Rough light curve Wasp-10b

  5. 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

  6. 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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