Kepler - The Dirty Work Before the Beautiful Results
| Date/Time: | Friday, 09 Apr 2010 from 4:10 pm to 5:10 pm |
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| Location: | 3 Physics Hall |
| Contact: | Dr. Charles Kerton |
| Phone: | 515-294-2298 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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In this talk, I will give a few examples of how 'raw' Kepler data gets processed. For my own objects of interest (stars with an effective temperature of < 4000 K), I will show some wonderful null results from the hunt for the elusive epsilon mechanism periodicity in cool stars. However, I will also show a sample of stars with known and published results, in particular solar-like oscillators, as a means of convincing the audience, myself, and my advisor that my data reduction processes are producing realistic results.