neerajwadhwani / savekepler

a whitepaper in response to the "repurpose Kepler" call

SaveKepler

Development of two whitepapers for the call to repurpose the NASA Kepler satellite.

contributors / acknowledgements

• Ruth Angus (Oxford)
• Tom Barclay (NASA Ames)
• Rebekah Dawson (Harvard)
• Rob Fergus (NYU)
• Dan Foreman-Mackey (NYU)
• Stefan Harmeling (MPI-IS)
• Michael Hirsch (UCL) (MPI-IS)
• David W. Hogg (NYU) (MPIA)
• Dustin Lang (CMU)
• Ben Montet (Caltech)
• David Schiminovich (Columbia)
• Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI-IS)
• Martin Still (NASA Ames)

license

Copyright 2013 the contributors. All rights reserved. Any use of this content requires citation (of, eg, this repository).

history

2013 May: Fergus calls meeting at NYU to discuss giving ideas back to the Kepler team about how they might profitably operate in a two-wheel mode.

2013 August 02: NASA releases call for white papers to make proposals for a repurposed Kepler. Discussion starts among a core group but especially Barclay, Lang, Schiminovich.

2013 August 15: This team assembles and decides to make an attempt to submit a useful white paper.

2013 August 20: Hogg declares Save Kepler Day; all hands on deck to build ideas and toy models, along with understanding of s/c capabilities.

2013 August 27: Decision is made to split the project into two white papers, one (Hogg et al) on image modeling and one (Montet et al) on field and target selection.

2013 September 03: White papers submitted to the Kepler Project Office, and the arXiv. It contains at least three completely novel results in astronomical image modeling and calibration.