/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 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.