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.