NJAA Research Group Meeting
Friday April 13th 8 PM
"Mining the Kepler Mission Database"
Kevin Alton Presenting
The Kepler space satellite is best known in the lay press for reporting the possible detection of Earth-like worlds circling far-off suns, yet by comparison to this primary objective, the Kepler Mission will most assuredly lead to the discovery of far more traditionally defined intrinsic or extrinsic variable stars. Started in 2009, the Kepler Mission will continue for at least 3.5 years and perhaps as long as 6 years. New data are generally made public on a quarterly basis so that there is a veritable warehouse of lightcurves available for analysis. If you only have time at night to take astro-images suitable for framing, but still are interested in the scientific aspects of variable stars, then the Kepler database could probably keep you busy for the rest of your life. Fortunately, there are a large number of freely available software tools and applications that can assist in finding, retrieving, downloading and analyzing lightcurves gathered by the Kepler space satellite and stored in the Kepler Archives. Join me on April 13th at the NJAA Research Group Meeting and I will walk you through the process of potentially discovering something new about a variable star in the Kepler field-of-view that has never been seen before.
Kevin Alton
Please check out Kevin Alton's website at :
http://www.underoakobservatory.com/
I highly recommend Kevin's Journal #3 which contains information pertaining to the talk:
http://www.underoakobservatory.com/UnderOak_Issue3_Final.pdf
Please join us this Friday as expert variable star observer Kevin Alton presents.
Refreshments will be served.
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