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SUMMARY:Exoplanets and Bright Stars with the Kepler-2 Mission - Ben Pope (
 Oxford)
DTSTART:20161130T160000Z
DTEND:20161130T170000Z
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CONTACT:Ed Gillen
DESCRIPTION:Since the failure of two of its reaction wheels\, the Kepler s
 atellite has been revived as the K2 Mission\, surveying the ecliptic plane
 . Covering fields including open clusters and bright nearby stars\, the K2
  sample extends Kepler to a qualitatively new domain. Balanced by solar ra
 diation pressure\, K2 must fire its thrusters frequently\, which makes pho
 tometry in K2 much more challenging than in the nominal Kepler mission. I 
 will discuss some of my recent work in compensating for this: using Gaussi
 an Process models to correct systematics\; discovering 145 new transiting 
 planet candidates\; and novel methods to allow Kepler and K2 to look at st
 ars orders of magnitude brighter than previously possible\, obtaining the 
 most precise ever optical light curves of the Pleiades\, opening the possi
 bility of transit searches around naked-eye stars.
LOCATION:Martin Ryle Seminar Room\, Kavli Institute
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