So we left Nashville on Sunday and traveled to Boston. Some delayed flights later (and a single serving friend that had taught English in Namibia), we arrived at the hotel in Boston fairly late. We just got checked in before we headed down to the Japanese restaurant in the hotel for some dinner. It's one of those places where the chef makes the food right in front of you. Very cool.
Yesterday was the first day at the new office, at MIT. Spent a large amount of time just settling in and getting to know everyone. We had a meeting with Joshua Winn, Sarah Seagar and all their students, and just told them a little about KELT and what we hope to get from this project.
Some of the work I did yesterday included looking up some EB's in the ASAS catalog and comparing the KELT lightcurves to the ASAS lightcurves. I emailed the results to Derck Smits to show him the kinds of things we are able to do with KELT. I also let him know that we are finding things that are not in the ASAS catalogs. I also noticed that the Tycho2 catalog V magnitude for KELT objects and NOMAD catalog for the same objects don't agree on the V magnitudes. I'm trying to find out by how much they actually differ and where the difference is coming from.
Dinner last night was at a place called the "Miracle of Sciene" and consisted of a cheeseburger and fries. We got some ice cream from a place just around the corner and headed back to the hotel on foot.
Good first day at MIT
PS. Happy B'day Mom
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