Yesterday we took a walk over to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to meet with Dave Charbonneau and his students. We gave a little presentation about the KELT project and got some really nice input from them on what we could do to help speed up the "planet finding" thing. Seems like a really good place to be, many really famous names appeared on the doors as I was walking down the corridors.
One of the things that Dave mentioned that we might want to look into is see if we can find all the lightcurves for the known RV planets in our dataset and see what happens when we fold out data on the periods reported by the RV detections. We had a look, and it turns out that there are only 5 objects in the entire list worth looking at. So Rob and I looked at the first one yesterday and the star is almost saturated for us. We will have a look at more today.
We finished off the day yesterday by watching a movie in my room and eating an enormous amount of food. We had some chicken popcorn (small party serving size), 2 pizza's and some doughy delicious dessert. We watched X-Man First Class.
Not a bad night, and a really good day yesterday. Meeting some of the heavyweights in exoplanet science is always good.
Have a good one.
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