A5007201538- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
- Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
- Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates
- Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
- Wireless Communication Networks Research
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Antenna Design and Optimization
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Macquarie University
2016-2021
University of Hawaii at Hilo
2014-2016
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
2014-2016
Lockheed Martin (United States)
2005
We present astroplan - an open source, development, Astropy affiliated package for ground-based observation planning and scheduling in Python. is designed to provide efficient access common observational quantities such as celestial rise, set, meridian transit times simple transformations from sky coordinates altitude-azimuth without requiring a detailed understanding of astropy's implementation coordinate systems. provides convenience functions generate plots airmass parallactic angle...
Due to the efforts by numerous ground-based surveys and NASA's Kepler Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of transiting exoplanets ideal for atmospheric characterization via spectroscopy with large platforms such as James Webb Space Telescope ARIEL. However their next predicted mid-transit time could become so increasingly uncertain over that significant overhead would required ensure detection entire transit. As a result, follow-up...
The Panoptic Astronomical Networked OPtical observatory for Transiting Exoplanets Survey (PANOPTES, www.projectpanoptes.org) project is aimed at identifying transiting exoplanets using a wide network of low-cost imaging units. Each unit consists two commercial digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras equipped with 85mm F1.4 lenses, mounted on small equatorial mount. At few $1000s per unit, the system offers uniquely advantageous survey eficiency cost, and can easily be assembled by amateur...
This white paper advocates for the creation of a community-wide program to maintain precise mid-transit times exoplanets that would likely be targeted by future platforms. Given sheer number targets will require careful monitoring between now and launch next generation exoplanet characterization missions, this network initially devised as citizen science project -- focused on numerous amateur astronomers, small universities community colleges high schools have access modest sized telescopes...
The Huntsman Telescope, located at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, is a system of ten telephoto Canon lenses designed for low surface brightness imaging the Southern sky. Based upon Dragonfly Telephoto Array, refractive lens-based provides an obstruction free optical path, which reduces number scattering surfaces and allows easier access to lower levels. In this proceeding, we present analysis impact flat fielding uncertainty on limiting We show that fairly standard set flat-field...
The Huntsman Telescope* is a wide field imager based on the successful Dragonfly Telescope concept.<sup>1</sup> It consists of an array co-aligned telephoto DSLR lenses with cooled CCD cameras. ten 140 mm apertures have combined collecting area equivalent to 0.5 m class telescope but lower stray light levels than typical this size.<sup>1, 2</sup> Its primary purpose low surface brightness imaging nearby galaxies, and it also observes exoplanet transits other optical transients.
PANOPTES (Panoptic Astronomical Networked Observatories for a Public Transiting Exoplanets Survey) is citizen science project that aims to build collaborative, worldwide network of robots will survey the night sky nearby transiting exoplanets. The units are designed be low-cost, easy with clear set instructions, and constructed readily available off-the-shelf hardware. As part collaborative efforts, we have established an online forum community. serves as platform everyone involved in...
Project PANOPTES (http://www.projectpanoptes.org) is aimed at establishing a collaboration between professional astronomers, citizen scientists and schools to discover large number of exoplanets with the transit technique. We have developed digital camera based imaging units cover parts sky look for exoplanet transits. Each unit costs approximately $5000 USD runs automatically every night. By using low-cost, commercial single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, we uniquely cost-efficient system wide...
PANOPTES is a citizen-science based project to discover exoplanets with consumer cameras. It open source and aims be highly efficient at collecting photometric data by running wide field survey using DSLR cameras standard lenses. In the two years since demonstration of baseline design SPIE 2016 has moved forward in getting hardware ready for citizen scientists analysis, benefiting from an influx both professional amateur support. At same time experienced number challenges related nature...
Consumer-level digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are typically not used in professional astronomy because of the systematic errors present data as a result strong intra- and interpixel variations associated with each three different colors (RGB) Bayer color filter array. Nevertheless, cost DSLRs compared traditional astronomical CCDs is so much lower, they represent potentially underexplored area scientific quality imaging, especially wide-field transient surveys. We demonstrate an...