Unexpected data release
Mar. 9th, 2009 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackIt may well be that this data release was not thoroughly announced because the population of amateur asteroseismologists is zero, but
http://idc-corotn2-public.ias.u-psud.fr/invoquerSva.do?sva=browseGraph
has light-curve data from several chunks of the Corot planet-hunting and asteroseismology mission.
This is one of those annoying missions which is looking for exciting objects, and has many probable detections, each of which requires half a dozen observations on well-spaced nights from incredibly oversubscribed large telescopes to confirm; the Corot team has only announced confirmed discoveries, but there are probably a fair number of unannounced planets sitting in the dataset.
Yes, the big data set is 14GB long compressed, but there must be somebody who'd prefer the potential of fifty undiscovered planets to six downloaded HDTV movies.
http://idc-corotn2-public.ias.u-psud.fr/invoquerSva.do?sva=browseGraph
has light-curve data from several chunks of the Corot planet-hunting and asteroseismology mission.
This is one of those annoying missions which is looking for exciting objects, and has many probable detections, each of which requires half a dozen observations on well-spaced nights from incredibly oversubscribed large telescopes to confirm; the Corot team has only announced confirmed discoveries, but there are probably a fair number of unannounced planets sitting in the dataset.
Yes, the big data set is 14GB long compressed, but there must be somebody who'd prefer the potential of fifty undiscovered planets to six downloaded HDTV movies.
