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PANOPTESPanoptic Astronomical Networked OPtical
observatory for Transiting Exoplanets Survey
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About us
Jen TongDeveloper Advocate, Google
Wilfred GeeDeveloper, PANOPTES
PhD Candidate, Macquarie Univ.
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How many of you...
● know what an exoplanet is?● know what a light curve is?● are educators?● are amature astronomers?● thinks space is neat?
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● Exoplanets● Project goals● Anatomy of PANOPTES● Project Status
Agenda
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Exoplanets
Credit: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel
in verse
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Project PANOPTES,of course.
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Interlude: Radial Velocity (RV)
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51 Pegasib
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Radial Velocity (RV) / Doppler Spectroscopy
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1 AU
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Interlude: Transit Method
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Transits
Credit - NASA
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● Transit● Radial Velocity● Gravitational Microlensing● Direct Imaging● Timing Variations
Number of detections by method:Blue - Radial VelocityRed / Yellow - Transit
Detection Methods
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Project PANOPTES,of course.
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Project goals
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Goals
● Research● Education & outreach● Openness
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The PANOPTES approach
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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PANOPTES approach
● More smaller telescopes○ More samples○ Looking in different places
● Outreach guided design
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Exoplanet Cost Compared
LSST$465 million
LSST image credit - LSST Project Office
Kepler$550 million
PANOPTES~$5000
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Kepler's field of view
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How it works
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Raw image
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Zoom in
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Colors - Boooo!
Image credit - Cburnet on Wikipedia
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Postage stamp
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Light curve
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Light curve
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PANOPTES anatomy
Credit: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel
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System architecture
PANOPTES unit Python system software Google Cloud Platform
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Hardware
Credit: NASA
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Hardware
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Hardware
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System software
Credit: NASA
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System software
● Intel NUC running Ubuntu● Python 3● Young developer friendly interface● State machine
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A night in the life...
Sleeping
Housekeeping
Parked
Ready
Scheduling
Slewing Pointing
Tracking Observing
Analyzing
Parking
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Sleeping
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Scheduling
Slewing Pointing
Tracking Observing
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A night in the life...
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Sleeping
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Slewing Pointing
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Back end
Credit: NASA
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Back end - goals
● Project flexibility● Open at every level● Easy reproducibility
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The data
Full frame images Postage stamps
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"gust_condition": "Calm",
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"pwm_value": 9.9,
"rain_condition": "Dry",
"rain_frequency": 2656.0,
"rain_sensor_temp_C": 12.2...
Sensor data
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Sensor data
Cloud StoragePANOPTES units
Compute Engine BigQuery
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Back end - Re:dash
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BigtableDataflowCloud StoragePANOPTES unit
Image data (planned)
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Image data (planned)
Bigtable
Science!
Compute Engine
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Project Status
Credit: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel
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Project status
● 6 years of observing● 1 unit online - more soon● Team is growing● v1.0 "baseline" hardware (almost)● Time to science
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● Write code● Be a mentor● Build a PANOPTES unit● Sponsor a unit
Contribute
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Thank you!
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Help us find exoplanets!
Web: projectpanoptes.orgCode: github.com/panoptesEmail: [email protected]
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