Browsing by Subject "exoplanets"
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(2019-07-25)Department: AstrophysicsThe Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) is an ongoing, wide-field, all-sky, time-domain photometric survey built to discover new transiting extrasolar planets of high scientific value orbiting bright host stars. ...
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(2014-12-30)Department: PhysicsIn the era of large-scale surveys for exoplanets, it is important to be aware of the pernicious false positives that can contaminate survey samples. In this dissertation, it is shown that all radial velocity surveys for ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: PhysicsAs astronomy expands into the era of Big Data, with increased data capture and storage capabilities and enhanced computing power, the large data sets that will become accessible need to be properly understood to maximize ...