The astroML project was started in 2012 to accompany the book Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy, by Željko Ivezić, Andrew Connolly, Jacob Vanderplas, and Alex Gray. The astroML Python package is publicly available and designed as a…
Read MoreSearching for faint Solar System objects Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) are a population of Solar System objects that exist beyond the orbit of Neptune. Finding these objects is important because understanding their true distribution teaches us about the formation history…
Read MoreThe increased number of asteroid discoveries over the past few decades as well as the expectation that the number of known asteroids will increase by five times when the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST; https://www.lsst.org/) is expected to come online…
Read MoreKey Points: Discovering Solar System small bodies (asteroids and comets) is not easy Currently deployed algorithms impose a strict constraint on how telescopes operate and what datasets can be used to discover these objects Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR) is…
Read MoreThe Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an upcoming sky survey that aims to conduct a 10 year long survey from which we hope to answer questions about dark matter, dark energy, hazardous asteroids and the formation and structure of…
Read MoreDiRAC Fellow Keaton Bell is coordinating an international collaboration of asteroseismologists to study the brightness variations of pulsating white dwarf stars recorded by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is capable of much more than its name…
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