[AAVSO-DIS] Extrasolar Planet Computer Project Help Needed

[Aaron Price]

 Dr. Greg Laughlin, author of www.transitsearch.org, has recently announced a new web site that 
needs amateur help. You may know Greg from his collaboration with the AAVSO on extrasolar 
planetary transit searches. His new site has some very interesting and sophisticated software 
that anyone can use to simulate extrasolar planetary systems. What they need now are people to 
go in and use the software. The results will be used to help characterize the distribution 
statistics of currently known extrasolar systems. 

 More information on the web site is available in the e-mail below.

Aaron

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:16:01 -0800
From: Gregory Laughlin <laugh at ucolick.org>

Hello Everyone,

I'd like to announce a new website and public participation research
project devoted to extrasolar planets:

www.oklo.org

This is a blog with posts about planets, planet research and planet
detection. It is also the home base for the "systemic" project,
in which people will search for planets within a large catalog of
synthetic radial velocity (and photometric) data sets. These data sets
are being designed to match as closely as possible the characteristics
of the real data sets that are produced by the major planned and ongoing
RV (and photometric) surveys. When the project is finished, we'll be
able to compare the statistics of the "detected" planets with the
statistics of a known underlying distribution.

The systemic research collaboration is designed to be a counterpart to
transitsearch.org. In both cases, the goal is to enlist skilled members
of the public to usefully participate in research related to extrasolar
planets. The barrier to entry at systemic is lower because no equipment
other than an internet connection is required to participate.

A beta version of our "systemic console" (written by Aaron Wolf) is now
running on the www.oklo.org site. The console is a java-based
application that does radial velocity fits (both Keplerian and
self-consistent). It has evolved to the point where it is a useful
research tool for studying RV data sets where planet-planet
interactions play a role.

http://www.oklo.org/SystemicBeta/SystemicBeta.html

There are "how-to" tutorials on the site (see the right menu bar)
including

HD4208 (basic operation)
http://oklo.org/?page_id=10

UpsAnd (additional features)
http://oklo.org/?page_id=7

GJ876 (advanced self-consistent fitting)
http://oklo.org/?page_id=9

best regards, and best wishes for the new year,
Greg





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