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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

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Slewing Pointing

Tracking Observing

Analyzing

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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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"data": {

"ambient_temp_C": 8.89,

"gust_condition": "Calm",

"internal_voltage_V": 5.8,

"ldr_resistance_Ohm": 28587

"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: info@projectpanoptes.org

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