Astronomy Computing Today | Topics in Astronomical Computing
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I am Bruce Berriman, an astronomer and computer scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology. I will be blogging about astronomy computing topics that interest me, primarily scalable astronomy applications; the application of new technology to astronomy, especially cloud computing; software sustainability; and advances on software project management.
Astronomy Computing Today | Topics in Astronomical Computing
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G. Bruce Berriman, John C. Good, Jessie L. Christiansen, and Benne W. Holwerda
This post was first published in Res. Notes AAS 3 94 (https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ab3051) and is reproduced here with the permission of the American Astronomical Society.
1. Scientific Motivation and Summary
The primary goal of the two-year Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS) mission is to discover new, nearby exoplanet systems (Ricker et al. 2015). The mission acquires images every 30 minutes, through a single broadband filter and with four cameras. It offers a unique opportunity to study the diffuse u ..read more