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What can NExScI Do for You?

Solange V. Ramirez NExScI/Caltech

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What is NExScI?

•  NExScI = NASA Exoplanet Science Institute •  We are the Science Center for NASA’s Exoplanet

Exploration Program •  Located at Caltech within IPAC under the leadership of:

–  Charles Beichman – Executive Director –  Shri Kulkarni – Science Director –  Rachel Akeson – Deputy Director –  David A. Imel – Project Manager

•  Our goal is to provide science support, data infrastructure, and community development for Exoplanet Exploration Program activities.

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Current NExScI Activities

•  Sagan Program •  NASA Exoplanet Archive

–  Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program

•  NASA Keck Community Access •  Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) •  Large Binocular Telescope

Interferometer

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Sagan Program

•  Sagan Fellowship Positions –  5-6 Postdoctoral Fellowships per year –  Part of NASA Fellowship Program together

with Einstein and Hubble –  Application Deadline: November 5, 2015

•  Sagan Summer Workshop –  Current exoplanet science research and

technologies: •  July 2015: Exoplanet System

Demographics –  Interactive, data intensive, and hands-on –  Geared towards post-docs and grad students

ExSoCal - 2015 For more info see: Dawn Gelino

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NASA Exoplanet Archive

•  Interactive data of all confirmed exoplanets –  Detailed information for

each planet, including RV data from Kec, Lick, HET, etc.

•  Convenient exoplanet plots •  Ground-based transit

surveys: –  Super WASP, KELT, XO,

etc.

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For more info see: Rachel Akeson, Jessie Christiansen, Julian van Eyken, or Solange Ramirez

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NASA Exoplanet Archive

•  Tools: –  Time Series Visualizer –  Periodogram –  Transit Predictor

•  Ground-based Obs. •  Spitzer •  JWST NEXT WEEK

–  Predicted Observables –  API –  Bulk download

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For more info see: Rachel Akeson, Jessie Christiansen, Julian van Eyken, or Solange Ramirez

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NASA Exoplanet Archive

•  Kepler pipeline products –  Stellar Table –  Threshold Crossing Events and

data validation reports –  Kepler Candidates –  Kepler Names –  Completeness and Reliability

Products NEW •  K2

–  Targets –  K2 Names NEW

•  Follow-up Observing Program –  Optimize resources –  Facilitate collaboration

•  CFOP –  Support Kepler prime mission

•  ExoFOP-K2 –  Support K2 follow-up –  All data on ExoFOP-K2 is

public –  Users need an account to

upload data

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For more info see: David Ciardi

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Community NASA Keck Access

•  NASA’s allocation is 1/6 of the nights on the Keck telescopes

–  ~ 45 nights: usually split ~23 on K1 and ~22 on K2

–  If you do not have access to Keck through your home institution, this is the ONLY way to get Keck time!

•  NExScI manages the proposal process from solicitation to funding

•  2016A deadline has just passed

•  2016B deadline for observations from Aug 2016 – Jan 2017 is March 17, 2016

For more info see: Dawn Gelino

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Keck Observatory Archive (KOA)

•  The Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) is a NASA-funded collaboration between NExScI and WMKO

•  KOA houses ALL data acquired at the Keck Observatory since operations began in 1994 –  Immediate availability (<24 hr) to PI –  Available to community > 18 months

•  KOA curates data from ALL observatory instruments: –  DEIMOS, ESI, HIRES, KI, LRIS, MOSFIRE, NIRC, NIRC2,

NIRSPEC, OSIRIS, and LWS •  KOA provides calibrated browse products for HIRES, NIRC2,

OSIRIS, and LWS •  Virtual Observatory (VO)-compliant program interfaces for all

instruments with an imaging mode. For more info see: Bruce Berriman or Chris Gelino

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Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer

•  Mid-IR Nulling Interferometer for the LBT (PI: Phil Hinz, U. of Arizona)

•  Expected to be 50x more sensitive to habitable zone dust than previous facilities

•  Key Science: exozodi dust survey around 50 nearby stars

•  Parallel high contrast direct imaging survey of nearby warm Jupiters

•  Data archive @ NExScI

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NExScI Scientists

•  Rachel Akeson •  Chas Beichman •  Bruce Berriman •  Jessie Christiansen •  David Ciardi •  Chris Gelino

•  Dawn Gelino •  Shri Kulkarni •  Rafael Millan-Gabet •  Solange Ramirez •  Julian van Eyken

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To facilitate the timely and successful execution of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program missions and science investigations