I spent a piece of the morning exhaustively going through short-term priorities with Bedell (Flatiron). We discussed strategy given her stage. She has enough projects to last a decade! I guess we all do, but it is still amazing when we list them. We decided to focus on things that make direct use of the technologies we have built and not particularly build new technology for a bit. We also decided to submit the wobble paper right after the break.
After this, we segued into a conversation about the (badly named) Rossiter-McLaughlin effect with Luger (Flatiron) and Beale (Flatiron). The effect is the effective change in a star's radial velocity as a planet transits its surface, since it is rotating and has a spatial gradient in surface RV. We discussed what is involved in modeling this more accurately than is currently done. There were some philosophical issues coming up around flux conservation, limb darkening, and continuum normalization. All hard issues!
At the end of the day I got in a short quality conversation (over wine) with Alex Barnett (Flatiron) so I could pre-flash him the correlation-function and power-spectrum problems that Storey-Fisher (NYU) and I will bring him in January. He agreed that we are going to effectively unify fourier-space and real-space approaches when we make them all more efficient and more accurate. So excited about a winter of clustering!
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