Today was a fun day at Flatiron. I saw Didier Queloz (Cambridge) and Karin Öberg (Harvard), who are in town for a Simons program on Origins of Life. With Queloz we discussed target selection for the Terra Hunting Experiment and with Öberg we discussed data-driven methods for finding planets embedded in proto-planetary disks observed by ALMA.
Today was the last day of the visit by Heather Knutson (Caltech). We decided to implement the simplest possible version of the data-driven models for planet and brown-dwarf spectroscopy that we have been talking about all week. This would mean one spectral template per object, and one telluric template per night. This might not be good enough, but it is worth a shot, and might teach us a lot. The idea is to structure the model very much like Bedell's wobble model.
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