{"id":4812,"date":"2016-08-26T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2017-05-31T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T04:17:37","slug":"whats-going-on-out-there-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/26\/whats-going-on-out-there-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Going On Out There?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember\u00a0KIC 8462852<\/strong><\/em>, that weird star<\/a> from eight months ago? Corey Powell on Discover’s Out There<\/strong><\/em> blog interviews<\/a>\u00a0scientist Tabetha Boyajian who led the discovery, and her plans for continuing research, funded through Kickstarter<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Image: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The plan is to observe the star through a full calendar year at the [private] Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT<\/a>). We\u00a0 have the funds to cover that, and a little bit more. We\u2019re observing now, running off time LCOGT has gifted us, 200 hours there. At the end of the summer, when the Kickstarter funds get transferred, we\u2019ll be able to set up the process through August and probably through December of 2017.We want to see the star\u2019s brightness dip again\u2014it\u2019s as simple as that. When it dips, how long the dips are, if there are many dips, all of the stuff relevant to any theory that\u2019s on the table. Also, we\u2019ll be able to get more detailed observations of whatever stuff is passing in front of the star, because we have a system to notify us when it\u2019s not at its normal brightness. LCOGT is set up so we can get a spectrum as soon as that trigger happens, and also more intense observations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She also discusses the pitfalls of government funded science in situations such as this.<\/p>\n

[EDIT: 5\/31\/2017 for better layout]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember\u00a0KIC 8462852, that weird star from eight months ago? Corey Powell on Discover’s Out There blog interviews\u00a0scientist Tabetha Boyajian who led the discovery, and her plans for continuing research, funded through Kickstarter: The plan is to observe the star through a full calendar year at the [private] Las Cumbres Observatory \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9696,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}