STARE Funding
STARE was initiated using HAO internal funds. Soon thereafter, funds to support the effort were awarded under a three year grant from NASA's Origins program. A new proposal is currently under review to continue this support.
STARE Collaborators
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T. M. Brown (e-mail) - As the PI of STARE, Dr. Brown has overseen both the HAO instrument deployment and the analysis of data collected by this instrument. He will continue to monitor the quality of incoming data, supervise the work of Don Kolinski, and communicate regularly and as needed with the other collaborators. He will be responsible for timely dissemination of data and results from the HAO instrument, both to collaborators and to the community at large.
R. Alonso (e-mail) - As a Ph.D student from the IAC under supervision of T. M. Brown, J. A. Belmonte, and P. L. Pallé, Roi will aid in the operation of the instrument at the Observatorio del Teide, as well as in the reduction and analysis of the data. He will also conduct complementary follow-up observations on transit candidates and/or other (secondary science) interesting objects.
J. A. Belmonte (e-mail) - As staff scientist of the IAC in the Canary Islands and a member of the Asteroseismology Group of the IAC and of the COROT and MONS teams, Dr. Belmonte will coordinate the exploitation of the results coming from the stellar variability data. He will supervise, together with P. L. Palle and T. M. Brown, the work of Roi Alonso. He is in charge of supervising the operation of the STARE instrument in the Observatorio del Teide.
W. J. Borucki (e-mail ) - As the PI on the parallel proposal from NASA/Ames, Dr. Borucki will be responsible for coordinating observing fields and schedules with the other PIs, sharing information and experience regarding observing and data analysis strategies and problems, and sharing results for the purpose of identifying candidate planets.
D. Charbonneau (e-mail) - As the lead investigator on a project based at Caltech and NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Charbonneau will build an instrument similar to STARE. This system will be located at Mt. Palomar, and is expected to be operational by Spring, 2002. He will be responsible for coordinating observing fields and schedules with the other PIs, and sharing results for the purpose of identifying candidate planets. His project will rely heavily upon the software developed for the STARE project, and the instrument design will benefit greatly from the experience gained by T. M. Brown and the STARE team.
W. D. Cochran (e-mail) - Using facilities at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Dr. Cochran will also carry out radial velocity measurements on stars that are identified by STARE as likely planet candidates.
E. W. Dunham (e-mail) - As the PI on the parallel proposal from Lowell Observatory, Dr. Dunham will also be responsible for coordinating observing fields and schedules with the other PIs, sharing information and experience regarding observing and data analysis strategies and problems, and sharing results for the purpose of identifying candidate planets.
D. Kolinski (e-mail) - Working under T. M. Brown as an HAO associate scientist, Don will aid in the operation of the HAO instrument, reduction of data, and maintenance of code. He is also responsible for the creation and maintenance of the STARE web page.
G. W. Marcy (e-mail) - Using facilities at the Keck Telescope, Dr. Marcy will carry out radial velocity measurements on stars that are identified by STARE as likely planet candidates.
P. L. Pallé (e-mail) - As the head of the Research Division of the IAC (where he has worked in the Helio- and Asteroseismology Group since 1980), Dr. Pallé is responsible for the MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) between HAO and IAC. He will supervise, together with T. M. Brown and J. A. Belmonte, the thesis work of Roi Alonso centered on the exploitation of STARE data.