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.