Hack Day Idea - Kepler FFI's

04 Dec 2015

These images have been largely ignored, though the opinion of the community has been that if the right question were posed they would be a gold mine.

I don’t have the perfect question, but I have a few mediocre ones:

1. Can we find transients in the Kepler FFI’s?
2. Can we find new eclipsing binaries or pulsators (use supersmoother, like w/ S82 work) using the FFI’s?
3. Can we find stars with long term variability (e.g. LPVs, YSOs) using the FFI’s?

Images are here

These transients could be from Novae/SuperNovae, or flares, or asteroids (less likely given 30min cadence)

A first-pass was done as an REU project years ago

And this is the only real result in the literature using FFI’s I’m aware of:

There are 53 of these images, w/ 30min exposures each, and an area of ~100 sq deg. While this pales in comparison to the data from the Kepler targeted objects, it is actually not a shabby time series catalog. Stripe 82 had an area of ~300 sq deg and 70-90 exposures…

Update: Ben Montet is on it!