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February 4, 2022

Steve Bryson and I have met nearly ten times to discuss our new project. Our latest project will be centered around TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data, specifically a subset out of 900 planets. We believe there have been TOI's (TESS Objects of Interest) mistakenly identified as false-positves. Our goal is to verify this claim by creating a program that automatically generates a catalogue and provides a better understanding of its reliability and completeness of TESS data. Since no one has put enough money or effort into building catalogues for these new TOI's, our work will be a substantial contribution to the exoplanet-finding field of astronomy.

September 14, 2021

I am very excited to announce that my paper with Steve Bryson was officially published yesterday! You can find our paper titled, Rescuing Unrecognized Planet Candidates in Kepler Data on Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. After many edits and corrections, Steve Bryson submitted the final draft of our paper a few days ago. I am excited to talk about this achievement and my experience working with Steve Bryson with the junior MARC students tomorrow! Here is a photo of the site where our paper is uploaded -->

September 1, 2021

I am in an email chain with Steve Bryson, his colleagues, and the other MARCers who also worked on the same project. After making several thorough edits of the research paper, I believe Steve accomplished his final corrections and submitted the paper for revisions to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. For my September SMART goals, I aim to connect with Steve about any ideas he has for next steps/projects.

March 1, 2021

Steve Bryson created and shared the foundations of the we are going to be working on research paper. Kylar and I will have to fill out some of the sections on the second page going over the planet candidates we identified. We have to write up the essential information/characteristics of these planet candidates that distinguish them. This kind of information includes its radius, impact parameter, as well as some stellar parameters.

February 8, 2021

Steve Bryson sent Kylar and I a spreadsheet listing several TCE's (threshold crossing events) that we have to analyze then classify. We're going to be working through the first page of the google sheet together this week, then, next Monday, we will go over our findings with Steve to see what he thinks. These assignments will, ultimately, benefit the paper by demonstrating a good record of distinguishing planet candidates from false-positive exoplanets.

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