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[ Copyright: TAOS II ]
At September 2015, I joined the TAOS II (the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey II) aiming to detect small bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, which we often call Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) or Kuiper-Belt Objects (KBOs). TAOS II is a successor of TAOS I and uses larger telescopes (1.3m) with higher sampling rate (i.e. 20Hz) than TAOS I.
My primary task is developing data analysis pipeline and astrophysical parameter estimation. The following diagram shows the conceptual processes of the TAOS II data analysis pipelines.
[ Conceptual illustration for the TAOS II data analysis pipelines ]
The main goal of TAOS II is to study small-sized KBOs by detecting occultations (e.g. shown in the center panel in the figure). However, we are also interested in other events like transients or variables, which will be analyzed using independent modules or pipelines (e.g. shown in the left and right panels).
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