2012-05-15

lens finder

Marshall and I spent the day in Princeton with Lang, extending the Tractor to handle gravitationally lensed quasars. We learned a lot about inheritance in object-oriented programming! I also spent a few minutes talking about the Atlas with Jim Gunn (Princeton) and saw a nice colloquium by John Johnson (Caltech). Johnson talked about exoplanet studies, and in particular convinced us that 0.7-m telescopes are cheap and ready to use.

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