Speaker
Mr
Thuso Simon
(Astronomy Department, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre (ACGC), University of Cape Town)
Description
The XMM-Newton observatory has 10 years worth of data archives. The data is analyzed by a standard pipeline that does not search for transients. I researched into three different methods which would search for transients and found that the Kuiper test was the most sensitive.
Primary author
Mr
Thuso Simon
(Astronomy Department, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre (ACGC), University of Cape Town)