27 September 2010 to 1 October 2010
CSIR Convention Centre
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

The Search for Short Period Transients in XMM-Newton Data

Not scheduled
CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR, Pretoria
Poster Track D1 - Astrophysics

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)

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