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MOA Extra-Solar Planet Research via Cluster Supercomputing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Nicholas Rattenbury
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Ian Bond
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Phil Yock
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Jovan Skuljan
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Abstract

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Developments in the search for extra-solar planets via gravitational microlensing by the Japan/New Zealand group MOA are discussed. The use of the Kaláka cluster computer is introduced and preliminary results presented.

Type
II. Monitoring and Surveys
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001

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