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Synoptic Astronomy

A special issue of Galaxies (ISSN 2075-4434).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2019) | Viewed by 5874

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Joseph Ward (Jay) Moody

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Physics-Astronomy Department, Brigham Young University, N484 ESC, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Interests: specialty: Galaxy nuclear variability; remote observing; large-scale galaxy distribution

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Imaging with electronic detectors has taken astronomy out of the dark (room) age and into a digital era that is overwhelmingly data-rich. The entire sky can now be monitored and archived regularly in projects that produce challengingly large amounts of data. The term “synoptic” refers to looking at all aspects of something and is possible in astronomy now more than ever. How might research evolve as synoptic observing increasingly opens up new avenues of astronomical discovery?

 

Galaxies is hosting a Special Issue on synoptic astronomy. We invite all interested parties to submit papers dealing with the promises and challenges of developing, conducting, and executing surveys that are expansive in space, wavelength, and/or time. We are interested in both observational and theoretical papers that explore the science and logistics of large-data gathering and mining and the science they produce. We welcome reviews of existing projects as well as plans for future endeavors.

Prof. Dr. Joseph Ward (Jay) Moody
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Galaxies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • synoptic
  • surveys
  • data analysis

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11 pages, 443 KiB  
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Exoplanets: Past, Present, and Future
by Chien-Hsiu Lee
Galaxies 2018, 6(2), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6020051 - 26 Apr 2018
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 5441
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Our understanding of extra-solar planet systems is highly driven by advances in observations in the past decade. Thanks to high precision spectrographs, we are able to reveal unseen companions to stars with the radial velocity method. High precision photometry from the space, especially [...] Read more.
Our understanding of extra-solar planet systems is highly driven by advances in observations in the past decade. Thanks to high precision spectrographs, we are able to reveal unseen companions to stars with the radial velocity method. High precision photometry from the space, especially with the Kepler mission, enables us to detect planets when they transit their stars and dim the stellar light by merely one percent or smaller. Ultra wide-field, high cadence, continuous monitoring of the Galactic bulge from different sites around the southern hemisphere provides us the opportunity to observe microlensing effects caused by planetary systems from the solar neighborhood, all the way to the Milky Way center. The exquisite AO imaging from ground-based large telescopes, coupled with high-contrast coronagraph, captured the photons directly emitted by planets around other stars. In this article, I present a concise review of the extra-solar planet discoveries, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the major planetary detection methods, providing an overview of our current understanding of planetary formation and evolution given the tremendous observations delivered by various methods, as well as on-going and planned observation endeavors to provide a clear picture of extra-solar planetary systems. Full article
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