How Simulated Observations Help Future Telescopes
Future telescopes like Vera Rubin and Nancy Grace Roman will generate a lot of data. This will be a big challenge. To get ready for it astronomers use simulated observation data. Why is it important and how is it done? Finding out in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Michael Troxel https://scholars.duke.edu/person/michael.troxel
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Comments (3)
Hmm... Penta bytes of data over the internet is more than a bit worrying. My new superfast broadband supposedly supports 150Mbits/second but even if the download maintained 100% rate (very unlikely) it would still take ~2 years for one penta byte! Not to mention storage and processing. It calls for some serious pre-processing and compression at the telescope site(s) before release, what work has be done on that?
Fascinating. Been watching for a long while so happy to support. But I do have a question ….. JWT has a sunshield … but how is it pointed on target? It’s at a L point but that still orbits the sun? I’m struggling to visualise what its field of view could be.
Fascinating stuff. Great interview.. thanks!