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Simon Walker

My interests are mostly in the detection of extrasolar planets through the transit method, but also eclipsing objects in general including binary stars and Kuiper-belt objects. I enjoy writing software and contributing to open source projects.


Major scientific contributions


NGTS - Software development, analysis tools

WASP - Detectability study


Software


Photometry packages

  • NGTSPhot - Aperture photometry pipeline designed for the NGTS project but applicable elsewhere
  • PhotomErrors - Code for calculating the errors associated with photometry processes
  • DilutionEstimation - Estimating the distribution of blended objects in a field


Transit synthesis packages

Publications


Other links


Github link

Gitorious link

Personal website

Write to:

Simon Walker,
Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL
UK
 

Contact details:

E-Mail: simon.walker AT warwick.ac.uk
Ext: 50343