Discoveries using the telescopes on Mauna Kea

[leilanidude]

This is something I feel people in Hawaii should be proud of. I'm only guessing, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you found that the Big Island has the greatest number of scientific discoveries per resident in the world.

-----

TomK - That is amazing to say the least - and very cool!
I hope the work up there can continue.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Robot space telescopes will make ground based optical telescopes obsolete in less than 40 years.

I've entered July 15, 2056 into my scheduler, and will update everyone on the accuracy of this post at that time. From the passenger seat of my Tesla self-flying car.

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky

[TomK]

Eric1600 - in addition, most if not all the observatories on Mauna Kea (and telescopes around the planet) post lists of publications using data obtained by them. Sometimes it takes a little digging around.

Anyway, as an example, UKIRT'S publication lists can be found here:

http://www.ukirt.hawaii.edu/reference/pub.html

Note that these lists are for peer-reviewed papers only. The ADS site you mentioned also includes non-peer reviewed papers, such as those published in conference proceedings, but you can use the filters to list only refereed papers and it has a variety of other filter options as well.

Not sure what Pahoated's latest fantasy has to do with discoveries made by Mauna Kea telescopes, but he keeps changing the date ground-based telescopes will become obsolete, so who knows what the next prediction will be?

[TomK]

More than a hundred new exoplanets have been discovered with a combination of Kepler observations and data from four Mauna Kea telescopes; the twin Kecks, Gemini North and the IRTF. A few of the planets are earth-like.

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-rel...00planets/

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

In a joint study that involves Keck Observatory, both Gemini Observatories, and the Kepler satellite, over 100 planets have been discovered, including 4 potentially similar to earth:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-kepler-planets-trove.html

"Our analysis shows that by the end of the K2 mission, we expect to double or triple the number of relatively small planets orbiting nearby, bright stars,"

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky

[TomK]

Beat you to it by two minutes!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

At least we had different links!

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky

[TomK]

True, and enjoyed reading your link, the article was nicely written and included a lot more details.

[TomK]

This time it wasn't just astronomers using Mauna Kea telescopes to make a discovery, but local students as well. Think what could be achieved if the TMT were to provide additional funds for local education.

Astronomers (and local students) find new, ancient source of gravitational lensing:

http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease/...index.html

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-astronomers...nsing.html

[Eric1600]

quote:

---

Originally posted by TomK
Think what could be achieved if the TMT were to provide additional funds for local education.

---

TMT is also going to trade time with other telescope contributors to give UH students 7.5% viewing time on the TMT itself, which is unprecedented.

http://ast.noao.edu/system/us-tmt-liaiso...faq#Shares

FWIW -- TMT has already started funding STEM programs since construction began at about $3 million/year even though the construction was stopped they are still funding the education programs with the hope TMT will clear the last legal permit.