Full Lecture: ZTF WTF?!
Channel: James Davenport
Date: 2019-09-06

On 2019-Sept-05 I gave a short talk at the ZTF Collaboration Meeting, held at the University of Washington's Dept. of Astronomy. Here I'm talking about using ZTF (or other surveys) to search for similar stars to the famously mysterious "Boyajian's Star". I also pitch: using big surveys for SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

This talk includes the first public mentions of a couple new ideas I'm sketching out for SETI analysis, including "Sequence Dispersion Minimization".

This slide deck:
https://speakerdeck.com/jradavenport/searching-for-boyajians-star-analogs-with-ztf

More about the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVhMVwwUwUE
https://www.ztf.caltech.edu
https://zwicky.tf/ky4

KIC 8462852, aka Tabby's Star, aka Boyajian's Star:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852

Prof. Tabetha Boyajian's TED Talk on this star:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypAjPp6eps


MUSIC: David Miner
https://www.youtube.com/daveminer87
Created LIVE on his Twitch Stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/davidminer

VLOG GEAR: 
Nikon D7500
Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8
Nikon 70-300mm AF-P VR
Takstar SGC-598

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