Planet 9 from Other Space, and Other Things Found in Big(ger) Data - Dr. Pamela Gay
Date: NaT

Modern all-sky surveys are enabling new kinds of discoveries by allowing statistical studies to trace out the locations of hidden planets, pressures, and exoplanets. The most exciting of these discoveries is Planet 9, a new world predicted by the orbits of icy Kuiper Belt Objects and defined by where it isn’t in all-sky surveys. It follows on the heels of projects that map out invisible dark matter and describe Dark Energy’s expansion of the universe.This talk will look at how massive data collections have allowed us to detect these and other things that can’t be seen, and how future data sets will make today’s Big Data seem small.