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Hugo said: “we have to find the binaries”

Hugo said: “we have to find the binaries” In the far past : Mendez, Bond, Ciardullo have looked for binaries with scarce results and no real control on biases.

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Hugo said: “we have to find the binaries”

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  1. Hugo said: “we have to find the binaries” • In the far past: Mendez, Bond, Ciardullo have looked for binaries with scarce results and no real control on biases. • Recently/now, Pollacco, Sorensen, Bond, and I have been doing RV surveys: results are intriguing, but the hurdles have been evaluated and are large. However, we know how to improve… • With Todd Hillwig we are redoing the irradiation/photometric survey. • With Bond, Jacoby and Moe, we just got observing time for an IR excess survey. • I use the USA national telescopes, twice per year, never having failed to get telescope time. • But this is not enough. Not enough brain power. Not enough man power. Not enough telescope time. • We need more people with: • additional technique ideas (AO, interferometry …) • access to telescopes (people involved with telescopes) • technical know how (people who used binary-finding techniques before) • students (there is a lot of work) • money (well…) • to form a working group to coordinate effort. • A working group with community endorsement has more sway on TACs/Panels. • We have a focused problem. • We just do not want to keep saying that we cannot find the binaries because we can figure out how to overcome the biases.

  2. PLAnetaryNebulaBinaries • Howard Bond • Olivier Chesneau (VLT-MIDI) • Orsola De Marco • Todd Hillwig (SARA) • George Jacoby (WIYN) • David Le Mignant (Keck) • Max Moe • Dick Shaw (LMC) • Albert Zijlstra • whoever wants to contribute: • come for lunch today at the restaurant near the swimming pool • e-mail me at orsola@amnh.org. Call me +1 212 496 3444. • talk to me at any time

  3. Organizational plan • Round of e-mails/do a wiki. • Line up good ideas. • Match ideas with actual proposals/projects/telecopes/PIs. • Understand biases. • Involve the extended binary community: sdBs, WDs, MS…. • Division of labour into observing proposals. • Possible organization of a workshop down the line.

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