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
- ModelDatabase- Code for validating and simulating transit models
- SyntheticTransits- Code for generating synthetic transits within real data
Other links
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: 50942
