April 7th

So this week, I compiled all of the tess data I needed, that did take a bit and as i add on to the 100 gb of space being taken up on my hard drive i realized I wan't so sure what to do next. Yes I know theoretically what I want to do but steps and actuality. So I had meeting with Eliot which was really helpful! So I have some theortical plans moving forward about how I want to do flare dection. I need to create a periodagram and phase fold my light curves (so many light curves)

This week apparently we were supposed to work toward our second milestone, this is what i wrote: The goal for this date is to complete quantifying the activity, orbital, and rotation period. Will likely try to achieve orbital period classification by eye or lomb-scargle periodogram. To look and classify each star spot methods will be by eye noting their position in time, their amplitudes, their width, and their occurrence. Will likely also need a code for star spots, maybe starry to compute star spots and then match? minimum - ⅗ stars qunatified

So honestly thats soooooo much I just got here! I do think that there could be a case that I can figure out a solid method to quantify by next week and once I so that it should run smoothly for all the stars. So I instead think this will be a goal for next week to solidfy quantification. I know the orbital periods because they are on the texx website but I will likely go in and confirm.

Lets think about future works! I initially has big dreams for this project and being able to catagorize activity but theres really only so much I can do with photometric data in just one band. I would love to get more H alpha data and alo just more filters to compare the light in. And even more amazing would likely be to have spectra. also just more data. never a bad thing to have more data. looking at some of the stars where observed the data is really quite minimal (to be fair some only had 3 days of observation). It also wouldn't hurt having a wider range of stars, more than 5, a longer observation time scale, because variablity over time is a really good indicator of activity, and also maybe stars that are fully convective (was hoping for one of those in the beginning). I wish my data was more expansive over time so that I could really in depth take a look at Louis in particular. Hubble Space Telescope space telescope and JWST imaging spectrograph time series would be nice, and and huge camera honestly should work. I think our set up is honestly fine just could be expanded on.

My deliverables: ALL my light curves done, going through tess data and those light curves.

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for next week

I have the eclispe timing from tess but I should approximate them myself maybe? and then i have to have a soild method for moving forward with activity detection