Hugo said:

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• 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.

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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_at_amnh.org. Call me 1 212 496
  3444.
• talk to me at any time

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Organizational plan

• Round of e-mails/do a wiki.
• Line up good ideas.
• Match ideas with actual proposals/projects/telecop
  es/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.