WORK PLAN (STATEMENT OF WORK) THE TEAM IS GEORGE JACOBY (LOWELL OBSERVATORY) ORSOLA DE MARCO (MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY) TODD HILLWIG (VALPARAISO) JOSEPH LONG (STSCI) AND MATTHIAS KRONBERGER (DSH AMATEUR GROUP; JACOBY ET AL 2010). FUNDING REQUESTS IN THE BUDGET WILL APPLY ONLY TO JACOBY. JACOBY HAS AN EXTENSIVE HISTORY IN THE FIELD OF PNE HAVING DEVELOPED THE PNLF METHOD FOR DISTANCE DETERMINATION AND HAS CONSIDERABLE EXPERTISE IN HANDLING OBSERVATIONAL DATA OF ALL KINDS INCLUDING VARIABLE STAR DATA (SN IA RR LYR CEPHEIDS RED SUPERGIANTS). HE AND DE MARCO WILL PROVIDE THE SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP FOR THE PROJECT. JACOBY WILL MANAGE THE BUDGET AND TEAM ACTIVITIES. DE MARCO HAS DEVELOPED SIMULATIONS FOR BINARY CENTRAL STAR EVOLUTION AND GALACTIC POPULATION SYNTHESIS TO PREDICT THE RATES OF BINARY CENTRAL STARS. SHE ALSO LEADS THE IR EXCESS METHOD CAMPAIGN AND LED THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FIRST KEPLER PAPER. HILLWIG HAS BEEN COLLECTING THE FOLLOW-UP RADIAL VELOCITY SPECTRA AT GEMINI AND HE GENERATES THE MODELS OF THE COMBINED LIGHT CURVE PLUS VELOCITY DATA TO SOLVE THE ORBITAL PARAMETERS. [THIS IS NOW COMPLETE FOR ONE OF THE CAMPAIGN 7 TARGETS] LONG HAS DEVELOPED ALL THE SOFTWARE PIPELINES TO ANALYZE THE DATA. HE IS INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE SOFTWARE FROM THE KEPLER CENTER AND HAS TUNED THE ALGORITHMS AND PARAMETERS FOR OUR PARTICULAR SITUATION (E.G. DERIVING MASKS TO OPTIMIZE THE PHOTOMETRIC CONTRAST OF THE STARS AGAINST THE NEBULAR BACKGROUND). [THIS HAS BEEN COMPLETED INITIALLY FOR ALL OBJECTS BUT OPTIMIZING THE PARAMETERS IS NOT TARTED.]