Entry-Level Research Projects

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YSO Data Analysis Project - This is a slideshow that explains the YSOs data analysis project and provides the links to single star pages for AFGL490 and IC417.

Please note: The YSO Data Analysis Project that is outlined on this page is based on research done with real NITARP teams. This project models what it is like to analyze a real data set and come to conclusions based on scientific evidence. The most recent NITARP teams working on these kinds of projects yielded this journal article: Young Stellar Object Candidates in IC 417 and this data delivery to IRSA: IC 417. If you are interested in doing a project that is more inquiry-based with less scaffolding, feel free to use the data and look at the journal article -- everything is open access, and the journal article includes (at the referee's insistence!) a rather long appendix that is almost a textbook, suitable for learning! An additional set of movies developed by Dr. Luisa Rebull for her NITARP teams that you might find useful for "freshening up" your background knowledge are: Filters, Mags, Colors, Oh My!, NITARP: Crash Course in Star Formation and NITARP Crash Course Patch: Star Formation, as well as NITARP: Crash Course in Infrared Missions.