Monitoring young stars

This page assumes you have read the Finding cluster members article.

The IC 2118 team has embarked on a campaign to monitor some of the candidate TTauri stars that we found using Spitzer data. They are using ground-based telescopes to see if the stars vary.

This page will be filled out more with general information about the project, but you can watch them work here.

Time series analysis

What is time series analysis?

The term "time series analysis" refers to the analysis of any data set where you have many measurements over some amount of time, for example, watching the same star many times per night over many nights.

Time series analysis can be very powerful, and is used in many different fields of science, from tree rings to weather to sunspots to variations of young stars. There is a LOT of information out there on the web with information on analysis of time series data, but everything I found jumped into heavy-duty programming, math, and statistics without much explanation - e.g., the information is aimed at professional scientists.

Data to play with

raw data to practice with (data taken by Mr. Spuck and students) - images on which you can measure photometry.

luisa's light curves (data taken by R. Makidon and used by L. Rebull for part of her thesis - just the reduced photometry time series from many 100s of images, for ~5000 stars. Read the "readme.txt" file in order to understand what you are looking at.