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=Things to do=
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=[[Marcella's July List of Things To Do]]=
  
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1. Read Chauhan (Chauhan N, Pandey A.K., Ogura K., Ojha D.K., Bhatt B.C., Ghosh S.K., Rawat P.S., 2009, MNRAS, 396, 964.)[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009MNRAS.396..964C |link to paper]
 
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2. Read CG4 [http://lanl.arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1105/1105.1180v1.pdf |link to paper] [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AJ....142...25R |ADS link to paper]
 
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3. Feedback form by Sunday 7/17 to your teacher
 
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4. Make sure that we have all the data available for both clouds.
 
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*a. All the known objects
 
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*b. All the “unknown objects”
 
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5. Finish BRC 27 then work on BRC 34.
 
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6. Answer all the questions in the Working with the BRCs. Type them up if necessary.
 
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7. Post the URL’s for the different bands on the Wiki in the relevant links section.
 
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8. Watch the YouTube videos for each section.
 
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9. Where is the BRC? What is a point source? What is the BRC? What is a foreground star?
 
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10. Under Previously identified sources, checking the duplicates.
 
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11. What is photometry? What is it measured in? What do we convert it into?
 
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12. What does APT really do for you?
 
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13. Why does the MOPEX source pick up wrong objects and miss others?
 
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14. Working with the data tables: Save files in a standard format
 
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*a. BRC number
 
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*b. Cand or known
 
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*c. Underscore
 
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*d. Initials
 
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*e. underscore
 
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*f. Two-number date
 
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*g. Three letter month code
 
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*h. Example: 27cand_chj_09jul.xls
 
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15. Data tables:
 
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*a. Make SEDS with the all 38 candidate objects.
 
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16. Color-color diagram
 
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17. Color-magnitude diagram
 
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Long-term goals:
 
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1. “Pretty pictures” for poster. Three-color images of BRC-27 and BRC-34.
 
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2. Science poster
 
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3. Education poster
 
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4. paper?
 
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--[[User:Linahan|Linahan]] 14:20, 9 July 2011 (PDT)
 
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=Extra notes:=
 
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Powerpoint 1:
 
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NASA has some great observatories.
 
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Why do we need to use different telescopes?
 
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1. “To see different things”
 
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*a. X-rays vs. gamma rays
 
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*b. Atmosphere absorbs certain wavelengths
 
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*c. Atmosphere is opaque to certain wavelengths
 
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*d. Dusty regions are not seen in optical, can’t see through it
 
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2. Why are we using archival data?
 
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*a. Data does need to be sorted but by the computers but
 
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*b. Cryogen is gone.
 
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*c. Surpassed its lifetime.
 
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*d. 3 & 4 and MIPS is gone but lots of data just haven’t been looked at
 
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*e. Hotter objects shorter waves
 
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Powerpoint 2:
 
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1. What is SSC?
 
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*a. Spitzer Science Center
 
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2. Wavelengths and bands
 
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*a. Bands are x number across but numbers correspond to center
 
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3. Using heritage data
 
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4. Hopefully use WISE data
 
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5. Good to look through the rest of packet
 
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6. P. 34 jail bars and instrument artifacts. Washed out some of the things around it. Messy.
 
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*a. If we found this, we could smooth it out not scientific information
 
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7. Chemistry and elements used
 
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Powerpoint 3:
 
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1. Star formation. Major topic on top of page 3. 
 
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*a. Small stars and stars with dusty disk
 
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*b. Phase 0 yee hah yakky yak
 
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*c. Probably won’t be able to pin down the age of the object but will not be able to pin down the distance.
 
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*d. Links and files to movies
 
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2. Extrasolar planets are hot topic
 
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*a. Iphone app to let you know when new planets are found
 
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PowerPoint 4:
 
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1. Most important. Goals:
 
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**i. Paper written
 
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**i. How can we bring this to other students?
 
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**ii. How has it opened new doors for you?
 
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*c. Other teams will have at least 2 posters
 
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*a. How is the energy distributed over different wavelengths
 
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3. Blackbodies
 
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*a. Perfect radiators
 
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*b. Give off all the energy that they produce
 
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4. SEDs
 
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*a. Slopes: left and right
 
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5. Color-color diagrams p. 15
 
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*b. Reddening of the object
 
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6. Photometry
 
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--[[User:Linahan|Linahan]] 14:20, 9 July 2011 (PDT)
 
  
 
=Hourly almanac (airmasses) for our targets=
 
=Hourly almanac (airmasses) for our targets=

Revision as of 23:19, 10 August 2011

Marcella's July List of Things To Do

Hourly almanac (airmasses) for our targets

calculated for Hawaii. 

*** Hourly airmass for brc27 ***
Epoch 2000.00: RA   7 04 00.0, dec -11 22 55
Epoch 2011.87: RA   7 04 33.4, dec -11 24 01
At midnight: UT date 2011 Nov 16, Moon 0.72 illum,  31 degr from obj
 Local      UT      LMST      HA     secz   par.angl. SunAlt MoonAlt 
 18 00     4 00    21 18    -9 47   (down)   -71.1     -4.8    ... 
 19 00     5 00    22 18    -8 47   (down)   -73.4     ...     ... 
 20 00     6 00    23 18    -7 47   (down)   -73.5     ...     ... 
 21 00     7 00     0 18    -6 46   (down)   -72.2     ...     ... 
 22 00     8 00     1 18    -5 46  (v.low)   -69.9     ...     -1.6
 23 00     9 00     2 18    -4 46    4.439   -66.3     ...     11.5
  0 00    10 00     3 19    -3 46    2.261   -61.0     ...     24.8
  1 00    11 00     4 19    -2 46    1.602   -52.8     ...     38.4
  2 00    12 00     5 19    -1 46    1.318   -40.0     ...     52.1
  3 00    13 00     6 19    -0 45    1.195   -19.8     ...     65.9
  4 00    14 00     7 19     0 15    1.172     6.7     ...     79.6
  5 00    15 00     8 19     1 15    1.240    30.7     ...     84.8
  6 00    16 00     9 20     2 15    1.430    47.0     -7.7    71.6
At midnight: UT date 2011 Dec 16, Moon 0.67 illum,  51 degr from obj
 Local      UT      LMST      HA     secz   par.angl. SunAlt MoonAlt
 18 00     4 00    23 16    -7 49   (down)   -73.5     -4.0    ... 
 19 00     5 00     0 16    -6 48   (down)   -72.3    -17.1    ... 
 20 00     6 00     1 16    -5 48  (v.low)   -70.0     ...     ... 
 21 00     7 00     2 16    -4 48    4.599   -66.5     ...     ... 
 22 00     8 00     3 17    -3 48    2.297   -61.2     ...     ... 
 23 00     9 00     4 17    -2 48    1.616   -53.2     ...      2.1
  0 00    10 00     5 17    -1 48    1.324   -40.5     ...     15.7
  1 00    11 00     6 17    -0 47    1.197   -20.6     ...     29.4
  2 00    12 00     7 17     0 13    1.171     5.7     ...     42.9
  3 00    13 00     8 17     1 13    1.236    30.0     ...     56.0
  4 00    14 00     9 18     2 13    1.420    46.6     ...     67.7
  5 00    15 00    10 18     3 13    1.830    57.0     ...     74.2
  6 00    16 00    11 18     4 13    2.884    63.7    -11.5    69.5



*** Hourly airmass for brc34 ***
Epoch 2000.00: RA  21 33 30.0, dec +58 04 32
Epoch 2011.62: RA  21 33 50.9, dec +58 07 39
At midnight: UT date 2011 Aug 16, Moon 0.93 illum,  61 degr from obj
 Local      UT      LMST      HA     secz   par.angl. SunAlt MoonAlt
 19 00     5 00    16 15    -5 19    2.653   -87.8     -3.0    ... 
 20 00     6 00    17 15    -4 19    1.997  -100.9    -16.4    -1.4
 21 00     7 00    18 15    -3 18    1.639  -115.3     ...     12.4
 22 00     8 00    19 16    -2 18    1.434  -131.9     ...     26.2
 23 00     9 00    20 16    -1 18    1.322  -151.3     ...     39.8
  0 00    10 00    21 16    -0 18    1.277  -173.2     ...     52.9
  1 00    11 00    22 16     0 42    1.288   164.1     ...     64.6
  2 00    12 00    23 16     1 42    1.359   143.1     ...     71.8
  3 00    13 00     0 16     2 43    1.504   124.9     ...     69.1
  4 00    14 00     1 17     3 43    1.760   109.2     ...     59.1
  5 00    15 00     2 17     4 43    2.212    95.4    -14.8    46.5
  6 00    16 00     3 17     5 43    3.080    82.7     -1.4    33.2
At midnight: UT date 2011 Sep 16, Moon 0.86 illum,  66 degr from obj
 Local      UT      LMST      HA     secz   par.angl. SunAlt MoonAlt
 19 00     5 00    18 17    -3 17    1.631  -115.8     -9.2    ... 
 20 00     6 00    19 17    -2 16    1.430  -132.5     ...     ... 
 21 00     7 00    20 18    -1 16    1.320  -151.9     ...      6.6
 22 00     8 00    21 18    -0 16    1.276  -173.9     ...     20.0
 23 00     9 00    22 18     0 44    1.289   163.4     ...     33.6
  0 00    10 00    23 18     1 44    1.362   142.5     ...     47.4
  1 00    11 00     0 18     2 44    1.510   124.3     ...     61.3
  2 00    12 00     1 18     3 45    1.771   108.8     ...     75.2
  3 00    13 00     2 19     4 45    2.232    95.0     ...     87.5
  4 00    14 00     3 19     5 45    3.119    82.3     ...     76.4
  5 00    15 00     4 19     6 45    5.239    70.0    -17.1    62.6
  6 00    16 00     5 19     7 45   14.754    57.7     -3.1    48.8
At midnight: UT date 2011 Oct 16, Moon 0.84 illum,  79 degr from obj
 Local      UT      LMST      HA     secz   par.angl. SunAlt MoonAlt
 18 00     4 00    19 15    -2 18    1.435  -131.9     -1.2    ... 
 19 00     5 00    20 16    -1 18    1.323  -151.2    -15.2    ... 
 20 00     6 00    21 16    -0 18    1.277  -173.2     ...     ... 
 21 00     7 00    22 16     0 42    1.288   164.2     ...      4.2
 22 00     8 00    23 16     1 42    1.358   143.1     ...     17.1
 23 00     9 00     0 16     2 42    1.503   124.9     ...     30.3
  0 00    10 00     1 16     3 43    1.759   109.3     ...     43.6
  1 00    11 00     2 17     4 43    2.211    95.5     ...     57.2
  2 00    12 00     3 17     5 43    3.076    82.7     ...     70.8
  3 00    13 00     4 17     6 43    5.122    70.4     ...     84.0
  4 00    14 00     5 17     7 43   13.931    58.1     ...     81.2
  5 00    15 00     6 17     8 43   (down)    45.4     ...     67.7
  6 00    16 00     7 17     9 44   (down)    32.1     -4.8    54.1
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