C-WAYS Proposal

Instructions

2012 proposal instructions

Proposal versions

Peggy will collect and assemble pieces of the proposal and maintain reference list in an evolving word document. If you have changes that should be made to the document, please copy, cross-out, edit, then email or post the text to the wiki so Peggy can incorporate into document.

Proposal after friday telecon Mar 2, 2012. Added Intro, BRC 27 info, Bob's images, all references sited are present, have not removed "excess" references. Minor edits made. File:CWAYS Proposal 030312.docx

Proposal Revision prior to friday telecon Mar 2, 2012. Includes author info, Analysis section, Education/Outreach general plus Debbie, Lauren, Peggy individual plans, references from 2011 team File:CWAYS Proposal 030212.docx--Peggy Piper 17:50, 1 March 2012 (PST)

Initial Skeleton for Proposal File:CWAYS Proposal Format.docx--Peggy Piper 12:52, 24 February 2012 (PST)

Proposal nitty gritty - first round, 1/27/12

Everyone should read last year's BRC proposal if you haven't already.

As per the instructions for this year's proposal, we need to have:

• Abstract - write that last!
• Science introduction and context - general overview - Debbie
• including summary of literature on each of the BRCs:
  • BRC 38 - Jackie
  • BRC 27 - Lauren
  • BRC 34 - Robert
• Analysis plan - Peggy
• Edu plan - everyone

For most of this, you will now need to get into literature searching. Tips for literature searching on the wiki are here, with a link at the bottom of that page with more words. In summary:

• use ADS.
• use SIMBAD.

they are interlinked, but searching in both doesn't always give you the same results. in SIMBAD, you can search by position, and you should use a ~10 arcmin radius to look for objects. what other named objects are nearby? there may be other useful papers calling those other objects by those other names. To get articles, remember that you don't HAVE to go to the journal. For 'old enough' papers, they will be free. For newer papers, look for an arXiv link on the ADS abstract page. If you still can't get it, or want the final typeset journal version, send me an email with the ADS link, and I'll send back the PDF. ADS will cough up abstracts to proposals, abstracts from conferences without conference proceedings, conference proceedings, and refereed journal articles. that list is from least useful to most useful.

somewaht confusingly, sorry, links to some of the papers i list below are collected on this page, sorry. in the interest of getting this out to you, i didn't want to spend the time going to retrieve and link all of the abstract links again. we will ultimately be adding some of the papers you find to this spring work page, so this makes sense in the long run, but sorry for any additional confusion.

So that everyone understands the big picture, read the intro to Sugitani K., Fukui Y., Ogura K., 1991, ApJS, 77, 59. = SFO, because it is the discovery paper for the BRC catalog.

Intro - Debbie - look closely at last year's prop intro. go find the papers they reference. look at the SFO paper, and others they reference. look at the YSO background information on the wiki.

Media:NITARP Proposal Introduction.docx

BRC 38 - Jackie - You have the biggest literature search problem, because we've done the least collective work here. You have leads for five papers from the wiki discussion about bouncing target selection:

• Chauhan et al below.
• Garmire & Gordon - chandra proposal - look for a paper by these guys reporting these results, but it might not exist
• Valdettaro etal - also turns up in one of the other BRC searches.
• choudhury et al.
• Morgan et al.

this page which i grabbed and updated to be the meat of this page lists all the literature we decided to care about before. if you find a paper, the first thing you should do is look at this list to see if we grabbed and kept it or grabbed and discarded it before. assess (and keep track of) any new ones! it is likely there more you can find. yell if you need help. don't forget to try a SIMBAD search by position. (UPDATE 1/30/12: Screencapture tutorial on literature searching, with particular emphasis on SIMBAD-based searching. Nearly 10 minutes long, sorry.) UPDATE 1/31/12: see email re: Barentsen et al. 2011, MNRAS, 415, 103, Weikard et al 1996, A&A, 309, 581 and Pottasch 1956, BAN, 13, 77. Based on what i can see, brc 34 = "D" in their nomenclature and brc 38 = "E", but you should definitely check me on this. Barentsen et al are looking for YSOs using Halpha in the whole entire region, and we can check on their selection using the WISE data in the environs of the two clouds we care about. UPDATE 2/2/12: Can you tell I'm going through some backlogged papers? I just found Beltran et al. (2009), which does deep JHK imaging in BRC38=IC1396N. This is another really good paper, with lots of good observations.

• I have listed the articles Jackie_BRC_38 that I have found and some info about BRC 38 that I have gleamed. Please look it over, edit, correct, answer questions, ask questions - Jackie

BRC 27 - Lauren - you are looking for any literature we missed last time, or new stuff that has appeared in the last 13 months. this page which i grabbed and updated to be the meat of this page lists all the literature we decided to care about before. if you find a paper, the first thing you should do is look at this list to see if we grabbed and kept it or grabbed and discarded it before. assess (and keep track of) any new ones! don't forget to try a SIMBAD search by position. (UPDATE 1/30/12: Screencapture tutorial on literature searching, with particular emphasis on SIMBAD-based searching. Nearly 10 minutes long, sorry.) papers i know you will want to scan:

• Chauhan N, Pandey A.K., Ogura K., Ojha D.K., Bhatt B.C., Ghosh S.K., Rawat P.S., 2009, MNRAS, 396, 964. - does JHK + spitzer search for brc 27, 38 but we know they didn't do that great a job in 27, so they probably didn't do a great job in 38! but we need to mention in the proposal that this work exists and that we will compare our results to theirs.
• Gregorio-Hetem J., Montmerle T., Rodrigues C. V., Marciotto E., Preibisch T., Zinnecker H., 2009, A&A, 2009, 506, 711.
• Shevchenko V. S., Ezhkova O. V., Ibrahimov M. A., van den Ancker M. E., Tjin A, Djie H. R. E., 1999, MNRAS, 310, 210.
• Wiramihardja S.D., Kogure T., Nakano M., Yoshida S., 1986, PASJ, 38, 395.

• My first draft of the science background and education plan is now on Lauren_BRC 27

BRC 34- Robert - you are looking for any literature we missed last time, or new stuff that has appeared in the last 13 months. this page which i grabbed and updated to be the meat of this page lists all the literature we decided to care about before. you will note that very few mention BRC 34! The only one that was terribly useful was Ogura et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 2597, and even that, not very much. don't forget to try a SIMBAD search by position. if you exhaust the available literature without finding more, go help jackie with BRC 38. (UPDATE 1/30/12: Screencapture tutorial on literature searching, with particular emphasis on SIMBAD-based searching. Nearly 10 minutes long, sorry.) UPDATE 1/31/12: see email re: Barentsen et al. 2011, MNRAS, 415, 103, Weikard et al 1996, A&A, 309, 581 and Pottasch 1956, BAN, 13, 77. Based on what i can see, brc 34 = "D" in their nomenclature and brc 38 = "E", but you should definitely check me on this. Barentsen et al are looking for YSOs using Halpha in the whole entire region, and we can check on their selection using the WISE data in the environs of the two clouds we care about.

Bob BRC 34

analysis - Peggy - Analysis Work Space

look at the proposal from last time. look at Rebull et al., 2011, ApJS, 196, 4 (the taurus/WISE paper) i gave you for that methodology. scan the appendix of Koenig et al., 2012, ApJ, 744, 130 -- we will get into this in more detail later, but this is the color selection mechanism using WISE colors. mention that we will re-reduce the Spitzer data for brc 38 if need be, and redo photometry on the serendipitously obtained spitzer off-source fields in the area if we need to -- the gang last year wasn't too concerned about those objects. (you can use similar words from last time involving MOPEX and APT). don't worry about reading the makovoz and marleau paper - way thick reading and not all that relevant. can cite Laher et al 2012 in prep for APT (dunno if we did that last year or not). we will merge with 2MASS, AKARI, anything else we can find. don't forget that we will have ground based optical data from JD to contribute as well. will need to get words from him on that. other important words - BRC 27 data already in the WISE public release; rest will be available in March 2012. i can give you a figure with that comparison when we get there. UPDATE 2/1: FWIW, that Barentsen et al 2011 paper is IPHAS data, so you can add in to your analysis section that we will include IPHAS data for at least brc 34 and 38. their website says a new delivery is expected in 2012, so we'll do a new search if we can, else we'll just use the more limited stuff from the published paper.

Edu section - you're all on your own :)

FOR NEXT WEEK - read the proposal and (intro to the) SFO paper, get into your proposal section and see how much progress you can make on your proposal section. if you run out of stuff to do, ask if others need help.

Education Section

Here's what I have for Education and Outreach section. Please put any edits in bold. Debbie, Lauren and I each have a short description of what our groups will do. Please add your school's brief plan and I will add it to the Proposal document. Don't stress on this, it is your proposed plan and we all know proposed plans that involve students change based on students many faceted characteristics!--Peggy Piper 18:08, 1 March 2012 (PST)

Education and Outreach

Team C-WAYS is made up of a wide variety of adult and school age learners. Our adult learners include middle school, high school, community college and informal educators. Our school age learners, therefore, will also represent a wide range of ages and abilities. Each sub team of educator and school age learners will spend time immersing themselves in general astronomy concepts and skills necessary to the success of C-WAYS research as appropriate for their age and ability. Some of these concepts and skills are;

• general properties of light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum with special emphasis on infrared
• multiwavelength astronomy with emphasis on wavelengths and image sources that we will utilize; IRAC, MIPS, 2MASS, MSX, AKARI , IPHAS and LCOGT
• life cycle of stars with emphasis on Young Stellar Objects (YSOs)
• infrared excess and its relation to YSOs
• spatial resolution with emphasis on the relative spatial resolutions of WISE vs. Spitzer images
• similarities and differences of WISE and Spitzer missions and why they were designed as they were
• photometry methods and terms, particularly the use of MOPEX and APT
• data manipulation and generation of graphics using EXCEL

With appropriate background schema in place, both adult and school age learners will experience authentic scientific research in a true collegial manner. Based on thorough literature searches, journal articles relevant to our area of study will be read analyzed and discussed. Data acquisition and analysis will take place before, during and after CWAYS’ visit to CalTech in July. Communications between sub teams will take place via regular teleconferences, video conferences, extensive use of the wiki, and email. A Scientific and an Education poster will be created and presented by the CWAYS team at the 2013 AAS based on results obtained through this process.

Participation NITARP will enrich every CWAYS’ learner with the experience of having done authentic research as part of a cross continental team. This experience will not only increase each learner’s knowledge of astronomy and the research process, but will increase their interest and excitement level towards research opportunities. This knowledge, interest and excitement will be payed forward through formal outreach to education and community groups by all learners, as well as informally to adult and school age peers of all those involved.

Team Lincoln Way High School (P. Piper). Teachers and students from several of the districts four schools (including the districts ROTC program) will be involved in this process through the district’s new “distance learning” equipment. Student interest and commitment will be assessed through weekly sessions in which students will learn basic concepts and computer skills. A school page on the wiki will be created and used to share knowledge within this sub group and to reach out to other groups. Outreach will be coordinated with Educational Outreach colleagues at Yerkes Observatory and will include sessions at local, national and international workshops. Past presentations have included local school groups, Yerkes workshops, Illinois Science Teachers Association, and Global Hands on Universe.

Team New Philadelphia High School (D. French). New Philadelphia High School Students will be participating in the NITARP research project as an extra-curricular activity and may apply for the Ohio Flex Credit option. Students will be selected via an application process in March or April 2012. Students will participate in weekly research meetings to discuss background information, journal articles, and to work on data reduction and analysis. They will be responsible for keeping a science notebook for recording notes, comments, and for keeping applicable journal articles. Students will use the NITARP CoolWiki page to obtain additional background information and communicate with other team members. After the January 2012 AAS meeting, they will present their research to the New Philadelphia Board of Education as well as other possible venues and outreach activities.

Team Reedley College (L. Novatne). A small group of college freshman and sophomores will meet weekly. For the first few weeks, the students will be instructed on the basics of star formation and stellar evolution. Once the students understand the basics, they will begin reading the appropriate journals and conduct web research for discussion. Once the data processing instruction has been completed, the students will work together and separately on the data analysis portion of the project. The weekly meetings will introduce the students to; star formation mechanism and stellar life cycle, spectral analysis, black body curves, and photometry. In the fall of 2012, the weekly meetings will include the processing of data.

Below is a rough draft for my education section. Comments/suggestions are appreciated!

"New Philadelphia High School (D. French). New Philadelphia High School Students will be participating in the NITARP research project as an extra-curricular activity and may apply for the Ohio Flex Credit option. Students will be selected via an application process in March or April 2012.

I'm wondering what your application criteria will be. I have gone for kids with high interest level vs great academic records in the past. Do we want to find a common ground here, or are we ok with having different types of kids on different teams?--Peggy Piper 12:41, 17 February 2012 (PST)

"Students will participate in weekly research meetings to discuss background information, journal articles, and to work on data reduction and analysis. They will be responsible for keeping a science notebook for recording notes, comments, and for keeping applicable journal articles. Students will use the NITARP CoolWiki page to obtain additional background information and communicate with other team members. After the January 2012 AAS meeting, they will present their research to the New Philadelphia Board of Education as well as other possible venues and outreach activities." --French 08:38, 16 February 2012 (PST)