f&m at nuro
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F&M at NURO. Spring 2007. Participants: Observational Astronomy Class (S07 Ast 240). Prof. Froney Crawford Prof. Beth Praton Cori Quirk Don McElheny Louis Klapper. Our Team. Louis. Cori. Don. Froney. Photo: Beth. March 13–15, 2007. Joint run with Gettysburg, overlapping on 3/13 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
F&M at NURO
Spring 2007
Participants:Observational Astronomy Class
(S07 Ast 240)
• Prof. Froney Crawford
• Prof. Beth Praton
• Cori Quirk
• Don McElheny
• Louis Klapper
Louis Cori Don
Froney
Our Team
Photo: Beth
March 13–15, 2007
• Joint run with Gettysburg, overlapping on 3/13
• Observing program: Pleiades rapid rotators (Hii1883, 2244, 2927)
BE UMa
• Clear weather all three nights
At NURO…observation skills
Trip Home…Crisis Management Skills
Phoenix
midnight
Detroit
5 am
Arrived at noon.
Finally got flight at
Detroit
Lancaster, PA
Home at Last!
RentACar
Back Home…Learn IRAF
? ? *#@! ??
We didn’t find this E-Z…
So…we wrote our own guide
Next time: we’re ready!
Arecibo Program
~2 students per year, all undergraduate, more than half women, typically start at Jr level, chosen from best students in astrophysics classes
ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: monthly data taking at the 100-m Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico via internet and on-site improving timing models: Lommen, Kipphorn (F&M ‘06) et al., 2006, ApJ 642:1012. developing algorithms to search for gravitational waves: Lommen, Bilikova (F&M ‘04) et al 2005, ASP Conf Series 328: 225.
F&M in Australia
NANO-Grav
• North American Nano Hertz Observatory of Gravitational Waves– F&M, UCBerkeley, NRAO, McGill,
University of British Coluumbia, UT Brownsville
– NRAO Green Bank 100m Telescope and the Arecibo 300m Telescope
Figure courtesy of George Hobbs
NANO-G
rav
limit
Putting Gravitational Wave Physics into High School and
College CurriculaAnnual Workshop with Center for
Gravitational Wave Physics at Penn State