Thursday, August 19, 2010
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Today I worked on creating a program to make a histogram of my a4/a data and another program to graph the a4/a vs inclination and ellipticity vs inclination. The graphs for the a4/a vs inclination and the ellipticity vs the inclination were both linear, which shows that as inclination increases so do a4/a and ellipticity. This proves our theory correct because face-on discs should have a higher a4/a value which makes there isophotes disky and they have a greater inclination then edge-on discs. I'm having problems getting the histogram to plot the array but I printed the array and the numbers are there. So I don't know why the program isn't plotting the array.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Yesterday I started to make a program that can solve for a4/a, the semi minor axis of a dusty disc, calculate the inclination, and then graph the a4/a data vs the inclination. The problem is that I'm running multiple galaxies in the program, and they have different size arrays. So I need to find a way for the program the pick the right size array without having to tell it the specific size of each array.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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Friday, July 30, 2010
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Yesterday morning at the meeting, Bob had us sit in a dark room for ten minutes. Then he made us cover one eye and walk around the building and back to the same room. The lights were then turned off again and we could then open the eye that we held closed. We could see out of the eye that had been closed but not the eye that was open. This is because the pupal dilated in the eye that was closed in order to let more light in. The opposite eye's pupal was not dilated because we had been walking in a lighted area so the pupal didn't needed to be as big for it to absorb light.
I was downloading more images from the HST and then Jake fixed the ellipse program. So now I can run the fits files through ellipse and get the A4 and B4 data.
I was downloading more images from the HST and then Jake fixed the ellipse program. So now I can run the fits files through ellipse and get the A4 and B4 data.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like a entrepreneur, except within a larger organization. Every person working in a lab is a intrapreneur because they are all working on individual ideas to accomplish new things never thought of before.
Today I sorted out all of the files I downloaded from the HST yesterday into directories and deleted the ones i didn't need. The problem with downloading from the HST is that when you download one file, you obtain ten images and not all are needed.
Today I sorted out all of the files I downloaded from the HST yesterday into directories and deleted the ones i didn't need. The problem with downloading from the HST is that when you download one file, you obtain ten images and not all are needed.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
today we went to JML optics. It was cool to learn about how they actually made lenses and the engineering behind them. Then we had delicious subs at Emile's. Back at the insight lab I was downloading programs in order to put the astro library into my directory. Then all the interns played volleyball outside for an hour. It was fun but it could have been better if everyone knew how to play. But that's my bias opinion because I love volleyball.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Day 2
today we were introduced to are team and then did research the Hubble and Spritzer telescopes and wrote a paper on them.
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