Week One in Review
Its Friday meaning its time to review what has been accomplished this week. The first morning we worked on organizing the room that we will be working in over the next several weeks. We then had a team lunch and got the notebooks that we will be using to take notes on our research. That first afternoon we learned how to log on to the computers. We then learned some basic controls on the x terminal. We worked on some code academy in an attempt to become better equipped for the summer. End day 1
The next morning, I returned to do some more research on the cluster that I was using to become familiar with the sites ADS and NED. I learned that clusters are often given multiple names based off of who is looking at them and how they are being viewed. I learned what RA and DEC stood for. I learned that when I write an abstract it is more helpful to write a more detailed one so other people can figure out how to use it. I then created the blog that way I'd be able to do this later. I learned the proper way to log off of coma and did more code academy. After lunch we had a group meet and were given our assignments for the summer. I will be working with the local clusters. I learned apparent magnitude is how bright it appears and absolute magnitude is how bright it really is. The negative magnitudes are the brightest. I learned a luminosity function uses the number of galaxies on the y axis and brightness is on the x axis. I did some blackbody tutorial from the NAAP labs. We did some work with topcat and found an equation to solve the problem that was assigned. I found that I could use Wien's displacement law to find the temperature in kelvin. I finished the day with code academy. End day 2
Thursday I began to read about galaxies from an introduction to modern physics. I then did some reading on clusters and learned that clusters can be classified as poor or rich, regular or irregular. I learned a super-cluster is a cluster of clusters and a regular cluster has its galaxies focused at the center. I then began to do some searching on the clusters, Coma, MKW11,MKW8,Abell1367,Abell2063,Abell2052,NGC6107,and AWM4. I was able to find out some information on most of them but it was a struggle. I read through the unix tutorials and took down the important functions to know. I finished by working on more code academy. End day 3
Friday a day filled with much frustration I arrived and began to work on python and struggled so I began to type out the unix tutorial. Then I had difficulty with the copying the file so went back to python. Then we went to the other room to run through git and pylab. I was able to get it all to work in there but when I got back after lunch and attempted to re-run it all, I could not get the graph to appear at all. Therefore I could not make the histogram because I could not see what was going on. I also ran into difficulty logging into coma. I needed to log out of the computer in order to sign into coma. Then I kept getting errors. So I began to blog. I am going to finish the afternoon working on code academy because I cannot figure out what to do and neither can anyone else. End day 4
