Current Research Projects

Please see the main NITARP site for a more complete list of teams and summaries of work. This is more of a working area.

2013: C-CWEL (Continuing Cool WISE ExpLoration of BRC 38)

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2013, is continuing explorations of the BRC 38 cloud that the C-WAYS team began in 2012. Much of the background information found below for the IC 2118, Lynds, CG4, and C-WAYS (of course) teams also applies to this team as well.

2013: SHIPs (Searching Herschel Images for Protostars)

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2013, is looking for protostars in Herschel data.

2013: They Might Be Giants

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2013, is looking at very blue things in the Kepler field.

2013: CM4Seyferts

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2013, is working with WISE and GALEX data to seek correlations between the infrared and ultraviolet in Seyfert galaxies. They will be looking for a diagram akin to the Hertzsprung-Russel (HR) diagram for stars.

2012: C-WAYS (Cool, Wise, And Young Stars)

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2012, is working with Lynds 1548 and WISE data to find new young stars. Much of the background information found below for the IC 2118, Lynds, and CG4 teams also applies to this team as well.

2012: HR4AGN

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2012, is working with WISE and GALEX data to seek correlations between the infrared and ultraviolet in active galactic nuclei (AGN). They will be looking for a diagram akin to the Hertzsprung-Russel (HR) diagram for stars.

2012: Cold Spotz

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2012, is working with Planck data to identify the nature of some of the mysterious far-infrared sources found in the public data release.

2012: UBOKO (Ultra-Blue Objects for Kepler Observing)

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2012, is working with Kepler and some ground-based data to identify particularly blue objects and try to identify their nature by using data from other surveys.

2011: Star Formation in Bright-Rimmed Clouds

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2011, is working with at least one bright-rimmed cloud (BRC) to characterize the young star population that might be found there. Much of the background information found below for the IC 2118, Lynds, and CG4 teams also applies to this team as well.

2011: Team Red Shift

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2011, is working with multi-wavelength data to study active galactic nuclei (AGN).

2011: Period Pontificators

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2011, is working with Kepler data.

2010: Star Formation in CG4

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2010 (one of the first under the NITARP banner), is working with multi-wavelength observations of CG4 to characterize the young star population that might be found there. Much of the background information found above for the IC 2118 and Lynds teams also applies to this team as well.

2008: Star Formation in Lynds Clouds

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main team page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which ran from Jan 2008 - Jan 2009, observed two Lynds clouds to characterize the young star population that might be found there. Much of the background information found above for the IC 2118 team also applies to this team as well.

2005-2007: Young Stars in IC 2118

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Year One main team page and Year Two main team page. (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

The IC 2118 team is working to characterize the young star population of a small cloud near Rigel that is (probably) part of the greater Orion star forming ecosystem. We have used about 12.5 hours of Spitzer time (!) to map a large region of the cloud with both IRAC and MIPS. We have taken several posters to AAS meetings -- see the posters and handouts page. We have obtained a lot of optical data in support of this analysis. We are working on writing up the journal article.

Please see our quick introduction to IC 2118 and more lengthy introduction to IC 2118. You may also be interested in general information on studying young stars.

2010: Luminous Data Miners

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main team web page (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2010 (one of the first under the NITARP banner), is working with multi-wavelength data to study active galactic nuclei (AGN).

2010: Variability of the Mid-IR Sky

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main team web page. (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

This team, which started in Jan 2010 (one of the first under the NITARP banner), is examining Spitzer IRAC data from the archive for fields which have been looked at for many hours or longer. They plan to measure photometry for all point sources in the FOV and put together many many light curves. They will then explore 1) the variability of the mid-IR sky, 2) the interesting types of objects that they find and 3) the comparison of the interesting ones to 2MASS optical, x-ray etc. surveys where additional information might be available.

2005: Intergalactic Star Formation in Tidal Dwarf Galaxies of M81

main team web page. (includes abstract, proposal, people, etc.)

Please see our quick introduction to M81. You may also be interested in general information to Tidal Dwarf Galaxies.