CG4 Fall Work

This page is to capture the plans and results of our work in Fall.

Recap

Backing up one step to review:

a) Goal & Proposal: the goal here is to look for old and new YSOs using all the archival data we can find. Our original proposal is here: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-cg4/cg4Proposal.pdf but also linked from our research activities page http://coolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php/CG4_Current_Research_Activities there is a page on the proposal which links to the final proposal as well.

[NB: In practice, by the AAS, i don't think we will get to the X-rays we advertised, nor the spectroscopy, but we will include the optical through 24 um photometry; see below.]

b) Deadlines: the deadlines we are working towards are:

1. Oct 1 for AAS abstracts to be turned in
2. early Jan for poster printing in time for me to carry them to the AAS.

c) What we've done so far: the stuff we did last June is summarized here: http://coolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php/Working_with_CG4%2BSA101 and for each of the big steps, there is an indication of what we did together and what i originally expected for you to continue to do on your own.

IMPORTANT: At this point, I'm assuming that you remember and fully understand everything that we did together through the "making color-color and color-magnitude plots" step. The stuff below that we still need to complete includes the last two steps from the "working with cg4 and sa101" page: "making seds" and "analyzing seds". If you do NOT understand what we did before, now is the time to go back and review in detail what we did before. If you have specific questions that you can't solve by talking to others and puzzling it out within your sub-group, please let me know and I'll do my best to answer them.

AAS abstracts and global poster plans

The deadline for the abstracts is Oct 1. As you hopefully recall from the talk and discussion in June, the abstracts do not have to be long and detailed. They are often short and vague. We do need to have a complete list of our expected posters, though. Here is what I think is the plan; please let me know if you have ideas for more posters. (Don't forget to review the authorship policy, specifically as it applies to the whole original team being included as authors on each of these):

1) Science poster. Chelen is working on a first draft of our abstract and will lead the poster. She will circulate a version soon.

2) Outreach poster I. Connie (?) is leading a poster whose working title I failed to write down but will be something about integrating stuff learned from this project into the WSD and WSVI environments. There will be specific roles for Chelen's students in this. (PLEASE let me know if i have this wrong.) Connie to circulate abstract as soon as possible.

3) Outreach poster II. Carolyn may be leading a poster on the incorporation of the NITARP experience into the Pierce College environment. This is to be confirmed. Carolyn to circulate abstract as soon as possible.

4) ??? Russ on APT??? Call me!

After we turn in the abstracts, or even prior to it, we should get into the nitty gritty of doing what still needs to be done on the science analysis. This is the next section.

Tasks that still need to be done prior to the posters being complete

Just as we all together did photometry on certain objects and compared the results to check and see that we're all doing the right thing (myself included), I expect that most of these tasks will be similar, e.g., everyone, or at least every sub-team, does everything and we all compare results.

When we get to the process of writing the science poster (at least, maybe outreach too), THEN there will be ample opportunity for individual assignments, e.g., person1 writes the intro, person2 does some 3-color images, person3 writes something on the image reduction, person4 makes/collects the SEDs and writes some text, person5 writes conclusions. Just as for the proposal, I am your safety net (and editor), not the primary author of any of it! This is YOUR poster!

For specific how-to instructions on most of these, see the Working with CG4+SA101 page.

Recall that I've already done the photometry and have a bandmerged catalog from J through M24. Recall that my M24 as it existed when you were here in June was wrong; I have updated photometry, catalogs, and mosaics, some of which I sent in email, some of which you may have to download from me separately; let me know what you need. Recall I already applied the Gutermuth color cuts (make sure you understand what that is and why it's important) to obtain a short list of YSO candidates.

Recall that the two pieces we worked with (CG4 and SA101) actually overlapped on the sky. As such, the two short lists of YSO candidates actually 'rediscovers' the same objects between the two tiles. (If it doesn't rediscover all of them, that's a problem too.)