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(1) Start thinking about the issues of spatial resolution. I developed a worksheet for this for last year's group, but I need to revisit and revise it to make it better. | (1) Start thinking about the issues of spatial resolution. I developed a worksheet for this for last year's group, but I need to revisit and revise it to make it better. | ||
| − | (2) We should read in detail and discuss a short list of carefully selected papers. We'll rotate through our short list of papers, and each of you will get one to present to the group. This is modelling a so-called "journal club", a common occurrence in astronomy departments/groups/centers, where the papers are usually selected out of recent astro-ph mailings. The papers that went into this list came out of the lists you assembled while writing the proposal. I | + | (2) We should read in detail and discuss a short list of carefully selected papers. We'll rotate through our short list of papers, and each of you will get one to present to the group. This is modelling a so-called "journal club", a common occurrence in astronomy departments/groups/centers, where the papers are usually selected out of recent astro-ph mailings. The papers that went into this list came out of the lists you assembled while writing the proposal. I need to sort them into bins (they sort of already are, because of last year) -- ones you want to read closely for the astronomy and astrophysics background, and/or for the interpretation, and/or for the big picture... ones from which you need to scavenge data, and you need to read enough to understand what it was they did, and what kinds of data they are reporting... ones you might read if you have time ... and ones you can ignore. |
| − | (3) Actually doing the data scavenging out of those papers mentioned above. | + | (3) Actually doing the data scavenging out of those papers mentioned above. For this region, this should be as simple as going to the journal website and saving the data table as plain text. It would be ideal if we could get through this in time for our visit. That way we can spend most of our visit doing new and interesting things rather than trying to finish the source matching stuff. |
Revision as of 00:48, 8 February 2013
Big Picture
There are three things I'd like to accomplish before our visit:
(1) Start thinking about the issues of spatial resolution. I developed a worksheet for this for last year's group, but I need to revisit and revise it to make it better.
(2) We should read in detail and discuss a short list of carefully selected papers. We'll rotate through our short list of papers, and each of you will get one to present to the group. This is modelling a so-called "journal club", a common occurrence in astronomy departments/groups/centers, where the papers are usually selected out of recent astro-ph mailings. The papers that went into this list came out of the lists you assembled while writing the proposal. I need to sort them into bins (they sort of already are, because of last year) -- ones you want to read closely for the astronomy and astrophysics background, and/or for the interpretation, and/or for the big picture... ones from which you need to scavenge data, and you need to read enough to understand what it was they did, and what kinds of data they are reporting... ones you might read if you have time ... and ones you can ignore.
(3) Actually doing the data scavenging out of those papers mentioned above. For this region, this should be as simple as going to the journal website and saving the data table as plain text. It would be ideal if we could get through this in time for our visit. That way we can spend most of our visit doing new and interesting things rather than trying to finish the source matching stuff.
