Cold Spotz Current Research Activities
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Cold Spotz Suggested Reading List
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Cold Spotz Proposal
This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. See 2012 proposal instructions for, well, instructions!
Cold Spotz Spring work
This page will be used to collect information during our work in Spring.
...Plenty of space for anything you want
Project #1: Build your Planck model: The paper parts for a Planck model can be found at [1]. Kat's model (the one furthest to the right above) actually has the reflection of the focal plane in the mirror the correct way up.
Project #2: Launch costs: What is the relationship between launch cost and satellite size is. Does it cost more to go where Planck is, or to go where television satellites are, or to go where the international space station is?
Project #3: One Jansky is the flux density you receive if you hold a 60W light bulb at what distance?
Project #4: Take a look at Topic 5 on the Suggested Reading List
Proposal Structure: 1. Title - Classification of Compact Submillimeter Sources in the Planck Archive
2. Goal: What are you going to do (Chelen)
3. Motivation: Why are you going to do it (Chris)
4. Methodology: How you are going to do it (Kat)
5. Timescale: What is the plan and what are the milestones (Denise)
6. Questions and concepts you expect to understand and share with the students. ("Involving students involved in the data analysis" is not a good answer - details please). Some ideas: what is a black body, using the peak wavelength as a measure of temperature, working with data in excel, how astronomers draw conclusions from data, how one can differentiate between galactic and extragalactic sources, why cant this be done with SOFIA, why do we need to launch Planck to L2?
7. What new teaching skills do you plan to develop based on this research program
8. We'll put in an abstract in the end which summarizes all this.
Figures for the proposal: all sky image and why we are looking outside the Galactic plane; cutouts of Planck, IRAS and WISE images of the same field with Planck beam overlaid; also, histogram of Planck/W1 flux density, and Planck/W2 and Planck/W3 and Planck/W4 flux density.
