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  • ...we don't know about the very beginning of a star's life. We want to know what causes the gasses from the BRC to collapse and form proto-stars, whether th =What I've Done So Far=
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  • ...lping us create the most memorable scientific experience we have ever had. We could not have made the trip without you. ...e basics of using Fourier analysis to create light curves. The light curve we presented was that of asteroid 2000 SO1. <BR>
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  • ...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 we ...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.
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  • This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. ...[file: NITARPpreview.docx]] of things to look at before going to SSC … but we will go through all of this in more detail. Links to corresponding wiki pag
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  • ...rs!!!1!" when in reality 25 of them were found before by someone else, and we are rediscovering them -- rediscovering them independently, mind you, but r ...are and contrast" kind of discussion even within our own results. Ideally, we will also extend this discussion to the rest of the literature.
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  • This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. See [[2012 proposal instructions]] for, well, instructions! Notes from our weekly conference calls can be found here.
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  • ...p-up workshop in which we (primarily the students) compare notes about how we accomplished tasks. If we have a few minutes of questions, then this should take about an hour to 90
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  • This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. [[2013 proposal instructions]] Several of the things we will be doing are similar, and several will be different.
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  • ...barked on a campaign to monitor some of the candidate TTauri stars that we found using Spitzer data. They are using ground-based telescopes to see if the st ==What is time series analysis?==
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  • We have WISE data for 3 patches of sky likely to harbor young stars: BRC 27, B ...rs!!!1!" when in reality 25 of them were found before by someone else, and we are rediscovering them -- rediscovering them independently, mind you, but r
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  • This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. [[2012 proposal instructions]] Several of the things we will be doing are similar, and several will be different.
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  • This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. See [[2012 proposal instructions]] for, well, instructions! Notes from our weekly conference calls can be found here.
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  • This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. [[2014 proposal instructions]] Several of the things we will be doing are similar, and several will be different.
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  • We are Anna McCartney and Lyssa Matsche. We are from the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. We created an ASL video with captions, but no audio, to explain the simulation
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  • '''WE ARE WORKING ON A FIELD CENTERED ON 23:05:51 +62:30:55''' and probably 10-15 '''WE ARE WORKING ON A FIELD CENTERED ON 23:05:51 +62:30:55''' and probably 10-15
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  • '''WE ARE WORKING ON A FIELD CENTERED ON 23:05:51 +62:30:55''' and probably 10-15 '''WE ARE WORKING ON A FIELD CENTERED ON 23:05:51 +62:30:55''' and probably 10-15
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  • Several of the things we will be doing are similar, and several will be different. We talked about traveling June 14, working June 15-18, traveling June 19.
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  • ...explanation of Star Formation from a textbook. There's more math here than we'll need. [[File:SF.pdf]] ...! We picked LDN 1548, but if we somehow blow through that one really fast, we can pick another one to do as well.
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  • So, no matter how we do it exactly, it’s always about 16-18 arcmin. Now, we have a long, thin triangle:
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  • ...le 2MASS All-Sky Release Database. The query page that comes up is the one we will be using over and over. ...just use the arrow button on the cell label for column B and choose sort. We only care about the sources that are marked with * in Gregorio. The others
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  • We have WISE data for a patch of sky likely to harbor young stars around IC 41 ...rs!!!1!" when in reality 25 of them were found before by someone else, and we are rediscovering them -- rediscovering them independently, mind you, but r
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  • Hey guys, Here's the questions we decided to answer. Write your answers with your signature and list more qu YSOs are almost always found within or near gas and dust in outer space, most often embedded in molecula
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  • When we were working on finding new YSOs in IC 2118, we found a high proper motion star. ...age proper motion (in RA and Dec directions). Do you get the same numbers we did in section 4.6 of the IC2118 paper?
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  • ...Palomar Sky survey prints that had associated IRAS point sources where all found to have IRAS point sources that were good candidates for being YSOs. Table -what is the flow of all the types of nebulosity that they describe and the cause
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  • We have WISE data for a patches of sky likely to harbor young stars around BRC ...rs!!!1!" when in reality 25 of them were found before by someone else, and we are rediscovering them -- rediscovering them independently, mind you, but r
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  • This is all I found. I only used Skyview for POSS; the rest comes from IRSA: BRC 34, ogura source 2, or what to do if you can't find a counterpart by searching in the 2mass catalog.
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  • ...s IRAC notes [[File:IRAC notes.pdf]] The aperture and background settings we used were We also chose to have APT subtract the background using setting B subtracting
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  • *what they did was ... (high level summary, no need to get into nitty gritty deta *what they did that I agree with is ...
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  • # Specifically, I think the ones we've been studying are considered cepheids, or variable stars with shorter pe You Rock Joey! So if we are looking fore these rapidly varying stars in this study, why might it be
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  • I found one article, published in July of 2011, that is not on the list. The title ...de 'flanking fields' of serendipitous data, when these data are available, we will use the Spitzer data in addition to the WISE data, enabling a better d
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  • ...ook the best it possibly can. If it looks good, it could look even better. What to do after you load an image: (Scale) There are numerous tools you can use '''What to do after you load an image: (Frame)'''
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  • ...was located in the sky. What constellation it was in? (Cepheus the King) What was the nearest bright star? (Alderamin & Deneb) From last year’s NITARP team proposal we have the following information on BRC 34.
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  • Who we are: What we do:
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  • ...? hint: not the asteroid belt. out farther than that -- see in the movie, we go out well past a "jupiter".) ...sed on the SED slope are dubbed Class I, II, and III. As we learned more, we created another class called "flat" between Class I and II. The very earli
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  • ...s a little squishy, perhaps squishier than you might be comfortable with. What I describe here (and elsewhere on the wiki) is the kind of goal I would giv ...an abstract. BUT we already know enough to write our proposal abstract, so we could write a poster abstract right now.
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  • ''Most succinct:''  We will be looking for new candidate young stars in Ceph C using X-rays, optic ...ied to date. Our goal is to find new candidate young stars in this region. We have data from:
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  • ...distance between your requested position and the position of the source it found in the catalog, and the position angle (in degrees east of north). It does ...inding Alpha Cen! Need to dig into literature to find someone else who has found the EDR3 counterpart to Alpha Cen. This is really turning out to be a MUCH
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  • ...u will need to select the folder to extract to (same as the folder name is what I picked). We are assuming most MOPEX users are on a unix-based (unix, linux, mac) machin
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  • We spend a lot of time in the study of YSOs talking about the rings of dust ar ...ou see in the little images here are not among those 10 close-by sources. What you are seeing here is the difference in resolution between IRAC and MIPS,
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  • ...barked on a campaign to monitor some of the candidate TTauri stars that we found using Spitzer data. They used ground-based telescopes to see if the stars ...se things? In short, rings of carbon, like the grunge on your grill. But what else are they, and why are they important?
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  • ...nm). Any warm object in space radiates IR energy (infrared energy, which we sense as heat). In fact, "warm" really means any object above absolute zer ...polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon). PAHs are one of the important molecules found in the interstellar medium (ISM). For more information, check out [[Studyi
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  • ...ge to those of us used to seeing images of these landforms from space, but we have a whole lot more information now than they did then. ...stern explorers were able to attempt to map was the coasts, because that's what they had the most information about...and the most immediate need to know.
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  • ...er *exporting* the file as a plain text file, but you can do that too. And we will. In coming weeks, we will need to be familiar with angles on the sky, so please review [http://l
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  • *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbWKlAgHPM Movie (16:01) on What is Science] by Dr. Luisa Rebull (2016) ...t answers. Real science has a lot of dead ends as we struggle to find out what the ‘right answer’ is.
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  • ...y developed in 2018 by L. M. Rebull for [https://open.nasa.gov/blog/why-do-we-archive-astronomy-data/ NASA Open Data website]'' ...are also in the [https://www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/2017/2/5/83-why-we-archive-with-dr-rebull?rq=rebull February 05, 2017 episode of the Spacepod
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  • This page will be used to assemble the pieces for the proposal we are writing. See [[2012 proposal instructions]] for, well, instructions! The paper parts for a Planck model can be found at [http://planck.cf.ac.uk/education/model]. Kat's model (the one furthest
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  • ...rity over all others, that spacecraft gets whatever antennas it needs, and we have to rearrange our uplink/downlink times accordingly. This operational constraint is why we can't drop everything and make an observation of whatever you want ''right
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  • ...presented as a linear progression because of the nature of this page, but we have already done some things "out of order", and moreover, chances are exc ...or even necessarily at all. But it will give you a deeper understanding of what is going on.
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  • ...nts from earlier in the week can be done using IRSA tools, so this is what we have reproduced here. See the SSW website for recordings of the talks that ##What are some things that are the same and different between these two plots? Wh
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  • ...urnell discovered neutron stars that, at the time, were the densest matter found through observations. *1970 -- Cygnus X - 1 The first good black hole candidate that astronomers found. It emits x-rays and has a companion smaller than Earth but with a mass gre
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  • Dr. Rebull put together a list of people, places, things that we should check out at the AAS. Click on your name and document your time wit We will be arriving on Thursday Aug 5, departing Aug 9 in hopes of working the
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  • We need to come up with a short list of papers to read in detail and discuss. We'll rotate through our short list of papers, and each of you will get one to ...cause the analysis we will do for our BRCs is very similar to the analysis we did for IC2118 or CG4.
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  • ...­form and open-­ended, but THIS REALLY IS IMPORTANT TO US… we need to show we did not pay for you to come here just to party! <BR><BR> ...e time the meeting starts in earnest on Monday, you should have an idea of what kinds of science your team will be doing. '''FOLKS FINISHING PROJECTS:''' Y
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  • *and (b) provide a place to save and share the materials we developed to teach each other and teach students. ...n recent years. But there is now a new need for sharing some of the things we have developed.
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  • OK, so at the AAS we talked about LDN 1548 as a viable option. It had, we thought, good potential for yielding new young stars, it was (in projected ...ad enough that I went and checked the coordinates. More than once. This is what I see. There is not a lot here, and there is going to be a TON of contamina
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  • ...difficult to pick out as a distinct ‘cluster’ of people, especially while we weren’t all physically co-located -- some of us were in line, getting sal ...cteristics of young stars as possible to determine cluster membership, and we will do the same.
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  • ...ric magnitudes of the disk bearing candidates in BRCs 2, 27 and 13/14 (are we interested in examining this?) ..., 9 February 2011 (PST)) OK, just for comparison, here is a walkthrough of what luisa would do, but for just one of the objects.
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  • As per the instructions for this year's proposal, we need to have: ~10 arcmin radius to look for objects. what other named objects are
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  • ...fact covers such a large region that some of the apparently young stars we found may in fact be members of adjacent star-forming regions (Pleiades, Perseus, ...the objects have fluxes in all bands, so you will need to be careful about what you use. A value of -9 means no data available.
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  • I need a picture in my head. I found these helpful. The first is the one Luisa already put up. The 2nd is from A H2 jets found (Saraceno et al. 1996; Nisini et al. 2001) <br>
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  • ...presented as a linear progression because of the nature of this page, but we have already done some things "out of order", and moreover, chances are exc ...or even necessarily at all. But it will give you a deeper understanding of what is going on.
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  • ...lly blackbodies but the emission from them is very similar to blackbodies. We can "fit" a blackbody curve to the star. Any emission from dust around the ...ge). This is one for blackbody spectra that some NITARP teachers' students found helpful. Most of these have lessons teachers uploaded. Those done by Kathy
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  • *What types of light curves come from what kind of binaries. *What properties can be determined from light curves.
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  • ...going to be important for our work, let’s explore what spatial resolutions we have in our data. The first goal of this worksheet is to fill out the follo ...-187. Does it look different across the bands in Finder Chart? This is why we are thinking about these issues of spatial resolution.
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  • ...presented as a linear progression because of the nature of this page, but we have already done some things "out of order", and moreover, chances are exc ...': Understand which sources have been studied for these three samples, and what has been measured for them. -->
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  • ...paper for these BRCs (otherwise known as SFOs). Also, [[How can I find out what scientists already know about a particular astronomy topic or object?]] and 2/13 - Luisa will be in Boston, and I think Wendi too (we will be [http://www.gk12.org/meetings/ here]); you can have a telecon witho
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  • .... Some discussion was started in Spring 2011 on [[BRC Spring work]], where we summarized the literature. Starting the conversation, here is what I sent out Friday about BRC 27.
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  • ...he issues of spatial resolution. I have developed a worksheet for this. '''WE DECIDED TO DO THIS FIRST.''' ...g... ones you might read if you have time ... and ones you can ignore. '''WE SHOULD START ON THIS AFTER THE RESOLUTION STUFF.'''
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  • ...explanation of Star Formation from a textbook. There's more math here than we'll need. [[File:SF.pdf]] STUFF HERE PERTAINS TO SPECIFIC TARGET SELECTION. why we should do one region versus another, why some regions should be dropped. hi
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  • *and (b) provide a place to save and share the materials we developed to teach each other and teach students. ...be geographically distant, may be a challenge! The only platform on which we have had broad success has been the wiki, because:
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  • ...ge to those of us used to seeing images of these landforms from space, but we have a whole lot more information now than they did then. ...stern explorers were able to attempt to map was the coasts, because that's what they had the most information about...and the most immediate need to know.
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  • ...osition it thinks you've entered, so you can check that it's doing exactly what you want it to do. This is what I see after a generic search for all M31 data:
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  • ...you comfortable enough to search for your own favorite target, understand what to do with the search results, and download data. ...lts when you search by position. How are they the same/different? Which do we want to download?
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  • ...a quiet few hours, and go through the wiki again with your notes. I knew we'd gone through a lot, very fast, but I also knew that you all had been doin WARNING -- in the process of doing this, i rediscovered the fact that we should not be using the big merged mosaic at MIPS for photometry, because R
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  • ...the document entitled "Photometry Using IRAF" by Lisa A. Wells, from 1994, found on the [http://iraf.noao.edu/docs/photom.html IRAF photometry documentation #Determine background -- e.g. determine what the signal would be in the aperture if the star was not there. (Usually me
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  • ::* What happens when you add two string variables together? ::* What is the length of the array 'a' created by the following numpy command: a =
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  • New for recruiting starting with the class of 2013, we have a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoJqyzCR2fc&feature=youtu.be 3-minut These were created to help all NITARP participants learn what the wiki is for and how to use it (for learning or contributing).
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  • ''Note that the rest of this page assumes you know what [[Photometry|photometry and magnitudes]] are.'' ...rder to calculate the absolute magnitude from the apparent magnitude. But what if you don't know the distances to the clusters? Wouldn't it be nice to st
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  • ...you comfortable enough to search for your own favorite target, understand what to do with the search results, and download data. ...delivered products, if they exist for the region you want). In this case, we have some special circumstances: one of the observations was taken with clu
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  • ..., preferably at least one of which is Spitzer data just because we are who we are here, but really any three bands will work. See [[How do I download da ...at the bottom of this page -- if you find more, please let us know so that we can link them in.
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  • ...tar formation has been gained by studies in our own Galaxy. With Herschel, we can carry out similar studies in relatively nearby galaxies as well. For ex ...t star and galaxy formation commenced relatively early after the Big Bang. We also know that when the Universe was about half its current age, star forma
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  • ...y be coming from the fact that, by eye, you can see the sources *there* so what is the issue, but the gap in understanding has to do with explaining that t ...fine for that. So the aperture photometry was totally good enough for what we were doing… except possibly for a few of the most crowded sources at the
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  • ...presented as a linear progression because of the nature of this page, but we have already done some things "out of order", and moreover, chances are exc And, we care about stuff within a ~20 arcmin radius of these positions. (which mean
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  • And, we care about stuff within a ~20 arcmin radius of these positions. (which mean We have 3 regions we care about, so three places to search on the sky. We need to get the relevant data from both WISE and Spitzer.
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  • ...target(s) and why. background on subject and target. educated guesses on what you might find. * detailed information on what data are available, and what you plan to do with it (e.g. much more than "i'm sure spitzer observed this
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  • * Today we know it is 100 million years old and 460 LY away. '''QUESTION:''' What is the best way to describe any differences for T Tauri stars and YSOs?
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  • ...ns is a very important thing for us to consider in the course of our work. We're using data that come from several different surveys, with different spat ...elescopes, e.g., WISE vs. Spitzer vs. 2MASS resolution; and (2) understand what the challenges will be for us in matching across wavelengths. '''Ancillary
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  • ...n of WISE channel 1 and 2 with Spitzer GLIMPSE IRAC channel 1 and 2, which we can do in spades for IC417. ...elescopes, e.g., WISE vs. Spitzer vs. 2MASS resolution; and (2) understand what the challenges will be for us in matching across wavelengths. '''Ancillary
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  • ...ns is a very important thing for us to consider in the course of our work. We're using data that come from several different surveys, with different spat ...g., WISE vs. Spitzer vs. 2MASS vs. Herschel resolution; and (2) understand what the challenges will be for us in matching across wavelengths. '''Ancillary
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  • ...ed as OSP2002 and are the ONLY reference for many of the following objects found in the list: BRC 31 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28. ...d a large number (460) of Hα emission stars. A total of 12 new HH objects found. Most are of small apparent size, emphasizing the need for deep searches at
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  • ...determine that some of these objects are actually resolved galaxies. Once we add optical photometry to the SEDs, the shape of the SEDs may allow us to d ...we get the best quality data in the least amount of time possible. ("Ooops we screwed up" will not generally get you additional telescope time.)
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