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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wpnbZ-bDHw Video overview of organization guidance] (~4 min)
 
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wpnbZ-bDHw Video overview of organization guidance] (~4 min)
 
*and by popular demand, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtN4xP-dcbI Video overview with more advanced editing techniques] (~6 min)!
 
*and by popular demand, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtN4xP-dcbI Video overview with more advanced editing techniques] (~6 min)!
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=Movies and other online resources=
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*<font color="red">LOOK HERE!</font> Varoujan's PPT: [[file:trs_vg_talk.ppt]]
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*[[Studying AGN]] - wiki page here
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*[http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/664-ask2009-001-Where-Is-the-Center-of-the-Universe- Varoujan's video on the center of the Universe]
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*[http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackholes/ Lesson on Black Holes from STScI]
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*[http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/black_hole_sun.html Bad Astronomy page on Sun turning into a black hole]
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*[http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/active_galaxies.html Active galaxies page from GSFC]
  
 
=Downloading the data =
 
=Downloading the data =
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*[[How do I download data from Spitzer?]] has a wide variety of flavors of tutorials.  The [http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/dataanalysistools/cookbook/6/#_Toc288477466 second formal chapter] of the professional astronomer's Data Reduction Cookbook ultimately comes from Luisa's last year's NITARP project.   
 
*[[How do I download data from Spitzer?]] has a wide variety of flavors of tutorials.  The [http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/dataanalysistools/cookbook/6/#_Toc288477466 second formal chapter] of the professional astronomer's Data Reduction Cookbook ultimately comes from Luisa's last year's NITARP project.   
 
*[http://sha.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/Spitzer/SHA SHA]
 
*[http://sha.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/Spitzer/SHA SHA]
 
  
 
=Mosaics =
 
=Mosaics =
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*[[Resolution]]
 
*[[Resolution]]
 
*Why does it matter to know what is an artifact and what is not? [http://www.universetoday.com/86497/proof-bio-station-alpha-is-just-an-image-artifact/ So you don't get fooled by stuff like this.]
 
*Why does it matter to know what is an artifact and what is not? [http://www.universetoday.com/86497/proof-bio-station-alpha-is-just-an-image-artifact/ So you don't get fooled by stuff like this.]
 
  
 
=Getting data from other wavelengths =
 
=Getting data from other wavelengths =
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*[[Resolution]]   
 
*[[Resolution]]   
 
*Also: [http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/wise/  Access the WISE archive directly here], and [http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/wise_image_service.html see a step-by-step WISE archive tutorial from Berkeley here].
 
*Also: [http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/wise/  Access the WISE archive directly here], and [http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/wise_image_service.html see a step-by-step WISE archive tutorial from Berkeley here].
 
  
 
=Literature work=
 
=Literature work=
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*[[I'm ready to go on to the "Advanced" Literature Searching section]]  
 
*[[I'm ready to go on to the "Advanced" Literature Searching section]]  
 
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR58i8zvMwQ YouTube video] on how to take antiquated coordinates from a literature papers and use 2MASS to get updated current, correct coordinates for each object. May only work well for YSOs (the BRC project).
 
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR58i8zvMwQ YouTube video] on how to take antiquated coordinates from a literature papers and use 2MASS to get updated current, correct coordinates for each object. May only work well for YSOs (the BRC project).
 
  
 
=Doing photometry =
 
=Doing photometry =
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*[[Central wavelengths and zero points]].
 
*[[Central wavelengths and zero points]].
 
*[[Color-Magnitude and Color-Color plots]]  
 
*[[Color-Magnitude and Color-Color plots]]  
 
  
 
=Making SEDs =
 
=Making SEDs =
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*[[Units]]
 
*[[Units]]
*[[SED plots]]
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*[[SED plots]] - some stuff on blackbodies here

Latest revision as of 18:26, 16 August 2011

Here is a collection of potentially useful links throughout the wiki (with occasional references to YouTube videos) that may or may not be helpful for your summer work.

Using the wiki

Movies and other online resources

Downloading the data

Mosaics

Getting data from other wavelengths

Literature work

Doing photometry

OK, this step is doing to take the longest, be the most complex, involve the most steps and the most math.

Never just trust that the computer has done it right. It probably did what you asked it to do correctly, but you asked it to do the wrong thing. Always make some plots to test and see if the photometry seems correct.

Working with (text) data tables

Making SEDs

WARNING: lots of math and programming spreadsheets here too.. you WILL do this more than once to get the units right!