Things Students Should Know b4 CalTech

Here's a start to some topics/skills (currently in no particular order) for our students before we get to CalTech. Luisa has links for many of these which the kids can go searching for on the wiki. Please feel free to add and/or comment

Topics

CWAYS Big Picture

CWAYS Proposal

Spitzer - mission, wavelengths, footprints, resolution

WISE - mission, wavelengths, footprints, resolution

Evolution of Young Stellar Objects -->LW discussion of YSOs

Source Matching

Resolution (how deep for students, our exercise?, Luisa's analogy?)

Skills Luisa has a link that we can pull from Working with the C-WAYS data how much can we prep our kids for ahead of time?

Track data using spreadsheet

Simple math using spreadsheet

Graphing using spreadsheet

Image processing DS9

Image processing APT, open fits, change scale/brightness/contrast, photometry/aperture/background subtraction, retrieve data from table

Making Mosaics?

Vocab/Acronym Scavenger Hunt

Aperture Radius

Background Annulus

Janskys

Luminosity

Intensity

RA and Dec

APT - Aperture Photometry Tool

DS9

2MASS

IRAC

IPAC

IRAF

Mosaic

SHA

reduction

pipeline

electromagnetic spectrum/multiwavelength astronomy

YSO

BRC

HH

HII

Color-color/color-magnitude plots

SEDs