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F&M at NURO Spring 2007
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Participants: Observational Astronomy Class (S07 Ast 240) Prof. Froney Crawford Prof. Beth Praton Cori Quirk Don McElheny Louis Klapper
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LouisCori Don Froney Our Team Photo: Beth
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March 13–15, 2007 Joint run with Gettysburg, overlapping on 3/13 Observing program: Pleiades rapid rotators (Hii1883, 2244, 2927) BE UMa Clear weather all three nights
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At NURO…observation skills
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Trip Home…Crisis Management Skills
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Phoenix midnight Detroit 5 am Arrived at noon. Finally got flight at
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Detroit Lancaster, PA Home at Last! RentACar
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Back Home…Learn IRAF ? ? *#@! ?? We didn’t find this E-Z…
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So… we wrote our own guide Next time: we’re ready!
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Arecibo Program ~2 students per year, all undergraduate, more than half women, typically start at Jr level, chosen from best students in astrophysics classes ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: monthly data taking at the 100-m Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico via internet and on-site improving timing models: Lommen, Kipphorn (F&M ‘06) et al., 2006, ApJ 642:1012. developing algorithms to search for gravitational waves: Lommen, Bilikova (F&M ‘04) et al 2005, ASP Conf Series 328: 225.
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F&M in Australia
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NANO-Grav North American Nano Hertz Observatory of Gravitational Waves –F&M, UCBerkeley, NRAO, McGill, University of British Coluumbia, UT Brownsville –NRAO Green Bank 100m Telescope and the Arecibo 300m Telescope
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Figure courtesy of George Hobbs NANO-Grav limit
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Putting Gravitational Wave Physics into High School and College Curricula Annual Workshop with Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Penn State
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