Month: March 2020

  • Week 8: curve comparison

    Week 8: curve comparison

    This week we were tasked with generating light curves for the targets in our images and writing an annotated bibliography for a paper we were assigned in groups. My group was assigned “Accretion in low-mass members of the Orion Nebula Cluster with young transition disks” (de Albuquerque et al. 2020). Taurus field light curves We…

  • Week 7 – Lightcurves in the time of Coronavirus

    Week 7 – Lightcurves in the time of Coronavirus

    Now that society has collapsed, I finally have had some time to read some papers. We’ll get to that later in this post, but first I’ll review some small changes to my pipeline, our group’s intended schedule for pipeline convergence, an additional lightcurve I made, and some notes on two resources our adviser asked us…

  • Week 6: a tale of two pipelines

    Week 6: a tale of two pipelines

    Amherst College may be self-destructing over the novel COVID-19, but the stars move in the heavens, and so my work continues. One last proposition: This past week we submitted our proposals (fingers crossed) and learned how to use a program, AstroImageJ, to create light curves from our aligned images. I reduced our entire observing run,…

  • Week 5: a bad case of bad pixels

    Week 5: a bad case of bad pixels

    This week I wanted to run our reduction steps on another night of data, to move towards reducing all the data we have, but also to ensure the code and steps will actually work across all the data we’ll be working with. The first thing I did was create a function I called “timesample” which…