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F&M at NURO

F&M at NURO. Spring 2007. Participants: Observational Astronomy Class (S07 Ast 240). Prof. Froney Crawford Prof. Beth Praton Cori Quirk Don McElheny Louis Klapper. Our Team. Louis. Cori. Don. Froney. Photo: Beth. March 13–15, 2007. Joint run with Gettysburg, overlapping on 3/13

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F&M at NURO

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  1. F&M at NURO Spring 2007

  2. Participants:Observational Astronomy Class (S07 Ast 240) • Prof. Froney Crawford • Prof. Beth Praton • Cori Quirk • Don McElheny • Louis Klapper

  3. Our Team Louis Cori Don Froney Photo: Beth

  4. 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

  5. At NURO…observation skills

  6. All Flights Canceled Trip Home…Crisis Management Skills

  7. 5 am Detroit midnight Phoenix Arrived at noon. Finally got flight at

  8. Detroit RentACar Lancaster, PA Home at Last!

  9. Back Home…Learn IRAF ? ? *#@! ?? E-Z IRAF GUIDE We didn’t find this E-Z…

  10. So…we wrote our own guide Next time: we’re ready!

  11. 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.

  12. F&M in Australia

  13. 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

  14. NANO-Grav limit Figure courtesy of George Hobbs

  15. 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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