Welcome to the Summer 2022 Wyoming Astronomy REU Webpage!

In Summer 2022 we will explore supermassive black hole binary systems. Our science goals include measuring the black holes through an observing campaign and charaterizing their binary orbital parameters.

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Background information

• Preliminary summer schedule
• REU Journal Club and additional papers collected by Theodora
• Chip's Research Expectations document

Observing

• Weather forecast Clear Sky Chart
• One stop shopping on all-things-WIRO
• Observing schedule and target information
• logbook example
• Object altitude vs time plots (for WIRO: 254.024 41.0983 2943)
• Nightly altitude charts

Data processing

• Cheat sheets Linux IRAF
• Processing cookbooks DD's imaging CK's imaging spectra
• IRAF help Beginner's Guide CCD Reductions Spectral Reductions
• Exam #1

Programming

• Programming in Python
• Python and fits images

Other professional development

• Oral presentation hints John Wheeler
• Poster ideas #1 #2 #3 #4
• AAS meeting tips
• Ethics training course
• Collaboration teamwork listening
• Imposter Syndrome
• The growth mindset: Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right 5 minute video 10 minute video narrated by Prof. Dweck
• Implicit bias Scientific American 2018 Nature brief PASP article (especially Figures 1 and 2)