Welcome to the Summer 2024 Wyoming Astronomy REU Webpage!

In Summer 2024 we will explore star-forming galaxies in the local universe observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, the VLT, and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. Our science goals include characterizing stellar clusters and their impact on the gas and dust in the surrounding interstellar medium.

Apply here!

Background information and Journal Club

• Preliminary summer schedule
• Chip's Research Expectations document
• REU Journal Club
• Team Supplementary Page
• REU JC Sign-up Sheet

Quality Assurance and General Information

• Our internal-to-UWyo notes on PHANGS Galaxies
• PHANGS team spreadsheet for quality assurance checks for Cycle 2
• Examples of assurance checks for Cycle 2
• Danny's recommended QA checks

Getting some observing experience

• 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

• Flowcharts for reductions Imaging reductions flowchart and Spectroscopy reductions flowchart
• 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
• Zooniverse Citizen Science Plan

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)
• Make your website!
• Topcat DS9 info: To send topcat coords to DS9, go to "activate actions" and choose the desired table and parameters. In DS9 go to SAMP, and then hit connect.