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Summer Visit - 2010 - LDM team

The summer visit to Caltech is 3-4 days long and is the only time during the year of work when all the participants on the team come together in person to work intensively on the data. Generally, each educator may bring up to two students to the summer visit that are paid for by NITARP, and they may raise funds to bring two more. The teams work at Caltech; the summer visit typically includes a half-day tour of JPL. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

The Luminous Data Miners team came to Caltech in July 2010.

Quotes

  • [student] Everyone (students, teachers, scientists) seemed to enjoy the work and therefore it didn't seem to be work.
  • [The most important thing I learned was that] You have to double check everything you do always, because one slight mistake can throw everything off.
  • [student:] I figured we would simply insert the image and the computer would calculate all of our numbers for us. But we had to adjust many settings and use our expertise to find magnitudes for the galaxies.
  • Astronomy is an art. There is no obviously right answer, as in math, but instead more and less logical interpretations. Robots can therefore only work as data collectors, not data analyzers, for astronomy.
  • It was really important that we discovered for ourselves the photometry problems associated with measuring an AGN. It was very important to see all the information related to our project come together in a continuous package.

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Summer Visit - 2010 - LDM team