Chelen Johnson
CM4Seyferts (Color-Magnitude for Seyferts): Using ultraviolet images from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite and optical images and spectra from the ground based Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to find a correlation between the color and luminosity of the hot gas around supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
The experience made a huge impression on [my students] and that was food for my soul.
It was very satisfying to be able to converse with the grad students about their science and actually understand what they were talking about.
The surprising part of our research was the time we spent on communication, and the value of saying something out-loud has to understanding it.
