Chelen Johnson
The Sharpless CHARcuterie Playground (SCHARP) team will be studying several targets selected from the Sharpless (1959) catalog to see if there are young stars therein.
I felt as if I was on a treasure hunt to identify new methods of confirming redshift values for our candidate cluster members.
[...]that provided a wonderful window into the student’s perspective of the NITARP experience. I loved how they talked about seeing math as a way of communicating and for checking data…not as THE right answer type computations. Many then said that concept was new and they really appreciated it.
My highlight of the [Caltech] trip was watching my two students present data on a source which they had analyzed.
