Spitzer Light Curve of Z Cha: Using the Spitzer Space Telescope to monitor the infrared variability around the binary star system WZ Sge to try to characterize the dust distribution in the system.
Year(s) participated: 2008
Using multiwavelength data to characterize Ultra Blue Objects for Kepler Observing (UBOKO). Characterizing the identities of these sources will facilitate further study and will be used to propose future observations with the Kepler Space Telescope.
Year(s) participated: 2012
They Might Be Giants are using data from the Kepler mission to classify the brightness changes of giant stars in an effort to understand how the observed brightness variations of giant stars may relate to the different stages of giant star evolution.
Year(s) participated: 2013
Team Red Shift: Using Spitzer Space Telescope images to find clusters of galaxies at a large distance from the Earth.
Year(s) participated: 2011
The StarChasers team will be looking for new young stellar objects (YSOs) in the constellation Cassiopeia where other people have already found a few YSOs; StarChasers will be looking to see (a) if the published list of YSOs seem to be real YSOs, given additional data, and (b) if they can find additional YSO candidates.
Year(s) participated: 2024
Continuing the search for and study of stars in IC417, the Spider Nebula.
Year(s) participated: 2021, 2020
Using Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) images to study the planetary nebula NGC 7027 to better understand the final stages of life for stars like our Sun.
Year(s) participated: 2012
Search iN AfGl 490 (SNAG490) will be looking for young stellar objects (YSOs) in AFGL490.
Year(s) participated: 2022
SIRXS (SEIP IR Excess Survey) : looking for IR excesses around stars found within the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products (SEIP) source list.
Year(s) participated: 2014
The team examined the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog to find the most unusual and faintest infrared excess objects serendipitously detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Year(s) participated: 2017
The goal of SHIPs (Searching Herschel Images for Protostars) is to find and identify stars in the earliest phases of formation in NGC 281, a.k.a. "the pac-man nebula". These stars will help us understand the history of the star formation process in that region.
Year(s) participated: 2013
Spectral Energy Distributions and Epsilon Aurigae: Using multiwavelength data to study the disk and companion of Epsilon Aurgae and the planetary nebula My Cn 18.
Year(s) participated: 2010
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.
Year(s) participated: 2023
Using Kepler Space Telescope data to search for small scale stellar variability that may be due to eclipsing binaries, pulsators, star spots, or transiting planets.
Year(s) participated: 2011
Mining current optical and infrared databases to find variable active galactic nuclei.
Year(s) participated: 2021, 2020
This virtual team consists of people who run and support NITARP in various ways.
Year(s) participated: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
This virtual team consists of people who run and support NITARP in various ways.
Year(s) participated: 2015, 2014
This virtual team consists of people who run and support NITARP in various ways.
Year(s) participated: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
This virtual team consists of people who support NITARP in various ways.
Year(s) participated: 2010, 2008
IRAC Monitoring of NGC 4051 for Interday Variability: Using the Spitzer Space Telescope for a 10 day infrared monitoring of the region around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 4051 to help determine the dust distribution around it.
Year(s) participated: 2008
Intergalactic Star Formation in Tidal Dwarf Galaxies of M81: Using Spitzer Space Telescope images to study the dust emission from stars formed in the debris tail of the galaxy M81.
Year(s) participated: 2006, 2005
Star Formation in Lynds Dark Nebulae: Using Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images to see deep inside clouds of gas (Lynds 981 and Lynds 425), deeper than any prior observations could see, and reveal any hidden star formation that is ongoing.
Year(s) participated: 2008
LLAMMa: Luisa, Laura, Alexandra, Milton -- looking for new YSOs in Ceph-C, using IR, optical, and X-rays.
Year(s) participated: 2016
Luminous Data Miners: Using ultraviolet images from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite and infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope to find a correlation between the color and luminosity of gas emission and dust emission around supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
Year(s) participated: 2010
The Luminosity, Accretion Disk, and Dust Team (LADDT) : combining UV, optical, and near infrared data for active galactic nuclei to look for a relation between the color of their accretion disks, the emission from their dust and their luminosity.
Year(s) participated: 2015
This team is using Herschel data to look for young stars in L1688.
Year(s) participated: 2018
Observing Iron Stars with Spitzer: Using Spitzer Space Telescope images to characterize dust around two stars with unusual iron signatures in their optical spectra.
Year(s) participated: 2005
These teams worked on their own and presented posters at the 2020 Winter AAS.
Year(s) participated: 2020
These teams worked on their own and presented posters at the 2019 Winter AAS.
Year(s) participated: 2018
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2017, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with (or without) students outside of a formal NITARP team.
Year(s) participated: 2017
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2016, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with (or without) students outside of a formal NITARP team.
Year(s) participated: 2016
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2015, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with (or without) students outside of a formal NITARP team.
Year(s) participated: 2015
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2014, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with (or without) students outside of a formal NITARP team.
Year(s) participated: 2014
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2013, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with students outside of a formal NITARP team. In 2013, we have one article in The Physics Teacher, and one poster on young stars.
Year(s) participated: 2013
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2012, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with students outside of a formal NITARP team. Two different teams presented posters in 2012.
Year(s) participated: 2012
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2010, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with students outside of a formal NITARP team. Four different teams presented results in 2010!
Year(s) participated: 2010
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2008, and done by Spitzer alumni with students outside of a formal Spitzer team. Mr. Spuck's students worked on classifying galaxies in the Spitzer observations of the Taurus Molecular Cloud.
Year(s) participated: 2008
Variability of the Mid-IR Sky: Using archival Spitzer Space Telescope data to look for variability of stars at mid-infrared wavelengths.
Year(s) participated: 2010
IDYL is the IDentification of YSOs in the Lagoon Nebula. This team is looking for known and new YSOs in M8, the Lagoon Nebula.
Year(s) participated: 2019
IC417 : using WISE, 2MASS, Spitzer/Warm IRAC, UKIDSS, IPHAS, and literature optical data to look for young stars in the IC417 region.
Year(s) participated: 2015
Young Stars in IC 2118: Using Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images to find newly forming stars in the Witch Head nebula (IC2118) and using optical data to determine their masses and ages and to see their relationship to the interstellar medium and to other similar star forming regions.
Year(s) participated: 2007, 2006, 2005
Star Formation in High Redshift Clusters with Spitzer: Combining Spitzer Space Telescope imaging with other ground and space based measurements to trace the evolution of star formation in galaxy clusters of differing masses.
Year(s) participated: 2007
Hertzsprung-Russel diagram for Active Galactic Nuclei (HR4AGN): Using space and ground based ultraviolet, optical, and infrared images to find a correlation between the color and luminosity of gas emission and dust emission around supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
Year(s) participated: 2012
HIPS (Hidden In Plain Sight) AGN will be using archival surveys for stellar variability to detect variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the background.
Year(s) participated: 2016
Hungry Giants- WISE Excesses and Lithium Study (HG-WELS) - studying giants which may or may not be eating planets, and may or may not be ejecting enough dust as a result so as to be bright in the infrared.
Year(s) participated: 2014
AGN Spectral Energy Distributions of GLAST Telescope Network Program Objects: Combining data from the Gamma-Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground based optical measurements from amateur astronomers to determine the emission mechanisms from around a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy.
Year(s) participated: 2007, 2006, 2005
GLAST students - Observations of S5 0716+714 using Spitzer's Infrared Spectrograph: Using Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph for follow-up observations of accretion around the supermassive black hole in the galaxy S5 0716+714 studied originally by the GLAST/Lacy team.
Year(s) participated: 2006
Finding Infrared Excess in the SEIP (fIRes) will be looking for stars with infrared excesses in the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog.
Year(s) participated: 2022
The Dust Mights team will be searching for Galactic sources in the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog which have an excess amount of infrared light and whose distances are known from Gaia observations.
Year(s) participated: 2019
The Cyclops AGN team will be continuing the work of last year's AGNatha team, using WISE data to identify anomalous AGN in Gaia.
Year(s) participated: 2024
Cosmic dIRt is examining the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog to find the most unusual and faintest infrared excess objects serendipitously detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Year(s) participated: 2018
Cold Spotz: Using the submillimeter wavelength all-sky map generated by the Planck satellite to classify 4000 previously unidentified radio sources into the following categories: extragalactic radio sources, star-forming galaxies, stars within a dust shell, cold stellar cores, or asteroids.
Year(s) participated: 2012
This NITARP alumni team is investigating the ages of some young clusters.
Year(s) participated: 2017
CephC-LABS (Looking For Baby Stars): continuing a study of the star-forming region Ceph C, exending into the longest wavelength data available.
Year(s) participated: 2017
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.
Year(s) participated: 2013
Star Formation in CG4: Using infrared and optical space and ground based images to search for newly forming stars in Cometary Globule 4.
Year(s) participated: 2010
Cool, Wise, And Young Stars (C-WAYS): Using Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) infrared images to find optically enshrouded stars that are in the process of formation in the bright rimmed clouds BRC 27, BRC 34, and BRC 38 which are clouds of gas being illuminated by other nearby, newly formed (but un-enshrouded) stars.
Year(s) participated: 2012
C-CWEL (Continuing Cool WISE ExpLoration of BRC 38): Continuing on some work started by the C-WAYS team last year, this team is using Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) infrared images to search for newly forming stars in bright rimmed cloud (BRC) 38.
Year(s) participated: 2013
Detecting Brown Dwarfs in Interacting Cataclysmic Binaries: Using Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images to determine whether the companion of the remnant star EE Eri (a white dwarf) is in fact a very low-mass object (sometimes called 'failed star') known as a brown dwarf.
Year(s) participated: 2007, 2006, 2005
Star Formation in Bright Rimmed Clouds (BRCs): Using Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images to find optically enshrouded stars that are in the process of formation in BRC 27 and BRC 34, which are clouds of gas being illuminated by other nearby, newly formed (but un-enshrouded) stars.
Year(s) participated: 2011
Using Spitzer Space Telescope infrared spectra to detect the structure around the supermassive black hole at the center of the active galaxy Arp 102B.
Year(s) participated: 2005
The AGNatha team will be using WISE data to identify anomalous AGN in Gaia.
Year(s) participated: 2023