Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Continuity of Work, and Gazing Towards the Future

On June 5th, at 7:00 pm at the Burnt Hills High School, I will be present at the symposium to present my poster based on the summary of my work so far. Many of my details come from other blog posts. Data collection from the SAOImage ds9 program as well as references from Dr. Moustakas's paper Young Galaxy Candidates in the Hubble Frontier Fields. I. Abell 2744.

I will be continuing my research on Lyman Break galaxies, studying the flux ratio, the brightness of each pixel in different filter (F814W all the way up to F160W), this will further our understanding of these mysterious distant high redshift galaxies. We can do this using a program known as SExtractor.

Hopefully I will be able to create Lyman Break Forests of the galaxy candidates in Abell 2744 as well as other galaxy clusters in the Hubble Frontier Fields Initiative.




Just recently, the Hubble Space Telescope Team unveiled a new image of the deep universe consisting of light from ultraviolet light all the way to near infrared light. this image consists of approximately 10,000 galaxies.

The farther you look back, the farther back in time you are.