Spitzer Space Telescope Research Program for Teachers and Students

PROGRAM INFORMATION + Home Page + Round 1 + Round 2 + Round 3 + Program News + Education & Outreach + Educational Products + AAS Posters + Photos + Press Releases + Visiting the SSC OBSERVING PROPOSALS Star Formation in Lynds Dark Nebulae + Round 3 Spitzer Light Curve of Z Cha + Round 3 IRAC Monitoring of NGC 4051 for Interday Variability + Round 3 Star Formation in High Redshift Clusters with Spitzer + Round 2 Young Stars in IC 2118 + Round 1 + Round 2 Observing Iron Stars with Spitzer + Round 1 Intergalactic Star Formation in Tidal Dwarf Galaxies of M81 + Round 1 AGN Spectral Energy Distributions of GLAST Telescope Network Program Objects + Round 1 + Round 2 + Student Project The Supermassive Black Hole in Arp102B + Round 1 Detecting Brown Dwarfs in Interacting Cataclysmic Binaries + Round 1 + Round 2

IRAC Monitoring of NGC 4051 for Interday Variability We will be observing the Seyfert 1.5 NGC 4051 on a daily basis for approximately 10 days for signs of variability at 3.6 and 5.8 microns. NGC 4051 has previously shown variability on this timescale at 2.2 microns. Based on the difference in variability at 3.6 and 5.8 microns limits can be placed on the dust distribution at the nucleus of the AGN. Participating Teachers: Jeff Adkins Deer Valley High School - Antioch, CA Kareen Borders Key Peninsula Middle School - Lakebay, Washington Susan Kelly Blind Brook High School - Rye Brook, New York Christopher Martin Howenstine High Magnet High School - Tucson, Arizona Jeff Paradis Rush-Henrietta Senior High School - Henrietta, New York Vincent Pereira New Explorations into Science, Technology, and Math - New York City, NY Peter Pitman White Bear Lake High School - White Bear Lake, Minnesota Babs Sepulveda Lincoln High School - Stockton, CA Support Scientists: Dr. Varoujan Gorjian Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, Pasadena, CA Program News