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Round 4 - Luminous Data Miners
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Abstract
Archival data from the Spitzer and GALEX Space Telescopes will be used
in an attempt to determine the inherent luminosity of nearby Active
Galactic Nuclei (AGN) by plotting a UV-IR color-magnitude diagram. The
previous difficulty in determining the luminosity of AGN using this
technique has been that AGN are variable and observations were often
taken at widely different times. As a result color-magnitude diagrams
were constructed using UV and IR data points acquired decades apart.
Also there is usually an unknown amount of obscuration towards the AGN
emission region. This study attempts to mitigate both of those
issues: i) by using data that were collected much closer in time to
each other, since both GALEX and Spitzer were launched and carried
out most of their observations within the same 5 year period; and ii)
by choosing Type I AGN, which show the least amount of obscuration.
Click on any teacher's name to see activities associated with NITARP.
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Mentor Teacher:
Tim Spuck
Oil City Area High School, Oil City, PA
Participating Teachers:
Participating non-science IPAC staff:
Mark Abajian
IPAC, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Support Scientist:
Dr. Varoujan Gorjian
Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
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Proposal (pdf)
science poster (pdf)
education poster (pdf)
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