Well, it’s been a good past few days on the research front. I had my first meeting with my advisor in over a month and got a telescope proposal worked out for the ARC 3.5m in Sunspot, MN to get some data on high redshift quasars. I suspect we’ll hear back on the proposal in a week or two.
In addition, I’ve been working on my reduction of some [[wikpedia:Hubble Space Telescope]] data for our study of the jet-gas interaction in a seyfert galaxy. I just finished reducing the data for the final filter. Next, I’ll begin processing the images to isolate the contribution from just the emission lines (so I’ll be removing the continuum light from the stars in the galaxy). This will allow us to study the properties of the AGN by comparing the morphology and energy output in various emission lines.
Finally, I’ve obtained some data from TripleSpec of another Seyefert galaxy for a separate project. I’ve started playing around with the tool to extract the data, and have made some progress with that. Hopefully in the near future, I’ll have a nice spectra I can show off of the galaxy. I’ll try and post a nice example if one comes up.
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