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Overview

Observations done by Krystian Confeiteiro, Ahnika Gee, Luca Guida, Eden Kope, Ryan Reynolds, and Melinda Walls. See the offical LinkedIn post for additional information!

Overview

As seen in our poster, our main subject has been the TESS light curves. The purpose of manually analyzing the light curves allows us to obtain a training set for the machine learning models that Petar Grigorov and Krystian Confeiteiro have been working on. For more information about the machine learning project, please see Machine Learning page.

Students on the Gyrochronology project become members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and can visit the annual meeting to present and discuss their research with Dr. Oswalt to other fellow astronomers and non-astronomers. These opportunities allow students to display their hard work while also networking in the Astronomy & Astrophysics industry.

Present at the latest annual meeting (AAS 241), was Sima Vaidya, who not only presented her work for Dr. Oswalt, but her work for her Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). For more information, see her profile, or contact her at [email protected].

Overview

Discovery Day is an anually-hosted research symposium organized by the Office of Undergraduate Research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univeristy. The purpose of this symposium is to showcase the research and creative ideas in place by the students, to give networking opportunities to undergraduates, and allow underclassmen to explore current research on campus.

You can find our poster posted in Scholarly Columns, or, you can download it here. If you have any questions about the research discussed at this event, please either fill out our Contact form or email the leading presenter, Krystian Confeiteiro, directly. There is also a QR code on the bottom right corner of the poster where you can ask questions about the poster, or other related research, you can also access it here.

Our Research

The main subject of the work discussed at Discovery Day 2023 was the work done by Petar Grigorov and Krystian Confeiteiro. You can find more about this work along with the rest of the work on the poster on the Projects page.

Overview

The Embry-Riddle 1-Meter Telescope is currently the largest telescope in Florida. As its name suggests, this reflector telescope utilizes a 1-meter-wide primary mirror to gather starlight which allows for observations of objects down to 16th magnitude, and can even get to lower magnitudes with longer exposure times. This light is then reflected from the primary mirror to a smaller secondary mirror near the top of the telescope, and then reflected again into a number of scientific instruments. For more pictures of the telescope, please see the desginated Instagram page, which is currenly run by Ryan Reynolds.

Capabilities

This telescope is capable of both photometry and spectroscopy: The 1-Meter Telescope's main detection instrument is the STX-16803 CCD camera, which captures science images and calibration frames which can be processed for photometric analysis; allowing astronomers using the telescope to determine relative flux values for object in the telescope's field of view. Additionally, the 1-Meter telescope is outfitted with both a low-resolution and a high-resolution spectrometer. These devices (especially the high-resolution spectrometer) can be used to gather spectral data on stars an other objects, as well as determine their chemical composition.

Application

With regard to our investigations into gyrochronology, we can make use the high-resolution spectrometer to determine the metallicity of particular stellar candidates of interest and compare the age estimates obtained from experimental metallicity values with gyrochronological estimates of stellar age in order to verify the legitimacy of gyrochronology.