October+29,+2007

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Today CC and I worked on our glossary some more. We researched flux in detail. We also decided to add a new page to our wikispace. We added a Star Formation Rates Formulas page. There are a ton of different formulas that we will need to do this project, so we thought that a separate page would help us and others to keep track of this even easier than putting them all in the glossary. After school, I also went to the Notre Dame Library to get some books on Star Formation Rates in High Redshift Galaxies. I found a lot of really helpful books--at least they look like they would be helpful, I haven't started to read them yet. I also found some articles on microforms (I'm not quite sure what that means, but when I looked at the microforms at the library, they were in boxes and you can't check them out). I was thinking that maybe CC and I could go to Notre Dame someday during class and look at the microforms and at least get a sense of what they have to say.
 * October 29, 2007**

Today I was sick andf could not work on the project.
 * October 30, 2007**

Today I updated my logbook for the week so far. My computer shut-down and restarted quite a few times, so that was all that I got done today.
 * October 31, 2007**

Today CC and I were both having some technical difficulties with our computers. We finally logged onto our wikispace on mine, and continued to update our glossary. We are a little stuck with spectral energy distributions (SEDs), so we sent Dr. Rudnick an e-mail hoping for a little clarification on the subject.
 * November 1, 2007**

Today CC and I had a meeting in class with Dr. L. It was very informative. We had a chance to ask him anything we wanted to about our project. We inquired about what exactly it was we were to be focusing on this year, and how we were to go about doing this. He informed us of several sub-projects that we could work on and would provide us with more knowledge on the Spitzer project. We are going to be verifying the galaxy typings of someone throughout the year, and learning more about other types of galaxies. We are also to start acquainting ourselves with the spreadsheet data from Spitzer that was used last year, and see what other information we can gather from that. I also lent CC two of the books I got from the Notre Dame Library. I also need to start reading those this weekend. We also got a reply from Dr. Rudnick that really put SEDs into layman's terms, so that was very helpful.
 * November 2, 2007**

Today I started to read one of the books that I got. It is called //In Darkness Born,// and is about astronomy and the formation of stars. It's pretty readable; I am understanding it so far. I haven't finished the introductory chapter yet, though, so we'll see how that goes.
 * November 4, 2007**

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