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Back to project page My list of links to weekly logbooks with dates 1.Logbook Oct 22 07 to Oct 26 07 2. Logbook Oct 29 07 to Nov 2 07 3. Logbook Nov 5 07 to Nov 7 07 4. Logbook Nov 12 07 to Nov 16 07 5. Logbook Nov 19 07 to Nov 21 07 6. Logbook Nov 26 07 to Nov 29 07 7. Logbook Dec 3 07 to Dec 7 07 8. Logbook Dec 10 07 to Dec 17 07 9. Logbook: Austin Trip 10. Logbook Jan 14 to Jan 18 11. Logbook Jan 23 to Jan 25 12. Logbook Jan 28 to Feb 1 13. Logbook Feb 4 to Feb 8 14. Logbook Feb 11 to Feb 15 15. Logbook Feb 18 to Feb 22 16. Logbook Feb 25 to Feb 29 17. Logbook Mar 03 to Mar 07

Subatomic Zoo notes

Our project deals with the study of Star Formation Rates. We want to look at the number of stars forming in galaxy clusters and how these rates might have changed over time. We looked at three different galaxy clusters in the high redshift region and using IRAC data from the Spitzer Space Telescope to help us analyse the star formation rates. In order to get star formation rates, we would collect flux data from different points along the infared range. The reason we use flux to determine star formation is the dust that is collected around star forming regions will heat up under the presence of newly born stars. We collect the amount of heat radiation from those star forming regions and use that to determine the amount of star formation. After we collect data of the flux along various points in the infared region, we build a SED model. This model is just a graph of energy distributed along the flux points we collected. There are several models that fit these points so we averaged the SED models and obtained the star formation rate that way. We found that the galaxy clusters in the higher redshift region had a larger star formation rate. We are curious as to why there was more star formation in the past. It could be something is affecting the heat radiation from the dust we collect.
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