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 * This is the logbook for Oct. 29 2007 to Nov. 2 2007

Oct. 29 2007** Today we continued to work on the glossary. We difined flux and posted a link to a website with a science glossary. We started looking at luminosity and defined it in our glossary. We are now looking at the basic formulas we will be using in the project though it is hard to understand and it will take some time to pick through. We set up another page and linked it to the main project page which we will use for formulas.

Today I worked on finishing a chart about infrared wavelength and the types of wavelengths that can be seen by various telescopes. I was beginning to add on to luminosity because luminosity will be used in our formulas to find SFR. Me and CM will be working on the formulas page more now and CM discussed with me going to ND library to look up more information about our project. The ND library should have more information that we can use.
 * Oct. 30 2007**

Today I added the first formula CM and I will be using in our project. We will take each term and look it up to understand how the formula works. The first formula is about finding luminosity using SED. We added a definition of SED to our glossary and I found a link that further explains SED, but it still seems a little beyond me so I will ask Dr. L about it when he is in class. We will try more to find an easier explanation for SED.
 * Oct. 31 2007**

Today CM and I worked further on the glossary, but we are stuck on SED. We are having a hard time understanding what it is and how we find a value for it. We asked another researcher about SED since Dr. L wasn't at class and we got an email back from him. We know there is five different SED values for our project, but we don't know where they are derived from so that we can use them in our project to compute values. We are going to ask about them.
 * Nov. 1 2007**

Today Dr. L had a meeting with CM and I about where our project was going. We talked about how far CM and I had gone in understanding the project and what parts we were stuck on. We also asked him about our poster we were to create for the January event. Our plan for this project is to continue to understand the research and from there decide where we wanted to go from there. We could work further on galaxy identification or we could continue with Matt and Viney's work with using new data. CM also gave me some books from the ND Library to read over the weekend that deal with star formation.
 * Nov. 2 2007**