CC's+Logbook+Oct+22+07+to+Oct+26+07

Back to project page Back to CC's Logbooks main page Today I added a link to a page with several star formation simulation clips. The page has three different clips. The first clips shows the star formation from the large dust cloud, going to the formation of protostars, and ending with a star birth. The second clip is a shorter simulation that just shows the formation of the star from the first couple of protostars to the star birth. The last clip shows a simulation of star clusters and the gravitational effects of nearby stars. All three clips are related to our project in that it shows star formation and it talks about star clusters. The site also shows several step-by-step pictures of a star forming from the simulation. I added one of the pictures to the project page.
 * Oct. 22 2007**

I have started working on the glossary for the project. This glossary will provide a guide as my partner and I review previous work. This will also help us read other papers on the subject so we can accurately understand the project. I created a new page and linked it to the project page and began working on it. So far i have only gotten into deffining morphology of galaxies and the types of morphology.
 * Oct. 23 2007**

Today I worked on the glossary page. I finished up with morphology and I have added example pictures of the shapes for each morphology. This will help others who are looking at the site understand my description of each shape of morphology. I was only able to upload 2 of the 4 pictures, but today I will add the rest and continue looking up words and things to add to the glossary page. I recieved the email from the teacher about the abstract poster CM and I need to do for our project.
 * Oct. 24 2007**

Today I worked with CM on the glossary. We finished uploading the pictures of different morphology of galaxies. We also started working on redshift and CM wrote the definition for redshift. This will be helpful in reminding us about the age of the universe and help us make a timeline of SFR. We will continue to add definitions to redshift and look for other terms that could be confusing towards us.
 * Oct. 25 2007**

Me and CM worked on finding the relation of age to redshift. We found a website that can convert age of time (in Giga years) to the redsift value (z). This website also provides other conversions of energy level and distance. We used this website already to define the age of low redshift, intermediate redshift, and high redshift based on the values of previous student's definition of intermediate, low, and high redshift.
 * Oct. 26 2007**