Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, February 20, 2008; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Barbara Whitney, Astronomer, Space Science Institute
Seminar Title:
Interpreting Large Astronomical Datasets Using Large Grids of Models
Abstract:
Recent surveys in infrared astronomy have produced catalogs orders of
magnitude larger than their predecessors. I discuss an approach to
studying newly forming stars by producing a large theoretical dataset
to compare to the catalogs. The physics as we know it is incorporated
into radiative transfer models that output observable quantities.
Going backwards from the set of models that fits the data for each
source, we extract physical parameters of thousands of forming stars.
I will present initial results, and lessons learned.
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