Science

An inside look at being an extragalactic astronomer.

Project Pages

Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter (16 Jan 2008: v1.1 website release)

Spitzer LINERs (username and password required)

Spitzer QUEST (Quasar and ULIRG Evolution Study) (username and password required)

Kitt Peak Summer School

2007 Coudé Feed data

Spectroscopy tutorial, with embedded links to manuals and IRAF docs (in Open Document format!)

Of non-astronomical interest

Atmospheric Optics. In my (rather boring) graduate classical mechanics class, we did a "glory scattering" calculation. Little did I know at the time that there's so much interesting optics going on in the atmosphere. (I can't wait to try some of these problems out on students.)