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Tucson, Arizona, United States

Tucson, Arizona

Telescope Operator at the 16” Cassegrain Telescope

Tucson, AZ, United States

Operate the Raymond E. White, Jr. (21”) Telescope at Steward Observatory for members of the public and for UArizona students who are completing class assignments for General Education courses. Answering questions about Astronomy for said students & public.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Project: NIRCam Time-Series Observations (TSO) Data ChallengeAdviser: Dr Thomas Beatty
• Simulating JWST/NIRCam transit observations for bright stars such as GJ-436 and HD-209458 using the Multi-Instrument Ramp GEnerator (MIRAGE) simulator from STScI. Transmission spectroscopy using JWST is proven to be.
• Deducing results from these simulated exoplanet light-curves to prepare for real-time JWST/NIRCam TSO observations
• Running the simulated images through the JWST Pipeline and checking for any breaks while simultaneously conducting local data reduction
• Simulating transit/eclipse observations for JWST/NIRCam Commissioning Program CAR-033: Time-Series Stability Verification

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Adviser: Dr Ewan Douglas
• Astronomy SmallSat Mission Design using AGI Systems-Tool Kit
• Designing a 1U CubeSat payload prototype that will be flown on high-altitude weather balloons to educate the K-12 and high school community about space-science research
• Writing Arduino/Raspberry-Pi software to communicate with CubeSats

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Project: Assessing the performance of JWST/NIRCam Image Simulator - PhoSim-NIRCamAdviser: Dr Eiichi Egami
• Performance assessment of PhoSim-NIRCam, an image simulator built for NIRCam, an UArizona pioneered Near-Infrared camera instrument aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
• Research and development into the PhoSim-NIRCam package, creating custom astronomical catalogs to be input into PhoSim-NIRCam, and detailed comparison of the output images that it simulates, in contrast to the.
• Simulating proposed JWST Target Areas and some real sky areas such as the Large Magellanic Cloud that will be observed as part of the NIRCam in-orbit commissioning

Tucson, Arizona

Planetarium Operations for daily science shows and live star talks. Science outreach to all age groups at the Science Center as an interpreter.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Through the process of this internship, I will provide the design, testing, and data analysis to support the launch of Ridgetop Group products that will be utilized by customers across the globe. I am also responsible for performing lab testing and characterization exercises, including basic engineering tasks related to product evaluation, design.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Overlooking operations for the "design-build-fly-operate-analyze" cycle of a high-altitude balloon-based space mission every semester for the UArizona ASCEND! Team
• Designing and flying new experiments to measure various atmospheric parameters as a function of altitude (altitude profiling) up to about 100,000 feet and imaging a series of timed images of the Earth throughout the.

United States

Mumbai Area, India

• “RGB qualified” - a science-educated individual capable of creating and analyzing false color, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images of different galaxies using the NASA SkyView Virtual Observatory.
• Complex Galaxy morphology classification and types of radio galaxies, along with hands-on work with TGSS ADR1/DR5 files from GMRT. Structurally faint, fuzzy, and interesting objects analyzed using SAO DS9, NASA’s.
• Multiwavelength, extragalactic Radio Astronomy research aimed at utilizing the data from GMRT and other freely available archival data (all-sky surveys in radio, infrared, optical and UV) to work on understanding black.

Tucson, Arizona

Kitt Peak National Observatory is home to one of the largest arrays of optical and radio telescopes in the world. In addition to conducting ground-breaking astronomical research, the Kitt Peak National Observatory Visitor Center programs are open to you through daytime guided tours and a variety of evening stargazing programs. My role is to enlighten.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Astronomy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics