Student Presentations
Students present their research studies while at the Duke TIP Summer Field Study in Astronomy, Physics, and Astrobiology at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. June 28, 2006.
Student Presentations. June 28, 2006. Click on the Title to open or download the presentation in PDF format. The accompanying paper may also be downloaded as indicated.
- Quasi-Stellar Objects (Quasars) by Ashwin Srikrishna, Rebekkah Cazalas. [Presentation: PDF or PPT] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]
- Gravitational Lensing: Determining the Mass of a Lensing Source by David Singham and Michael Locher. [Presentation: PDF or PPT] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]
- Black Hole Observations in Andromeda by Indy Jones, Micheal Lowe, Danja Mewes. [Presentation only in PowerPoint Show Format] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]
- The Mystery of Dark Matter: the Galactic Rotation Curve for the Milky Way by Kyle McGinty and David Brotman. [Presentation: PDF or PPT] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]
- The Galactic Habitable Zone by Jamie Tayar, Will Burns, Sarai Pegram, John Roebker. [Presentation: PDF or PPT] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]
- Planetary Transits by Jamie Tayar, Will Burns, Sarai Pegram. [Presentation: PDF or PPT] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]
- Search for Pulsars and Supernova Remnants by Anna Safigan, John Roebker, Caitlin Styres, Maria Marshall. [Presentation: PDF or PPT] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]
- Experiments in the Relationship between Stellar Spectral Type and Starspots by Kristina Hogstrom, Kati McKinnon, Anna Ruth Halberstadt, Connor Braatz. [Presentation: PDF or PPT] [Paper: PDF or MS Word]