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My paper on star/planet formation (accepted for publication) (pg. 2)
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Kenosis
Yes, I'm the first author on the paper. Good luck on your master's thesis paper. |
Thanks man. :)
I was curious. How do you actually take the data from Spitzer telescope ? Do you request NASA for a time slot ? How busy is the telescope ? |
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| metalgearsolid |
| Do you find calculus easy? |
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| Zild |
| Congratulations. And yes although I know you aren't asking me calculus is easy. |
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| metalgearsolid |
Well it takes work. And Im not talking calculus 1. Im talking about more advanced calculus that is required for engineers and the sort of area he is at. Besides I heard that astrophysics are basically little einsteins. The vast majority of them find math and science relatively easy.
I was just wondering where he stood on that. But it seems that he won't respond anytime soon:conf: |
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| DJ Kenosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
Do you find calculus easy? |
Yes and no. I feel as if I understand the concept rather well, and the calculus that I have to use for research is something I think I understand well. I never had much of a problem with it in coursework, though I honestly cannot tell you right now that I remember everything I learned in applied PDE class. It would take a few days of brushing up and I would be back to normal. Math is a lot like a language. If you don't use it often your memory of it starts to decay. |
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| Sunsnail |
| Stars don't evolve, they're designed :o |
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| metalgearsolid |
@ DJ Kenosis:
So where are you going to find employment? |
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| DJ Kenosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
Stars don't evolve, they're designed :o |
by his High Noodleness, The Flying Spaghetti Monster :D |
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| Lilith |
Congratulations on getting published!
I expected a fair few people here to get published as well, mostly in newspapers for public drunkeness, lewd behaviour, burning flags, arrested at a G conferences, being locked up as enemies of the state and for drugs :p
Your's is pretty special in that regard alone! :haha: |
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| DJ Kenosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Thanks man. :)
I was curious. How do you actually take the data from Spitzer telescope ? Do you request NASA for a time slot ? How busy is the telescope ? |
Well, the schedule for Spitzer is made months in advance, with the exact observing schedule, filters, exposure times, sequences, etc. At the time of observations the commands are sent to the telescope which then executes them. The data goes to the Spitzer Science Center where it is run through a pipeline, which performs the basic data reduction techniques. Yes, normally you have to submit an observing proposal for the telescope, but my program fell under a slightly different set of programs which were guaranteed to get executed before the telescope was operated. The telescope is extremely busy, constantly so I think. The number of proposals are also very high. I think the oversubscription rate (#proposals/#accepted proposals) is somewhere between 3 to 1 or 5 to 1. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
ur a astro-physics?? |
ROFL |
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| DJ Kenosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Shibby
ROFL |
hey now, be nice :D |
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