UNCA student researchers Matthew Peek, Darren Stroupe, Cassie Crowe, and Makennah Bristow traveled to Washington DC in January 2018 to present their research at the American Astronomical Society’s Winter Meeting.
Darren presented his analysis of the physical properties of MgII-absorbing galaxies in the UltraVISTA survey.
Cassie, describing her project, which harnesses the Zooniverse citizen science platform to crowd-source visual inspections of the SDSS-IV quasar spectra.
Matthew presented his work on measuring the surface densities of star formation in high-redshift galaxies, using infrared grism observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Makennah, describing her work detecting exoplanets in the Kepler K2 mission data, which she completed during a summer internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 2017.
