Friday July 22 2016
- Presentation instructions:
- Mostly tips for how to make and present a good poster session
- Mostly tips for how to make and present a good poster session
- Finish projects:
- Everyone was scrambling to finish and practice their poster presentation
- Everyone was scrambling to finish and practice their poster presentation
- Whole group picture:
- While group picture in sun with the GBT
- While group picture in sun with the GBT
- Team poster session:
- So the idea was that there was going to be a poster session each of our groups were going to split in half and her half of us would go around and look at other posters and the other half would present the poster to the other teams walking around. There was a change in plans, so we had to project the poster and our whole group has to present our findings to everyone at once. I think we had a pretty good presentation because the pulsar we were assigned to research was very interesting. Pulsar B2020+28 is a really cool mode switching pulsar. The pulsar can be in either normal or abnormal mode, normal mode is far more common, usually in normal mode 89% of the time, and in abnormal mode about 11% of the time, but abnormal mode is more stable than normal mode. The pulsar in our data was actually in abnormal mode 2 out of 3 of the pulsar plots we got from the 20 meter telescope. And you can clearly see the mode switching because the peaks were clearly different, in all 3 there was clearly a leading and trailing peak, in 2 the leading peak came first in the last the leading peak came second. Also we saw very strange fading lines in the time dispersion graph, which usually indicates that the pulsar was coming in or out of the telescope's view, but the telescope was tracking it so it was pretty strange. No one really know what it was.
- So the idea was that there was going to be a poster session each of our groups were going to split in half and her half of us would go around and look at other posters and the other half would present the poster to the other teams walking around. There was a change in plans, so we had to project the poster and our whole group has to present our findings to everyone at once. I think we had a pretty good presentation because the pulsar we were assigned to research was very interesting. Pulsar B2020+28 is a really cool mode switching pulsar. The pulsar can be in either normal or abnormal mode, normal mode is far more common, usually in normal mode 89% of the time, and in abnormal mode about 11% of the time, but abnormal mode is more stable than normal mode. The pulsar in our data was actually in abnormal mode 2 out of 3 of the pulsar plots we got from the 20 meter telescope. And you can clearly see the mode switching because the peaks were clearly different, in all 3 there was clearly a leading and trailing peak, in 2 the leading peak came first in the last the leading peak came second. Also we saw very strange fading lines in the time dispersion graph, which usually indicates that the pulsar was coming in or out of the telescope's view, but the telescope was tracking it so it was pretty strange. No one really know what it was.
- Graduation:
- Pretty neat, we were given a certificate and got pictures with our groups. I was group Bell, named after Jocelyn Bell who was an important person in the world of pulsars
- Pretty neat, we were given a certificate and got pictures with our groups. I was group Bell, named after Jocelyn Bell who was an important person in the world of pulsars
- We drew pictures with chalk
- Pictures of our experience/a word that describes the experience
- Pictures of our experience/a word that describes the experience
- Campfire:
- Really pretty, we went and roasted marshmallows, the fire was between the bunkhouse and the cemetery. It was a little creepy to know that there was a cemetery there.
- Really pretty, we went and roasted marshmallows, the fire was between the bunkhouse and the cemetery. It was a little creepy to know that there was a cemetery there.
- Surprise hike:
- I had no idea where we were going we were on the way to the telescope but I thought we are going to stop before we got there. But we started walking and I was walking with Kate, and we saw fireflies for the first time and we saw a bunch of stars once we got away from the bunkhouse and the science center. Once we got to the GBT it was dark and you could see more of the stars than at the bunkhouse or back at home. We looked up at the stars for a while and the moon came out so later we looked at it with this light refractor thing and it was really pretty. And then Sue Ann turned on the lights at the GBT and the whole thing lit up and it was so exciting. Then we started heading back to the bunks.