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Updates

March 2023

In the following weeks, I will be working on my final piece of writing regarding all the work I have done on this project in the past three years. I will also be sending my results from Source Extractor to my mentor so he can use them in his overall data.

February 2023

I completed my Source Extractor and ran the Python program provided by my mentor to analyze all the photo files I was given. He and I continue to have weekly meetings.

January 2023

After a week of trouble-shooting, I have been able to boot up Source Extractor through Ubuntu using Microsoft Remote Desktop. I am now using the software to analyze data for my mentor. He is also working to develop a Python code to make the process less tedious which we will likely start testing next week.

November 2022

I have begun to filter through the images however the error statistic is about 25% which is about 15% higher than we had hoped. Each image is supposed to depict one spiral arm that the computer program has separated for us, however. it was unable to do so for many of the images. We predicted that there would not be many errors but that is not the case. I have sorted about 2000 of the 8000 into three folders: ones that have worked, ones that are definite errors, and ones with smaller errors that may not need to be fixed. By the end of the month, I hope to be done filtering the 8000 images. The image to the right is one with a definite error.

October 2022

This October I will hopefully begin filtering through the data. When the spiral arms are traced over by our volunteers from our citizen science project we take those tracings and overlay them in order to deduce the best-fit angle. However, the automated program that overlays these tracings is not always accurate. Each image we will eventually measure should only have one arm in it but others have more than that. I will be looking for those outliers so we can redo the overlay so it lines up correctly. The image to the left is one that is correct!

Summer 2022

Over this summer I continued to work with Dr. Treuthardt and his team. We met bi-weekly, when scheduling permitted, to check in about the project. I have begun to develop potential logos for the P2DFFT program and will also be contributing to data filtering. Our data needs to run through a program to overlay the spiral arms, I am going to look through these overlays and ensure that our software worked correctly and the arms are lined up. If they are not I will flag them and they will be re-laid to fit correctly.

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