AAS Kentucky Area Meeting 2021
PROGRAM
April 16th
Time
13:00 - 14:30
13:00 - 13:05
13:05 - 13:45
13:45 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:15
14:15 - 14:30
Name
Benne Holwerda
Jennifer Sokoloski
Suzanne Smith
Ethan Colbert
Jordan Dowdy
Title
LSST/ Vera Rubin Telescope (Host: Dirk)
Welcome
Helping You Do Science with Rubin LSST
LSST & KY Space Grant Consortium
Very-Large Scale Photon Simulations using for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Object-Brightness Analyzer for Rubin Observatory (OBARO)
14:30 - 15:00 Break
Time
15:00 - 16:00
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 - 15:30
15:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:45
15:45 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:45
Name
Wade Roemer
David Lazarz
Maria Babiuc
Renbin Yan
Allyn Smith
David Doge
Jessica Henderson
Title
Stars (Host: Benne)
EMD Analysis of QPPs in GALEX M dwarfs
The MaStar empirical Library of high-quality stellar spectra
Binary Neutron Stars Simulations with Hybrid Equation of States
Instrumentation (Host: Gerry)
Cost-effective Instrument to Enable Spectroscopic Mapping of the Sky
The APSU campus observatory: a tool for teaching and basic projects.
Astronomical Image Processing of Transiting Exoplanets with the NKU 14-inch
Tardigrade Survivability under Simulated Martian Conditions
April 17th
Time
09:00 - 09:45
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 09:45
09:45 - 10:15
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15
Name
Yuanyuan Su
Valeria Olivares
Shawn Knabel
Tim Hamilton
Title
Galaxy Clusters (Host: Tom)
Studying galaxy clusters in a machine-learning era
Conversing with black holes in central cluster and group galaxies
Gravitational Lenses (Host: Tom)
KiDS/GAMA Strong Lenses as Probes of Elliptical Galaxies' Mass Content
An unusual "folded" gravitational lens, caused by a galaxy cluster
10:15 - 10:30 Break
Time
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00
Name
Tithi Patel
Becca Mikula
Dirk Grupe
Maryam Dehghanian
Parker Poulos
Eileen Herwig
Title
Active Galactic Nuclei (Host: Nathan)
Decade-long monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei with Swift
Analysis of the Changing Look AGN NGC 1566- Project Updates
WPVS 007 - The AGN the Should not Exist
How to trace a wind?
A variability study on the quasar PKS 2135-147
Optical Analysis of the changing-look AGN IRAS 23226-3843
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
Time
13:00 - 14:45
13:00 - 13:15
13:15 - 13:30
13:30 - 13:45
13:45 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:15
14:15 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:00
Name
Lori Porter
Dominic Smith
Xihan Ji
Chenyu Zhao
Gerry Williger
Benne Holwerda
Alanna Cavins
Tom Pannuti
Title
Galaxies (Host: Tim)
The Loneliest Galaxies in the Universe: A GAMA and GalaxyZoo Study on Void Galaxies
Transformations of Galaxies in the Green Valley According to Galaxy Zoo Voting
Extragalactic ionized regions through multidimensional emission-line diagnostics
Radial Quenching Proles of Nearby Galaxies
Lyman Limit Systems from the GALEX Archive: First Results
Galaxy Morphometrics in the Hydra Cluster
Time Based Variations on Select X-Ray Sources Present in NGC6744
Something new and interesting about SNRs
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:00 KAAS Business Meeting
- Election of Ocers (Vice President, Secretary, Education Ocer)
- Next meeting: Online vs In-person?
- KAAS Online Summer Lectures
NASA-KY Space Grant Consortium
Suzanne Smith