PROGRAM
Friday, March 15
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UT-4).
Zoom link: https://nku.zoom.us/j/96878848754?pwd=MUdRS3ZUY2pzeDBHRlk0SklUYmhMZz09
Oral Presentations
Massie Hall room 020 (Massie Lecture Hall)
13:00 - 14:30 Host: J. Allyn Smith
Time
Name
Title
13:00 - 13:15
J. Allyn Smith and Tim Hamilton
Welcome addresses
13:15 - 13:30
Thomas Pannuti
Multi-Epoch Observations of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory
13:30 - 13:45
Brannon Jones
An Updated Survey of Candidate Radio Supernova Remnants and Their Properties in Nearby Galaxies
13:45 - 14:00
Clayton Robertson
Ground- and Space-Based Dust Observations of VV 191 Overlapping Galaxy Pair
14:00 - 14:30
Benne Holwerda
Morphometrics and Machine Learning; identifying perturbed galaxies in the WALLABY survey
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee Break / Posters
15:00 - 16:30 Host: Dirk Grupe
15:00 - 15:15
Eileen Herwig
Extended Lya emission around z∼3 quasar pairs
15:15 - 15:30
Maryam Dehghanian
Using Absorption Lines to Understand the Properties of the Outflow Systems
15:30 - 15:45
Alaina Spencer
The extreme low-state of the Changing Look AGN RX J0128-1848 in 2022/23
15:45 - 16:00
Salem Wolsing
The calm before the (next) storm: no third outburst in 2019-2020
16:00 - 16:15
Dirk Grupe
The re-emerging of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy WPVS 007 in X-rays in June 2023
16:15 - 16:30
Samia Mahmood
Properties of the Weak Interaction From Cosmic Ray Muons
16:45 - 17:30
Planetarium Show
16:45 - 17:30
KAAS Member Meeting
Saturday, March 16
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UT-4).
Zoom link: https://nku.zoom.us/j/96878848754?pwd=MUdRS3ZUY2pzeDBHRlk0SklUYmhMZz09
Oral Presentations
Advanced Technology Center (ATC) room 104 (Burke Lecture Hall)
10:00 - 12:00 Host: Kyle Cook
Time
Name
Title
10:00 - 10:30
Tim Hamilton
Turning projector technology into a multi-mirror spectrograph
10:30 - 10:45
J. Allyn Smith
Calibration of Large Sky Surveys
10:45 - 11:00
Maria Hamilton & Joseph Power
Nuclear Isomeric Transitions in Gamma-Ray Bursts from Neutron Star Mergers
11:00 - 11:15
Swarali Shivraj Patil
Scintillation Arcs in NANOGrav Pulsars
11:15 - 11:30
Kyle Cook
Detections of UV-Bright Galaxies in the Initial LADUMA L-Band Data
11:30 - 11:45
Harshun Kathiresan
Long-term X-ray and UV/Optical Monitoring of the Narrow Line Sefert 1 Galaxy RX J0134-4258 with Swift
11:45 - 13:00
Lunch Break
Bear’s Den Cafeteria (marked with a fork on the campus map) in the Morris University Center. Lunch tickets will be provided.
13:00 - 14:15 Host: Tim Hamilton
13:00 - 13:15
Katherine Durbin, Corrine Woods, & Macy Wright
Astrobiology With High-Altitude Balloons
13:15 - 13:30
Nathan De Lee
RRLFE: A New Method for Determining RR Lyrae Star Metallicities
13:30 - 13:45
Lindsay Dawson
Variable Star Studies at the Thomas More Observatory
13:45 - 14:00
Ash Coleman
DR Vul, LS III +62 12, and HD 51082: An Observation and Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Systems
14:00 - 14:15
Wes Ryle
The Cincinnati Observatory: Birthplace of American Astronomy
Posters
Presenters
Title
Tristan Stanek, Reagan E. Coursey & Mario Mata
Detecting AGN in Extreme X-ray Flux States with Swift