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HETDEX- Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment
HETDEX- Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment
ABOUT
ABOUT
HETDEX (Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment) is the first major experiment to study the evolution of dark energy. We wrote and ran scripts on the supercluster TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) to classify sources by their distances, as well as their Lyman-alpha emissions. Mapping the galaxies will help astronomers better constrain parameters of dark energy and dark matter and could challenge what we currently know about cosmology. Our immediate goal was to create a reliable training set for a machine learning algorithm to automate the process of classifying spectra. We presented our research at the 2019 Frank N. Bash Symposium in Texas. (See Poster Below)
HETDEX (Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment) is the first major experiment to study the evolution of dark energy. We wrote and ran scripts on the supercluster TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) to classify sources by their distances, as well as their Lyman-alpha emissions. Mapping the galaxies will help astronomers better constrain parameters of dark energy and dark matter and could challenge what we currently know about cosmology. Our immediate goal was to create a reliable training set for a machine learning algorithm to automate the process of classifying spectra. We presented our research at the 2019 Frank N. Bash Symposium in Texas. (See Poster Below)
OUTREACH
OUTREACH
Recognizing the need to have a foundational training set for our research, I created citizen science workshops to train a large group of people to classify HETDEX observations. I organized and led these research workshops, which not only served to complete our research goal but also to introduce undergraduates to spectral data and practical skills for astronomy research. I believe outreach to those within astronomy and in our communities is vitally important, and we should make it a priority.
Recognizing the need to have a foundational training set for our research, I created citizen science workshops to train a large group of people to classify HETDEX observations. I organized and led these research workshops, which not only served to complete our research goal but also to introduce undergraduates to spectral data and practical skills for astronomy research. I believe outreach to those within astronomy and in our communities is vitally important, and we should make it a priority.
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