COSMOS Astronomy & Astrophysics 2009
Project Groups



The 20 students in this year's Astronomy & Astrophysics Cluster will be broken up into project groups with each group having 2 to 3 students. The composition of the groups is listed below.

See the Schedule on the web to find out when your group will observe at the UCI Observatory.
 
 Project Title: Instructor:
 Group Members:
 1. The Mass of Jupiter Derived from the Orbital Period of its Moons  Basilio Yniguez
 byniguez@uci.edu
 Carol Thornton
 thorntoc@uci.edu
 Alejandro Amezquita
 Christian Cazares
 Edwardo Salazar
 2. Searching for Asteroids and Calculating Their Orbits  Basilio Yniguez
 byniguez@uci.edu
 Carol Thornton
 thorntoc@uci.edu
 Sean Buford
 Raymond Chang
 3. Determining the Properties of an Eclipsing Binary Using Photometry  Erik Tollerud
 etolleru@uci.edu
 Carol Thornton
 thorntoc@uci.edu
 Mark Chiang
 Ryan Pak
 Pranav Mutatkar
 4. Determining the Properties of Stars Using Stellar Spectra  Erik Tollerud
 etolleru@uci.edu
 Carol Thornton
 thorntoc@uci.edu
 Robert Goldman
 Andy Rodriguez
 Bryan Wu
 5. Measuring the Ages of Star Clusters in the Milky Way:  Open Cluster M11
 Tammy Smecker-Hane
 tsmecker@uci.edu
 Jean-Marc Bertolet
 Elly Shaw
 6.  Measuring the Ages of Star Clusters in the Milky Way: Globular Cluster M13
 Tammy Smecker-Hane
 tsmecker@uci.edu
 Cecilia Chow
 Perla Ibarra
 
 7. Measuring the Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies & the Mass in Dark Matter
 Rachel Kuzio de Naray
 kuzio@uci.edu
 Marissa Jauregui
 Tom Roush
 Laurence Toal
 8. Number Counts of Distant Galaxies and the Shape of the Universe
 Elizabeth Barton
 ebarton@uci.edu
 James Bullock
 bullock@uci.edu
 Tiare Barraza
 Marina Gemma


http://www.physics.uci.edu/%7Eobservat/cosmos_groups.html
Last updated June 30, 2009
Tammy Smecker-Hane