Astronomy

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM

Space and Technology Academy consist of high school and community college students committed to develop research using data recently released by observatories.

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Project 1

PRE MAIN SEQUENCE STARS

We download archived high resolution spectral data of pre main sequence stars with the purpose of analyzing spectral line and continuum variability, and establish possible correlations among these features. The main outcome of this project is to constrain the mechanisms responsible for driving changes in the stellar environment, and determine if these are also responsible for changes detected in the stellar atmosphere.

PRANATI MODUMUDI - EVERGREEN HIGH

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KEERTHANA PULLELA - EVERGREEN HIGH

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HOANG NGUYEN - YERBA BUENA HIGH

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Project 2

COSMIC RAY DETECTORS

Cosmic Rays are mainly energetic protons that are accelerated from massive supernova remnant explosions. These protons travel through the vast universe and some of them can reach the earth and interact with the atoms and molecules in earth's upper atmosphere, resulting in a shower of secondary cosmic ray particles that travel to the ground at near the speed of light.

Examples of the shower of particles from secondary cosmic ray particles include muons, electrons, positrons and neutrons.

At the EVC Advanced Lab project, we plan to detect and measure secondary cosmic ray particles using student constructed cosmic ray detectors and the associated measurement electronics.