Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21423102r&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #231.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.734
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Indiana University (IU) owns a 17% share of the WIYN 3.5m telescope. The telescope and its suite of instruments play an important role in the research activities of many of the faculty and graduate students in the IU Department of Astronomy. As the IU representative to the WIYN Scientific Advisory Committee, I will present a brief synopsis of some of the research projects that IU astronomers are planning to do with the WIYN One Degree Imager (ODI). These projects include: a large-scale wide-field survey of the globular cluster systems of giant spiral, elliptical, and S0 galaxies; wide-field, deep imaging of open star clusters, to investigate the cluster ages, lower main sequences and brown dwarf sequences, binary fractions, and stellar rotation periods; a wide-field, narrowband survey for emission line objects (star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei) at a range of redshifts; a broadband (ugriz) and narrowband (H-alpha) survey for low-mass galaxies, to probe the faint end of the luminosity function and explore the role of environment in these galaxies' evolution; and a monitoring program to detect and characterize M-dwarf flaring in open clusters. I will also briefly mention IU's involvement in the design and implementation of a well-integrated system for the transfer, reduction, analysis, and archiving of WIYN ODI data.
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