COMETWATCHERS: Bringing Research into the Undergraduate Astronomy Curriculum

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May 2000

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American Astronomical Society, 195th AAS Meeting, #19.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.875

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Integrating research with education has been an evolving process for me and the "Cometwatchers", the students with whom I work. What started as a totally extracurricular activity, has become well-integrated into St. Cloud State Univerity's upper-division courses on Solar System Astronomy and Observational Astronomy. Maintaining a collaboration with six to eight students is a challenge that is made easier and more efficient when we modularize the projects, utilize each person's expertise, hold weekly meetings, require students to write guides and manuals to instruct others, and require students to write up and present their work at meetings. This also helps students to identify and evaluate their contributions to the research. Here I profile the research component in two courses at SCSU that use a student-run optical observatory equipped with a 0.4-m telescope, CCD, UBVRI photometry filters and a fiber-optic spectrograph. Results from some focused research projects are also discussed, including an optical imaging archive of Comet Hale-Bopp, derivation of dust expansion velocities from comet images, analysis of the visible light-curve of comet Hale-Bopp, spectral analysis of millimeter-wavelength ``datacubes" of HCO+ and of other carbon-bearing molecular spectra in comet Hale-Bopp.

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