Mining the SDSS Database to Teach the Evolution of Galaxy Clusters to ASTRO101 Students

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #06.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.737

Computer Science

Multimedia

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Astronomy research has been undergoing an information explosion over the last few decades, with significant progress made in streamlining and simplifying Internet access to everything from telescope application processes to abstracts to multi-wavelength data. These access tools are now user-friendly enough to bring us into a new realm of teaching, giving undergraduates access to research databases using software with a gentle learning curve.
We present an online module that helps introductory-level, non-science undergraduates learn to extract information about the evolution of galaxy clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database. The students interface the database through the SkyServer web site at http://skyserver.sdss.org.
This multimedia education module is intended for inclusion in an introductory undergraduate Astronomy course for non-science majors, as part of the galaxies and cosmology topics. It starts with a directed exploration of background information, e.g., galaxian mergers by simulations, and gradually segues into student exploration. It can be used as a PC-based laboratory activity, assigned as a homework, or used as a module in an on-line course.
Support for this work was provided by the Southeast Clearinghouse (SERCH), the Maryland Space Grant Consortium, and the Simple Effective Education and Dissemination (SEED) grant program of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

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