Siena ALFALFA Project

General Information about ALFALFA

• Learn about the ALFALFA survey and, especially, take a look at the Using ALFALFA for science page. What does ALFALFA detect? How can we use ALFALFA to learn about galaxies?
• Things to Know

Siena's ALFALFA Target: MKW 10

• Patti's powerpoint slides
• NED link

MATLAB

• MATLAB Tutorial
• Some more tutorials

IDL

• IDL for ALFALFA

• Read about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in order to answer these questions. Some useful links are given here:
  Main SDSS site         DR6 site        Imaging camera parameters and description
  
  a. What is the operational status of the SDSS?
  b. What are the central wavelengths of the filters used to produce SDSS images?
  c. Why is it useful to obtain images in 5 filters simultaneously?
  d. Over what portion of the galaxy is the spectrum obtained? Why might that be important?

• Galaxies Tutorial

Useful Links

• ADS
• NED - NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

Student Pages

• Patti Carroll
• Bobby Carroll
• Kristie Dangerfield
• Kevin Risolo
• Danielle Seeley
• Corey Snitchler