Day 23

Today I finished calculating the flux's for the x-ray galaxies. However, the packet Jake had given me didn't have the nuclear data for all the galaxies I've been using. I figured I'd check it with Jake at lunch. The college of science held a picnic for everyone in cos which was pretty cool because interns love free food. I didn't get a chance to really talk to Jake so I found him later in the afternoon. He gave me another paper that had all the Radio information that I would need. He also told me how to find the other x-ray data that I don't have. So now I have the information, all I have to do is figure out how to find the peak flux's...It wouldn't be so hard if everything was in the same units and if all the data I had was the same..When I did the green/red galaxies it was really easy because the information i needed was in the header and all i had to do was plug it all in an equation. The first batch of xrays wasnt too bad either, all i had to do was some conversions and use another equations. The remaining x-rays/radio galaxies are different so who knows what I'm going to have to do. Well, Bryan probably does so I should talk to him tomorrow.

Today I also spent some time thinking/working on our posters. Joe and Bob want us interns to make posters that we can take back to our schools to be put on display. If they come out anything like the posters around the halls and in the astrolab, then I'll be satisfied for sure. I asked Jake what program he used when he made the posters upstairs. He said they used power point and Illustrate..I think Power Point will be my best shot. I thought about publisher and word but I think they'd just be frustrating, or at least word would be. I think that I'll put up a lot of the images of the ugcs i worked on. Maybe pick like one set of them and show what they each look like at different wavelengths. Probably a chart of the electromagnetic spectrum and hopefully the peakflux vs. wavelength graph that i'm supposed to plot eventually...oh dear



thats enough for today,
basma