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- Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/news/alex-del-franco-watson-fellow-and-3mt-finalist monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/c14a8ca5-ec40-4f33-9169-6de6306b2952/PXL_20240501_203829205.jpg News - Alex Del Franco, Watson Fellow and 3MT Finalist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/news/milestone-unlocked-hooding-my-first-phd-student monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1729050005217-ZX3P8WVNU7CHV727GIOQ/PXL_20240517_162804391.jpg News - Milestone Unlocked - Hooding My First PhD Student https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1729050029656-866MIIYCUCKVY81LKMVV/IMG_3877%281%29.jpg News - Milestone Unlocked - Hooding My First PhD Student https://www.follettelab.com/news/congratulations-to-2023-follette-lab-seniors-d4pnr monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/7ef900c1-de87-4caf-afc5-e417ba136631/PXL_20240501_231556108.MP.jpg News - Congratulations to 2024 Follette Lab Seniors! - Bethany Martin ‘24 Bethany definitely gets the “best sport” of the thesis cohort award. She was originally supposed to be able to work on hot-off-the-presses Hubble Space Telescope observations of the planetary mass companion Delorme 1 (AB)b, but in a run of crazy bad luck, Hubble went briefly into safe mode right as our observations were scheduled to be taken last summer and they got bumped from July to August to October to January to June. Poor Bethany was strung along for the ride, but she rose to the occasion and did excellent preparatory work for that golden day when we eventually get those mythical data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/07081f68-844a-4dc4-a2fd-ea6edfafc0b7/PXL_20240501_234007734.jpg News - Congratulations to 2024 Follette Lab Seniors! - Courtney Reed ‘24 In her thesis, Courtney built upon the work of AY22-23 postbac Catherine Sarosi and made major improvements and advancements in one of our long-term lab projects - to construct a tool that will systematically analyze and compare the structures and morphologies of planet-forming disks across wavelengths. Courtney taught herself to work with a particularly tricky subset of radio interferometry data of these disks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/3ea887c2-036f-48fa-9d28-93b867d64a47/PXL_20240501_234801528.MP.jpg News - Congratulations to 2024 Follette Lab Seniors! - Giselle Hoermann ‘24 (UMass) Giselle’s thesis was all about high-contrast imaging. Building off of the work of lab alumni Alex Watson ‘18, Clare Leonard ‘19 and Jéa Adams Redai ‘21, Giselle extended our PyKLIP Parameter Explorer (PyKLIP-PE) algorithm to work with multiwavelength spectral differential imaging data and applied it to a subset of the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) dataset. It’s early days for this project, but Giselle’s initial results are super promising, and we now have the foundation that we need to apply the optimization methods that we developed for protoplanet detection with Magellan to the adolescent planets that GPIES sought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/de5b767b-f186-4d1e-b024-0543435548a3/PXL_20240502_001215800.MP.jpg News - Congratulations to 2024 Follette Lab Seniors! - Alex Del Franco ‘24 Alex’s innovative and ambitious thesis set out to develop and test a framework for interactive explanatory text and lab exercises to accompany an introductory astrophysics course. Alex spent a whole semester developing, adapting, and piloting various modalities, topics, and degrees of interactivity with real students in the classroom. He then developed a hypothesis around the role of scaffolding and interactivity in improving student learning and tested it with a series of focus groups. He taught himself to code and analyze qualitative transcript data, which suggested a nuanced interplay between scaffolding and interactivity. In other words, there are distinct advantages and disadvantages to each modality. Alex and I hope to continue to develop these activities and deliver them as a packaged curriculum someday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/0e4af36b-9d5c-4ce4-8f34-6a8ce724ce8d/PXL_20240502_000328169.jpg News - Congratulations to 2024 Follette Lab Seniors! - Adrian Friedman ‘24 In work that he began initially as a summer intern with lab postdoctoral alum Connor Robinson (now at Alfred University), Adrian built, installed, and commissioned a fiber-fed spectrometer for our campus observatory. Through many coooooold trials and tribulations on the roof of the science center, Adrian honed his instrumentation, engineering, and software skills (and patience). In the end, he was able to create a functioning prototype that we will be able to integrate into our stellar astrophysics and upper level observational astronomy courses. https://www.follettelab.com/news/cailin-plunkett-accepts-apker-award-gives-invited-talk-at-aps-april-meeting monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/4373ee2e-2f2a-41ba-9643-78869b0238ce/PXL_20240406_175043882.jpg News - Cailin Plunkett Accepts Apker Award, Gives Invited Talk at APS April Meeting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/d7f4e0ab-de1b-45e0-8a0d-0c6fc3f8e783/PXL_20240405_021958913.jpg News - Cailin Plunkett Accepts Apker Award, Gives Invited Talk at APS April Meeting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/news/a-kiwi-lab-reunion-over-high-tea monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://www.follettelab.com/news/follette-labbers-at-aas-243-in-new-orleans monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/08734aa6-faad-4257-911a-8a9bf189a919/AAScake.png News - Follette Labbers at AAS 243 in New Orleans - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/9f358cf3-e388-4350-b0b8-47d22651f9d1/AASgroup.png News - Follette Labbers at AAS 243 in New Orleans - Make it stand out Left to right: Suyash Deshmukh, me, Adrian Friedman, Bethany Martin, Josie Carillo, Catalina Zamora, Courtney Reed. 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Left to right: Courtney Reed, Amy Zheng, Josie Carillo, Bethany Martin, A’Cora Hickson, Alex Del Franco, Jess Laboissiere, Giselle Hoermann, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/21ad0152-0548-4815-97a0-8b6fa129431f/BBQ2023.png News - That’s a Wrap for Summer 2023! - Make it stand out Summer 2023 Follette Labbers. Left to Right: Jada Louison, Courtney Reed, Connor Robinson, A’Cora Hickson, Adrian Friedman, me, Alex Del Franco, Josie Carillo, Kinsey Cronin, Bethany Martin, Cat Sarosi, Amy Zheng. Seated left to right: Giselle Hoermann, Jess Laboissiere. 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She was even able to boil down her highly technical thesis into a three minute presentation for the Amherst College Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, where she received the “audience choice” award among the 10 finalists. Alyssa (right) introducing Cailin (left) at the Amherst College Physics and Astronomy Department’s thesis talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/ab021d06-7b8c-4f07-a596-d37ab0342ebe/Alyssatalk.png News - Congratulations to 2023 Follette Lab Seniors! - Alyssa Cordero ‘23 Alyssa’s thesis involved improving predictions for the detectability of accretion features in NIR spectra of accreting brown dwarfs with Alyssa taught herself to use the JWST ETC and made key improvements to a JWST Cycle 2 proposal last fall. Although that proposal was not accepted, Alyssa’s thesis results will be highlighted in our Cycle 3 resubmission., and we think it will have a really good shot this time around! 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Cat Sarosi and Vanesa Farooq present their work at the annual National Numeracy Network Conference - Make it stand out Vanesa Farooq, a junior Statistics major, presents at the National Numeracy Network. https://www.follettelab.com/news/back-to-the-telescope-again monthly 0.5 2023-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/2c71d072-6868-4ed3-95b2-0f2db96b1964/unnamed4.jpeg News - Back to the Telescope Again - Make it stand out Left to right: Kate, Jada, Kim, Jingyi, and Sarah with the Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/0467790c-07f7-48fe-b9e7-d3ea300f227c/IMG_3329.jpg News - Back to the Telescope Again - Make it stand out Undergraduate Jingyi Zhang (Smith College) and graduate student Jada Louison (UMass) operate the Keck LRIS instrument https://www.follettelab.com/news/placeholder-for-homepage-layout-zmpwt monthly 0.5 2023-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/f284d18a-9ab1-48c1-ab26-b7f82c27723c/Screen+Shot+2023-03-28+at+5.50.57+PM.png News - 2022 Follette Lab graduates Morales, Jiang, and Gomez are awarded AAS Chambliss Awards/Honorable Mentions - Make it stand out Julio, Lillian, and Sierra at their AAS posters https://www.follettelab.com/news/follette-lab-takes-europe-by-storm-part-2 monthly 0.5 2023-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/79986833-4be9-4487-a762-f019538fdb34/IMG_3023.jpg News - Follette Lab Takes Europe by Storm - Part 2 (Cool Stars) - Lab Photo at Toulouse Observatory From left to right: Lab alum William Balmer, Sarah Betti, lab alum Annie Peck, Kate, and Kim Ward-Duong at the Spirit of Lyot Conference in Leiden, Netherlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1680042140363-4YE6M9FCXUJ76HXLDH97/IMG_2972.jpg News - Follette Lab Takes Europe by Storm - Part 2 (Cool Stars) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1680042182795-NSGQT1RYWDILRD6IA6BM/IMG_2983.jpg News - Follette Lab Takes Europe by Storm - Part 2 (Cool Stars) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1680042174223-DR8AW28D20J5H9ZGGY8V/IMG_2984.jpg News - 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Follette Lab Takes Europe by Storm - Part 1 (Spirit of Lyot) - Make it stand out From left to right: Lab alum William Balmer, Sarah Betti, lab alum Annie Peck, Kate, and Kim Ward-Duong at the Spirit of Lyot Conference in Leiden, Netherlands https://www.follettelab.com/news/placeholder-for-homepage-layout-a5ywk monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/88acf8e0-d695-4f81-a334-1ec9fbe329ff/2021_2.jpg News - Congratulations to 2022 Follette Lab Seniors! - Make it stand out From left to right: Kate, senior Lillian Jiang (Smith College), senior Sierra Gomez (UMass), senior David Formica (Amherst College), Sarah Betti, Connor Robinson, senior Khalid Mohamed (Amherst College), senior Lena Treiber (Amherst College), senior Julio Morales (UMass), Alex Del Franco, Kim Ward-Duong, senior Beck Dacus (Amherst College), senior Rafael Vanin-Muñoz (Amherst College) https://www.follettelab.com/news/placeholder-for-homepage-layout-bbg47 monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/fa482ec8-fdba-409d-9c76-f5ed2906630c/Cailin.jpeg News - Two Follette Lab members win prestigious awards. Congrats Cailin and Sierra! - Follette Lab Junior Cailin Plunkett wins Goldwater Fellowship Cailin Plunkett, a junior physics and math major at Amherst College, was one of the 417 students nationwide to receive the Goldwater Scholarship. When she was interviewed for an Amherst news article about this year’s scholarship winners, she discussed both her work here in the Follette Lab and her time researching at LIGO in the summer of 2021. In our lab, her work focused on understanding the formation mechanisms of planets and how these differ from those of stars. Her time at LIGO was spent working with noise models that would enable the isolation of gravitational wave signals from black holes. Congratulations Cailin! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/308d0641-b10e-40ff-9e17-b85c288b5e38/sierragomezpicture.jpeg News - Two Follette Lab members win prestigious awards. Congrats Cailin and Sierra! - Follette Lab senior Sierra Gomez is awarded the Five Colleges, Inc. Lorna Peterson Prize Sierra Gomez, an undergraduate senior at UMass Amherst, was the 2022 recipient of the Five Colleges Lorna M. Peterson Prize. The prize, which is described by the Consortium as “...support[ing] scholarly and creative work by undergraduate students taking part in a Five College program,” is awarded to a nominee who exemplifies collaboration in their academic career. Congratulations Sierra! https://www.follettelab.com/projects daily 0.75 2023-06-28 https://www.follettelab.com/projects/exoplanets-to-microbes monthly 0.5 2024-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/6511d092-805a-4ffb-a0d8-9e92a9116b90/Screen+Shot+2023-06-28+at+11.26.30+AM.png Projects - Exoplanets To Microbes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/the-planet-forming-disk-database monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/9afb1bd4-6056-487e-82af-edc318e536f5/poster_big_image_v4_kfzjgj.png Projects - Resolved Planet-Forming Disk Database - A Multiwavelength, Quantitative View of Morphological Substructures in Resolved Planet-Forming Disks High-resolution imagery of planet-forming disks has revealed the presence of a variety of morphological features, including rings, spirals, arcs, and shadows. In order to develop a quantitative picture of morphology in the population of resolved planet-forming disks, we need to study a large sample of high resolution imagery in multiple wavelengths. We present a large database of resolved planet-forming disks, combining literature stellar and disk properties with archival imagery from ALMA, SPHERE, SEEDS, and GPI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/339b5c53-d3ef-4a14-bd0b-09cce68692ee/Screenshot_2022-06-07_at_11-33-24_2203_09991_pdf_fvnygd_bqptx2.png Projects - Resolved Planet-Forming Disk Database - Developing the Flexible Image Gallery Generator (FIGG) to Explore Transitional Disk Substructures We developed the Flexible Image Gallery Generator (FIGG) Python package to provide a powerful processing tool for constructing image grids through a straightforward user interface. FIGG allows for a user to crop, normalize, mask, label, and display a set of .fits format science images using a simple Google Sheets interface. We utilized FIGG to examine a set of newly-compiled near-infrared images of transitional disks from an international collaboration between the VLT-SPHERE, GPI, and Subaru teams. Applying FIGG to this image set, we were able to visualize and compare substructures within the population despite the large variation in spatial and flux scales across spectral types, distances, and instruments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/54b1212c-2457-414a-8fa7-2c116fcb759e/DelFranco_PPVII_FIGG.png Projects - Resolved Planet-Forming Disk Database - Optical and Near-infrared View of Planet-forming Disks and Protoplanets In this chapter of the Protostars and Planets VII, we review the breakthrough progress that has been made in the field of high-resolution, high-contrast optical and near-infrared imaging of planet-forming disks. These advancements include the direct detection of protoplanets embedded in some disks, and derived limits on planetary masses in others. Morphological substructures, including: rings, spirals, arcs, and shadows, are seen in all imaged infrared-bright disks to date, and are ubiquitous across spectral types. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/54b1212c-2457-414a-8fa7-2c116fcb759e/DelFranco_PPVII_FIGG.png Projects - Resolved Planet-Forming Disk Database - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/developing-computational-tools-for-exoplanet-and-educational-research monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1680654684593-HIPFTFHZD29TB2G7L1J8/unsplash-image-Skf7HxARcoc.jpg Projects - Developing Computational Tools for Exoplanet and Educational Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/f2c54d61-6829-4f4c-b3a6-3af3e933f591/Adam_Paper_img.png Projects - Developing Computational Tools for Exoplanet and Educational Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/54b1212c-2457-414a-8fa7-2c116fcb759e/DelFranco_PPVII_FIGG.png Projects - Developing Computational Tools for Exoplanet and Educational Research - Developing the Flexible Image Gallery Generator (FIGG) to Explore Transitional Disk Substructures We developed the Flexible Image Gallery Generator (FIGG) Python package to provide a powerful processing tool for constructing image grids through a straightforward user interface. FIGG allows for a user to crop, normalize, mask, label, and display a set of .fits format science images using a simple Google Sheets interface. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/the-giant-accreting-protoplanet-survey-gaplanets-dxkng-gz3y5-ggpse monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/b91ca20d-9082-449b-8b5e-495584bf5b70/Screen+Shot+2023-05-09+at+1.53.14+PM.png Projects - Statistical Modeling of Accreting Object Populations - Simulated Scatter: A Monte Carlo Approach to Understanding the Observed (sub)Stellar Mass-Accretion Rate Relation We report on the results of a Monte Carlo simulation that attempts to disentangle the effects of physical processes and systematic uncertainties on the scatter in the object mass-mass accretion rate relation. This is done by unifying assumptions and propagating interrelated uncertainties throughout the extrapolation pathway from observational diagnostic to mass accretion rate estimate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/5fef0ba4-0ff9-46b7-ac5f-ae0781a26f49/Screen+Shot+2023-05-08+at+12.32.20+PM.png Projects - Statistical Modeling of Accreting Object Populations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/the-giant-accreting-protoplanet-survey-gaplanets-dxkng-gz3y5 monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/46dee5d9-1a35-413c-bf3c-77fb24bf5fdc/Screen+Shot+2023-05-05+at+3.47.22+PM.png Projects - Accreting Object Spectra - Probing the Formation Mechanisms of Brown Dwarfs and Planetary-Mass Objects using Keck/LRIS Measuring accurate accretion rates of stellar and substellar objects allows us to probe their fundamental formation pathways. Previous studies of excess continuum and line emission have enabled accretion comparisons across mass regimes, ranging from stellar-mass T Tauri stars to substellar objects. However, any astrophysical differences in accretion between these objects remain unclear. Thus, we present a two-year study using the Keck Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) in order to expand the sample of substellar objects from Herczeg et al. (2008) into a lower-mass regime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/e8fbd1b1-49d1-4ecd-b488-40013a6cad0c/Screen+Shot+2023-05-09+at+3.34.14+PM.png Projects - Accreting Object Spectra - Near-infrared Accretion Signatures from the Circumbinary Planetary-mass Companion Delorme 1 (AB)b Delorme 1 (AB)b, a ~30-45 Myr circumbinary planetary-mass companion, was recently discovered to exhibit strong Hα emission. This suggests ongoing accretion from a circumplanetary disk, somewhat surprising given canonical gas disk dispersal timescales of 5-10 Myr. Here, we present the first NIR detection of accretion from the companion in Paβ, Paγ, and Brγ emission lines from SOAR/TripleSpec 4.1, confirming and further informing its accreting nature https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/c971c842-17da-466c-8619-dad14b6e0ece/Screen+Shot+2023-05-09+at+3.34.14+PM.png Projects - Accreting Object Spectra - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/the-comprehensive-archive-of-substellar-and-planetary-accretion-rates-caspar monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/de52a9f8-2fee-40ca-b891-705e765f29b7/Screen+Shot+2023-05-09+at+2.42.16+PM.png Projects - The Comprehensive Archive of Substellar and Planetary Accretion Rates (CASPAR) - Characterizing Accretion and Formation Mechanisms across the Brown Dwarf and Planetary Mass Regimes The Comprehensive Archive of subStellar Accretion Rates (CASPAR) Database consists of >1000 measured accretion rates from ~800 T Tauri stars, isolated BDs, and bound planetary mass companions. This talk reviews work to disentangle physical and systematic effects in the inferred accretion properties of substellar objects using the CASPAR Database. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/534d328f-e253-4266-9279-32bccc74a7e2/CASPAR_V2.1-removebg-preview.png Projects - The Comprehensive Archive of Substellar and Planetary Accretion Rates (CASPAR) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/the-quantitative-reasoning-for-college-science-study monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670019130531-XS3YC94ZE30OV61MU0EJ/unsplash-image-h3kuhYUCE9A.jpg Projects - The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science Study - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/027a339c-5576-4d04-8eb4-912765b86b7e/Screen+Shot+2023-05-10+at+9.48.42+AM.png Projects - The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science Study - The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment, 1: Development and Validation Science is an inherently quantitative endeavor, and general education science courses are taken by a majority of college students. As such, they are a powerful venue for advancing students’ skills and attitudes toward mathematics. This article reports on the development and validation of the Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment, a numeracy assessment instrument designed for college-level general education science students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/66c3efce-1231-46f4-95ba-77dc0cdaa712/Screen+Shot+2023-05-10+at+9.43.53+AM.png Projects - The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science Study - The Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment 2: Demographic, Academic and Attitudinal Variables as Predictors of Quantitative Ability In this article, we explore the ability of demographic and attitudinal variables to predict student scores on the Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment. Variables measured by the assessment include: students' academic choices and plans, attitudes and perceptions regarding mathematics, self-reported effort level, and basic demographics such as age, race/ethnicity, gender and disability status. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/the-giant-accreting-protoplanet-survey-gaplanets monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/f2c54d61-6829-4f4c-b3a6-3af3e933f591/Adam_Paper_img.png Projects - The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS) - The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Optimization Techniques for Robust Detections of Protoplanets In this work, we present a new, systematic approach to optimization vetted using data of the high-contrast stellar companion HD 142527 B from the Magellan Adaptive Optics Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS). More specifically, we present a grid search technique designed to explore three influential parameters of the PSF subtraction algorithm pyKLIP: annuli, movement, and KL modes. We consider multiple metrics for postprocessed image quality in order to optimally recover at Hα (656 nm) synthetic planets injected into contemporaneous continuum (643 nm) images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670019158760-NK9WY7M58LNMDXJYH6PV/unsplash-image-gEta6dbzFy0.jpg Projects - The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/4e8c0e3e-248f-4231-a2eb-1ebec5b35e0e/GAPlanets_CS_cha_png.png Projects - The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS) - The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS) -- Results from a Six Year Campaign to Image Accreting Protoplanets We report H-alpha differential imaging results from the deepest and most comprehensive accreting protoplanet survey to date, acquired with the Magellan Adaptive Optics (MagAO) system's VisAO camera. We detect one new candidate protoplanet, CS Cha "c", robustly recover the HD142527 B and HD100453 B low mass stellar companions across multiple epochs, recover LkCa 15 b (though cannot rule out a substantial scattered light contribution to its emission), recover PDS 70 c, and tentatively recover PDS 70 b when employing targeted optimization. Of the many other previously-reported companions and companion candidates around objects in the sample, we do not recover any additional robust candidates. https://www.follettelab.com/projects/category/education monthly 0.5 https://www.follettelab.com/projects/category/exoplanet monthly 0.5 https://www.follettelab.com/projects/tag/Exotomicro monthly 0.5 https://www.follettelab.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/a90c7613-5f4d-48c6-938d-067044552318/KFL-placeholder-icon-rotate-01.png Contact - Postbaccalaureate and Postdoctoral Researchers Opportunities are subject to funding, and will be advertised on the AAS job register https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/22f033b2-8ae9-4807-b02f-ba09d7dbba52/KFL-placeholder-icon-float.png Contact - Undergraduate Students I accept beginning researchers into my lab each summer through the Amherst College Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program and the Five College Astronomy Internship Programs. Many of these researchers continue work throughout the academic year as Gregory S. Call Academic Interns or as an independent study course. Many of these projects culminate in senior honors theses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/178c9fbb-1eb0-4455-8185-89c0380cf9c3/Frame.png Contact - Graduate Students I accept PhD students into my lab through the University of Massachusetts Astronomy PhD program. I am happy to speak with admitted students about research opportunities in my lab, and with current PhD students in the program about potential initial research projects (first year students) and dissertation projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/7b3458eb-ad1e-483f-b055-3f5d4556af63/FolletteLab-Illustration_Quantitative-Literacy.png Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670272803079-LN6ZBJO7B4ZF17WHQ7S4/unsplash-image-aso6SYJZGps.jpg Contact https://www.follettelab.com/exoplanet-research daily 0.75 2023-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/14753da4-2cb7-472e-a7df-d9baf040bf2e/51Eri-e1440026507501.jpg Exoplanet Research - High-Contrast Imaging We de-twinkle stars in order to take very high-resolution images of regions where planet-formation is actively occurring. Our goal is to identify direct and indirect signatures of planets and use them to inform where, when, and how planets form around other stars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/bfda9b8a-de0a-4650-9c79-6c14dcb7e2bc/Screen+Shot+2023-04-02+at+1.07.50+PM.jpg Exoplanet Research - Circumstellar Disks One of the ways in which we study planet formation is by taking high-resolution images of planet-forming disks. Planets incite complex, asymmetric structures in these disks that provide clues as to where and when they are forming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/18cd671e-b515-4f90-8482-88f08ee461dc/Screen+Shot+2023-07-20+at+11.16.39+AM.png Exoplanet Research - Accretion Processes We study the physics of planet formation by gathering images and spectra of accreting planets, brown dwarfs, and stars. 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This course will provide an introduction to the nature and evolution of stars, our Milky Way galaxy, other galaxies, and the origin, size, shape and fate of the universe itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/81cd3e83-68d8-479d-922b-1d7200d29494/unsplash-image-yZygONrUBe8.jpg AP - Courses - ASTR-235 This course provides a quantitative introduction to the physical principles that govern the universe. The laws of gravity, thermal physics, atomic physics, and radiation will be applied to develop understanding of a variety of astrophysical phenomena. https://www.follettelab.com/h-social daily 0.75 2022-12-20 https://www.follettelab.com/t-formal-teaching-title-purple daily 0.75 2022-12-03 https://www.follettelab.com/t-outreach-title-purple daily 0.75 2022-12-03 https://www.follettelab.com/t-intro daily 0.75 2022-12-03 https://www.follettelab.com/au-outreach daily 0.75 2023-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670028064204-GGHSR5D1KAGEEU0H4YM9/IMG_1957-1024x682.jpeg AU - Outreach - A flour and cocoa “crater” with morphologically accurate rim and ejecta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670028065273-9TABKJ2FE00DB4NVU1R3/IMG_36901-1024x682.jpeg AU - Outreach - Beginning teen astronomy campers “backsolving” their teammates’ mystery surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670028064658-V5JVGLAZ73IFDGR9ZCOZ/IMG_2008-1024x682.jpeg AU - Outreach - Bug light (left) and regular incandescent (right) spectra taken with diffraction film over the lens of a standard digital SLR camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670028064856-WV3CX1GKULYSJ2OU1Z9Z/IMG_2018-1024x682.jpeg AU - Outreach - A pickle being fried by passing a current through it. Note that you see only yellow light from the pickle, which is emitted by sodium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670028065551-T50ODG7NCUMSL6RT9CAV/PlayDoughPlanets-1024x683.jpeg AU - Outreach - Play Dough Planets – a solar system scale model representing the relative size of the planets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637fbba3a81496773e12adc8/1670028065819-E0OZEEIC5I5IGFJLXLUV/Ruben-1024x683.jpeg AU - Outreach - Waves of flame! A Ruben’s Tube makes for a very cool waves and sound demo. Two speakers at either end of a tube filled with propane create sound waves in the tube. https://www.follettelab.com/for-students daily 0.75 2023-03-28