Patty Minnehan, Astrophysics at LASP, Week 7
Coming to the end of my internship, I am nothing but grateful for this opportunity and amazed with how much I learned. This has been the best space to explore my interests could ever ask for. That being said, the lab is still plenty busy with lots going on with the assembly cube satellite SPRITE. […]
Patty Minnehan, Astrophysics at LASP, Week 6
This week, I made new maps without normalizing or smoothing(adjusting their value for a better image) the pixels of the gases. Each FITS file is composed of multiple fields, and I created the whole map from 19 individual fields . I divided these files against corresponding error maps to generate signal-to-noise maps. By analyzing the […]
Patty Minnehan, Astrophysics at LASP, Week 5
This week I was able to work even more or the categorization of outflow gas of M82. I accomplished this through several steps. The first part of the week I spent making graphs of two or more variables taken from fits files my mentor has given to me. Using these files I could divide one […]
Pinhead Intern Blogs, Patty Minnehan, Week 4
After a break where I was able to visit my family and celebrate the Fourth of July with my friends I have returned to Boulder for the remainder of my internship. I went back to work on Monday and worked through Friday. This week I was introduced to my big project: analyzing data from galaxy […]
Patty Minnehan, Astrophysics at LASP, Week 3
This week I was fortunate enough to attend the SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) conference in Yokohama, Japan. This was such a cool experience learning about the instrumentation used for all sorts of astronomy and astrophysics and learning about Japan as well. The first day of the conference was on Sunday. As it was […]
Patty Minnehan, Astrophysics at LASP, Week 2
My second week at LASP was exciting and eventful. This week consisted of more work on the fiber optic in an attempt to view UV light, working in the clean room, cleaning of other rocket parts, work on a black box to support another interns camera project, and finally my arrival in Japan. I am […]
Patty Minnehan, Astrophysics at LASP, Week 1
Hello everyone! My name is Patty Minnehan and I was fortunate enough to get my Pinternship at LASP(Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) at Boulder, Colorado. I started my internship Monday and I work 9:30-5:00 Monday through Friday. I am working with Dmitry Vorobiev as well as a number of other undergraduate and graduate students […]
About Me – Patty Minnehan
Hello, my name is Patrick Minnehan but you can call me Patty. I am a junior at Telluride High School where I am currently enrolled in AP Physics, my favorite class. I hope to pursue a internship in astrophysics this summer as it is a field that interests me greatly. Outside of school I love […]