Supernova Observations
- As of Spring 2016 I am a certified observational astronomer at Lick Observatory, and have spent many of my undergraduate nights doing follow up observations for Alex Filippenko's Lick Observatory Supernova Search. On a bi-monthly basis, I spend the whole night remotely taking multi-wavelenth exposures of potential and confirmed SN candidates on the Nickel 1m telescope, based at Lick Observatory in Santa Clara, CA.
- In Spring 2015 I also analyzed images taken from the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), a fully robotic telescope part of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search that scans the night sky every night and searches for changes in stellar luminosity, which may indicate a new supernova. Undergraduates on the team sort through the KAIT images to determine if it is indeed a SN candidate.