topics of recent CUREA projects:

Each CUREA student proposes, conducts, and presents a one-week observing project using one of the observing techniques taught during the first week of the program. Recent projects have been conducted on the following topics:

· measuring the light curve of supernova SN2013ej in M74

· observations of transiting extrasolar planets TrES 1b and WASP 52b

· Zeeman broadening of solar absorption lines in sunspots

· astrometry and parallax for meteors from the Perseid meteor shower

· updating double star measurements for archivally-observed star pairs

· measuring differential rotation as a function of solar latitude

· reflection spectroscopy of Solar System objects

· imaging and modeling an interacting galaxy pair

· using color imaging to distinguish different stellar populations in galaxies

· measuring the 5 and 3 minute oscillations of the solar photosphere

· observations and modeling of contact binary V0417 AQL

· temperature and pressure stratification in the solar photosphere

· spectrophotometry and blackbody fits for stars of various spectral classes

· faint star photometry of infrared variable object DoAr 21

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