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Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics
Ava Polzin, Katherine E. Whitaker, C. Megan Urry +85
Women are consistently underrepresented in astrophysics yet are simultaneously subject to disproportionate attrition at every career stage. This disparity between demonstrated effi…
spike: A tool to drizzle HST, JWST, and Roman PSFs for improved analyses
Ava Polzin
A point spread function (PSF) describes the distribution of light for a pure point source in an astronomical image due to the optics of the instrument. An accurate PSF is key for d…
Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists
Ava Polzin, Yasmeen Asali, Sanah Bhimani +25
This book was created as part of the SIRIUS B VERGE program to orient students to astrophysics as a broad field. The 2023-2024 VERGE program and the printing of this book is funded…
DELIGHT: Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients using Multi-resolution Images
Francisco Förster, Alejandra M. Muñoz Arancibia, Ignacio Reyes +25
We present DELIGHT, or Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients, a new algorithm designed to automatically and in real-time identify the host galaxies of extragal…
Using the Sun to Measure the Primary Beam Response of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Kevin Bandura +27
We present a beam pattern measurement of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) made using the Sun as a calibration source. As CHIME is a pure drift scan instru…
An Overview of CHIME, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
The CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Kevin Bandura +40
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a drift scan radio telescope operating across the 400-800 MHz band. CHIME is located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysic…
A Method To Characterize the Wide-Angle Point Spread Function of Astronomical Images
Qing Liu, Roberto Abraham, Colleen Gilhuly +14
Uncertainty in the wide-angle Point Spread Function (PSF) at large angles (tens of arcseconds and beyond) is one of the dominant sources of error in a number of important quantitie…