https://github.com/autistic-symposium/interstellar-idl
👾 interstellar dust data reduction and analysis obtained from the stony brook mt. telescope
https://github.com/autistic-symposium/interstellar-idl
analysis astrophysics clusters data-reduction idl light study
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👾 interstellar dust data reduction and analysis obtained from the stony brook mt. telescope
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/autistic-symposium/interstellar-idl
- Owner: autistic-symposium
- Archived: true
- Created: 2013-05-14T18:44:33.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-15T00:46:34.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-08T08:12:09.583Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: analysis, astrophysics, clusters, data-reduction, idl, light, study
- Language: IDL
- Homepage: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/steinkirch
- Size: 3.34 MB
- Stars: 12
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
## researching the interstellar dust
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### tl; dr
* the study of intermediate-age open clusters can be used to learn about the stellar evolution of intermediate-mass stars and the dynamical evolution of clusters together with their interstellar extinction
* the interstellar extinction is a sum of absorption and scattering of the light within the interstellar medium, being inversely proportional to the light wavelength
* consequently, a general increase in absorption toward shorter wavelengths is observed, resulting in the effect of reddening
* in this repository, i made available the source code for data reduction and analysis in IDL, and my report and results, as well
* **[here is the final report for this work](Interstellar_Extinction.pdf)**