spiral galaxy M101 in gri via WIYN/ODI

about me

I’m a fourth-year astronomy graduate student at Indiana University, working with Katherine Rhode. My research interests involve (broadly) Local Group cosmology and (narrowly) dwarf galaxies in the local universe. My dissertation project is based on observations of ultra-compact high velocity clouds from the ALFALFA neutral hydrogen survey. I use the WIYN telescope and its One Degree Imager to search for stellar counterparts to these objects, like Leo P, an extremely metal poor star-forming dwarf galaxy in the Local Group. I presented the methods for this project at the January 2015 AAS conference, published initial results in September 2015, and had a poster at the 2016 STScI Spring Symposium. I’m also a contributor to odi-tools, a set of Python/Pyraf based scripts for stacking ODI images, and performing photometry tasks on the results.