Last week, you fit a simple gaussian model to measurements of a solar absorption line.
You came up with your best estimates for the parameters
Good. Now, it's time for you to go to a conference and present your work to other astronomers. Your job this week is to practice writing a short article which describes your work for a technical audience.
There are two aspects to writing a paper.
Let's spend a short time talking about the content first, and then we'll show you a "typical" scheme for getting the style correct.
This paper should be very simple: your goal is to explain to other astronomers at a conference your investigation into the structure of one solar absorption line. You assumed the profile of the line was a gaussian, and found the parameters which best fit the measurements.
How good was your fit? Does it make you think that a gaussian is a good choice for a model of this absorption line? What sort of model WOULD be a good choice, based on the theory of stellar atmospheres?
Your paper should contain the following elements.
If you feel that additional figures and/or tables would help the reader to understand your work, please include them.
Most journals and many conferences have adopted some LaTeX "style files" for submissions. That means that you use LaTeX, together with their style files, in order to make a submission. Different journals use slightly different styles.
Important note for using LaTeX on the Macs in Gosnell Lab:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/texbin
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