Astro capstone meeting notes:  Jan 18, 2022

Present: Richmond, Dussault, Lertviwatkul

  Plan for the next few weeks:

     - create a "raw" light curve in B or V (whichever hasn't
             been done yet)

     - investigate outliers: 
             look at the images on which discrepant images are measured
             try to identify a reason for the bad measurement
             once reasons have been identified, we can eliminate
                   those measurements from further analysis

     - convert all measurements of brightness to magnitudes

     - calibrate the magnitudes using comparison star(s)

     - in addition to B and V light curves as a function of phase,
              make a (B-V) light curve as a function of phase


  Plan for later in the semester:

     - look through the literature for radial velocity measurements
              of your stars

     - use the radial velocities and your light curves to compute
              masses of the stars

     - use the radial velocities and your light curves to compute
              sizes of the stars

     - compare your results to those determined by other astronomers


  There are additional calculations one can do if time remains in the
the semester.  We'll talk about those later.


  Tomorrow (Wed, Jan 19): Nititee gives a practice version of 
             his presentation