Seminar papers

Choose one of the papers below to review for your end of term review.
  1. Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds Biny
  2. The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  3. Double-blind test program for astrometric planet detection with Gaia Nayana
  4. A Modified Magnitude System that Produces Well-Behaved Magnitudes, Colors, and Errors Even for Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Measurements Avishek
  5. An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data
  6. SExtractor: Software for source extraction Omkar
  7. Faint U-Band Dropouts in the WFPC2 Parallels of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
  8. Precision Determination of Atmospheric Extinction at Optical and Near-infrared Wavelengths Aishawnnya
  9. The Orthogonal Transfer CCD Preetish
  10. Weak Lensing Measurements: A Revisited Method and Application to Hubble Space Telescope Images Debajyoti
  11. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera
  12. The WFPC2 Archival Pure Parallels Project
  13. MoMaF: the Mock Map Facility
  14. Drizzle: A Method for the Linear Reconstruction of Undersampled Images
  15. The Characterization, Subtraction, and Addition of Astronomical Images Sushma
  16. Estimating Photometric Redshifts Using Support Vector Machines Sushmita
  17. New insight on galaxy structure from GALPHAT I. Motivation, methodology, and benchmarks for Sersic models
  18. Detailed Decomposition of Galaxy Images. II. Beyond Axisymmetric Models Niladri
  19. WFPC2 Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South
  20. Pixel-based correction for Charge Transfer Inefficiency in the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys
  21. Toward High-Precision Astrometry with WFPC2. I. Deriving an Accurate Point-Spread Function
  22. An Empirical Pixel-Based Correction for Imperfect CTE. I. HST's Advanced Camera for Surveys
  23. A New Method for Band-limited Imaging with Undersampled Detectors Kaustubh
  24. Preparing Red-Green-Blue Images from CCD Data Ruchika
  25. The Three-Dimensional Power Spectrum of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Dinesh
  26. K-Corrections and Filter Transformations in the Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near-Infrared
  27. A Photometricity and Extinction Monitor at the Apache Point Observatory
  28. High-efficiency Autonomous Laser Adaptive Optics Atul
  29. A Novel Technique to Improve Photometry in Confused Images Using Graphs and Bayesian Priors Suman
  30. Parallax beyond a Kiloparsec from Spatially Scanning the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope Swagat