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Organizing Pmode Dopplergrams Of Jupiter With Matlab, Brady T. Smith, Deborah Gulledge, Cody Shaw, Gerard Williger Sep 2023

Organizing Pmode Dopplergrams Of Jupiter With Matlab, Brady T. Smith, Deborah Gulledge, Cody Shaw, Gerard Williger

The Cardinal Edge

The interiors of the giant planets are poorly known. At the time of writing, such investigations have been limited to measuring gravitational effects from a handful of orbital probes. The most recent attempt to map the interior is via PMODE (the Planetary Multilevel Oscillations and Dynamics Experiment), designed to explore Jupiter’s core by collecting Dopplergrams. Small radial velocity shifts in Jupiter’s upper cloud decks enable us to map its atmospheric dynamics and consequently its interior via Dioseismology (techniques similar to Helioseismology, applied to Jupiter). This campaign produced a vast dataset with more than 50,000 exposures, every 30 seconds, over 24 …

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The Loneliest Galaxies In The Universe: A Gama And Galaxyzoo Study On Void Galaxy Morphology, Lori E. Porter, Benne W. Holwerda Sep 2021

The Loneliest Galaxies In The Universe: A Gama And Galaxyzoo Study On Void Galaxy Morphology, Lori E. Porter, Benne W. Holwerda

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The large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe is comprised of galaxy filaments, tendrils, and voids. The majority of the universe’s volume is taken up by these voids, which exist as underdense, but not empty, regions. The galaxies found inside voids are void galaxies and expected to be some of the most isolated objects in the universe. However, their standard morphology remains poorly studied. This study, using the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey and Galaxy Zoo’s SDSS survey, aims to remedy this. To do so, survey results from GAMA have been plotted using the Sérsic index (n) to analyze morphology, …

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