Connor Hazen: Astrophysics, Week Three

My name is Connor Hazen and I just finished my 3rd week at ASU. This week I worked with my professor to further analyze the data we had collected and simulated. When you run simulations, you are trying to get a result that you would see in the real world. So with line ratios, what you actually observe should match the simulations. The other aspect we have to deal with is two simulations. There are two programs to simulate nebular emissions, Cloudy and Flash, and both of these programs should also match to each other. So the perfect case would be all three giving exact same result, but that was not seen. Instead we observed both sims falling short of the observed point and the sims gave completely different points for some wavelengths. My professor is going to conference next week to discuss these results and others  and try and come of with a reason. Outside of work, It has gotten really active here in Tempe. School starts Monday so all the students are arriving. The whether has cooled down a little due to all the rain we have received. Thanks again to Pinhead and Sarah.