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| Paper: |
Accessing Radio Data with the NRAO NINE Program |
| Volume: |
532, ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS XXX |
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35 |
| Authors: |
Beasley, J.; Rodríguez, M.; Kent, B. R.; Fourie, A.; von Schill, L. |
| Abstract: |
The goal of the project carried out by NRAO NINE's summer students was to prototype a more accessible way for astrophysics curriculum to be created and distributed to lower income minorities. A set of lessons was chosen that could take a student with little to no knowledge to doing analysis of astronomical data, specifically obtained through sky surveys currently underway with the Very Large Array. These lessons were created and distributed using industry standard tools like Jupyter and git. We found that the most accessible way to create a curriculum was to make it engaging, interactive, and provide use outside the context of the specific lessons, which was made possible by markdown integration in Jupyter notebooks. The uses and implications of server-side computing for a class of students was also revealed through the development of this prototype. |
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