In which I think I am an experimentalist

09Mar07

Damn, world, it has been a while. I hope you’ve been well.
This was one of THOSE weeks, by which I mostly mean I had a Junior Lab presentation + paper due. So I spent last weekend wracked with spasms of data analysis, trying to find decent initial conditions for fitting 12 lorentzians plus a [...]

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In which I return triumphant

01Mar07

Oh, world, did you think I had forgotten you? Never.
I’ve been on an observing run in Arizona, working with the very telescopes I use from Cambridge. The observatory is at the top of Mt. Hopkins, which is about halfway between Tucson and the AZ-Mexico border. It’s home to several scopes, including two siblings of 48″ [...]

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