PROJECTS
This year there will be several projects in different fields of astronomy / astrophysics / technology. Teams are going to be assembled according to students' fields of interest. The current list of our team leaders with their projects is available here:
- Ana Bonaca: Stellar streams in the Milky Way
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- Denis Vida, Dino Bektešević: Croatian Meteor Network - data analysis
Abstrat: Croatian Meteor Network (CMN) is currently monitoring the night sky over Croatia and near surroundings with 30 paired cameras that enable precise trangulation of detected meteors and their orbit determination. There has been an ongoing effort of CMN to produce an automated, scientifically meaningufull, photometric analysis of detected meteors as well. Recently, it has been observed that light-curves of detected meteors display large amplitude and high frequency intensity variations as the meteor passes through it's brightest phase. These intense brightness variations could possibly be attributed to meteor's rotation.
It's the goal of this group to try and obtain light-curves of meteors detected by CMN, analyse their frequency spectrum and try to determine their rotation rates.
- Suzana Galović: Geophysical observatory
* Minor changes of groups and leaders are still possible and will be fully defined until the end of June.