Tuesday, January 24, 2017

This past week was primarily a catch-up week for me. When I last intensely worked on this project last semester, I was trying to figure out a Hubble flow model presented by Mould+2000. One of my short-term goals is to recreate plots seen in Kim+2016, a paper that discusses the filamentary environment around Virgo. Much of my time this week was spent working on an annotated bibliography in order to reorient myself. I also began to revisit the Hubble flow model that was giving us problems before the semester break. I am in the process of reading up on galactic coordinate systems and different Hubble flow models. The goal is to understand these in the context of the Virgo cluster. My plans for this coming week are to continue with the annotated bibliography, and to figure out why the plots I created do not exactly match those in Kim+2016. We are skyping a collaborator from NASA/IPAC tomorrow, so hopefully that could give us some insight to what is happening around Virgo.

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