The Boring Side of Astronomy

Presentation by Stephen Gwyn, Canadian Astronomy Data Centre

Summary

Survey field from the Euclid Space Telescope

Stephen will explain why wide-field imaging surveys like Euclid and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which seem really dull (I mean really all you see is bunch of dots on a black background, not like those cool pictures you get from Hubble and James Webb) are actually really interesting.

Bio

Stephen Gwyn is a Data Specialist and the Science Lead at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, part of the Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre. He got his Ph.D. at the University of Victoria in 2001, where he worked primarily with data from the Hubble Space Telescope. After a very brief stint working the project that eventually became JWST, he moved to Marseille, France where he became interested in the data processing side of astronomy. Returning to Victoria, Stephen started working with data from MegaCam, a wide field camera on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. This has led to work in a number of different projects, including the New Horizons mission to Pluto and its second target Arrokoth, and now Euclid

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