The upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has a wide field of view allowing it to scan the entire visible sky multiple times in a night. A challenge for such telescopes is the atmospheric turbulence which is not uniform across the field of view and is hard to model and remove. Credit: LSST
Junellie Quiles (University of Maryland)
Junellie is a sophomore at the UMD whose interest in astrophysics sprung at an early age in her home country of Puerto Rico.
- Internship Start Date June, 2017
- Internship End Date Sept, 2017
- Project Modeling the Atmosphere in the Era of Big Data for Extremely wide-field of view Telescopes
- Mentor Dr. Jakob Nordin
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
