Science Olympiad: Guide for Using JS9
About Educational Resource
We invite you to explore these tools to learn more about the universe that all of us inhabit. The flexibility and user friendliness of JS9 allows you to easily access many astronomical databases to explore deep-sky objects.
- Guide for Using JS9 Part 1 and 2: In this section of the tutorial we will show you how to use online data, load it into JS9, and analyze the image.
- Decoding Starlight: Gently go through the steps of data and image processing with actual data.
- Three-Color Composites: To produce three-color composite pictures of supernova remnants from Chandra X-ray Observatory data showing the areas of low, medium, and high energies.
- X-ray Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnants: To determine types of supernova events by examining images of supernova remnants (SNRs) and identify the elements in their energy spectra.
- Analysis of Two Pulsating X-ray sources: To determine if GK Per and Cen X-3 could be white dwarfs or neutron stars by finding the periods of the X-ray emission pulses using data sets.
- Cartwheel Galaxy: To examine the Cartwheel Galaxy in both optical and X-ray bands and determine the sources of the ultra- and hyperluminous X-ray sources.
- False Color Images: To use the tools in JS9 to examine features of a supernova remnant
- Adopt a Supernova: To use JS9 to view and manipulate astronomical image data of a supernova remnant to highlight its features and determine if it is a type IA or type II SNR and to produce a presentation of the results.
- Measuring the Expansion Rate of a Supernova Remnant: To analyze observational data of a supernova remnant to determine the expansion velocity.