Bdnyc.org Website Review

brown dwarf research at amnh, hunter college-cuny, and college of staten island-cuny. last january, the group bdnyc was at the meeting aas 231 presenting amazing projects. some news: eileen gonzales (graduate student) won the graduate student honorable mentions in the aas 231 chambliss astronomy student achievement awards competition for her poster! congratulations eileen! daniella bardalez gagliuffi (kalbfleisch postdoctoral fellow), ellie schwab (helen fellow, amnh) and jackie faherty (amnh) presented for the first time in aas an iposter. emily rice (csi, amnh) had a successful startorialist boothtique with awesome stellar goodies! to present talks and posters so be sure to check them out! in this post, we list the times and dates. we'll be updating this with links in addition to presentations, our own kelle cruz is running for aas council. you can find her statement here summer is always a special time for bdnyc because it's when we have the most time to dedicate to research and spending time with each other! this summer, the group has students from hunter college, the college of staten island, the graduate center, columbia, and barnard. things are busy, but we took a second at the end of group meeting yesterday to take a picture: determining ages for brown dwarfs is one of the trickiest aspects in our research, yet a very important one as they allow us to estimate mas*es. one way many researchers estimate ages is by attempting to match the motions of the object to that of stellar moving groups with known ages. a match in xyz-uvw space can suggest membership which would imply the brown dwarf is coeval with that group. one can calculate xyz positions and uvw velocities in python or your favorite programming language. bdnyc is now hosting a stellar kinematics web uppsala, sweden, here are the various places you can meet bdnyc members and learn about our science. followers of this blog and our team's scientific endeavors may know we have a curated database of brown dwarfs we work with. an initial