QuarkNet
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Suffolk County Community College
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MAST 2006 QuarkNet Meteor and Air Shower Telescopy Workshop Long Island NY |
 Saturday October 21, 2006 |
What is MAST?
The QuarkNet Meteor and Air Shower Telescopy (MAST) Workshop brings together QuarkNet teachers from the eastern US to construct and test MARIACHI passive radar arrays. These arrays can be used to observe meteor activity or cosmic ray air showers by means of their ability to leave ionization trails in the atmosphere that can reflect radio waves. Teachers from five QuarkNet centers learn about the science behind these arrays, build them, and bring them back to their centers for a long term calibration, commissioning, and observation program. The goal is for students and teachers to use these arrays to begin the formation of a meteor and air shower observation network linked by the internet and the virtual data grid.
What happened at the QuarkNet MAST 2006 Workshop?
Agenda:
| 08:15 | Coffee and Pastries |
| 08:30 |
Introduction to Meteor Astronomy (Mike Inglis, SCCC) Introduction to MARIACHI Passive Radar (Helio Takai, BNL) |
| 10:00 | Antenna Construction |
| 12:20 | lunch |
| 13:15 | Crash Course in Passive Radar Operation (Helio Takai, BNL) |
| 14:00 | Passive Radar Hunt for Meteors |
| 17:00 | workshop ends |
Contacts
To learn more and get involved, please contact the organizers:
Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Lab
Jeremy Dodd, Columbia University
Ken Cecire, Hampton University
Images from MAST 2006
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http://cosm.hamptonu.edu/~kcecire/mast/mast.html Supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy, Office of Science. Copyright © 2005 Hampton University. All rights reserved. Last updated June 2006 |
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