Forty-Five Years of Turning Data Into Science, Jessica Mink, MITPAL 50th, April 2018
Forty-Five Years of Turning Data Into Science: 1973-2018
Jessica Mink
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
For the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory 50th Anniversary, Cambridge, MA, April 17, 2018
A history of Jessica's creation of data pipelines, from analog to digital:
- First Data: 1971 MIT 12.143
- Vidicon Spectrometer: 1973-4 Mars Observations
- High-Speed Photometry: 1976-1990 Occultations
- Spacelab 2 IRT: 1985-1990 IRAS and Spacelab 2 IRT
- Long-slit Spectroscopy: 1990-2018 Z-Machine, FAST
- Digitizing Images: 2002-2018 Harvard Photographic Plates
- Multi-Fiber Spectroscopy: 2003-2018 Hectospec and Hectochelle
- Echelle Spectroscopy: 2009-2018 TRES