Green Bank Workshop 2022
Physics majors Hailee Perkins '22, Tyler Karasinski '24 and Lesley Reyes '25 accompanied astronomers Aileen O'Donoghue and Jeffrey Miller to the 2022 Undergraduate ALFALFA Team (UAT) Workshop, from June 21 - 25 at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. This was the first in-person workshop for the UAT since 2019. The observatory is home to the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world. Observing was not possible because the telescope was undergoing maintenance, but they still had the chance to take a tour throughout the structure. They did have the opportunity to work with students and faculty from 6 other academic institutions, studying the intricacies of the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relationship and what it can tell us about the properties of galaxies.
Photo Gallery
Team SLU (L-R): Tyler Karasinski, Haille Perkins, Aileen O'Donoghue, Lesley Reyes and Jeffrey Miller
The 2022 Workshop attendees
Team SLU
Morning fog lingers in the valley behind the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope (GBT), 1-mile in the distance
The GBT, up close (Photo credit: Cheryl Miller)
Aileen O'Donoghue and Tyler Karasinski on their tour of the GBT (Photo credit: Tyler Karasinski - on film!)
Haille Perkins (at front) on her tour of the GBT
Students and faculty would frequently walk through the row of telescopes during breaks. Counting from the left side, Haille Perkins (second), Jeff Miller (fifth) and Tyler Karasinski (seventh) joined others on one such stroll (Photo credit: Adriana Durbala - on film!)