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<span style="font-size:16pt; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; vertical-align:baseline">Department of Physics & Astronomy, TAMU-Commerce</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt; color:rgb(192,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; vertical-align:baseline">Sep 13, Thursday, 4-5 PM in Science Building 127</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18pt; color:rgb(0,0,255); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; vertical-align:baseline">Deep Imaging of Two Stellar Overdensities
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</span><span style="font-size:12pt; color:rgb(69,129,142); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; vertical-align:baseline">PHAS board advisor | A&M-Commerce,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:rgb(69,129,142); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; vertical-align:baseline">Astronomy Ph.D. Student | Texas A&M University</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; vertical-align:baseline">Sarah Cantu graduated from Texas A&M University-Commerce in December 2015 with a Bachelor's of Science in Physics and Mathematics. She is a third year Diversity Fellow pursuing her PhD in Astronomy at Texas
A&M University-College Station. She studies near-field cosmology with Milky Way satellite observations. A Dallas native, she could live on tacos alone.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; vertical-align:baseline">This talk will be an opportunity to present my own case study on a non-traditional path to graduate school in Physics and Astronomy. As such, I will be outlining both my academic career (which touches a
little on my personal life) and presenting any particular problems/coping mechanisms as they pertained to my experiences in academia and the sciences. I will end with my current experiences including culminating research.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; text-indent:36pt">In the past decade, the number of low-luminosity Milky Way satellites has exploded. This is due to the advent of numerous large-area, ground-based surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES). I present
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; text-indent:36pt">deep follow-up Magellan/Megacam photometry of two ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the DES footprint. We use Peter Stetson's DAOPHOT/ALLFRAME package to derive point-spread function photometry
and the DES Ultra-faint Galaxy Likelihood (UGaLi) </span><span style="font-size:11pt; text-indent:36pt">toolkit to derive improved morphological parameters and isochrone fits. One of these galaxies proves to be one of the first false-positives. Our improved
structural parameters show the second to be larger than previously thought.</span></p>
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