AAS 199: Special Session in Astrostatistics

DATA ANALYSIS CHALLENGES

IN SOLA AND STELLAR CORONAL ASTROPHYSICS

• OVERVIEW AND COMMENTARY:

  112.01 Statistical Analysis of Spectra with Many Lines

  D. A. van Dyk, H.S. Kang (Department of Statistics, Harvard University), A. Connors (Eureka Scientific), V. L. Kashyap, A. Siemiginowska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  112.02 X-Ray Doppler Imaging of Stellar Coronae

  N. S. Brickhouse, A. K. Dupree, P. R. Young (CfA)

  112.03 Toward a Virtual Solar Observatory: Starting Before the Petabytes Fall

  J.B. Gurman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

  During the Session, participants help make a list of challenges and important problems for the future. These are listed here.

  Important problems and Challenges for the Future

  • We have a total of an hour and a half. Typically the speakers leave plenty of time for discussion and commentary by learners and experts in the audience.
  • We plan for time at the end for a one-viewgraph "advertisement" for each of the posters in an associated Poser Special Session;
  • We plan to develop a "wish-list" of multiscale and `model-free deconvolution' challenges and problems! Come join us! Voice your questions and opinions! Problems that were mentioned at last year's AstroStat Special Session are now being actively worked on. Many are close to being solved!
  • We also challenge participants to try out here own methods, and compare them with the kinds of solutions suggested in the Tutorial sessions.

  Sponsored in part by the AISR program

  Questions? Comments? Ideas for the next session?
  You are welcome to contact:

  aconnors@frances.wellesley.edu

  ---