Last Updated: 2004oct14

AstroStatistics Workshop

Data Analysis Challenges in Astrophysics

High-Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting, New Orleans

Friday, 6:30-8:30pm, Sep 10, 2004

hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/HEAD2004

Analysis Challenges


Panel Discussion: Challenges Met


Posters of interest

[5.01] Reconstructing Stellar DEMs from X-ray Spectra
H. Kang (Department of Statistics, Harvard University), D. van Dyk (Department of Statistics, University of California at Irvine), V. Kashyap (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Connors (Eureka Scientific)
Abstract
Poster (ps)
Poster (pdf)
[5.02] An Ion-by-Ion Technique for Determination of Temperature Distributions and Application to Nine Hot Stars.
P. S. Wojdowski, N. S. Schulz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Abstract
[16.26] Event Reconstruction and Background Identification for Advanced Compton Telescopes
A. Zoglauer (MPE/UCB), G. Weidenspointner (CESR), C. Wunderer, S. Boggs (UCB), R.M. Kippen (LANL), ACT Collaboration
Abstract
[16.27] Computing Hardness Ratios with Poissonian Errors
D. A. van Dyk (Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine), T. Park (Department of Statistics, Harvard University), V. L. Kashyap, A. Zezas (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Abstract
Poster (pdf)
[16.29] XSPEC: Progress and Plans
K. Arnaud (GSFC and University of Maryland College Park)
Abstract
[16.30] Interpreting the Discrete Correlation Function
L. M. Boone, T. G. Spears (The College of Wooster)
Abstract
[16.31] Detecting Variations in Source Intensity for Poisson Data
Y. Yu, X.L. Meng (Dept. of Statistics, Harvard Univ.), D. Van Dyk (Dept. of Statistics, UC Irvine), V. Kashyap, A. Zezas (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard Univ.)
Abstract
Poster (ps)
[16.32] Self-consistent Modeling of the logN-logS in the Poisson Limit
E. Sourlas (CHQOER), V. Kashyap, A. Zezas (SAO), D. van Dyk (UC-Irvine)
Abstract
Poster (pdf)
Poster (ps)
[16.33] Fitting Narrow Emission Lines in X-ray Spectra
T. Park (Harvard University), D. van Dyk (University of California at Irvine), A. Siemiginowska (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Abstract
Poster (pdf)
[16.34] XAssist: A System for the Automation of X-ray Astrophysics Analysis
A. Ptak (JHU)
Abstract
[16.35] Accounting for Pileup in Chandra ACIS Spectra
Y. Yu (Dept. of Statistics, Harvard Univ.), D. Van Dyk (Dept. of Statistics, UC Irvine), A. Siemiginowska, P. Freeman, A. Zezas, V. Kashyap (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard Univ.), A. Connors (Eureka Scientific)
Abstract
Poster (ps)
[16.36] Relative Point Source Sensitivities with Tracking Compton Telescopes
M. Polsen (IGPP, UC Riverside), A. Akyüz (Physics Dept., University of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey), D. Bhattacharya, T. J. O'Neill (IGPP, UC Riverside), J. Samimi (Physics Dept., Sharif Technical University, Tehran, Iran), A. D. Zych (IGPP, UC Riverside)
Abstract
[16.37] Monte Carlo Simulations of a System of 2 Very Large Cherenkov Telescopes
S. B. Hughes, H. Krawczynski (Washington University in St. Louis), A. Falcone (Purdue University), I. Jung, J. Buckley (Washington University in St. Louis)
Abstract
[24.20] A Principal Component Analysis of X-ray Spectral Variations in Four Galactic SNRs
J. S. Warren, J. P. Hughes (Rutgers University)
Abstract
[25.08] Quantile analysis on faint X-ray sources of ChaMPlane survey
J. Hong, J. Grindlay, E. Schlegel, S. Laycock, M. van den Berg, P. Zhao, X. Koenig (CfA), H. Cohn, P. Lugger, A. Rogel (IU)
Abstract
[##.##] Inference -- A Python Package for Astrostatistics
Tom Loredo (Dept. of Astronomy, Cornell University), Alanna Connors (Eureka Scientific), and Travis Oliphant (Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University)
Poster (pdf)

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