Beyond Einstein Explorer's Program (BEEP), Pilot Program - Summer 2006
Photographs from the Leader Training Session
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| BEEP Participants | Rachel and Erika try their hand at building the circuit to detect IR light |
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| Sara leads the imploding can demonstration during the discussion on supernovae | Hopal and Corey team up on the imploding can demo | Erika tries the supernova experiment |
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| Jim demonstrates the ejection of the outer layers of a star during a supernova explosion using a basketball and tennis ball |
Erika experiments with momentum transfer | |
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| Hopal experiments with momentum transfer | Jim leads the activity to model a black hole |
Corey builds her black hole model |
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| Participants build their post-program models of the Universe | ||
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| A model of the Universe sketched out by one team of participants before going through the training | The Universe as modelled by the second team of participants before the training | A model of the Universe as envisioned by one team of participants after the training - note the hierarchical structure as compared to the first set of pictures! |
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| The Universe modelled by the second team after training - including supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies (the squiggly lines represent X-ray photons in the IGM!) | ||
Photographs from Session in Progress
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