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Summer research project #1:
Properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the AEGIS dataset
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Student:   Shifrah Aron-Dine (Castilleja School)
Mentor:    Dale Kocevski (UCSC postdoctoral researcher)
Will also be working with:
           Sandy Faber (UCSC faculty)
           Isha Kotecha (Imperial College undergraduate,
                        London, UK)

The project involves a study of active galactic nuclei (AGN), powered
by massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.  The research will
be based on observations of distant galaxies that have been carried out
by the AEGIS and DEEP collaborations using some of the world's leading
telescopes:  Hubble Space Telescope (high resolution visible light
images), Chandra X-ray telescope (catalog of X-ray sources), and Keck
telescope (spectra and catalog of redshifts).  The galaxies in question
are so distant that they are seen at a time when the Universe was about
half its present age.  The goal of the project is to better understand
the role of AGNs in affecting the rate of star formation and the
evolution of galaxies over cosmic time.

The student will use existing tools, within the IDL (Interactive Data
Language) programming package, and hopefully develop new ones.