Estimating radial velocity and improving line identification within the Herschel/SPIRE automated spectral feature catalog

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dc.contributor.authorScott, Jeremy P.
dc.contributor.supervisorSpencer, Locke Dean
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T16:54:04Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T16:54:04Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Herschel space observatory housing the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) was commissioned to study the far-infrared Universe. Though Herschel’s mission has ended, much data processing is still required to extract all the available information from its observations. To help with data mining and preliminary analysis, the SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer instrument team developed an automated spectral Feature Finder (FF) that extracts significant spectral features from SPIRE spectra. As part of this team I developed two modules, an automated radial velocity estimating routine which uses a pattern seeking algorithm to identify 12CO rotational emission, and a separate routine which conducts a dedicated search for neutral carbon fine structure transitions. This thesis provides an introduction to Fourier transform spectroscopy, then describes in detail the two modules I developed for the FF. Validation of these routines is presented, and their results, as they pertain to the public FF catalogue, are summarized.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5003
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.proquest.subject0605en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Physics and Astronomyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectFourier transform spectroscopyen_US
dc.subjectSpectral and Photometric Imaging Receiveren_US
dc.subjectradial velocity estimatingen_US
dc.titleEstimating radial velocity and improving line identification within the Herschel/SPIRE automated spectral feature catalogen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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