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I am a
sixth year Ph.D.
student in the Harvard University Department
of Astronomy. I received my B.A in Physics & Astrophysics from
UC Berkeley in 2001, and an A.M. in Astronomy
from Harvard in 2006. I am working
on my Ph.D. thesis project with Professor
Robert Kirshner on Infrared
Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae (expected graduation 2010). Type Ia Supernovae
can be used as standardizable
candles for cosmology
to measure the expansion
history of the universe and constrain the mysterious dark energy thought to be causing the acceleration of cosmic expansion. The supernova aspect of
the project uses infrared data obtained with the fully robotic 1.3 meter Peters
Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL)
at the Fred
Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona (P.I. Professor
Joshua Bloom, UC Berkeley).
My previous work with Professor
Ramesh Narayan and Professor
Joshua Bloom focused on testing the potential
applications of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) for cosmology by studying
GRB spectra and energetics. My work has been supported
in part by
a National Science
Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and
a NASA Graduate
Student Research Program Fellowship, where I collaborated
with researchers at the NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, including Dr.
Neil Gehrels, the Principal Investigator of the NASA
Swift Satellite, a space experiment that studies both GRBs and
supernovae.
-Andrew Samuel Friedman, 9/27/09
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UC Berkeley Senior Thesis
"How to Generate Supernova Light Curves: Photometry with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope and its Application to Type Ia Supernovae, Cosmology, and the Accelerating Universe", Friedman, Andrew, The Lick Observatory Supernova Search, Advisors: Prof. Alex Filippenko (Astronomy) & Prof. Richard Muller (Physics), 97 pages, (Spring 2002) (ps / pdf) "The Lick Observatory Supernova Search: Type Ia Supernovae, Cosmology, and the Accelerating Universe", Friedman, Andrew, Senior Honors Thesis in Physics, UC Berkeley, Advisors: Prof. Alex Filippenko (Astronomy) & Prof. Richard Muller (Physics), (22 pages) (December 2001) (ps / pdf) Undergraduate Infrared Astronomy Lab Reports (Astronomy 122 UC Berkeley, Fall 2001) 5. "Extragalactic Astronomy and the Intensity Profiles of Galaxies", Friedman, Andrew, Lab Report 5, Astronomy 122, Undergraduate Infrared Astronomy Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Professor James Graham & TA Nate McCrady (ps / pdf) 4. "Infrared Observations of the NGC1333 Star Forming Region", Friedman, Andrew, Lab Report 4, Astronomy 122, Undergraduate Infrared Astronomy Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Professor James Graham & TA Nate McCrady (ps / pdf) 3. "Photometry With the Leuschner Infrared Camera", Friedman, Andrew, Lab Report 3, Astronomy 122, Undergraduate Infrared Astronomy Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Professor James Graham & TA Nate McCrady (ps / pdf) 2. "Detecting Faint Signals", Friedman, Andrew, Lab Report 2, Astronomy 122, Undergraduate Infrared Astronomy Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Professor James Graham & TA Nate McCrady (ps / pdf) 1. "Photon Statistics", Friedman, Andrew, Lab Report 1, Astronomy 122, Undergraduate Infrared Astronomy Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Professor James Graham & TA Nate McCrady (ps / pdf) | ||||||||||
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Ph.D. Research - Harvard University
Infrared Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae PAIRITEL Website Gamma-Ray Burst Energetics and Cosmology http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~afriedman/ Undergraduate Research - University of California, Berkeley Supernova Discoveries Page, The Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) IAU Circulars, Senior Thesis, Astro Labs, Andy's Cheat Sheets Berkeley Scientific Journal Graphics, Berkeley Scientific Journal |
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