{"id":2779,"date":"2014-03-28T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T19:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2014-03-28T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T19:34:51","slug":"project-proposal-scattering-and-the-interstellar-medium-ism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/2014\/03\/28\/project-proposal-scattering-and-the-interstellar-medium-ism\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Proposal &#8211; Scattering and the Interstellar Medium (ISM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my project, I will be studying Mie scattering and it&#8217;s relevance to the study of the interstellar medium. The ISM, the space between stars and galaxies, is filled with gas (atomic and molecular), dust, and is permeated by radiation &#8211; starlight. Observations of various astrophysical phenomena show that along a given line of sight, their is &#8220;extinction&#8221; of this radiation. Scattering and absorption account for these observations and occur due to the presence of various dust grains within the ISM. I will model Mie scattering and look at the asymmetry parameter\u00a0<em>g<\/em>, a measure of the fraction of light scattered in the forward direction, in an effort to model the relationship between this value and dust grain properties \u00a0such as size, composition, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my project, I will be studying Mie scattering and it&#8217;s relevance to the study of the interstellar medium. The ISM, the space between stars and galaxies, is filled with gas (atomic and molecular), dust, and is permeated by radiation &#8211; starlight. Observations of various astrophysical phenomena show that along a given line of sight, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101,188,350,54197,54194,54190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced-em","category-mathematica","category-proposal","category-scattering","category-simon","category-spring-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}