Joshua Thomas  
 
Research

Current Research, focus on undergraduate research experience
Current work at Clarkson is on photometry and spectroscopy of binary stars. I have begun spectroscopic monitoring of hot stars. My collaborators include the Wolf-Rayet group at U. Montreal, and the Be star group at U. Toledo. My department chair and I procured funds from the Provost to purchase an Astro-Physics mount, Shelyak LHIRES III spectrograph, a Takahashi e130d astrograph, and a few cameras. The past few years of my research have focused on procuring money, researching equipment needed to build a usable observatory to train undergraduate students in astrophysics.

I've been involved with science k-12 outreach and physics of education research.

PySplot

Expanding on my desire to involve undergraduate in spectroscopic research, I have been working on a GUI for spectra analysis written in python. I call it PySplot, and is availbe for use. Any pubications should include the astropy statement in the acknowledgements, as well as an acknowledgement of PySplot. PySplot can be downloaded here.

Check out our Fall 2016 ASNY Poster here!



Past Research
I have created a YouTube page to share my research on the Red Rectangle. http://www.youtube.com/user/JoshuaDThomas I have linked a few of my videos below.

In the past I worked on a scattered light model of Eta Car. Archival

For my Masters I worked on gas phase fluorescence of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). I will eventually upload the archival spectra.

3D Model and Animation



Numerical Simulation