Erin Sheldon's Homepage

As of September of 2008 I'm a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. If your intrested in my recent activities, please check out my personal blog Sunlight on My Face

I study astrophysics, in particular gravitational lensing and cosmology. I try to post regularly to my my daily research blog

If you want to see a beautiful example of gravitational lensing, just click on the picture to the right

Strong Gravitational Lens Abell 2218

Some images

  • Images from my vacation out west
  • Galaxy Images Here are some cool color pictures I have made from SDSS CCD images.
  • We observed the Coma cluster of galaxies at Kitt Peak National observatory. Here are some photographs I took of the mountain and telescopes.

Links

Computer related stuff

  • The Michigan/Chicago/NYU SDSS IDL (aka SDSSIDL) IDL libraries.

  • Python for astronomers and other scientists: Setting up numerical and scientific python on Mac OSX (OS X) is available at my Numpy for your Mac page at the NYU CCPP Wiki.

  • Setting up a Linksys wireless router with your apple mac.

Random Stuff

  • An amazing mpeg movie of earth receding from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft as it heads for the asteroid Eros.

    Michigan Dissertation Style File: umdsrtn.cls

    Michigan dissertation style files in .tar.gz form: umdsrtn.tar.gz or .zip form: umdsrtn.zip Originally created by Greg Garrett, converted from the book style. Includes an example and can be run through latex to create its own documentation. Lynne Allen and I modified it to have boldfaced chapter entries in table of contents, single spaced footnotes, correctly spaced abstract. Fixed bug in appendix toc entry.
    Last modified: Fri Mar 31 00:05:46 CST 2006