Astronomy & Space Sciences panel
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Prof. Paul Callanan, UCC (chair)
Judges’ comments
The standard of entries in the Astronomy & Space Sciences category of the 2010 Undergraduate Awards was extremely high, to the great credit of the students and supervisors involved. To identify the overall winner, the major judging criteria were: • How well did the student present his/her work in the context of current research in the area? • How competently did they deal with the data reduction/modelling/interpretation aspects of the project? • How much did they understand of the physics background to their project? All of the projects excelled in some of these areas, but the one that succeeded above all is ‘X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of the impulsive phase of a solar flare’. This excellent work discussed in detail the observation of a solar flare in the X-rays. It involved a comprehensive presentation of the acquisition, modelling and interpretation of the data in terms of physical models. It is a worthy winner of the Astronomy & Space Sciences category for 2010, and its author is warmly congratulated.
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