Week 4

This week I started writing my own programs using IDL! My main objective was to take all of the data that I had processed in the previous weeks and visualize it in an accessible manner. I wrote a code to take each of the explosive events I had identified and plot their spectra. I then used Professor Kankelborg's code to plot the line quartiles on top of the spectra. The line quartiles may tell us how much certain explosive events are red-shifted and blue-shifted. Here is an example plot:


I then wrote a program to create a bar plot of the data, so we could easily compare the amount of red and blue light in each explosive event. Here is an example bar plot: