Today Dou Liu (NYU) gave a presentation of his thesis research as part of his candidacy exam. His first project has been to adapt the ideas in spectro-perfectionism from the spectral domain to the spatial domain to combine irregular, dithered imaging. He is applying this to integral-field spectroscopic data in MaNGA, which is part of SDSS-IV. He showed that he can get better angular resolution than the standard data-analysis methods, which are generally radial-basis-function interpolations of the data. One of his goals is to produce generally useful tools. Another is to re-process all of the MaNGA data. A great contribution, betterizing existing data that have already been hugely productive.
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