SOAR Student Profiles

Sydney Wilson

Sydney Wilson

  • SOAR Position: Member; Alumni
  • Major: Physics and Astronomy
  • Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Chuck Higgins

Current Focus: Analyzing the Spectral Characteristics of Propagations Teepees

Additional Interests: Radio Astronomy and Deep Space Objects

Project Description

Propagation TPs, named for their shape, are a new phenomenon in radio astronomy first recorded by a group of citizen scientists ( the Spectrograph User Group) while observing Jupiter's radio emissions. Due to the relatively new interest in these features, not much has been done to characterize TPs. My research is