Daniel
C. Homan
This is my personal webpage. For my professional webpage, click here.
Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Brandeis
University, 1999
- Masters of Arts in Physics, Brandeis University,
1996
- Bachelors of Science in Physics, University of
Maine, 1994
Positions Held
- Assistant Professor, Denison University: 2003—Present
- Jansky Fellow, National Radio Astronomy
Observatory: 2001—2003
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University: 1999—2001
Courses Taught:
See my professional page.
Research Interests & Publications:
See my professional page.
Possibly Useful Software:
-
Perl plotting scripts for FITS images: FITSplot.v202.tar.gz . These scripts use the Perl Data Language ( PDL) and the PGPLOT binding to perl ( "pgperl").
Here is an excerpt from the README
file:
The
subroutines are designed to be flexibly combined to make a wide variety of
plots... including combining contours, grayscale, color, polarization vectors,
etc. on a single pane. Multiple images may be easily combined in the same
frame either as direct overlays or offset from one another by an arbitrary
amount. Images may be rotated or shifted before plotting. Images
made to different resolutions (pixel sizes) can be easily plotted together to
the same scale. Images can be combined mathematically to make images of
quantities like fractional polarization, spectral index, and Faraday
rotation....
Examples:
Total Intensity of 3C 120's parsec scale jet ,
Polarization , Fractional
Polarization , Fancy Combination Plot, and an X-ray Jet in 3C 371
plotted with Hubble and Merlin images for comparison.
-
An automated cleaning script for difmap: final_clean. The script is for making final "deeply cleaned images from fully self-calibrated data using a multi-resolution approach. The script is just a text file and can be read with your web browser for more details.
Possibly Fun Software:
- Chess: I've had a hobby interest in chess programming for several years and have developed my own program called EXchess.
