DAB Members Activities

Data Analysts have Bachelors, Masters or PhD. degrees in Astronomy or related fields. Job titles and responsibilities scale from Data Analyst I, II and Senior Data Analyst, up through Science and Instrument Support Specialist I, and II. Their duties are typically focused on manipulation and interpretation of data (i.e. images, spectra, detector/sensor readouts) using science software tools such as STSDAS/IRAF and IDL within a Unix operating environment on SUN workstations. Developing and writing software code, from small scripts to large custom data processing or analysis routines, is a typical DA function. DAs are also involved in preparing observing proposals and in preparing reports documenting calibration results as well as in presenting those results at science and calibration meetings. Occasionally DAs take responsibility (part to full) for observing runs at ground based telescopes, e.g. at Cerro Tololo in Chile.

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Data Analysts