Today I had the great pleasure to serve on the PhD defense committee for Steven Mohammed (Columbia). Mohammed worked on the post-GALEX-misson GALEX data in the Milky Way plane. We took the data specially as part of the Caltech/Columbia takeover of the mission at the end of the NASA mission lifetime. Mohammed and my former student Dun Wang built a pipeline to reduce the data and produce catalogs. And Mohammed has done work on photometric metallicities and the abundances in the Milky Way disk using the data. It is a beautiful data set and a beautiful set of results.
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