A few
weeks ago for our Swift Satellite meeting I made some "value-added"
Swift models by printing or photoshopping science papers onto the pdf
model that was made by the education/public outreach group from Swift.
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/03/31/swmodguide5.pdf
These models were meant to represent the different science coming out of Swift.
Paper models aren't easy to take safely on an airplane, so I kept them flat and began assembling them at my sister-in-law's house Saturday night before driving up to the meeting Monday morning.
Originally
I had planned on printing the models on top of the science paper. I used a recent paper from Peter Milne
showing some exciting results enabled by Swift -- the discovery of
multiple classes of type Ia supernova based on their ultraviolet colors
and the apparent change in the fractions of those classes with
redshift. The
first one went into the printer upside down, so I used the original
model to tell me where to cut and fold, but only the science paper is
visible from the outside. The hotel next to mine had a really cool looking purple light shining on its wall so I went over there to take a few pictures.
The second one I wanted to look more like Swift, so I took the pdf model and photoshopped (gimp-ed?) titles, author lists, figures, and tables from several key Swift papers onto the parts of the model. When possible I tried to make it match -- there is a picture of someone assembling the BAT printed on the side of the BAT, the UVOT features pretty pictures, the XRT includes an image of the mirrors and an awesome X-ray echo from a bursting star. The solar panels feature the four main instrument papers, Gehrels et al. 2004, Roming et al. 2005, Burrows et al. 2005, and Barthelmy et al. 2005. I finished assembling this one during the conference dinner and gave it to the Swift Principle Investigator Neil Gehrels.
I brought along the printouts for a third model but didn't know if I'd actually make it. This one featured a paper by the conference organizer's grad student printed on top of the model. Both were printed in black and white, which is why the picture below looks like it was taken in b&w. Dieter Hartmann expressed enough interest in the other models I made, that I figured I should make the model I had planned to give to him anyway (being a local he wouldn't have to worry about transporting it).
