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Interstellar Group
'Starless' core L1014
Recent press image of "Starless" Core L1014 (Spitzer)



Weekly events

·  AST 393S - Seminar in Interstellar Matter
   Friday, 2:00-3:00pm, RLM 15.216B
· Astronomy Colloquium
   Tuesday, 3:30-4:30pm, RLM 15.216B

Research interests and activities

Members

Name
Title & Research
Bash, Frank
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor Emeritus

Large-scale structure of spiral galaxies; star formation on large scales.
Dinerstein, Harriet
(Chair)
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Planetary nebulae; abundances in gaseous nebulae; infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy of emission lines; extragalactic H II regions and star formation in disk galaxies; classical novae.
Evans, Neal
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Molecular clouds; star formation; millimeter, submillimeter, and infrared astronomy.
Harvey, Paul
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Research Professor

Infrared studies of the interstellar medium; star formation; infrared imaging.
Jaffe, Daniel
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Infrared spectroscopy of protostars and star forming clouds; submillimeter observations of interstellar gas, star formation regions, and protostars; physics of the dense interstellar medium; instrumentation for infrared spectroscopy.
Lacy, John
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Infrared astronomical spectroscopy; infrared studies of interstellar molecules; studies of ionized gas in the Galactic Center; development of high- resolution infrared spectrographs.
Lester, Daniel
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Research Scientist

Infrared emission lines; abundances in H II regions; infrared studies of star formation; starburst galaxies.
Redfield, Seth
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow

Local ISM; stellar chromospheres and coronae; UV and optical spectroscopy.
Barentine, John
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Bitner, Martin
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student

High resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy of disks around young stars.
Chen, Jo-hsin
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Deen, Casey
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Dunham, Mike
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Hwang, Sehyun
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Kim, Hyo Jeong
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Nordhaus, Miranda
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Strong, Shadrian
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student

Hydrodynamic Modeling of Ultracompact HII Regions.
Urban, Andrea
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student

The Effects of Massive Star Formation on a Clustered Stellar Environment.

 







16 January 2007
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