Research

Interstellar Group

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks

Spitzer Legacy Project: c2d

Spitzer Legacy Project: Gould's Belt

HII Regions & Planetary Nebulae

Interstellar Group : HII Regions & Planetary Nebulae

 

Harriet Dinerstein, Daniel Jaffe, John Lacy


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Harriet Dinerstein  

Professor

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Research Interests

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.

Group Areas

Chemical Abundances


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Daniel Jaffe  

Professor

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Research Interests

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.

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, Spitzer Legacy Project: c2d, IGRINS, Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, GMTNIRS, EXES: mid-IR spectrograph


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John Lacy  

Professor

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Research Interests

Infrared astronomical spectroscopy; infrared studies of interstellar molecules; studies of ionized gas in the Galactic Center; development of high-resolution infrared spectrographs.

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, Spitzer Legacy Project: Gould's Belt, EXES: mid-IR spectrograph



K band spectrum of the PN Hen 2-436 in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy, measured with the GNIRS spectrograph on Gemini South (from Dinerstein et al. 2009). Both [Kr III] 2.199 and [Se IV] 2.287 µm were detected, and are identified in the figure.

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Improved Neutron-Capture Element Abundances in Planetary Nebulae astro-ph