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Stars Group
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Today's H-alpha sun, NSO
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Weekly events
· AST 383T - Seminar in Stellar Astronomy
Wednesday, 12-1pm, RLM 15.216B
· Astronomy Colloquium
Tuesday, 3:30-4:30pm, RLM 15.216B
Research interests
Research Activities
Members
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Title & Research
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Barnes III, Thomas G
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Senior Research Scientist
Observational aspects of variable stars, particularly distance scale issues for Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables.
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Benedict, G. Fritz
(Chair)
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Senior Research Scientist
Space astrometry; search for extrasolar planetary systems; surface photometry of galaxies; barred galaxies.
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Breger, Michel
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Adjunct Professor
Stellar astrophysics: the formation, structure and evolution of stars;
asteroseismology; photometry and polarimetry.
Theory and Observations of Pulsating Stars
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Dinerstein, Harriet
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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.
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Hemenway, Mary Kay
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Senior Lecturer
Astronomy education.
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Lambert, David
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Professor
Stellar atmospheres; chemical composition of stars; chemical evolution of the universe.
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MacQueen, Phillip
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Senior Research Scientist
Instrumentation, CCD detectors; stellar abundances.
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McArthur, Barbara
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Research Scientist
HST Astrometry; search for extrasolar planets.
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Montgomery, Mike
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Research Scientist
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Nather, Edward
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Professor Emeritus
Observational studies of interacting binary collapsed stars; asteroseismology of white dwarfs; the Whole Earth Telescope.
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Robinson, Edward L
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Professor
Observational studies of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; cataclysmic variables, low-mass X-ray binaries, X-ray transients; pulsating white dwarfs.
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Shetrone, Matthew
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Senior Research Scientist
Observational techniques; queue scheduled telescopes; galactic nucleosynthesis; stellar evolution.
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Sneden, Chris
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Professor
Chemical composition of stars; stellar evolution; galactic nucleosynthesis.
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Tomkin, Jocelyn
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Research Scientist
High-resolution stellar spectroscopy.
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Winget, Don
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Professor
Theory and observation: cosmochronology; evolution of the Milky Way; late stages of stellar evolution; stellar pulsations; white dwarf stars as dark matter detectors; the Whole Earth Telescope.
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Castanheira, Barbara
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Sahin, Timur
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Stanford, Laura
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Williams, Kurtis
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Bayless, Amanda
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Graduate Student
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DeGennaro, Steve
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Graduate Student
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Falcon, Ross
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Graduate Student
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For, Bi Qing
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Graduate Student
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Hermes, James
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Graduate Student
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Hollek, Julie
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Graduate Student
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Roederer, Ian
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Graduate Student
Stellar nucleosynthesis, Galactic chemical evolution, the Milky Way
stellar halo.
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