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Stars Group


Today's H-alpha sun, NSO

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

Name
Title & Research
Allende Prieto, Carlos
(Chair)
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Research Scientist

Stellar atmospheres. Spectroscopic analysis of stellar spectra. Chemical composition of stars.
Barnes III, Thomas G
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Senior Research Scientist

Observational aspects of variable stars, particularly distance scale issues for Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables.
Benedict, G. Fritz
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Senior Research Scientist

Space astrometry; search for extrasolar planetary systems; surface photometry of galaxies; barred galaxies.
Hemenway, Mary Kay
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Research Associate

Astronomy education.
Lambert, David
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Stellar atmospheres; chemical composition of stars; chemical evolution of the universe.
MacQueen, Phillip
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Senior Research Scientist

Instrumentation, CCD detectors; stellar abundances.
McArthur, Barbara
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Research Scientist

HST Astrometry; search for extrasolar planets.
Nather, Edward
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor Emeritus

Observational studies of interacting binary collapsed stars; asteroseismology of white dwarfs; the Whole Earth Telescope.
Robinson, Edward L
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Observational studies of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; cataclysmic variables, low-mass X-ray binaries, X-ray transients; pulsating white dwarfs.
Shetrone, Matthew
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Senior Research Scientist

Observational techniques; queue scheduled telescopes; galactic nucleosynthesis; stellar evolution.
Sneden, Chris
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Chemical composition of stars; stellar evolution; galactic nucleosynthesis.
Tomkin, Jocelyn
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Research Scientist

High-resolution stellar spectroscopy.
von Hippel, Ted
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Research Scientist

History and age of Galactic and local group stellar populations; observational constraints on stellar evolution; automated spectral classification; search for planets around white dwarfs; detection of biosignatures.
Winget, Don
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Professor

Theory and observation: cosmochronology; evolution of the Milky Way; late stages of stellar evolution; stellar pulsations; the Whole Earth Telescope.
Barnes, Stuart
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow


Frebel, Anna
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow


Kim, Agnes
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow

White dwarfs; astro-particle physics.
Maund, Justyn
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow


Redfield, Seth
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow

Local ISM; stellar chromospheres and coronae; UV and optical spectroscopy.
Siegel, Mike
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow

Galactic structure; the stellar halo of the Milky Way; variable stars.
Williams, Kurtis
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Postdoctoral Fellow


Bayless, Amanda
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Chavez, Joy
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student

Stellar abundances.
DeGennaro, Steve
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


For, Bi Qing
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student


Jeffery, Elizabeth
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student

Calibrating White Dwarfs as Chronometers Using Open Clusters.
Ramirez, Ivan
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student

Oxygen abundances in the solar neighborhood; surface inhomogeneities in stellar photospheres.
Roederer, Ian
ADS
 |  astro-ph
Graduate Student

Heavy metal abundances and isotopic ratios in metal-poor stars.




 







16 January 2007
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