I am a lecturer at Yale's Astronomy Department. In addition to continuing my work on binary stars and star clusters, I am involved in a few other projects.
Spring 2001--Prof. Sabatino Sofia and I are teaching Astronomy 130b: Life in the Universe. Here is the syllabus.
One of my duties this year was to create and run the graduate level seminar on astrobiology (here is the syllabus for Astro 630a--Special Topics in Astrobiology).
If you are interested in binary stars, globular clusters, superflares on Sun-like stars, read on:
The ADS list
of my papers.
The astro-ph
version of my June 2001 Astronomical Journal paper about the
difference between metal-poor and metal-rich contact binaries. (Here
is the PDF version.)
My March 2000 ApJ paper about superflares on
solar analogues, and the possible connection with extrasolar planets.
My Jan/Feb 2001
American Scientist paper about superflares. (Here is the
high
resolution version for the printer)
My March ApJ
Lett about the effects of binary stars on the luminosity
function of globular clusters ( or unix
compressed).
On April 1, 1997 I
defended my
thesis,
The Search for Main Sequence Binary Stars in Globular Clusters
(this is a "gzipped" postscript file--if you want a different version
let me know). Or here is the
straight postscript version of my thesis
(13.6 MB).
HST Observations of Binaries in NGC
6752 (postscript)
published in the The Astrophysical Journal, January 1997,
474, 701. Or the Acrobat/PDF format
, or the AAS server's
hypertext version
HST Observations of Cataclysmic
Variables in NGC 6752 (postscript)
accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal: Letters.
Or the Acrobat/PDF format , or the AAS
server's
hypertext version
A W UMa Contact Binary (postscript)
in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397, published in The Astronomical
Journal, January 1996, 111, 260. Or see the
ADS options for retrieval.
Orbital Period Changes of the
Cataclysmic Variable UX UMa
Published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific, 1991, 103, 1258.
A proceeding
from the June 1995 conference on binary stars in globular clusters
A possible optical counterpart to a Pulsar
in the Globular Cluster M4, published in The Astrophysical
Journal: Letters, 1994, 433, L89.
To let you know a bit more about my few obsessions...:
Fam
ily,
Astronomy , and
Babylon 5.
B5 mirror.
Here is one of my sister's many op-ed pieces in the Jerusalem Post, though you might want to see her translation/DTP/technical writing company.
Here's a link to page which lists some cool stuff my friends are doing.
Would you please
consider helping to support the release of captured aviator Ron Arad?
