Bob Zinn

Professor, Astronomy DGS

Past Courses Taught

Astronomy S-120: Galaxies and the Universe
Astronomy 210: Stars and their Evolution
Astronomy 310: Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
Astronomy 355/555: Observational Astronomy
Astronomy 380/510: Stellar Populations
Astronomy 705: Research Seminar in Stellar Populations

Research Interests

My main areas of research are Stellar Populations and Globular Clusters.

Recent Publications

"Spectroscopy of QUEST RR Lyrae Variables: the new Virgo Stellar Stream", S. Duffau, R. Zinn, A. K. Vivas, G. Carraro, R. A. Mendez, R. Winnick, and C. Gallart 2006, ApJ, 636

"The Star Formation History of the Fornax dSph galaxy using the new synthetic color-magnitude code IAC-STAR", C. Gallart, A. Aparicio, R. Zinn, R. Buonanno, E. Hardy, and G. Marconi 2005, IAU Coll No. 198, 25

"RR Lyrae Search and Stellar Populations Study in Canis Major: Preliminary Results", C. E. Mateu, A. K. Vivas, R. Zinn, and L. Miller 2005, Rev. Mex. A. A. in press

"The Selection of RR Lyrae Stars Using Single-Epoch Data", Z. Ivezic, A. K. Vivas, R. H. Lupton, and R. Zinn 2005, AJ 129, 1096

"VLT Spectroscopy of RR Lyrae Stars in the Sagittarius Tidal Stream", A. K. Vivas, R. Zinn, and C. Gallart 2005, AJ 129, 189

"Mapping Tidal Streams around Galactic Globular Clusters", D. Martinez-Delgado, D. I. Dinescu, R. Zinn, A. Tutsoff, P. Cote, and A. Boyarchuck 2004, ASP Conf. Ser. 327, 255

"Velocities of RR Lyrae Stars in the Sagittarius Tidal Stream", A. K. Vivas, R. Zinn, and C. Gallart 2004, ASP Conf. Ser. 327, 108

"Halo Substructure in the QUEST RR Lyrae Survey", R. Zinn, A. K. Vivas, C. Gallart, and R. Winnick 2004, ASP Conf Ser 327, 92

"Surface Brightness and Stellar Populations at the Outer Edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud: No Stellar Halo Yet", C. Gallart, P. B. Stetson, E. Hardy, F. Pont, and R. Zinn 2004, ApJ 614, L109

"The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey I. The First Catalog", A. K. Vivas, R. Zinn, and the QUEST collaboration 2004, AJ 127, 1158

"The Chemical Enrichment History of the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy from the Infrared Calcium Triplet", F. Pont, R. Zinn, C. Gallart, E. Hardy, and R. Winnick 2004, AJ 127, 840

"RR Lyrae Stars in the Halo: Tracers of Streams of Debris of Disrupted Galaxies", A. Katherina Vivas and Robert Zinn 2003, Mem. S.A.It. 74, 928

"Remnants of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy around the young globular cluster Palomar 12", D. Martinez-Delgado, R. Zinn, R. Carrera, and C. Gallart 2002, ApJ 573: L19

"The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey: Confirmation of the Clump at 50 kpc and other overdensities in the outer halo", Vivas, A. K., Zinn, R. and the QUEST Collaboration. 2001, ApJL, 554, L33

List of Publications

Papers since 1992