Deidre Hunter
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Deidre A. Hunter is an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory. Her primary research area is tiny irregular galaxies — their origins, evolution and star production, and the shapes that are formed. She uses many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and includes spectroscopy in her approach.
Education[]
Hunter's BS is from the University of Arizona (1975) and her PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois in 1982. Her thesis was on the star-forming properties of irregular galaxies. It earned an award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[1]
Career[]
Hunter was a postdoctoral fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She joined Lowell Observatory in 1986. Hunter runs Lowell’s Navajo-Hopi Astronomy Outreach Program for 5th-8th grade Navajo and Hopi teachers and their classes.
Awards and honors[]
- Robert J. Trumpler Award for her thesis
- American Astronomical Society’s 2014 Education Prize, partly for her involvement with Lowell's outreach program.
- Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [2]
Research[]
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- Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Hunter, Deidre A. (2010-03-20). "On the Disruption of Star Clusters in a Hierarchical Interstellar Medium". The Astrophysical Journal. 712 (1): 604–623. arXiv:1002.2823. Bibcode:2010ApJ...712..604E. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/712/1/604. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 119272466.
- Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Zhang, Hong-Xin; Hunter, Deidre A. (2012-03-10). "In-Spiraling Clumps in Blue Dompact Dwarf Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 747 (2): 105. arXiv:1201.3658. Bibcode:2012ApJ...747..105E. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/747/2/105. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 67821084.
- Hunter, Deidre A.; Ficut-Vicas, Dana; Ashley, Trisha; Brinks, Elias; Cigan, Phil; Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Heesen, Volker; Herrmann, Kimberly A.; Johnson, Megan; Oh, Se-Heon; Rupen, Michael P. (2012-11-01). "Little Things". The Astronomical Journal. 144 (5): 134. arXiv:1208.5834. Bibcode:2012AJ....144..134H. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 118441588.
- Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Hunter, Deidre A. (2015-05-28). "A Star Formation Law for Dwarf Irregular Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 805 (2): 145. arXiv:1503.04370. Bibcode:2015ApJ...805..145E. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/145. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 119285468.
See also[]
- Dwarf galaxies
References[]
- ^ "Deidre Hunter".
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
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