Faculty Research Highlights

Work by Dr. Aaron Goldman and collaborators was prominently cited in the January 2011 issue of Physics Today, the primary publication of the American Institute of Physics. Research presented in the article entitled " Infrared Radiation and Planetary Temperature" made use of the HITRAN database of infrared spectral line properties compiled by a team including Dr. Goldman and used in applications across engineering and atmospheric sciences.

Video of the eclipse caused by the proposed disk, courtesy John Monnier, U. Michigan.

Dr. Robert Stencel leads a large multi-wavelength observing campaign aimed at probing the nature of the mysterious eclipsing binary star epsilon Aurigae. Stencel's team, including DU graduate student Brian Kloppenborg, recently published an article in Nature, "Infrared images of the transiting disk in the epsilon Aurigae system," describing interferometric results obtained with the CHARA array that reveal the shape of the eclipsing body for the first time. The press release, images, and other related information can be found here.