Dame, Thomas
Senior Radio Astronomer
Molecular clouds and star formation; galactic structure.
Positions
- Lecturer on Astronomy, Harvard University 1988 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Boston University
- M.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Awards And Honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2019
Research And Grants
Co-principal Investigator On
Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Dame, T. M. and Lada, Charles J. 2023. "A Complete HCN Survey of the Perseus Molecular Cloud." The Astrophysical Journal, 944 197. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb438. 2023
- Dame, T. M. and Thaddeus, Patrick. 2022. "A CO Survey of the Entire Northern Sky." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 262 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac7e53. 2022
- Lewis, John Arban, Lada, Charles J., and Dame, T. M. 2022. "Systematic Investigation of Dust and Gaseous CO in 12 Nearby Molecular Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 931 9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5d58. 2022
- Rybarczyk, Daniel R., Stanimirović, Snežana, Gong, Munan, Babler, Brian, Murray, Claire E., Gerin, Maryvonne, Winters, Jan Martin, Luo, Gan, Dame, T. M., and Steffes, Lucille. 2022. "The Role of Neutral Hydrogen in Setting the Abundances of Molecular Species in the Milky Way's Diffuse Interstellar Medium. I. Observational Constraints from ALMA and NOEMA." The Astrophysical Journal, 928 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5035. 2022
- Rybarczyk, Daniel R., Gong, Munan, Stanimirović, Snežana, Babler, Brian, Murray, Claire E., Winters, Jan Martin, Luo, Gan, Dame, T. M., and Steffes, Lucille. 2022. "The Role of Neutral Hydrogen in Setting the Abundances of Molecular Species in the Milky Way's Diffuse Interstellar Medium. II. Comparison between Observations and Theoretical Models." The Astrophysical Journal, 926 190. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4160. 2022
- Xu, Y., Bian, S. B., Reid, M. J., Li, J. J., Menten, K. M., Dame, T. M., Zhang, B., Brunthaler, A., Wu, Y. W., Moscadelli, L., Wu, G., and Zheng, X. W. 2021. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Four Star-forming Regions in the Distant Inner Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 253 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abd8cf. 2021
- Lada, Charles J. and Dame, Thomas M. 2020. "The Mass-Size Relation and the Constancy of GMC Surface Densities in the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 898 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9bfb. 2020
- Sakai, Nobuyuki, Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, Andreas, and Dame, Thomas M. 2019. "Noncircular Motions in the Outer Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 876 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab12e0. 2019
- Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Zhang, Lian, Wu, Yuanwei, Hu, Bo, Sakai, Nobuyuki, Menten, Karl M., Zheng, Xingwu, Brunthaler, Andreas, Dame, Thomas M., and Xu, Ye. 2019. "Parallaxes for Star-forming Regions in the Inner Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astronomical Journal, 157 200. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab141d. 2019
- Reid, Mark J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Dame, Thomas M., Xu, Y., Li, J., Sakai, N., Wu, Y., Immer, K., Zhang, B., Sanna, A., Moscadelli, L., Rygl, K. L. J., Bartkiewicz, A., Hu, B., Quiroga-Nuñez, L. H., and van Langevelde, H. J. 2019. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of High-mass Star-forming Regions: Our View of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 885 131. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a11. 2019
- Wu, Y. W., Reid, Mark J., Sakai, N., Dame, Thomas M., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Xu, Y., Li, J. J., Ho, B., Zhang, B., Rygl, K. L. J., and Zheng, X. W. 2019. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star-forming Regions beyond the Tangent Point of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 874 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab001a. 2019
- Armentrout, W. P., Anderson, L. D., Balser, Dana S., Bania, T. M., Dame, T. M., and Wenger, Trey V. 2017. "High-mass Star Formation in the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 841 121. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa71a1. 2017
- Sanna, Alberto, Reid, Mark J., Dame, Thomas M., Menten, Karl M., and Brunthaler, Andreas. 2017. "Mapping spiral structure on the far side of the Milky Way." Science, 358 227–230. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5452. 2017
- Dame, Thomas. 2017. "Patrick Thaddeus." Nature Astronomy, 1 0170. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0170. 2017
- Rice, Thomas S., Goodman, Alyssa A., Bergin, Edwin A., Beaumont, Christopher, and Dame, T. M. 2016. "A Uniform Catalog of Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 822 52. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/822/1/52. 2016
- Reid, M. J. and Dame, T. M. 2016. "On the Rotation Speed of the Milky Way Determined from H i Emission." The Astrophysical Journal, 832 159. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/159. 2016
- Lallement, R., Snowden, S., Kuntz, K. D., Dame, T. M., Koutroumpa, D., Grenier, I., and Casandjian, J. M. 2016. "On the distance to the North Polar Spur and the local CO-H2 factor." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 595 A131. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629453. 2016
- Hachisuka, K., Choi, Y. K., Reid, M. J., Brunthaler, A., Menten, K. M., Sanna, A., and Dame, T. M. 2015. "Parallaxes of Star-forming Regions in the Outer Spiral Arm of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 800 2. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/2. 2015
- García, P., Bronfman, L., Nyman, Lars-Åke, Dame, T. M., and Luna, A. 2014. "Giant Molecular Clouds and Massive Star Formation in the Southern Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 212 2. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/212/1/2. 2014
- Goodman, Alyssa A., Alves, João, Beaumont, Christopher N., Benjamin, Robert A., Borkin, Michelle A., Burkert, Andreas, Dame, Thomas M., Jackson, James, Kauffmann, Jens, Robitaille, Thomas, and Smith, Rowan J. 2014. "The Bones of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 797 53. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/53. 2014
- Furukawa, N., Ohama, A., Fukuda, T., Torii, K., Hayakawa, T., Sano, H., Okuda, T., Yamamoto, H., Moribe, N., Mizuno, A., Maezawa, H., Onishi, T., Kawamura, A., Mizuno, N., Dawson, J. R., Dame, T. M., Yonekura, Y., Aharonian, F., de Oña Wilhelmi, E., Rowell, G. P., Matsumoto, R., Asahina, Y., and Fukui, Y. 2014. "The Jet and Arc Molecular Clouds toward Westerlund 2, RCW 49, and HESS J1023–575 12CO and 13CO (J = 2-1 and J = 1-0) observations with NANTEN2 and Mopra Telescope." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 70. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/2/70. 2014
- Zhang, B., Moscadelli, L., Sato, M., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Dame, T. M., Xu, Y., and Immer, K. 2014. "The Parallax of W43: a Massive Star-forming Complex near the Galactic Bar." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 89. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/2/89. 2014
- Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Dame, T. M., Xu, Y., Wu, Y., Zhang, B., Sanna, A., Sato, M., Hachisuka, K., Choi, Y. K., Immer, K., Moscadelli, L., Rygl, K. L. J., and Bartkiewicz, A. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of High Mass Star Forming Regions: The Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 783 130. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/783/2/130. 2014
- Choi, Y. K., Hachisuka, K., Reid, M. J., Xu, Y., Brunthaler, A., Menten, K. M., and Dame, T. M. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star Forming Regions in the Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 790 99. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/790/2/99. 2014
- Sato, M., Wu, Y. W., Immer, K., Zhang, B., Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Dame, T. M., Brunthaler, A., and Menten, K. M. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star Forming Regions in the Scutum Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 793 72. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/793/2/72. 2014
- Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Dame, T. M., Zhang, B., Sato, M., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., and Immer, K. 2014. "Trigonometric Parallaxes to Star-forming Regions within 4 kpc of the Galactic Center." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 108. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/2/108. 2014
- Wu, Y. W., Sato, M., Reid, M. J., Moscadelli, L., Zhang, B., Xu, Y., Brunthaler, A., Menten, K. M., Dame, T. M., and Zheng, X. W. 2014. "Trigonometric parallaxes of star-forming regions in the Sagittarius spiral arm." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 566 17. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322765. 2014
- Xu, Y., Li, J. J., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., Dame, T. M., and Zhang, B. 2013. "On the Nature of the Local Spiral Arm of the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 769 15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/769/1/15. 2013
- Zhang, B., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Dame, T. M., and Xu, Y. 2013. "Parallaxes for W49N and G048.60 0.02: Distant Star Forming Regions in the Perseus Spiral Arm." The Astrophysical Journal, 775 79. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/775/1/79. 2013
- Immer, K., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., and Dame, T. M. 2013. "Trigonometric parallaxes of massive star forming regions: G012.88 0.48 and W33." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 553 117. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220793. 2013
- Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Dame, T. M., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., Zheng, X. W., and Xu, Y. 2012. "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-forming Regions. IX. The Outer Arm in the First Quadrant." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/1/82. 2012
- Dame, T. M. and Thaddeus, P. 2011. "A Molecular Spiral Arm in the Far Outer Galaxy." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 734 L24. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/734/1/L24. 2011
- Matthews, L. D., Libert, Y., Gérard, E., Le Bertre, T., Johnson, M. C., and Dame, T. M. 2011. "H I Observations of the Asymptotic Giant Branch Star X Herculis: Discovery of an Extended Circumstellar Wake Superposed on a Compact High-velocity Cloud." The Astronomical Journal, 141, (2) 60. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/141/2/60. 2011
- Planck Collaboration, Ade, P. A. R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Bartlett, J. G., Battaner, E., Benabed, K., Benoît, A., Bernard, J. P., Bersanelli, M., Bhatia, R., Bock, J. J., Bonaldi, A., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M., Burigana, C. et al. 2011. "Planck early results. XIX. All-sky temperature and dust optical depth from Planck and IRAS. Constraints on the "dark gas" in our Galaxy." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 536 19. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116479. 2011
- Planck Collaboration, Abergel, A., Ade, P. A. R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Balbi, A., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Bartlett, J. G., Battaner, E., Benabed, K., Benoît, A., Bernard, J. P., Bersanelli, M., Bhatia, R., Bock, J. J., Bonaldi, A., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M. et al. 2011. "Planck early results. XXI. Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 536 A21. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116455. 2011
- Brunthaler, A., Reid, M. J., Menten, Karl M., Zheng, X. W., Bartkiewicz, A., Choi, Y. K., Dame, T., Hachisuka, K., Immer, K., Moellenbrock, G., Moscadelli, L., Rygl, K. L. J., Sanna, A., Sato, M., Wu, Y., Xu, Y., and Zhang, B. 2011. "The Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy (BeSSeL) survey: Mapping the Milky Way with VLBI astrometry." Astronomische Nachrichten, 332 461. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201111560. 2011
- Fukui, Yasuo, Furukawa, Naoko, Dame, Thomas M., Dawson, Joanne R., Yamamoto, Hiroaki, Rowell, Gavin P., Aharonian, Felix, Hofmann, Werner, de Oña Wilhelmi, Emma, Minamidani, Tetsuhiro, Kawamura, Akiko, Mizuno, Norikazu, Onishi, Toshikazu, Mizuno, Akira, and Nagataki, Shigehiro. 2009. "A Peculiar Jet and Arc of Molecular Gas toward the Rich and Young Stellar Cluster Westerlund 2 and a TeV Gamma Ray Source." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 61, (4) L23–L27. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/61.4.L23. 2009
- Valencic, Lynne A., Smith, Randall K., Dwek, Eli, Graessle, Dale, and Dame, T. M. 2009. "Examining Dust Grain Models Using the Reddening and X-Ray Dust Halo of Terzan 2." The Astrophysical Journal, 692 502–510. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/502. 2009
- Dame, T. M. and Thaddeus, P. 2008. "A New Spiral Arm of the Galaxy: The Far 3 kpc Arm." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 683 L143–L146. https://doi.org/10.1086/591669. 2008
- Sheth, Kartik, Vogel, Stuart N., Wilson, Christine D., and Dame, T. M. 2008. "Comparative Analysis of Molecular Clouds in M31, M33, and the Milky Way." The Astrophysical Journal, 675 330–339. 2008
- Butt, Yousaf M., Schneider, Nicola, Dame, T. M., and Brunt, Christopher. 2008. "The Molecular Environment of the Gamma-Ray Source TeV J2032 4130." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 676 L123–L126. https://doi.org/10.1086/587513. 2008
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- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department