Smith, Howard
Senior Astrophysicist
Galactic and extragalactic star formation; observational infrared astronomy & spectroscopy; instrumentation; Spitzer (IRAC team); Herschel Space Observatory; Lecturer in the Harvard Astronomy Department; education, scientific writing, and public outreach activities.
Positions
- Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 1988 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
Professional Biography
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Lecturer, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
Past Chair of the Astronomy Department at the National Air & Space Museum;
Past Discipline Scientist for Astrophysics, NASA HQ
Author and lecturer on modern science and religion.
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- García-Pérez, Abigail, Peña-Herazo, Harold A., Massaro, Francesco, Chavushyan, Vahram, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Masetti, Nicola, Landoni, Marco, La Franca, Fabio, Patiño-Álvarez, Víctor M., Amaya-Almazán, Raúl A., Milisavljevic, Dan, Paggi, Alessandro, Ricci, Federica, Jiménez-Bailón, Elena, and Smith, Howard A. 2023. "Optical Spectroscopic Observations of Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates. XII. Follow-up Observations from SOAR, Blanco, NTT, and OAN-SPM." The Astronomical Journal, 165 127. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acabc0. 2023
- Stephens, Ian W., Myers, Philip C., Zucker, Catherine, Jackson, James M., Andersson, B. -G, Smith, Rowan, Soam, Archana, Battersby, Cara, Sanhueza, Patricio, Hogge, Taylor, Smith, Howard A., Novak, Giles, Sadavoy, Sarah, Pillai, Thushara G. S., Li, Zhi-Yun, Looney, Leslie W., Sugitani, Koji, Coudé, Simon, Guzmán, Andrés, Goodman, Alyssa, Kusune, Takayoshi, Santos, Fábio P., Zuckerman, Leah, and Encalada, Frankie. 2022. "The Magnetic Field in the Milky Way Filamentary Bone G47." The Astrophysical Journal, 926 L6. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac4d8f. 2022
- McKinney, Jed, Hayward, Christopher C., Rosenthal, Lee J., Martínez-Galarza, Juan Rafael, Pope, Alexandra, Sajina, Anna, and Smith, Howard A. 2021. "Dust-enshrouded AGNs Can Dominate Host-galaxy-scale Cold Dust Emission." The Astrophysical Journal, 921 55. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac185f. 2021
- Glenn, Jason, Bradford, Charles M., Rosolowsky, Erik, Amini, Rashied, Alatalo, Katherine, Armus, Lee, Benson, Andrew J., Chang, Tzu-Ching, Darling, Jeremy, Day, Peter K., Domber, Jeanette, Farrah, Duncan, Hensley, Brandon, Lipscy, Sarah, Moore, Bradley, Oliver, Seb, Perido, Joanna, Redding, David, Rodgers, Michael, Shirley, Raphael, Smith, Howard A., Steeves, John B., Tucker, Carole, and Zmuidzinas, Jonas. 2021. "Galaxy Evolution Probe." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7 034004. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.3.034004. 2021
- Peña-Herazo, Harold A., Paggi, Alessandro, García-Pérez, Abigail, Amaya-Almazán, Raúl A., Massaro, Francesco, Ricci, Federica, Chavushyan, Vahram, Marchesini, Ezequiel J., Masetti, Nicola, Landoni, Marco, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Milisavljevic, Dan, Jiménez-Bailón, Elena, Patiño-Álvarez, Víctor M., La Franca, Fabio, Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, Gino. 2021. "Optical Spectroscopic Observations of Gamma-ray Blazar Candidates. XI. Optical Observations from SOAR, Blanco, NTT and OAN-SPM. The Story So Far." The Astronomical Journal, 162 177. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1da7. 2021
- Li, Shanghuo, Zhang, Qizhou, Liu, Hauyu Baobab, Beuther, Henrik, Palau, Aina, Girart, Josep Miquel, Smith, Howard A., Hora, Joseph L., Lin, Yuxing, Qiu, Keping, Strom, Shaye, Wang, Junzhi, Li, Fei, and Yue, Nannan. 2020. "ALMA Observations of NGC 6334S. I. Forming Massive Stars and Clusters in Subsonic and Transonic Filamentary Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 896 110. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab84f1. 2020
- Morford, J. C., Fenech, D. M., Prinja, R. K., Blomme, R., Yates, J. A., Drake, J. J., Eyres, S. P. S., Richards, A. M. S., Stevens, I. R., Wright, N. J., Clark, J. S., Dougherty, S., Pittard, J. M., Smith, Howard A., and Vink, J. S. 2020. "COBRaS: The e-MERLIN 21 cm Legacy survey of Cygnus OB2." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 637 A64. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731379. 2020
- Jackson, James M., Allingham, David, Killerby-Smith, Nicholas, Whitaker, J. Scott, Smith, Howard A., Contreras, Yanett, Guzmán, Andrés E., Hogge, Taylor, Sanhueza, Patricio, and Stephens, Ian W. 2020. "Characterizing [C II] Line Emission in Massive Star-forming Clumps." The Astrophysical Journal, 904 18. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abba2e. 2020
- de Menezes, R., Amaya-Almazán, R. A., Marchesini, E. J., Peña-Herazo, H. A., Massaro, F., Chavushyan, V., Paggi, A., Landoni, M., Masetti, N., Ricci, F., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, La Franca, F., Smith, Howard A., Milisavljevic, D., Tosti, G., Jiménez-Bailón, E., and Cheung, C. C. 2020. "Optical spectroscopic observations of gamma-ray blazar candidates. X. Results from the 2018-2019 SOAR and OAN-SPM observations of blazar candidates of uncertain type." Astrophysics and Space Science, 365 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-020-3727-5. 2020
- Mommert, Michael, Hora, Joseph L., Trilling, David E., Biver, Nicolas, Wierzchos, Kacper, Harrington Pinto, Olga, Agarwal, Jessica, Kim, Yoonyoung, McNeill, Andrew, Womack, Maria, Knight, Matthew M., Polishook, David, Moskovitz, Nick, Kelley, Michael S. P., and Smith, Howard A. 2020. "Recurrent Cometary Activity in Near-Earth Object (3552) Don Quixote." The Planetary Science Journal, 1 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab8ae5. 2020
- Mommert, Michael, Trilling, David E., Hora, Joseph L., Lejoly, Cassandra, Gustafsson, Annika, Knight, Matthew, Moskovitz, Nick, and Smith, Howard A. 2020. "Systematic Characterization of and Search for Activity in Potentially Active Asteroids." The Planetary Science Journal, 1 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab8191. 2020
- Ramos Padilla, Andrés F., Ashby, M. L. N., Smith, Howard A., Martínez-Galarza, Juan R., Beverage, Aliza G., Dietrich, Jeremy, Higuera-G., Mario-A, and Weiner, Aaron S. 2020. "The AGN contribution to the UV-FIR luminosities of interacting galaxies and its role in identifying the main sequence." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499 4325–4369. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2813. 2020
- de Menezes, Raniere, Peña-Herazo, Harold A., Marchesini, Ezequiel J., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Masetti, Nicola, Nemmen, Rodrigo, Massaro, Francesco, Ricci, Federica, Landoni, Marco, Paggi, Alessandro, and Smith, Howard A. 2019. "Optical characterization of WISE selected blazar candidates." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 630 A55. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936195. 2019
- Marchesini, E. J., Peña-Herazo, H. A., Álvarez Crespo, N., Ricci, Federica, Negro, M., Milisavljevic, D., Massaro, F., Masetti, N., Landoni, M., Chavushyan, V., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Jiménez-Bailón, E., La Franca, F., Paggi, A., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2019. "Optical spectroscopic observations of gamma-ray blazar candidates VIII: the 2016-2017 follow up campaign carried out at SPM, NOT, KPNO and SOAR telescopes." Astrophysics and Space Science, 364 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-018-3490-z. 2019
- Peña-Herazo, H. A., Massaro, F., Chavushyan, V., Marchesini, E. J., Paggi, A., Landoni, M., Masetti, N., Ricci, F., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Milisavljevic, D., Jiménez-Bailón, E., La Franca, F., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2019. "Optical spectroscopic observations of gamma-ray blazar candidates. IX. Optical archival spectra and further observations from SOAR and OAGH." Astrophysics and Space Science, 364 85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-019-3574-4. 2019
- Gustafsson, Annika, Trilling, David E., Mommert, Michael, McNeill, Andrew, Hora, Joseph L., Smith, Howard A., Hellmich, Stephan, Mottola, Stefano, and Harris, Alan W. 2019. "Spitzer Albedos of Near-Earth Objects." The Astronomical Journal, 158 67. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab29ea. 2019
- D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Álvarez Crespo, Nuria, Massaro, Francesco, Campana, Riccardo, Chavushyan, Vahram, Landoni, Marco, La Franca, Fabio, Masetti, Nicola, Milisavljevic, Dan, Paggi, Alessandro, Ricci, Federica, and Smith, Howard A. 2019. "Two New Catalogs of Blazar Candidates in the WISE Infrared Sky." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 242 4. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab16f4. 2019
- Lu, Xing, Zhang, Qizhou, Liu, Hauyu Baobab, Sanhueza, Patricio, Tatematsu, Ken'ichi, Feng, Siyi, Smith, Howard A., Myers, Philip C., Sridharan, T. K., and Gu, Qiusheng. 2018. "Filamentary Fragmentation and Accretion in High-mass Star-forming Molecular Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 855 9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaad11. 2018
- Hora, Joseph L., Siraj, Amir, Mommert, Michael, McNeill, Andrew, Trilling, David E., Gustafsson, Annika, Smith, Howard A., Fazio, Giovanni G., Chesley, Steven, Emery, Joshua P., Harris, Alan, and Mueller, Michael. 2018. "Infrared Light Curves of Near-Earth Objects." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 238 22. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aadcf5. 2018
- Trilling, David E., Mommert, Michael, Hora, Joseph L., Farnocchia, Davide, Chodas, Paul, Giorgini, Jon, Smith, Howard A., Carey, Sean, Lisse, Carey M., Werner, Michael, McNeill, Andrew, Chesley, Steven R., Emery, Joshua P., Fazio, Giovanni G., Fernandez, Yanga R., Harris, Alan, Marengo, Massimo, Mueller, Michael, Roegge, Alissa, Smith, Nathan, Weaver, H. A., Meech, Karen, and Micheli, Marco. 2018. "Spitzer Observations of Interstellar Object 1I/‘Oumuamua." The Astronomical Journal, 156 261. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aae88f. 2018
- Dietrich, Jeremy, Weiner, Aaron S., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Hayward, Christopher C., Martínez-Galarza, Juan Rafael, Ramos Padilla, Andrés F., Rosenthal, Lee, Smith, Howard A., Willner, S. P., and Zezas, Andreas. 2018. "The AGN luminosity fraction in merging galaxies." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480 3562–3583. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2056. 2018
- Martínez-Galarza, J. Rafael, Protopapas, Pavlos, Smith, Howard A., and Morales, Esteban F. E. 2018. "Unraveling the Spectral Energy Distributions of Clustered YSOs." The Astrophysical Journal, 864 71. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad503. 2018
- Massaro, Francesco, Marchesini, E. J., D'Abrusco, R., Masetti, N., Andruchow, I., and Smith, Howard A. 2017. "Radio-weak BL Lac Objects in the Fermi Era." The Astrophysical Journal, 834 113. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/113. 2017
- Hung, Chao-Ling, Hayward, Christopher C., Smith, Howard A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Lanz, Lauranne, Martínez-Galarza, Juan R., Sanders, D. B., and Zezas, Andreas. 2016. "Merger Signatures in the Dynamics of Star-forming Gas." The Astrophysical Journal, 816 99. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/816/2/99. 2016
- Álvarez Crespo, N., Massaro, Francesco, Milisavljevic, D., Landoni, M., Chavushyan, V., Patiño-Álvarez, V., Masetti, N., Jiménez-Bailón, E., Strader, J., Chomiuk, L., Katagiri, H., Kagaya, M., Cheung, C. C., Paggi, A., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Ricci, F., La Franca, F., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2016. "Optical Spectroscopic Observations of Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates. VI. Further Observations from TNG, WHT, OAN, SOAR, and Magellan Telescopes." The Astronomical Journal, 151 95. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/4/95. 2016
- Álvarez Crespo, N., Masetti, N., Ricci, F., Landoni, M., Patiño-Álvarez, V., Massaro, Francesco, D'Abrusco, R., Paggi, A., Chavushyan, V., Jiménez-Bailón, E., Torrealba, J., Latronico, L., La Franca, F., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2016. "Optical Spectroscopic Observations of Gamma-ray Blazar Candidates. V. TNG, KPNO, and OAN Observations of Blazar Candidates of Uncertain Type in the Northern Hemisphere." The Astronomical Journal, 151 32. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/32. 2016
- Álvarez Crespo, N., Massaro, Francesco, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Landoni, M., Masetti, N., Chavushyan, V., Jiménez-Bailón, E., La Franca, F., Milisavljevic, D., Paggi, A., Patiño-Álvarez, V., Ricci, F., and Smith, Howard A. 2016. "Optical archival spectra of blazar candidates of uncertain type in the 3rd Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog." Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-016-2902-1. 2016
- Massaro, Francesco, Álvarez Crespo, N., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Landoni, M., Masetti, N., Ricci, F., Milisavljevic, D., Paggi, A., Chavushyan, V., Jiménez-Bailón, E., Patiño-Álvarez, V., Strader, J., Chomiuk, L., La Franca, F., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2016. "The gamma-ray blazar quest: new optical spectra, state of art and future perspectives." Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 337. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-016-2926-6. 2016
- Hung, Chao-Ling, Rich, Jeffrey A., Yuan, Tiantian, Larson, Kirsten L., Casey, Caitlin M., Smith, Howard A., Sanders, D. B., Kewley, Lisa J., and Hayward, Christopher C. 2015. "Kinematic Classifications of Local Interacting Galaxies: Implications for the Merger/Disk Classifications at High-z." The Astrophysical Journal, 803 62. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/62. 2015
- Ricci, F., Massaro, Francesco, Landoni, M., D'Abrusco, R., Milisavljevic, D., Stern, D., Masetti, N., Paggi, A., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2015. "Optical Spectroscopic Observations of Gamma-ray Blazar Candidates. IV. Results of the 2014 Follow- up Campaign." The Astronomical Journal, 149 160. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/149/5/160. 2015
- Massaro, Francesco, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Landoni, M., Paggi, A., Masetti, N., Giroletti, M., Otí-Floranes, H., Chavushyan, V., Jiménez-Bailón, E., Patiño-Álvarez, V., Digel, S. W., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2015. "Refining the Associations of the Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalogs." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 217 2. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/217/1/2. 2015
- Brassington, N. J., Zezas, Andreas, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Lanz, L., Smith, Howard A., Willner, Steven P., and Klein, C. 2015. "The Spitzer Interacting Galaxies Survey: A Mid-infrared Atlas of Star Formation." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 218 6. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/218/1/6. 2015
- Hung, Chao-Ling, Sanders, D. B., Casey, Caitlin M., Koss, Michael, Larson, Kirsten L., Lee, Nicholas, Li, Yanxia, Lockhart, Kelly, Shih, Hsin-Yi, Barnes, Joshua E., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., and Smith, Howard A. 2014. "A Comparison of the Morphological Properties between Local and z ~ 1 Infrared Luminous Galaxies: Are Local and High-z (U)LIRGs Different?" The Astrophysical Journal, 791 63. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/63. 2014
- Lanz, Lauranne, Hayward, Christopher C., Zezas, Andreas, Smith, Howard A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Brassington, Nicola, Fazio, Giovanni G., and Hernquist, Lars. 2014. "Simulated Galaxy Interactions as Probes of Merger Spectral Energy Distributions." The Astrophysical Journal, 785 39. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/785/1/39. 2014
- Kryukova, E., Megeath, S. T., Hora, Joseph L., Gutermuth, R. A., Bontemps, S., Kraemer, K., Hennemann, M., Schneider, N., Smith, Howard A., and Motte, F. 2014. "The Dependence of Protostellar Luminosity on Environment in the Cygnus-X Star-forming Complex." The Astronomical Journal, 148 11. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/148/1/11. 2014
- Mommert, Michael, Hora, Joseph L., Harris, Alan W., Reach, William T., Emery, Joshua P., Thomas, Cristina A., Mueller, Michael, Cruikshank, Dale P., Trilling, David E., Delbo, Marco, and Smith, Howard A. 2014. "The Discovery of Cometary Activity in Near-Earth Asteroid (3552) Don Quixote." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/1/25. 2014
- Hayward, Christopher C., Lanz, Lauranne, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Fazio, Giovanni G., Hernquist, Lars, Martínez-Galarza, Juan Rafael, Noeske, Kai, Smith, Howard A., Wuyts, Stijn, and Zezas, Andreas. 2014. "The total infrared luminosity may significantly overestimate the star formation rate of quenching and recently quenched galaxies." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445 1598–1604. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1843. 2014
- Lanz, Lauranne, Zezas, Andreas, Brassington, Nicola, Smith, Howard A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., da Cunha, Elisabete, Fazio, Giovanni G., Hayward, Christopher C., Hernquist, Lars, and Jonsson, Patrik. 2013. "Global Star Formation Rates and Dust Emission over the Galaxy Interaction Sequence." The Astrophysical Journal, 768 90. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/768/1/90. 2013
- Cowperthwaite, Philip S., Massaro, Francesco, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Paggi, A., Tosti, G., and Smith, Howard A. 2013. "Identification of New Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates with Multifrequency Archival Observations." The Astronomical Journal, 146 110. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/146/5/110. 2013
- Maselli, A., Massaro, Francesco, Cusumano, G., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, La Parola, V., Paggi, A., Segreto, A., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2013. "Searching for New γ-Ray Blazar Candidates in the Third Palermo BAT Hard X-Ray Catalog with WISE." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 206 17. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/206/2/17. 2013
- Strelnitski, Vladimir, Bieging, John H., Hora, Joseph L., Smith, Howard A., Armstrong, Peter, Lagergren, Krister, and Walker, Gary. 2013. "The Parsec-scale Environment and the Evolutionary Status of MWC 349A." The Astrophysical Journal, 777 89. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/89. 2013
- Massaro, Francesco, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Paggi, A., Masetti, N., Giroletti, M., Tosti, G., Smith, Howard A., and Funk, S. 2013. "Unveiling the Nature of Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources. II. Radio, Infrared, and Optical Counterparts of the Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 206 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/206/2/13. 2013
- Massaro, Francesco, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Paggi, A., Masetti, N., Giroletti, M., Tosti, G., Smith, Howard A., and Funk, S. 2013. "Unveiling the Nature of the Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources. V. Analysis of the Radio Candidates with the Kernel Density Estimation." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 209 10. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/209/1/10. 2013
- D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Massaro, Francesco, Ajello, M., Grindlay, Jonathan E., Smith, Howard A., and Tosti, G. 2012. "Infrared Colors of the Gamma-Ray-detected Blazars." The Astrophysical Journal, 748 68. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/68. 2012
- Massaro, Francesco, Paggi, A., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Tosti, G., Grindlay, Jonathan E., Smith, Howard A., Digel, S. W., and Funk, S. 2012. "On the Nature of the Gamma-Ray Source 2FGL J1823.8 4312: The Discovery of a New Class of Extragalactic X-Ray Sources." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 757 L27. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/757/2/L27. 2012
- Massaro, Francesco, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Tosti, G., Ajello, M., Gasparrini, D., Grindlay, Jonathan E., and Smith, Howard A. 2012. "The WISE Gamma-Ray Strip Parameterization: The Nature of the Gamma-Ray Active Galactic Nuclei of Uncertain Type." The Astrophysical Journal, 750 138. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/750/2/138. 2012
- Harris, A. W., Mommert, M., Hora, Joseph L., Mueller, M., Trilling, D. E., Bhattacharya, B., Bottke, W. F., Chesley, S., Delbo, M., Emery, J. P., Fazio, Giovanni G., Mainzer, A., Penprase, B., Smith, Howard A., Spahr, T. B., Stansberry, J. A., and Thomas, C. A. 2011. "ExploreNEOs. II. The Accuracy of the Warm Spitzer Near-Earth Object Survey." The Astronomical Journal, 141 75. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/141/3/75. 2011
- Etxaluze, M., Smith, Howard A., Tolls, V., Stark, Antony A., and González-Alfonso, E. 2011. "The Galactic Center in the Far-infrared." The Astronomical Journal, 142 134. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/142/4/134. 2011
- Ashby, Matthew L. N., Mahajan, S., Smith, Howard A., Willner, Steven P., Fazio, Giovanni G., Raychaudhury, S., Zezas, Andreas, Barmby, P., Bonfini, P., Cao, C., Gonzáález-Alfonso, E., Ishihara, D., Kaneda, H., Lyttle, V., Madden, S., Papovich, C., Sturm, E., Surace, J., Wu, H., and Zhu, Y. N. 2011. "The Star Formation Reference Survey. I. Survey Description and Basic Data." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 123, (907) 1011–1029. https://doi.org/10.1086/661920. 2011
- Wilcock, L. A., Kirk, J. M., Stamatellos, D., Ward-Thompson, D., Whitworth, A., Battersby, C., Brunt, C., Fuller, G. A., Griffin, M., Molinari, S., Martin, P., Mottram, J. C., Peretto, N., Plume, R., Smith, Howard A., and Thompson, M. A. 2011. "The initial conditions of high-mass star formation: radiative transfer models of IRDCs seen in the Herschel Hi-GAL survey." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 526 159. 2011
- Beerer, I. M., Koenig, X. P., Hora, Joseph L., Gutermuth, R. A., Bontemps, Sylvain, Megeath, S. Thomas, Schneider, N., Motte, F., Carey, S., Simon, R., Keto, Eric R., Smith, Howard A., Allen, L. E., Fazio, Giovanni G., Kraemer, K. E., Price, S., Mizuno, D., Adams, J. D., Hernández, J., and Lucas, P. W. 2010. "A Spitzer View of Star Formation in the Cygnus X North Complex." The Astrophysical Journal, 720 679–693. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/720/1/679. 2010
- Smith, Howard A., Li, Aigen, Li, M. P., Köhler, M., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Fazio, Giovanni G., Huang, J. -S, Marengo, Massimo, Wang, Z., Willner, Steven P., Zezas, Andreas, Spinoglio, L., and Wu, Y. L. 2010. "Anomalous Silicate Dust Emission in the Type 1 Liner Nucleus of M81." The Astrophysical Journal, 716 490–503. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/716/1/490. 2010
- van, der Werf, Isaak, K. G., Meijerink, R., Spaans, M., Rykala, A., Fulton, T., Loenen, A. F., Walter, F., Weiß, A., Armus, Lee, Fischer, J., Israel, F. P., Harris, A. I., Veilleux, S., Henkel, C., Savini, G., Lord, S., Smith, Howard A., González-Alfonso, E., Naylor, D., Aalto, Susanne, Charmandaris, Vassilis, Dasyra, K. M., Evans, A., Gao, Y. et al. 2010. "Black hole accretion and star formation as drivers of gas excitation and chemistry in Markarian 231." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 518 L42. 2010
- Kraemer, Kathleen E., Hora, Joseph L., Egan, Michael P., Adams, Joseph D., Allen, Lori E., Bontemps, Sylvain, Carey, Sean J., Fazio, Giovanni G., Gutermuth, Robert, Keto, Eric R., Koenig, Xavier P., Megeath, S. Thomas, Mizuno, Donald R., Motte, Frederique, Price, Stephan D., Schneider, Nicola, Simon, Robert, and Smith, Howard A. 2010. "Circumstellar Structure Around Evolved Stars in the Cygnus-X Star Formation Region." The Astronomical Journal, 139 2319–2329. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/6/2319. 2010
- Trilling, D. E., Mueller, M., Hora, Joseph L., Harris, A. W., Bhattacharya, B., Bottke, W. F., Chesley, S., Delbo, M., Emery, J. P., Fazio, Giovanni G., Mainzer, A., Penprase, B., Smith, Howard A., Spahr, T. B., Stansberry, J. A., and Thomas, C. A. 2010. "ExploreNEOs. I. Description and First Results from the Warm Spitzer Near-Earth Object Survey." The Astronomical Journal, 140 770–784. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/140/3/770. 2010
- González-Alfonso, E., Fischer, J., Isaak, K., Rykala, A., Savini, G., Spaans, M., van, der Werf, Meijerink, R., Israel, F. P., Loenen, A. F., Vlahakis, C., Smith, Howard A., Charmandaris, Vassilis, Aalto, Susanne, Henkel, C., Weiß, A., Walter, F., Greve, T. R., Martín-Pintado, J., Naylor, D. A., Spinoglio, L., Veilleux, S., Harris, A. I., Armus, Lee, Lord, S. et al. 2010. "Herschel observations of water vapour in Markarian 231." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 518 L43. 2010
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Outreach Overview
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Ph.D. Theses supervision:
Prof. Lauranne Lanz
Prof. Chao-Ling Hung
Dr. Sarah Willis
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Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department