Robert Gehrz
Professor (Astronomy), Chair
357/385 Tate, 624-7806/626-2067, email gehrz @ astro.umn.eduhttp://www.astro.umn.edu/~gehrz/
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PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, 1985-; DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OBSERVATORIES, 1989-; Interim Chair, Department of Astronomy, 2005-2006; CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2006-; Fellow, Explorers Club, 1979; Fellow, AAAS, 1995; President, American Astronomical Society, 1999-2000; Fellow, APS, 2004; NASA Group Achievement Award, 2004.
Principal, SIRTF In-Orbit Checkout Focus Integrated Products Team, 2000-; NAS Committee on Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2001; Chair, NSF/NASA/DOE Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee, 2002-2005; JWST Product Integrity Team, 2002-; JWST Science Assessment Team 2005; Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Site Selection Committee, 2005-2006; NASA SOFIA Science Steering Committee, 2007 -; Leader, NASA SOFIA Community Task Force, 2007-.
Current Research
I am an observational/experimental infrared astromomer specializing in instrument development, telescope construction, telescope control and data acquisition systems. My observational programs include studies of comets, novae, supernovae, variable stars, and objects of opportunity.
Selected Publications
R. D. Gehrz, C. E. Woodward, L. A. Helton, E. F. Polomski, T. L. Hayward, J. R. Houck, A. Evans, J. Krautter, S. N. Shore, S. Starrfield, J. Truran, G. J. Schwarz, G. J., and R. M. Wagner, The Neon Abundance in the Ejecta of QU Vul From Late-Epoch IR Spectra,”, ApJ (2008)
A. Evans, C. E. Woodward, L. A. Helton,J. Th.van Loon, R. K. Barry, M. F. Bode, R. J. Davis, J. J. Drake, S. P. S. Eyres, T. R. Geballe, R. D. Gehrz, T. Kerr, J. Krautter, D. K. Lynch, J. -U. Ness, T.J. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne, K. L. Page, R. J. Rudy,, Silicate dust in the environment of RS Ophiuchi following the 2006 eruption,", ApJL (2007)
D. C. Jackson, E. D. Skillman, R. D. Gehrz, E. Polomski, and C. E. Woodward, A Spitzer IRAC Census of the Asymptotic Giant Branch Populations in Local Group Dwarfs, IC (2007)
A. Evans, C. E. Woodward, L. A. Helton, R. D.Gehrz, D. K. Lynch, R. J. Rudy, R. W. Russell, T. Kerr, M. F Bode, M. J. Darnley, S. P. S. Eyres, T. R. Geballe, T. J. O'Brien, R. J. Davis, S. Starrfield, J.-U. Ness, J. Drake, J. P. Osborne, K. L. Page, G. , Spitzer and Ground-based Infrared Observations of the 2006 Eruption of RS Ophiuchi,”, ApJ (2007)
G. J. Schwarz, C. E. Woodward, M. F. Bode, A. Evans, S. P. Eyres, T. R. Geballe, R. D. Gehrz, M. A.; Greenhouse, L. A Helton, W. Liller, J. E. Lyke, D. K. Lynch, T. J. O'Brien, R. J. Rudy, R. W. Russell, S. N. Shore, S. G. Starrfield, T. Temim, J. W. , The Early Spectrophotometric Evolution of V1186 Scorpii, AJ (2007)
Education
Ph.D. Physics, University of Minnesota, 1971.