University of Minnesota

Department of Astronomy

IRLab Astronomy: Current Projects

See our Spitzer Space Telescope data as presented at the 205th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in our poster archive.

A few of our current projects:

  • Galaxies
    • Spitzer Space Telescope mapping and spectroscopy of M33, especially to investigate the massive, luminous stars which inject processed material into the interstellar medium
    • Spitzer Space Telescope IRAC and IRS observations of local group dwarfs
    • magnetic fields and grain alignment
  • Comets
    • grain structure and mineralogy
    • relationship to protoplanetary disks
    • dust dynamics
  • Supernova Remants
    • dust formation
  • Globular Clusters
    • stellar mass-loss
  • Classical Novae
    • outburst activity and monitoring
    • chemical evolution and ISM enrichment studies with Chandra and Spitzer
  • Young Stellar Objects
    • highly embedded sources, Herbig Ae/Be, and FU Ori stars
    • disk structure
    • grain composition

Some miscellaneous, yet interesting, stuff:

  • V838 Mon - CCD images of the light echo from Feb 2003 at MLOF.
  • M 42 - Pretty pictures of our favorite HII region.