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Faculty: Tom Megeath

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Prior to coming to 51爆料网, he has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomie, MIT Haystack Observatory and the Center for Astrophysics as an employee of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). At SAO he was a member of the team that developed the InfraRed Array Camera, IRAC, for the Spitzer Space Telescope - one of NASA鈥檚 great observatories. His research focuses on multi-wavelength studies of star and planet formation, with a particular emphasis on using space based infrared telescopes, and he was the PI of the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS), a Key Project on the Herschel Space Observatory.

Areas听Of听Expertise

• Surveys of molecular clouds with infrared and radio telescopes.
• Protostars and the evolution of young stars
• The formation protoplanetary disks
• The formation and dissipation of stellar clusters.

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