Barbara Jones (astronomer)
Barbara Jones is an infrared astronomer. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego.[1]
Education and career[edit]
In the early 1970s, Jones worked with David Aitken at University College London in the Physics and Astronomy Department, formed in 1972 from the merger of two separate departments.[2] She completed her Ph.D. there in 1977,[3] under the supervision of Benjamin Michael Zuckerman[4], and was affiliated with the University of Minnesota before joining the University of California, San Diego in 1980.[5]
Research[edit]
Jones's early work included infrared astronomy of Jupiter,[pub 1] of planetary nebulae,[pub 2] and of the Galactic Center.[pub 3][pub 4] Her dissertation was Infrared spectral observations of the galactic centre and other celestial objects.[3] The research from later in her career included the development of a mid-infrared spectrometer for the W. M. Keck Observatory,[pub 5] and its use to observe the Einstein Cross, a gravitationally lensed quasar.[pub 6]
Recognition[edit]
Jones was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1994, after a nomination from the APS Division of Astrophysics, "for pioneering development of state-of-the-art infrared instrumentation, the design of the next generation of large telescopes, and their use to make forefront observations of infrared sources".[6]
Selected publications[edit]
- ^ Aitken, D. K.; Jones, B. (November 1972), "The 8 to 13 μm spectrum of Jupiter", Nature, 240 (5378): 230–232, doi:10.1038/240230b0
- ^ Aitken, D. K.; Roche, P. F.; Spenser, P. M.; Jones, B. (November 1979), "8–13 micron spectrophotometry of planetary nebulae", The Astrophysical Journal, 233: 925–934, Bibcode:1979ApJ...233..925A, doi:10.1086/157455
- ^ Aitken, D. K.; Jones, B. (August 1973), "Observations of the infrared extinction of IRS 5 in W3 compared with the galactic center and the Becklin–Neugebauer object", The Astrophysical Journal, 184: 127, doi:10.1086/152310
- ^ Aitken, D. K.; Jones, B.; Penman, J. M. (October 1974), "Detection of ionized neon in the Galactic Centre", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 169 (1): 35P–38P, doi:10.1093/mnras/169.1.35p
- ^ Jones, Barbara; Puetter, Richard C. (October 1993), "Keck long-wavelength spectrometer", in Fowler, Albert M. (ed.), SPIE Proceedings, doi:10.1117/12.158715
- ^ Agol, Eric; Jones, Barbara; Blaes, Omer (December 2000), "Keck mid-infrared imaging of QSO 2237+0305", The Astrophysical Journal, 545 (2): 657–663, doi:10.1086/317847
References[edit]
- ^ "Barbara Jones", UCSD Profiles, University of California, San Diego, retrieved 2022-05-06
- ^ Fox, J. W. (Bill), A History of the UCL Physics and Astronomy Department from 1826 – 1975, University College London, retrieved 2022-05-06; see section "Department of Physics and Astronomy: 1972–1975"
- ^ a b "Barbara Jones", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-05-06
- ^ "Infrared spectral observations of the galactic centre and other celestial objects", UCL, University College London, UK, 1977
- ^ Burbidge, E. M., "University of California, III: San Diego Campus Report", Bulletin of the Astronomical Society, 13: 63–71, Bibcode:1981BAAS...13...63B
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 1994 by the Division of Astrophysics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2022-05-06