Barbara Jones (astronomer)

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Barbara Jones is an infrared astronomer. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego. [1]

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Education and career

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

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

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

  1. ↑ Aitken, D. K.; Jones, B. (November 1972), "The 8 to 13 μm spectrum of Jupiter", Nature, 240 (5378): 230–232, doi:10.1038/240230b0
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 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, Bibcode:1973ApJ...184..127A, doi:10.1086/152310
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ Jones, Barbara; Puetter, Richard C. (October 1993), "Keck long-wavelength spectrometer", in Fowler, Albert M. (ed.), SPIE Proceedings, Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation, vol. 1946, p. 610, doi:10.1117/12.158715
  6. ↑ Agol, Eric; Jones, Barbara; Blaes, Omer (December 2000), "Keck mid-infrared imaging of QSO 2237+0305", The Astrophysical Journal, 545 (2): 657–663, arXiv: astro-ph/0007269 , Bibcode:2000ApJ...545..657A, doi:10.1086/317847

References

  1. ↑ "Barbara Jones", UCSD Profiles, University of California, San Diego, retrieved 2022-05-06
  2. ↑ Fox, J. W. (Bill) (April 25, 2018), 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"
  3. 1 2 "Barbara Jones", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-05-06
  4. ↑ "Infrared spectral observations of the galactic centre and other celestial objects", UCL, University College London, UK, 1977, Bibcode:1977PhDT........69J
  5. ↑ Burbidge, E. M. (1981), "University of California, III: San Diego Campus Report", Bulletin of the Astronomical Society, 13: 63–71, Bibcode:1981BAAS...13...63B
  6. ↑ "Fellows nominated in 1994 by the Division of Astrophysics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2022-05-06
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