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Jack Baldwin

Professor

Physics & Astronomy Department

Michigan State University

3270 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building (BPS)

Phone (517) 884-5611

mailto: baldwin at pa.msu.edu

Current Research Interests:

· Quasars & the Early History of Galaxies

Chemical Abundances in Planetary Nebulae

Graduate students working with me

· Eric Pellegrini

· Neelam Dhanda

Some recent papers:

Pellegrini, E.W., Baldwin, J.A., Ferland, G.J., Shaw, G. & Heathcote, S. 2008, ApJ (in press) “Orion’s Bar: Physical Conditions across the Definitive H+ / H0 / H2 Interface” (http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/arxiv/papers/0811/0811.1176.pdf)
Williams, R., Jenkins, E.B., Baldwin, J.A., Zhang, Y., Sharpee, B., Pellegrini, E. & Phillips, M. 2008, ApJ, 677, 1100 “Independent Emission and Absorption Abundances for Planetary Nebulae” (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0710.5248)
Kuehn, C.A., Baldwin, J.A., Peterson, B.M. & Korista, K.T. 2008, ApJ, 673, 69 “On the Size of the Fe II Emitting Region in the AGN Akn 120”

· Williams, R., Jenkins, E.B., Baldwin, J.A., Zhang, Y., Sharpee, B., Pellegrini, E. & Phillips, M. 2008, ApJ, 677, 1120 “Independent Emission and Absorption Abundances for Planetary Nebulae” http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0801.2147

Kuehn, C.A., Baldwin, J.A., Peterson, B.M. & Korista, K.T. 2008, ApJ, 673, 69 “On the Size of the Fe II Emitting Region in the AGN Akn 120”, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0710.5248
Dhanda, N., Baldwin, J.A., Bentz, M.C. & Osmer, P.S.2007, ApJ, 658, 804 "Quasars with Super Metal Rich Emission Line Regions" http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0612610

· Sharpee, B., Zhang, Y., Williams, R., Pellegrini, E., Cavagnolo, K., Baldwin, J., Phillips, M. & Liu, X.-W. 2007, ApJ, 659, 1265, “s-Process Abundances in Planetary Nebulae” http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0612101

Pellegrini, E.W., Baldwin, J.A., Brogan, C.L., Hanson, M.M., Abel, N.P., Ferland, G.J. Nemala, H.B., Shaw G. & Troland, T.H. 2007, ApJ, 658, 1119 “A Magnetically-Supported PDR in M17” http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0611808