Jack Baldwin’s Home Page

 

Jack Baldwin Professor Physics & Astronomy Department Michigan State University   3270 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building (BPS) Phone (517) 355-9200   x2411 mailto:baldwin@pa.msu.edu

 

Planets around Other Stars

• Links to interesting web sites

Special Feature Presentation:

• How stars work   (according to my daughter Carol)

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Current Research Interests:

·        Quasars & the Early History of Galaxies

·        Chemical Abundances in Planetary Nebulae

·        Star-forming Regions, from the Orion Nebula to the Edge of the Universe

Graduate students working with me

• Aaron LaCluyze (“Cluze”)   http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/lacluyze/

• Eric Pellegrini

• Neelam Dhanda

• Charles Kuehn

Some recent papers:

• Williams, R., Jenkins, E.B., Baldwin, J.A., Zhang, Y., Sharpee, B., Pellegrini, E. & Phillips, M. 2008, ApJ (in press) “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 (in press) “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

• Blagrave, K. P. M.; Martin, P. G.; Rubin, R. H.; Dufour, R. J.; Baldwin, J. A.; Hester, J. J.; Walter, D. K. 2007, ApJ, 655, 299 “Deviations from He I Case B Recombination Theory and Extinction Corrections in the Orion Nebula” http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0610621

• Blagrave, K.P.M., Martin, P.G. & Baldwin, J.A. 2006, ApJ, 644, 1006 “A Photoionized Herbig-Haro Object in the Orion Nebula” http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0603167

CV and Full Bibliography

www.pa.msu.edu/~baldwin/biblio.htm