Barbara A. Whitney
I am an astronomer working at the Space
Science Institute (SSI). SSI is located in Boulder, CO, and I
live and work in Madison, WI. I also work with several
people at the University of
Wisconsin.
My barred spiral galaxy haircut:
Now when I describe our Galaxy to people I can just point to the back
of my head. Next time I'll change the orientation and tighten the
arms up so it looks more like this:
See here
for more description and downloadable images.
Research
YSO
model grid (20,000 models! * 10 viewing angles * 50 apertures
= 10 million SEDs)
Monte Carlo radiation transfer codes available here.
GLIMPSE, an infrared
survey of our Galactic Plane
SAGE, an infrared survey of the
Large Magellanic Cloud
Refereed publication list from the Astrophysics
Data System
Non-work stuff
My past life as an airplane pilot.
I can always go back to it...
Going vegan (2005)
