Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy at Western
University of Western Ontario

Areas of Research

  • Active Galaxies
  • Canadian Lunar Research Network (CLRN)
  • Circumstellar Matter and Hot Stars
  • Comets and Asteroids
  • Meteor Physics
  • Near Earth Asteroid Physical Studies (NEAPS)
  • Observatories
  • Nearby Galaxies
  • Planetary Science
  • Pulsating Variable Stars
  • Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium
  • Stellar Magnetic Fields
  • Stellar Spectroscopy

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Research

Image Gallery

  • Growth and Blowout of Supernova-driven shell
  • Formation of a Protostar and Surrounding Disk
  • Computer simulaOctober 15, 2007
  • Energy balance in circumstellar disk
  • Predicted Emission Spectrum of Ionized Iron from an Active Galactic Nucleus
  • Rayleigh-Taylor Instability - Density contours
  • Computer simulation - Galactic Gas Density
  • Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea
  • Pic du Midi Observatory - French Pyrenees
  • UWO crew out hunting the Tagish Lake meteorite
  • Frozen chunks of Carbonaceous chondrite meteor
  • Tagish Lake Meteor - fireball
  • Summer Public Nights at Cronyn Observatory
  • Western's Elginfield Observatory
  • Elginfield Observatory's 1.2 metre telescope
  • Elginfield 1.2 metre dome during observing
  • Model of stellar magnetic fields
  • Gravitational Fragmentation in a Magnetic Cloud
  • Impact of a high-velocity cloud with the Galactic disk
  • Our students get to observe at locations around the world
  • Submillimetre polarization in the Orion Molecular Cloud
  • The Dome of the 8-metre Gemini North Telescope
  • The Dome and Telescope of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Hawaii
  • Nearby Galaxy
  • NASA's Spitzer space telescope and the Coronet cluster of stars
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Physics and Astronomy Department,
University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7 • Tel: (519) 661-3283
Updated March 10, 2011