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Department of Astronomy
Catherine Pilachowski
Astronomy Department
Indiana University
Swain West 323
727 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-6913
Fax: (812) 855-8725
Email: catyp@astro.indiana.edu
Biographical Information
(curriculum vita) - If you are assigned to "interview an astronomer" for school, please see my interview page for help with your assignment.
Professor Pilachowski holds the Kirkwood Chair in
Astronomy at Indiana University Bloomington, where she teaches and conducts research on
the evolution of stars and the chemical history of the Milky Way Galaxy
from studies of chemical composition of stars and star clusters.
She served for more than 20
years on the scientific staff of the National Optical Astronomy
Observatory in Tucson. While at NOAO, she served
as Project Scientist for the design and construction
of the 3.5-meter
WIYN
Telescope, a telescope at
which the IUB Astronomy Department holds a 17% share.
In addition to her astronomical research, Professor Pilachowski has been
active in the areas of light pollution, astronomical instrumentation,
large telescope design and construction, electronic publications,
women in science, and diversity. She
has served on numerous national and international boards and committees
and as President of the
American Astronomical Society
from 2002-2004.
Professor Pilachowski received a B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College
in California, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii, where
she observed at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Research Interests (see my
research page for more information on the topics below)
Teaching and Learning
- Courses
- Curriculum
- Public Talks
- Minu-University Lectures
- WISP Lecture - Modern Telescopes, Ancient Skies (ppt, 10 MB)
- What's Brewing in the Teapot at Prairie Grass Observatory, August, 2007 (Powerpoint file, 12MB)
- The Amazing Omega Centauri (PPT, 8MB) presented at the Indiana Astronomical Society, June 2008
- 2005 Lifelong Learning Lectures:
(Lecture 1: ppt, 10 MB)
(Lecture 2: ppt, 5 MB)
(Lecture 3: ppt, 7 MB)
- Teacher Workshops
- Fred Lo's Radio Astronomy Lectures:
Recent Publications
- Abundances of Red Giants in Old Open Clusters. III. NGC 7142
Jacobson, H. R., Friel, E. D., & Pilachowski, C. A. 2008, AJ, 135, 2341.
- Fe and Al Abundances for 180 Red Giants in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)
Johnson, C. I., Pilachowski, C. A., Simmerer, J., & Schwenk, D. 2008, ApJ, 681, 1505.
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Europium, Samarium, and Neodymium Isotopic Fractions in Metal-Poor Stars
Roederer, I., et al. 2008, ApJ, 265, 723.
- Na, Al, and O Abundances of Open Clusters NGC 7142, NGC 6939, and IC 4756
Jacobson, H. R., Friel, E. D., & Pilachowski, C. A. 2007, AJ, 134, 1216.
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A Moderate Sample Size, Multielement Analysis of the Globular Cluster M12 (NGC 6218)
Johnson, C. I. & Pilachowski, C. A. 2006, AJ, 132, 2346.
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A 235 Star Sample Sodium, Magnesium, and Aluminum Abundance Study in the Globular Clusters M3 (NGC 5272) and M13 (NGC 6205)
Johnson, C. I., Kraft, R. P., Pilachowski, C. A., Sneden, C., Ivans, I. I., & Benman, G. 2005, PASP, 117, 1308.
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Abundances of Red Giants in Old Open Clusters. II. Berkeley 17
Friel, E. D., Jacobson, H. R., & Pilachowski, C. A. 2005, AJ, 129, 2725.
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