Members
Louis J. Boyd
Director, Fairborn Observatory
Research interests: the design, construction, and operation of robotic telescopes in support of automated astronomy, the development of automated high-precision photometry
Geoffrey S. Burks
Research interests: RR Lyrae stars and the interstellar medium,
pulsating variable stars, astronomy education, remote learning via streaming
video courses
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Joel A. Eaton
Research interests: the structure and heating of stellar
chromospheres, spotted stars, Zeta Aurigae binaries, structure of
interacting binaries, winds and pulsation in giant stars,
automated astronomy
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Francis C. Fekel
Research interests: spectroscopy of binary and multiple stars,
chromospherically active stars, stellar distances, masses, and luminosities,
rotational velocities, lithium abundances/ages of late-type stars,
ultraviolet spectroscopy
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Gregory W. Henry
Research interests: automated astronomy with robotic telescopes,
high-precision photometry, luminosity and magnetic cycles in solar-type
stars, the search for extrasolar planets, chromospherically active stars,
pulsating variable stars
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Matthew W. Muterspaugh
Research interests: stellar astrophysics, optical interferometry, astronomical instrumentation, astrometric search for extrasolar planets, search for low-mass planets around low-mass stars (arrives January 2009)
Michael H. Williamson
Research interests: software and control system development for automated telescopes, data pipeline development for automated imaging and automated spectroscopy, the search for extrasolar planets