NAME: Dr. C. Ian Short, P.Phys

Associate Professor, Astronomy & Physics Department - Saint Mary's University

and Institute for Computational Astrophysics

ishort "at" ap.smu.ca

Research Interests:

• Computational Modelling of Stellar Atmospheres
• Quantitative Analysis of Stellar Spectra

Current group:

• Eamonn Campbell (Honours)
• Mitchell young (M.Sc.)
• Chris Cooke (M.Sc.) - co-advising with David Guenther

Link to PHOENIX-related resources at Saint Mary's

Various 3D representations of PHOENIX: C o o l G r i d :

Carefully vetted subset of observed spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for Red Giants extracted from the spectrophotometric catalogue of Burnashev (1985, CDS III/126), along with sample means and deviations

C o o l G r i d : Effective temperature sequence of Non-LTE PHOENIX synthetic spectra for Red Giants of surface gravity of 100 g/cm^2 and solar metallicity. Computed with ACEnet

C o o l G r i d : Theorist's Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram showing stellar parameter points where Non-LTE stellar atmospheric models and synthetic spectra have been computed, at solar and 1/3 solar metallicity, with PHOENIX. Computed with ACEnet

Periodic Table of the elements showing which chemical elements and ionization stages, and how many atomic E-levels and transitions, are treated in Non-LTE in this PHOENIX grid. Note: Many of the elements not coloured in are also included, but in LTE.

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