Other Writing

My technical papers on solar astronomy can be found by searching the Astrophysics Data System. A few of them are available here:

• Radio interferometry by lunar reflections

• Measurement of the solar limb brightness profile at 3 millimeters during the total eclipse of 1991 July 11

• High sensitivity dynamic spectral search for flare star radio bursts

• Time evolution of solar microwave bursts

A few of the many articles I wrote for FermiNews, a now-defunct publication of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, are here:

• Getting in on the action, from afar

• The interplay of theory and experiment

• This week: beam cooling

• DOE reviews main injector project

• Local company makes good (magnets)

A few of the many articles I wrote for the University of Illinois at Chicago are here:

• UIC programmers hack away at Year 2000 computer crisis

• Researchers warm to practical way of freezing tissue

• Engineers find new ways to remove pollutants

• Engineering solution to orthopedic problem

• Magical transformations in the lab, classroom

One of a few articles for Cornell Engineering magazine is here:

• Going with the flow

Some of my articles in StarDate magazine (a publication of the University of Texas McDonald Observatory) are available here:

• Steering by the stars

• Iron-60

• Seeds of life

The latest one (Seeds of life) is an article about the analysis of a pair of meteorites that scientists think contain samples of brine from Ceres or a similar asteroid. You can purchase back issues of StarDate here.

Just for fun, I wrote an article about birdwatching in Brittany’s Sept-Iles that appeared in Bird Watcher’s Digest. You can read this here:

• Brittany’s Sept-Iles Preserve in Summer

Read a clarification I wrote about a popular astronomy book about Pluto’s atmosphere here.