Deidre Hunter

Deidre A. Hunter is an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory. Her primary research area is tiny irregular galaxies — their origins, evolution and star production, and the shapes that are formed. She uses many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and includes spectroscopy in her approach.

Education

Hunter's BS is from the University of Arizona (1975) and her PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois in 1982. Her thesis was on the star-forming properties of irregular galaxies. It earned an award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[1]

Career

Hunter was a postdoctoral fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She joined Lowell Observatory in 1986. Hunter runs Lowell’s Navajo-Hopi Astronomy Outreach Program for 5th-8th grade Navajo and Hopi teachers and their classes.

Awards and honors

Research
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  • Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Hunter, Deidre A. (2010-03-20). "On the Disruption of Star Clusters in a Hierarchical Interstellar Medium". The Astrophysical Journal. 712 (1): 604–623. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/712/1/604. ISSN 0004-637X.
  • Hunter, Deidre A.; Ficut-Vicas, Dana; Ashley, Trisha; Brinks, Elias; Cigan, Phil; Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Heesen, Volker; Herrmann, Kimberly A.; Johnson, Megan; Oh, Se-Heon; Rupen, Michael P. (2012-11-01). "Little Things". The Astronomical Journal. 144 (5): 134. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134. ISSN 0004-6256.

See also
  • Dwarf galaxies

References
  1. "Deidre Hunter".
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