Debris Disks. Making the Disk-Planet Connection.

 

Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests:
Debris Disks and Planetary Origins
Spitzer Space Telescope  Search for dust around wTT stars
Search for Companions around Nearby Stars
The Nearby Stars Database at NAU
Mid Infrared Imaging of Circumstellar Disks with the Keck Telescope
Modeling of Thermal and Scattered Light Emission
Beta Pictoris
HR 4796A
49 Cet

SPITZER

SIRTF Legacy Page

Gillette Presentation

PUBLICATIONS

Wahhaj Z., Koerner D.W., Backman D.E., Werner M.W., Serabyn E., Ressler M.E. and Lis D.C., “The Radial Distribution of Dust Grains around HR 4796A”, The Astrophysical Journal, January 2005.

Wahhaj Z., Koerner D.W., Ressler M.E., Werner M.W., Backman D.E and Sargeant A.I., “The Inner Rings of Beta Pictoris”, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, January 2003.

Wahhaj Z., Koerner D.W. and Sargeant A.I., “High-Resolution Imaging of the Dust Disk around 49 Ceti”, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, In Preparation.

Young K.E., Harvey P.M., Brooke T.Y., Chapman N., Kauffmann J., Bertoldi F., Lai S., Alcalá J., Bourke T.L., Spiesman W., Allen L.E., Blake G.A.; Evans N.J. II, Koerner D.W., Mundy L.G., Myers P.C., Padgett D.L., Salinas A., Sargent A.I., Stapelfeldt K.R., Teuben P., van Dishoeck E.F., Wahhaj Z., “The Spitzer c2d Survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds. I. Chamaeleon II Observed with MIPS”, The Astrophysical Journal, July 2005.

Young C.H., Jørgensen J.K., Shirley Y.L., Kauffmann J., Huard T., Lai S., Lee C.W., Crapsi A., Bourke T.L., Dullemond C.P., Brooke T.Y., Porras A., Spiesman W., Allen L.E., Blake G.A., Evans N.J. II, Harvey P.M., Koerner D.W., Mundy L.G., Myers P.C., Padgett D.L., Sargent A.I., Stapelfeldt K.R., van Dishoeck E.F., Bertoldi F., Chapman N., Cieza L., DeVries C.H., Ridge N.A., Wahhaj Z., “A ‘Starless’ Core that Isn't: Detection of a Source in the L1014 Dense Core with the Spitzer Space Telescope”, The Astrophysical Journal, July 2005.

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