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Andrea Urban

Education
  • B.S. Astronomy and Physics, University of Arizona (2002)
  • Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin (2008)
Research Interests
  • Clustered Star Formation Simulations
  • Origin of the Initial Mass Function
  • Massive Star Formation
Professional Experience
  • Research assistant, University of Texas at Austin (2003 – 2008)
Selected Awards
  • NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellowship 2003-2006
Selected Publications
  1. Urban, A. 2008, in Massive Star Formation: Observtions Confront Theory, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 387, p. 276. SPH Simulations of Clustered Star Formation with Dust and Gas Energetics.
  2. Urban, A., Evans, N.J., & Doty, S.D. 2008, Astroph. J., in press. A Parameter Study of the Dust and Gas Temperature in a Field of Young Stars.
  3. Urban, A. & Evans, N.J. 2007, in Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM, IAU Symp. #237, p. 481. Modeling the Dust and Gas Temperatures Near Young Stars.
  4. Urban, A., Evans, N.J., Doty, S.D., & Martel, H. 2006, in New Horizons in Astronomy: Frank N. Bash Symposium, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 352, p. 293. Modeling Star Formation with Dust.
  5. Corbin, M.R., Urban, A., Stobie, E., Thompson, R.I., & Schneider, G. 2001, Astoph. J., 551, 23. A Multivariate Analysis of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field-North.

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