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Biography

Dr. Margaret Meixner is internationally recognized for her work in infrared instrumentation (ground based and space based), Magellanic Clouds, dust evolution in galaxies, circumstellar matter of dying stars, circumstellar matter of forming stars, and the interstellar medium. Formerly the Director of SOFIA SMO, worked for 18 years on JWST at STScI ending as a Distinguished Astronomer. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign faculty for 9 years. B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park; PhD in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. JWST Mid-infrared Instrument Science Team, and the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) team, formerly Community co-Chair for the Origins Space Telescope mission concept and chair of the NASA Herschel Users Panel.

Education

  • 1987 B.S., Electrical Eng., University of Maryland, College Park, summa cum laude with Honors
  • 1987 B.S. Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, summa cum laude with Honors
  • 1989 M.S. Astronomy, UC Berkeley
  • 1993 Ph.D. Astronomy, UC Berkeley, PhD Advisor, W.J. Welch

Professional Experience

  • 2023-Present Section Manager, Astrophysics & Space Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology
  • 2020-2023 Director of SOFIA Science Mission Operations, Universities Space Research Association
  • 2019-2020 JWST Project Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • 2011-2020 Principal Research Scientist in CAS, Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
  • 2010-2017 Deputy of the Instruments Division at Space Telescope Science Institute
  • 2017- 2020 Distinguished Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • 2017- 2019 Visiting Scientist at NASA Goddard
  • 2007-2017 Full Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • 2002-2007 Associate with tenure, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • 2010 Visiting Scientist at Commissariat s l’energie atomique (CEA)/Saclay, France
  • 2009-2010 Visiting Scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • 1993-2002 Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Community Service

2023-pres: AAS Nominating Committee

2016-pres: AUI visiting committee, review of NRAO

2019-2022 Astrophysics Advisory Committee for NASA HQ, member

2019-2021 Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group (COPAG) Executive Committee Chair

2016-2020 Community Chair of the Origins Space Telescope Science and Technology Definition Team for NASA headquarters

Research Interests

Margaret Meixner’s areas of specialization include: infrared instrumentation and observatories (ground, airborne and space based), the Magellanic Clouds, dust evolution in galaxies, circumstellar matter of dying stars (asymptotic giant branch stars, supernovae, red supergiants, luminous blue variables), star formation at low metallicity, and the interstellar medium.

Selected Awards

  • NASA Group Achievement Award for Astro2020 Large Mission Study Science and Technology Definition Team, 2019
  • AURA Distinguished Astronomer, 2017
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2015
  • AURA Science Achievement Award 2009 for leadership of WHIRC and SAGE
  • JWST Group Achievement for PDR & NAR Award 2009

Selected Publications

  1. “Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE) I: Overview and Initial Results,” Meixner, M.,; Gordon, K.; Indebetouw, R.; et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 2268
  2. Meixner, M.; Smee, S.; Doering, R. L.; Barkhouser, R. H.; Miller, T.; Orndorff, Joseph; Knezek, Patricia; Churchwell, E. B. ; Scharfstein, Gregg; Percival, Jeffrey W.; Mills, D.; Corson, C., Joyce, R. R., 2010, PASP, 122, 451, “Design Overview and Performance of the WIYN High Resolution Infrared Camera (WHIRC)”
  3. M. Meixner, P. Panuzzo, J. Roman-Duval, et al. 2013, AJ, 146, 62, “The HERschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds, a Herschel Open Time Key Program.”
  4. Jones, O.C., Meixner, M., Justtanont, K., Glasse, A., 2017, ApJ, 841, 15 “Probling the Dusty Stellar Populations of The Local Group Galaxies with JWST/MIRI.”
  5. “The Origins Space Telescope: From First Light to Life, Mission Concept Study Report,” Meixner, M.; Cooray, A., Leisawitz, D., Staguhn, J., and the Origins Study Team, Book Published by NASA/GSFC, https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06213Nayak, O., Meixner, M., Okada, Y., Lee, M-Y, Chevance, M., Buchbender, C., Fukui, Y., Onishi, T., Parikka, A., Stutzki, J. 2021, ApJ, 907, 106 “Stellar Feedback of the Earliest Stage of Massive Star Formation”
  6. Meixner, M., Cooray, A., Leisawitz, D., and 36 co-authors, 2021, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS). Vol. 7, p. 1012, “Origins Space Telescope science drivers to design traceability.”
  7. Hirschauer, A. S., Gray, L., Meixner, M., Jones, O.C., Srinivasan, S., Boyer, M.L., Sargent, B.A., 2020, ApJ, 892, 91, “Dusty Stellar Birth and Death in the Metal-poor Galaxy NGC 6822.”
  8. Nayak, O., Meixner, M., Sewilo, M., Ochsendorf, B., Bolatto, A., Indebetouw, R., Jones, O., Kawamura, A., Onishi, T., Fukui, Y. 2019, ApJ, 877, 135 “ ALMA Reveals Kinematics of Super Star Cluster Candidate H72.97-69.39 in LMC-N79.”
  9. “The Origins Space Telescope: From First Light to Life, Mission Concept Study Report,” Meixner, M.; Cooray, A., Leisawitz, D., Staguhn, J., and the Origins Study Team, Book Published by NASA/GSFC, https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06213
  10. Roman-Duval, J., Jenkins, E.B., Williams, B., Tchernyshyov, K., Gordon, K., Meixner, M., Hagen, L., Peek, J., Sandstrom, K., Werk, J., Yanchulova, M.-J., P., 2019, ApJ, 871, 151, “METAL: The Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundamnce in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble Program. I. Overview and Initial Results.”
  11. Nayak, O.; Meixner, M.; Fukui, Y., Tachihara, K., Onishi, T., Saigo, K., Tokuda, K., Harada, R., 2018, ApJ, 854, 154 “ Molecular Cloud Structures and Massive Star Formation in N159.”
  12. Ochsendorf, B. B., Zinnecker, H., Nayak, O., Bally, J., Meixner, M., Jones, O., Indebetouw, R., Rahman, M., 2017, Nature Astronomy, 1, 784. “The star-forming complex LMC-N79 as a future rival to 30 Doradus”
  13. Jones, O., Woods, P.M., Kemper, F., Kraemer, K.E., Sloan, G.C., Srinivasan S, Oliveira, J.M., van Loon, J. Th., Boyer, M.L., Sargent, B.A., McDonald, I., Meixner, M., Zijlstra, A.A., Ruffle, P. M. E., Lagadec, E., Tyler, P., Sewilo, M., Clayton, G.C., Volk, G.C., 2017, MNRAS, 470, 3250, “The SAGE – Spec Spitzer Legacy program: The Lifecycle of Dust and Gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud Point Source Classification III”
  14. Bram B. Ochsendorf, Margaret Meixner, Julia Roman-Duval, Mubdi Rahman, Neal Evans 2017, ApJ, 841, 109, “What Sets the Massive Star Formation Rates and Efficiencies of Giant Molecular Clouds?”
  15. Jones, O.C., Meixner, M., Justtanont, K., Glasse, A., 2017, ApJ, 841, 15 “Probling the Dusty Stellar Populations of The Local Group Galaxies with JWST/MIRI.”
  16. Ochsendorf, Bram B.; Meixner, Margaret; Chastenet, Jérémy; Tielens, Alexander G. G. M.; Roman-Duval, Julia, 2016, ApJ, 832, 43, “The Location, Clustering, and Propagation of Massive Star Formation in Giant Molecular Clouds”
  17. Tchernyshyov, K., Meixner, M., Seale, J., Fox, A.J., Friedman, S., D., Dwek, E., Galliano, F., 2015 ApJ, 811, 78, “ Constraints on dust composition in the Magellanic Clouds from gas-phase zinc, silicon, chromium, and iron abundances”
  18. Roman-Duval, J., Gordon, K.D., Meixner, M., Bot, C., Bolatto, A., Israel, F., Berneard, J-P, Remy-Ruyer, A., Galametz, M., Galliano, F., Babler, B., Clayton, G., Engelbracht, Glover, S., Hony, S., Hughes, A., Lebouteiller, V., Lee, M-Y, Li, A., Madden, S., Misselt, K., Montiel, E., Okumura, K., Panuzzo, P., Reach, W., Robitaille, T., Rubio, M., Seale, J., Sauvage, M., Sewiło, M., Zhukovska, S., 2014, ApJ, 797, 86 “Dust and Gas in the Magellanic Clouds from the HERITAGE Herschel Key Project. II. Variations of the Apparent Gas-to-Dust Ratio with Surface Density and Across ISM Phases.”
  19. Gordon, K.D., Roman-Duval, J., Bot, C., Meixner, M., Babler, B., Bernard, J-P, Bolatto, A., Boyer, M.L., Clayton, G.C., Engelbracht, C., Fukui, Y., Galametz, M., Galliano, F., Hony, S., Madden, S.C., Matsuura, M., Misselt, K., Montiel, E., Okumura, K., Sauvage, M., Seale, J., Sewiło, M., Skibba, R., 2014, ApJ, 797, 85, “Dust and Gas in the Magellanic Clouds from the HERTAGE Herscehl Key Project. I. Dust Properties and Insights into the Origin of the Submm Excess Emission.”
  20. M. Sewilo, L. R. Carlson, J. P. Seale, R. Indebetouw, M. Meixner, B. A. Whitney, T. P. Robitaille, J. M. Oliveira, K. Gordon, M. R. Meade, B. L. Babler, J. L. Hora, M. Block, K. Misselt, J. Th. van Loon, C.-H. R. Chen, E. Churchwell, B. Shiao, 2013, ApJ, 778, 15, “Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC) III: Young Stellar Objects.”
  21. M. Meixner, P. Panuzzo, J. Roman-Duval, C. Engelbracht, B. Babler, J. Seale, S. Hony, E. Montiel, M. Sauvage, K. Gordon, K. Misselt, K. Okumura, P. Chanial, T. Beck, J.-P. Bernard, A. Bolatto, C. Bot, M. L. Boyer, L.R. Carlson, G. C. Clayton, C.-H. R. Chen, D. Cormier, Y. Fukui, M. Galametz, F. Galliano, J. L. Hora, A. Hughes, R. Indebetouw, F. P. Israel, A. Kawamura, F. Kemper, S. Kim, E. Kwon, V. Lebouteiller, A. Li, K. S. Long, S.C. Madden, M. Matsuura, E. Muller, J. M. Oliveira, T. Onishi, M. Otsuka, D. Paradis, A. Poglitsch, W. T. Reach, T. P. Robitaille, M. Rubio, B. Sargent, M. Sewilo, R. Skibba, L.J. Smith, S. Srinivasan, A.G.G.M. Tielens, J. Th. van Loon, B. Whitney, 2013, AJ, 146, 62, “The HERschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds, a Herschel Open Time Key Program.”
  22. Riebel, D., Srinivasan, S., Sargent, B., Meixner, M. 2012, 753, 71, “The Mass-Loss Return From Evolved Stars to the Large Magellanic Cloud VI: Luminosities and Mass-Loss Rates on Population Scales”
  23. Carlson, L.R., Sewilo, M., Meixner, M., Romita, K.A., Lawton, B., 2012, A&A, 542,66, “Identifying Young Stellar Objects in Nine Large Magellanic Cloud Star Forming Regions.”
  24. Karl D. Gordon, Margaret Meixner, Marilyn Meade, Barbara A. Whitney, Charles W. Engelbracht, Caroline Bot, Martha L Boyer, Brandon Lawton, Marta Sewilo, Mr. Brian L. Babler, Jean-Philippe Bernard, Steve Bracker, Miwa Block, Robert D. Blum, Alberto D. Bolatto, Alceste Zoe Bonanos, Jason Harris, Joseph L. Hora, Remy Indebetouw, Karl A. Misselt, William T. Reach, B. Shiao, Alexander Tielens, Lynn Redding Carlson, Edward B. Churchwell, Geoff C. Clayton, C-H Rosie Chen, Martin Cohen, J. Lewis Fukui, Varoujan Gorjian, Sacha Hony, Frank Israel, Akiko Kawamura, F. Kemper, Adam K. Leroy, Aigen Li, Suzanne C. Madden, Andrew R. Marble, Iain McDonald, Akira Mizuno, Norikazu Mizuno, EriK Muller, Joana M. Oliveira, Knut A. G. Olsen, T. Onishi, Roberta Paladini, Deborah Paradis, Sean Points, Thomas Robitaille, Douglas Rubin, Karin Sandstrom, S Sato, Hiroshi Shibai, Joshua D. Simon, Linda J Smith, Sundar Srinivasan, Uma P. Vijh, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Jacobus Theodorus van Loon, Dennis F. Zaritsky, 2011, AJ, 142,102, “Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped,Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). I. Overview.”
  25. Srinivasan, S., Sargent, B.A., Meixner, M. 2011, A&A, 532, 54; "The mass-loss return from evolved stars to the Large Magellanic CLoud V.: The GRAMS carbon-star model grid"
  26. Matsuura, M., Dwek, E., Meixner, M., Otsuka, M., Babler, B., Barlow, M.J., Roman-Duval, J., Engelbracht, C., Sandstrom, K., Lakicevic, M., van Loon, J.Th., Sonneborn, G., Clayton, G.C., Long, K.S., Lundqvist, P., Nozawa, T., Gordon, K.D., Hony, S., Okumura, K., MIsselt, K.A., Montiel, E., Sauvage, M., 2011, Science, 333, 1258; "Herschel Detects a Massive Dust Reservoir in Supernova 1987A"
  27. Carlson, L.R., Sewiło, M., Meixner, M., Romita, K.A., Whitney, B., Hora, J.L., Cignoni, M., Sabbi, E., Nota, A., Sirianni, M., Smith, L.J., Gordon, K., Babler, B., Bracker, S., Gallagher, J.S., III, Meade, M., Misselt, K., Pasquali, A., Shiao, B., 2011, ApJ, 730, 78, “A Panchromatic View of NGC 602: Time-Resolved Star Formation with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes”
  28. Sargent, B.A., Srinivasan, S., Meixner, M. 2011, ApJ, 728, 93, “The Mass-loss Return from Evolved Stars to the Large Magellanic Cloud. IV. Construction and Validation of a Grid of Models for Oxygen-rich AGB Stars, Red Supergiants, and Extreme AGB Stars”
  29. F. Kemper, K. D. Gordon, B. Shiao, G. C. Sloan, J. Th. van Loon, P. M. Woods, J.-P. Bernard, R. D. Blum, M. L. Boyer, C.-H. R. Chen, N. Chitraker, M. Cohen, C. Dijkstra, M. Galametz, F. Galliano, C. Gielen, V. Gorjian, J. Harris, S. Hony, J. L. Hora, R. Indebetouw, A. Kawamura, E. Lagadec, B. Lawton, J. Leisenring, S. Madden, M. Marengo, M. Matsuura, C. McGuire, M. Meixner, B. O’Halloran, J. M. Oliveira, R. Paladini, D. Paradis, W. T. Reach, D. Rubin, K. Sandstrom, B. Sargent, M. Sewilo, A. K. Speck, S. Srinivasan, R. Szczerba, P. Tanawong, A. G. G. M. Tielens, E. van Aarle, S. D. Van Dyk, H. Van Winckel, Uma P. Vijh, K. Volk, B. Whitney, A. Wilkins, A. A. Zijlstra, 2010, PASP, 122, 683, “The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy program: The life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. Overview and initial results”
  30. Meixner, M.; Smee, S.; Doering, R. L.; Barkhouser, R. H.; Miller, T.; Orndorff, Joseph; Knezek, Patricia; Churchwell, E. B. ; Scharfstein, Gregg; Percival, Jeffrey W.; Mills, D.; Corson, C., Joyce, R. R., 2010, PASP, 122, 451, “Design Overview and Performance of the WIYN High Resolution Infrared Camera (WHIRC),”
  31. Bonanos, A. Z.; Massa, D. L.; Sewilo, M.; Lennon, D. J.; Panagia, N.; Smith, L. J.; Meixner, M.; Babler, B. L.; Bracker, S.; Meade, M. R.; Gordon, K. D.; Hora, J. L.; Indebetouw, R.; Whitney, B. A. 2009, AJ, 138, 1003, “Spitzer SAGE Infrared Photometry of Massive Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud”
  32. Uma P. Vijh, M. Meixner, S. Srinivasan, B. Whitney, M. Meade , B. Babler, S. Bracker, R. Indebetouw, J. Hora, K. Gordon, C. Engelbracht, B. For, M. Block, K. Misselt, M. Sewilo, C. Leitherer, 2009, AJ, 137, 3139, “Variable Evolved Stars and YSOs Discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud using the SAGE Survey”
  33. Sundar Srinivasan, Margaret Meixner, Claus Leitherer, Uma Vijh, Kevin Volk, Robert D. Blum, Francisca Markwick–Kemper, Sean Points, Jeremy R. Mould, Knut A. Olsen, Barbara Whitney, Marilyn Meade, Brian Babler, Remy Indebetouw, Joseph L. Hora, Steve Bracker, Karl Gordon, Chad Engelbracht, Bi-Qing For, Miwa Block, Karl Misselt 2009, AJ, 137, 4810, “The Mass-Loss Return From Evolved Stars to the LMC: Empirical Relations for Excess Emission at 8 and 24 μm”
  34. Jean-Philippe Bernard, William T. Reach, Deborah Paradis, Margaret Meixner, Roberta Paladini, Akiko Kawamura, Toshikazu Onishi, Uma Vijh, Karl Gordon, Remy Indebetouw, Joseph L. Hora, Barbara Whitney, Robert Blum, Marilyn Meade, Brian Babler, Ed B. Churchwell, Charles W. Engelbracht, Bi-Qing For, Karl Misselt, Claus Leitherer, Martin Cohen, Fran¸cois Boulanger, Jay A. Frogel, Yasuo Fukui, Jay Gallagher, Varoujan Gorjian , Jason Harris, Douglas Kelly, William B. Latter, Suzanne Madden, Ciska Markwick-Kemper, Akira Mizuno, Norikazu Mizuno, Jeremy Mould, Antonella Nota, M.S. Oey, Knut Olsen, Nino Panagia, Pablo Perez-Gonzalez, Hiroshi Shibai, Shuji Sato, Linda Smith, Lister Staveley-Smith, A.G.G.M. Tielens, Toshiya Ueta, Schuyler Van Dyk, Kevin Volk, Michael Werner, Dennis Zaritsky 2008, AJ, 136, 919, “ Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE) IV: Dust Properties in the Interstellar Medium”
  35. B. A. Whitney, M. Sewilo, R. Indebetouw, T. P. Robitaille, M. Meixner, K. Gordon, M. R. Meade, B. L. Babler, J. Harris, J. L. Hora, S. Bracker, M. S. Povich, E. B. Churchwell, C. Engelbracht, B–Q For, M. Block, K. Misselt, U. Vijh, C. Leitherer, A. Kawamura, R. D. Blum, Y. Fukui, A. Mizuno, N. Mizuno, S. Srinivasan, A.G.G.M. Tielens, J–P. Bernard, F. Boulanger, M. Cohen, J. A. Frogel, J. Gallagher, V. Gorjian, D. Kelly, W. B. Latter, S. Madden, F. Markwick–Kemper, J. R. Mould, A. Nota, M. S. Oey, K. A. Olsen, T. Onishi, R. Paladini, N. Panagia, P. Perez-Gonzalez, W. Reach, H. Shibai, S. Sato, L. Smith, L. Staveley-Smith, T. Ueta, S. Van Dyk, K. Volk, M. Werner, M. Wolff, D. Zaritsky, 2008 AJ, 136, 18, “ Spitzer SAGE Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: III. Star Formation and ~1000 Newly Discovered Young Stellar Objects”
  36. “Progressive star formation in the young SMC cluster NGC 602,” Carlson, L., Sabbi, E., Sirianni, Hora, J.L., M., Nota, A., Meixner, M., Gallagher, J., Oey, M.S., Pasquali, A., Smith, L. J., Tosi, M., & Walterbos, R., 2007, ApJ, 665, L109
  37. “Evolution of the Circumstellar Molecular Envelope I: A BIMA CO Survey of Evolved Stars” Fong, D., Meixner, M., Sutton, E.C., Zalucha, A. & Welch, W.J. 2006, ApJ, 652, 1626
  38. “Spitzer SAGE survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud II: Evolved Stars and Infrared Color Magnitude Diagrams,” Blum, R.D., Mould, J.R., Olsen, K.A., Frogel, J.A., Werner, M., Meixner, M., Markwick-Kemper, F., Indebetouw, R., Whitney, B., Meade, M., Babler, B., Churchwell, E.B. , Gordon, K., Engelbracht, C., For, B-Q., Misselt, K., Vijh, U., Leitherer, C., Volk, K., Points, S., Reach, W., Hora, J.L., Bernard, J-P., Boulanger, F., Bracker, S., Cohen, M., Fukui, Y., Gallagher, J., Gorjian, V., Harris, J., Kelly, D., Kawamura, A., Kim, S., Latter, W.B., Madden, S., Mizuno, A., Mizuno, N., Nota, A., Oey, M.S., Onishi, T., Paladini, R., Panagia, N., Perez-Gonzalez, P., Shibai, H., Sato, S., Smith, L., Staveley-Smith, L., Tielens, A.G.G.M., Ueta, T., Van Dyk, S., & Zaritsky, D. 2006, AJ, 132, 2034
  39. “Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy’s Evolution (SAGE) I: Overview and Initial Results,” Meixner, M.,; Gordon, K.; Indebetouw, R.; Hora, J.L.; Churchwell, E.B.; Whitney, B.; Blum, R.; Reach, W.; Bernard, J-P.; Meade, M.; Babler, B.; Engelbracht, C.; For, B-Q.; Misselt, K.; Leitherer, C.; Vijh, U.; Cohen, M.; Boulanger, F.; Frogel, J.A.; Fukui, Y.; Gallagher, J.; Gorijian, V.; Harris; J.; Kelly, D.; Kemper, C.; Kawamura, A.; Kim, S.; Latter, W.B.; Madden, S.; Mizuno, A.; Mizuno, N.; Mould, J.; Nota, A.; Oey, S.; Olsen, K.; Onishi, T.; Paladini, R.; Panagia, N.; Perez-Gonzalez, P.; Shibai, H.; Shuji, S.; Smith, L.; Staveley-Smith, L.; Tielens, A.G.G.M.; Ueta, T.; Van Dyk, S.; Volk, K.; Werner, M.; and Zaritsky, D. 2006, AJ, 132, 2268
  40. "Massive-Star Supernovae as Major Dust Factories,” Sugerman, B.E.K., Ercolano, B., Barlow, M.J., Tielens, A.G.G.M., Clayton, G.C., Zijlstra, A.A., Meixner, M., Speck, A., Gledhill, T.M., Panagia, N., Cohen, M., Gordon, K. D., Meyer, M., Fabbri, J., Bowey, J.E., Welch, D.L., Regan, M.W., & Kennicutt, R.C. Jr. 2006, Science, 313, 196
  41. “The Discovery of a Population of Pre-Main Sequence Stars in N66/NGC 346 from deep HST/ACS Images”, Nota, A., Sirianni, M., Sabbi, E., Tosi, M., Clampin, M., Gallagher, J., Meixner, M., Oey, S., Pasquali, A., Smith, L. J., Walterbos, R. & Mack, J. 2006, ApJ, 640, L29
  42. “The Multitude of Molecular Hydrogen Knots in the Helix Nebula” Meixner, Margaret; McCullough, Peter; Hartman, Joel; Son, Minho; Speck, Angela 2005, AJ, 130, 1784
  43. “Unraveling the Helix Nebula: Its Structure and Knots” O'Dell, C. R.; McCullough, Peter R.; Meixner, Margaret 2004, AJ, 128, 2339
  44. “The Molecular and Dust Envelope of HD 56126” Meixner, M.; Zalucha, A.; Ueta, T.; Fong, D.; Justtanont, K. 2004, ApJ, 614, 371
  45. “2-Dust: an axisymmetric dust radiative transfer code” Ueta, T. & Meixner, M. 2003, ApJ, 586, 1338-1355
  46. “Discovery of Multiple Molecular Shells in the Outer Envelope of IRC+10216” Fong, D., Meixner, M., Shah, R.Y. 2003, ApJ, 582, L39
  47. “Testing Models of Low-Excitation Photodissociation Regions With Far-Infrared Observations of Reflection Nebulae” Young Owl, R.C., Meixner, M., Fong, D., Haas, M.R., Rudolph, A. & Tielens, A. G. G. M. 2002, ApJ, 578, 885-896
  48. “Two Subclasses of Proto-Planetary Nebulae: Model Calculations” Meixner, M., Ueta, T., Bobrowsky, M. & Speck, A.K. 2002, ApJ, 571, 936-946
  49. “Large-scale Extended Emission Around the Helix Nebula: Dust, Molecules, Atoms and Ions.” Speck, A.K., Meixner, M., Fong, D., McCullough, P.R., Moser, D., Ueta, T. 2002, AJ, 123, 346-366
  50. “Low-excitation atomic gas around evolved stars II: ISO observations of O-rich nebulae” Castro-Carrizo A., Bujarrabal V.,Fong, D., Meixner M., Tielens A.G.G.M.,Latter W.B., & Barlow M.J., 2001, A & A, 367, 674-693
  51. “Low-excitation atomic gas around evolved stars I: ISO observations of C-rich nebulae” Fong, D., Meixner M., Castro-Carrizo A., Bujarrabal V., Latter W.B., Tielens A.G.G.M., Kelly D.M., & Sutton E.C., 2001, A & A, 367, 652-673
  52. “A Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot Survey of Proto-Planetary Nebula Candidates: Two Types of Axisymmetric Reflection Nebulosities” Ueta, T., Meixner, M., & Bobrowsky, M. 2000, ApJ, 528, 861-884
  53. “NIRIM: a Dual Purpose Near Infrared (0.76-2.5 mm) Imaging Camera for Wide Field and High Resolution Imaging” Meixner, M., Young-Owl, R.C, & Leach, R. W., 1999, PASP, 111, 997-1008
  54. '"Axially Symmetric Superwinds of Proto-Planetary Nebulae with 21 mm Dust Features” Meixner, M., Skinner, C.J., Graham, J.R., Keto, E., Jernigan, J.G., Arens J.F. 1997, ApJ, 482, 897-912
  55. “Anatomy of the PhotoDissociation Region in the Orion Bar” Tielens, A.G.G.M., Meixner, M., van der Werf, P.P. Bregman, J.,Tauber, J.A, Stutski, J. and Rank, D. 1993, Science, 262, 86-89
  56. “Models of Clumpy Photodissociation Regions” Meixner, M. and Tielens, A.G.G.M., 1993, ApJ, 405, 216-228
  57. “Far Infrared Observations of M17SW: The Clumpy Structure of the Photodissociation Region” Meixner, M., Haas, M.R., Tielens, A.G.G.M., Erickson, E.F., and Werner, M. 1992, ApJ, 390, 499-513