Photo by Karina Kunder

Contact Information
      Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
      6127 Wilder Laboratory
      Dartmouth College
      Hanover, NH   03755-3528
      USA

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Research Interests
Standard Candles
Horizontal branch stars
Ages of Stars
Stellar Compositions
Galactic extinction
The Formation of the Milky Way
The Origin of the Elements in the Milky Way and LMC

People
Brian Chaboyer
Piotr Popowski
Sergei Nikolaev
Kem Cook
Dan Phillips

Fine Academic Institutions
Willamette University
Dartmouth College (Phys. & Astr.)
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Lawrence Livermore National Lab (Astrophys.)

Fun
Our Photo of the Day
Dartmouth Physics Band: Planck Walkers
Solar Observing at Dartmouth College
Heavens-Above

Andrea Kunder
Graduate Student in Physics & Astronomy
Thesis Research

CV (pdf) (doc)

New Development

Andrea Kunder has completed her PhD at Dartmouth College!

In October 2009, Andrea and her husband will be moving to La Serena, Chile to begin a position of Research Associate at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).

Hola Chile!

Published Papers

5. "The Determination Of Reddening From Intrinsic VR Colors Of RR Lyrae Stars"
    Kunder, A., Chaboyer, B. & Layden, A.
submitted to The Astronomical Journal, Sept 2009

4. "An Oosterhoff Analysis of the Galactic Bulge Field RR Lyrae stars: Implications On Their Absolute Magnitudes"
    Kunder, A. & Chaboyer, B.
accepted by The Astronomical Journal, July 2009
online
astro-ph

3. "Distance to the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Using MACHO Project RR Lyrae Stars"
    Kunder, A. & Chaboyer, B.
The Astronomical Journal, 137, (2009) 4478-4486
online
astro-ph

2. "Metallicity Analysis of MACHO Galactic Bulge RR0 Lyrae stars from their Lightcurves"
    Kunder, A. & Chaboyer, B.
The Astronomical Journal, 136 (2008) 2441-2452
online
astro-ph

1. "The Extinction Toward the Galactic Bulge from RR Lyrae Stars"
    Kunder, A., Popowsiki, P., Cook, H.K. & Chaboyer, B.
The Astronomical Journal 135 (2008) 631-636.
 online
astro-ph

Conference Proceedings, Posters, Talks

POSTER: "An Oosterhoff Analysis of the Galactic Bulge Field RR Lyrae stars: Implications On Their Absolute Magnitudes." at the Stellar Pulsation Meeting, June 2009, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Kunder, Andrea M.; Chaboyer, B. C. IMG

TALK: "RR Lyrae stars As Tracers of Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and the Sagittarius Galaxy" at the 213th Meeting of the AAS, January 2009, Long Beach, California Kunder, Andrea M.; Chaboyer, B. C. 2009, AAS, 213.32501 (ADS)

POSTER: "The distance to the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy from MACHO Project RR Lyrae Stars." at the 211th Meeting of the AAS, January 2008, Austin, Texas
Kunder, Andrea M.; Chaboyer, B. C. 2007, AAS, 211.9521 (ADS)

POSTER: "The V-R Color of RR Lyrae Stars at Minimum Light" at the 209th Meeting of the AAS, January 2007, Seattle, Washington
Kunder, Andrea M.; Chaboyer, B. C.; Layden, A. 2006, AAS, 209.2903 (ADS)

PAPER: "Extinction Toward the Galactic Bulge from RR Lyrae Stars"
    Kunder, A., Popowsiki, P., Cook, H.K., & Chaboyer, B.
ASPC (2006) 349, 395. (ADS)

PAPER: "The Metallicity of MACHO Galactic Bulge RR0 Lyrae stars From Fourier Coefficients of Lightcurves"
    Kunder, A., Chaboyer, B., Popowski, P., Nikolaev, S. & Cook, K.H.
ASPC (2006) 349, 273 (ADS)

POSTER: "The Extinction Toward the Galactic Bulge from RR Lyrae Stars" at the PhD Conference on Astrophysics of Variable Stars, September 5-10, 2005, Pecs, Hungary (POSTER)

TALK: "Metallicity of MACHO Galactic Bulge RR0 Lyrae stars From Fourier Coefficients of Lightcurves", the Spring 2005 APS meeting, April 16-19 2005, Tampa, Florida (Talk Slides)

POSTER: "Metallicity of MACHO Galactic Bulge RR0 Lyrae stars From Fourier Coefficients of Lightcurves" at the 205st Meeting of the AAS, January 2003, San Diego, California Kunder, A. M.; Chaboyer, B.; Popowski, P.; Nikolaev, S.; Cook, K. (ADS)