O'Dea, Christopher
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Astronomers & AstrophysicistsAuthor
Christopher P. O'Dea, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physics
College of Science
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
Education
1978 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. in Physics
1984 – University of Massachusetts, Ph.D. in Astronomy
Ph.D. Dissertation
Morphology and Energetics of Narrow Angle Tail Radio Sources
Current Positions, Research & Techniques
- Research on Quasars, Active Galactic Nuclei, Clusters of Galaxies and the Intracluster Medium.
- Chair of the graduate admissions committee for the new AST PhD.
Techniques
- Radio Single Dish and Interferometric Imaging and Spectroscopy
- Ground Based Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
- Space Based Ultraviolet (HST)
- X-ray (ROSAT, ASCA, XMM, & CHANDRA)
- Infrared (Spitzer)
- Imaging and Spectroscopy
Recent Preprints and Papers
- WFPC2 LRF Imaging of Emission-Line Nebulae in 3CR Radio Galaxies
- An Infrared Survey of Brightest Cluster Galaxies. II: Why are Some Brightest Cluster Galaxies Forming Stars?
- A Study of 13 Powerful Classical Double Radio Galaxies
- Star formation in the hosts of GHz peaked spectrum and compact steep spectrum radio galaxies
- GPS Radio Sources: New Optical Observations and an Updated Master List
- The GPS/CSS Master List in ascii text and latex and PDF
- Emission-Line Gas Kinematics in the Vicinity of the Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies
Bibliography
See Bibliography - Christopher P. O’Dea (PDF) at Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Books
"Astrophysical Jets" by D. Burgarella, Mario Livio, C. P. O'Dea. Hardcover, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521442214 (0-521-44221-4)
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- Astrophysical Sciences and Technology at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology. Conducting research dedicated to understanding the nature and evolution of the universe in which we live, in conjunction with the Department of Physics. Our research encompasses development of state-of-the-art instrumentation, observation and interpretation, theoretical physics and modelling using state-of-the art computation, and mining of large astronomical datasets.
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