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Dr. R. Chris Smith
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The picture above is a multicolor image of a region of the LMC, one
of our nearest neighbooring galaxies. Red is hydrogen emission, green
is sulfur emission, and blue is oxygen emission. The pink regions are
HII regions and the greenish regions (in the upper right just below the
center) are newly identified supernova remnants (SNRs) (Smith et al.
1994, AJ, 108, 1266.)
Projects & Surveys I'm involved in...
- OLS - the Outer Limits Survey, a photometric survey of the extremities of the Magellanic Clouds
- MCELS - the UM/CTIO Magellanic Cloud Emission-line Survey
- The ESSENCE/w Project - the High-z Supernova team's project to determine the equation of state of the Dark Energy
- SuperMacho - the Next Generation Microlensing Survey of the LMC
- The Outer Limits Survey - a survey of the stellar populations at the edges of the Magellanic Clouds
- The High-z Supernova Search
- NGSS - the Nearby Galaxies Supernova Search
- SINGG - Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies
- Local Group Survey
Future Projects I'm involved in...
- DES - the Dark Energy Survey
- LSST - the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Other science interests...
- Galactic Supernova Remnants
- RCW 86
- Vela
- Other Galactic SNRs
- Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant Sample
- Nearby Supernova Studies
- Interstellar Medium of our Galaxy and nearby galaxies
Observatory Responsibilities
- Head of theNOAO Data Products Program, at both Tucson AZ and La Serena, Chile sites
- IT Coordinator, NOAO/La Serena
- LSST Science and Data Management team member
- CTIO MOSAIC II Instrument Scientist (team of 4)
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Last updated: 2007 August
MAIL: csmith (AT) noao.edu