Andrea Kunder

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Research interests

Education

Ph.D. in Astrophysics
June 2009, Dartmouth Collge, Hanover, NH
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: ``RR Lyrae Stars as Tracers of Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and Satellite Galaxies''
Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

B.A. in Chemistry & German
May 2003, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.

Research Experience

Post-doctoral Research Assistant [Oct. 2009 - present]
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Mosaic 2 Instrument Scientist.
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, La Serena, Chile

Research Assistant [Jun. 2009 - Sept. 2009]
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth Collge.

NSF/IRES Research Student [Jun. 2008 - Aug. 2008]
Indian Institue of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.

WISP Supervisor For Two Undergraduates [Jan. 2007 - Jun. 2007]
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth Collge.

Student Presenter and Participant [Sept. 2005]
Pecs PhD School for Astrophysics of Variable Stars, Pecs, Hungary.

Research Student [Jun. 2004 - Sept. 2004]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.

Research Student [Jun. 2003 - Sept. 2003]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.

Research Student [Jul. 2002 - Nov. 2002]
Max-Planck Institute fur Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Observational Experience

Photometry [WIYN 0.9m, MDM 1.3m, MDM 2.4m, SMARTS 0.9m, SMARTS 1.0m, BLANCO 4m]

Instrument Scientist for the Mosaic 2, mounted on the Blanco 4m

Extensive experience in processing and reducing optical time-resolved CCD data. Extensive experience in standard star observations. Extended use of Daophot II to deal with crowded field photometry.

Spectroscopy [MDM 2.4m, BLANCO 4m, Vainu Bappu 2.3m Telescope]

Extensive experience in processing and reducing multi-fiber spectra.

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Select Publications

"Variable stars in the Globular Cluster NGC 2808" Andrea Kunder, Peter B. Stetson, Marcio Catelan, Alistair Walker, Pia Amigo, 2013, AJ, 145, 33

"The Horizontal Branch of NGC 1851: Constraints from its RR Lyrae Variables" Andrea Kunder, Maurizio Salaris, Santi Cassisi, Roberto de Propris, Alistair Walker, Peter B. Stetson, Marcio Catelan, Pia Amigo, 2013, AJ, 145, 25

"The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA). II. Complete Sample and Data Release" Andrea Kunder, Andreas Koch, Michael R. Rich and 13 other authors, 2012, AJ, 143, 57

"Constraints on the Formation of the Globular Cluster IC 4499 from Multi-Wavelength Photometry" Alistair Walker, Andrea Kunder and 12 other authors, 2011, MNRAS, 415, 643

"Period Changes and Evolutionary Similarities between Oosterhoff I and Oosterhoff II Globular Clusters" Andrea Kunder, Alistair Walker, Peter Stetson, Jim Nemec, Guiseppe Bono, and 7 other authors, 2011, AJ, 141, 15

"Our Milky Way as a Pure-Disk Galaxy -- A Challenge for Galaxy Formation" Juntai Shen, Michael R. Rich, John Kormendy, Christian Howard, Roberto De Propris, Andrea Kunder, 2010, ApJL, 720, 72

"The Determination of Reddening from Intrinsic VR Colors of RR Lyrae Stars" Andrea Kunder, Brian Chaboyer, & Andrew Layden, 2010 The Astronomical Journal, 139, 415

"An Oosterhoff Analysis of the Galactic Bulge Field RR Lyrae stars: Implications On Their Absolute Magnitudes" Andrea Kunder & Brian Chaboyer, 2009 The Astronomical Journal, 138, 1284

"Distance to the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Using MACHO Project RR Lyrae Stars" Andrea Kunder & B.Chaboyer 2009 The Astronomical Journal, 137, 4478

"The Extinction Toward the Galactic Bulge from RR Lyrae Stars" Andrea Kunder, B. Chaboyer, P. Popowski & K.H.Cook 2008 The Astronomical Journal, 135, 631

"Metallicity Analysis of MACHO Galactic Bulge RR0 Lyrae Stars from their Lightcurves" Andrea Kunder & B. Chaboyer 2008 The Astronomical Journal, 136, 2441

All Refereed Publications

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Other Astronomy Experience

Dartmouth Public Outreach Astronomer Hanover, NH
Conducted Dartmouths public observing program, ranging from high school students to Dartmouth Trustees.
Set up the Celestron C-14 XLT Telescope, SBIG CCD-8XE, SBIG Filter Wheel-CFW-8A, TheSky6.

Montshire Museum of Science Norwich, VT
Co-taught 3rd grade science class at the Morey Elementary School and attended science inquiry instruction sessions by Montshire Museum Staff; trained 2 hours a week, taught 2 hours a week

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Personal Data

Place of birth: Moshi, Tanzania, Date of birth: March 6, 1980.

Citizenship: German and American (dual citizen)

Languages: fluent in English, German and Tok Pisin, learning Spanish.

References

Available upon request.

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