Past Life & Published Papers
This all seems like an age ago, done in someone else’s life.
After achieving advanced degrees in physics (M.Sc.) and astronomy (Ph.D.), I was research astronomer for almost two decades in places like Toronto (Canada), Heidelberg (Germany), Minneapolis (USA), and La Serena (Chile). I’ve written short pieces about my time in Chile:
• How it’s like as an astronomer in Chile
• How I said goodbye to Chile and astronomy
There aren’t many images of me at research meetings. In 2007, I attended a Gemini Science Meeting in Brazil. I’m in the following group portrait, but I don’t know who took the picture.
2007 Gemini Science Meeting: near Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
In 2008, I attended a joint Subaru-Gemini Observatory workshop (about a new observation instrument called WFMOS) at the Marriott Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Below is a group portrait of the workshop attendees; I’m sporting dark sunnies and a dark t-shirt. Once again, I don’t know who took the photo.
2008 WFMOS workshop: Marriott Waikoloa, Big Island of Hawaii.
What follows are my research papers published in astronomical journals and volumes. The first item is my doctoral dissertation in the Government of Canada’s Library and Archives’ Theses Canada Portal. The remaining items are research papers I published as first- or lead-author in peer-reviewed scientific journals. As I’m no longer concerned with the “currency of citations”, I’ve put these here as a matter of record.
- The environmental impact of the Virgo Cluster on the evolution of dwarf irregular galaxies, doctoral dissertation, York University, 2001.
- “The Dwarf Irregular Galaxy UGC 7636 Exposed: Stripping at Work in the Virgo Cluster”, Henry Lee et al. 2000, The Astrophysical Journal, 530, L17.
- “Uncovering Additional Clues to Galaxy Evolution. I. Dwarf Irregular Galaxies in the Field”, Henry Lee et al. 2003, The Astronomical Journal, 125, 146.
- “Uncovering Additional Clues to Galaxy Evolution. II. The Environmental Impact of the Virgo Cluster on the Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies”, Henry Lee et al. 2003, The Astronomical Journal, 125, 2975.
- “Chemical Abundances of H II Regions in the Starburst Galaxy NGC 1705”, Henry Lee and Evan D. Skillman, 2004, The Astrophysical Journal, 614, 698.
- “Investigating the Possible Anomaly between Nebular and Stellar Oxygen Abundances in the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy WLM”, Henry Lee et al. 2005, The Astrophysical Journal, 620, 223.
- “The Spatial Homogeneity of Nebular and Stellar Oxygen Abundances in the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 6822”, Henry Lee et al. 2006, The Astrophysical Journal, 642, 813.
- “On Extending the Mass-Metallicity Relation of Galaxies by 2.5 Decades in Stellar Mass”, Henry Lee et al. 2006, The Astrophysical Journal, 647, 970.
- “Interstellar medium oxygen abundances of dwarf irregular galaxies in Centaurus A and nearby groups”, Henry Lee et al. 2007, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 376, 820.
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