Michal Simon
Professor of Astronomy
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800
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| Mike Simon's three most recent PhD students at the January, 2002 AAS Meeting. Left to right: Lisa Prato (PhD 1998), Tracy Beck (PhD 2001), Wen Ping Chen (PhD 1990). |
Research Interests
Star Formation - IR observations at high spectral resolution and at very high angular resolution.
Current Activities
I am trying to improve our understanding of young stars, their circumstellar disks, and their formation as binaries. My approaches to this goal involve measurements of stellar mass, binary frequency, and and the properties of circumstellar disks. This research uses state-of-the-art instrumentation in several areas of astronomy. Since the research is often collaborative, it offers graduate students the opportunity not only the opportunity to observe with instruments at the forefront of modern astronomy, but also to work with individuals who are expert in their use. Specific recent results may be found in the publications from the past five years listed below.
I enjoy teaching undergraduates and graduate students (well, usually). Supervising PhD students is very hard work but collaborating with people half my age, and learning from them, is very satisfying.
Recent PhD Students
Wen Ping Chen (National Central Univ., Taiwan), PhD thesis: IR Lunar Occultations (1990)
Lisa Prato (UCLA), PhD thesis: Pre-Main Sequence Binaries and Evolution of their Disks (1998)
Tracy Beck, (Gemini Obs.), PhD thesis: Observational Investigations of Obscured Young Stars 2001
Publications (Past 5 Years)
Observation of a Lunar Occultation of T Tau, M. Simon, A. J. Longmore, M. A. Shure, and A. Smillie, ApJ, 456, L41, (1996)
Dust and Gas Distribution around T Tauri Stars in Taurus-Auriga. I. Interferometric 2.7mm Continuum and 13CO J=1-0 Observations, A. Dutrey, S. Guilloteau, G. Duvert, L. Prato, M. Simon, K. Schuster, and F. Menard, A&A, 309, 493 (1996)
Measurement of T Tauri Binaries Using the Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensors, M. Simon, S. T. Holfeltz, and L. G. Taff, ApJ, 469, 890 (1996)
Are Both Stars in a Classic T Tauri Binary Classic TTs?, L. Prato and M. Simon, ApJ, 474, 455 (1997)
Edge-On Observations of Saturn's E and G Rings in the Near-IR, J. Bauer, J.J. Lissauer, and M. Simon, Icarus, 125, 440 (1997)
Infrared Point Sources Identified by Lunar Occultation Observations, W.P. Chen and M. Simon, AJ, 113, 752 (1997)
Clustering of Young Stars in Taurus, Ophiuchus, and the Orion Trapezium,M. Simon, ApJ, 482, L81 (1997).
High Spatial Resolution Imaging of Pre-Main Sequence Stars: Resolving the Relationship Between Disks and Close Companions, A.M. Ghez, Russel J. White, and M. Simon , ApJ, 490, 353 (1997)
Disks in the UY Aur Binary, G. Duvert, A. Dutrey, S. Guilloteau, K. Schuster, F. Menard, L. Prato, and M. Simon , A&A, 332, 867, (1998)
CO Study of the GM Aur Keplerian Disk, A. Dutrey, S. Guilloteau, L. Prato, M. Simon, G. Duvert, K. Schuster, and F. Menard, A&A, 338, L63 (1998)
Lunar Occultations of Young Stars in Southern Taurus, M. Simon, T.P. Greene, R.R. Howell, S. Lumsden, and L.Prato, AJ, 117, 1597 (1999)
Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Orion Trapezium Cluster, M. Simon, L.M. Close, and T.L. Beck, AJ, 117, 1594 (1999)
Young Star Binaries, R.D. Mathieu, A.M. Ghez, E.L.N. Jensen, and M. Simon, in Protostars and Protoplanets 4, V. Mannings, A. Boss, and S. Russell,eds, (Univ of Arizona), p. 703 (2000)
GG Tau: The Ring World, S. Guilloteau, A. Dutrey, and M. Simon, , A&A, 348, 570 (1999)
A Search for Extended Disks around Weak-Lined T Tauri Stars, G. Duvert, S. Guilloteau, F. Duvert, A. Dutrey, M. Simon, and A. Dutrey , A&A, 355, 570 (2000)
Dynamical Masses of T Tauri Stars and Calibration of PMS Evolution, M. Simon, A. Dutrey, and S. Guilloteau, ApJ, 545, 1034, (2000)
Evidence for Extinction and Accretion Variability in T Tau S, T. Beck, L. Prato, and M. Simon, ApJ, (scheduled for April, 2001)
Near IR and Ice-Band Variability of Haro 6-10 Ch. Leinert, T. Beck, S. Ligori, M. Simon, J. Woitas, and R.R. Howell, A\&A, in press (2001)
Variability of T Tau, RY Tau, and RW Aur from 1899 to 1952 T. Beck and M. Simon, AJ, (submitted)
Last Update: March 7, 2001