Bruce T. Draine
Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences
108 Peyton Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1001
U.S.A.
Feel free to send me email; my address is
<draine@astro.princeton.edu>.
If you'd prefer to talk, come to my office (108 Peyton Hall); if that isn't
practical, my telephone number is (609) 258-3810.
The Princeton University Observatory Home page is
http://www.princeton.edu/astro/.
I am happy to acknowledge research support over the years from the
National Science Foundation
(AST-9619429,
AST-9988126,
AST-0406883,
AST-1008570)
and NASA (NAG5-10811).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the National Science Foundation or NASA.
My curriculum vitae (pdf) and
list of publications (pdf)
will tell you more than you want to know about my professional activities.
Recent Publications:
Undergraduate Course:
- AST 403/Physics 402: Stars and Star Formation (Spring 2013).
Graduate Courses:
- AST 517: Diffuse Matter in Space (Spring 2013). The
astrophysics of interstellar matter, including gas, dust, plasma,
energetic particles, magnetic field, and electromagnetic radiation
in interstellar space. more information...
- AST 541: Seminar in Theoretical Astrophysics (Fall 2013).
This fall's topic will be the physics of interstellar dust.
Research Interests:
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Scattering and Absorption of Light by Small Particles
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Structures Produced by Ballistic Agglomeration:
BA, BAM1, and BAM2 geometries
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Light-scattering properties of BA, BAM1, and BAM2 clusters studied by Shen, Draine, & Johnson (2009)
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DDSCAT 7.2 -- a portable f90 program for computing scattering
and absorption by isolated irregular targets, or by 1- or 2-dimensional
arrays of irregular targets, illuminated by monochromatic plane waves.
DDSCAT 7.2 included ability for very fast near-field calculations of E near the
target.
DDSCAT 7.2 comes with a postprocessing program READNF to assist in visualization
of P in the target, and E in and near the target.
Released 2012.02.15; DDSCAT.7.2 supersedes
DDSCAT.7.1 (released 2010.02.07).
- Interstellar Dust
- infrared emission from the silicate-graphite-PAH model for interstellar dust (Draine & Li 2007)
- extinction curves
for selected mixtures of
carbonaceous and silicate grains (from submm. to X-ray wavelengths)
- scattering phase functions for
selected mixtures of carbonaceous and silicate grains (IR to X-ray energies)
- optical properties for candidate grain
materials (from submm. to X-ray wavelengths):
- dielectric functions
- absorption and scattering cross sections for spheres
- Planck-averaged absorption and radiation pressure cross sections for
spheres
- microwave emission from interstellar grains
- Common-Resolution Convolution Kernels for Space- and Ground-Based Telescopes> (Aniano, Draine, Gordon, & Sandstrom 2011)
Molecular Gas Near Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Theoretical transmission spectra with absorption lines from
vibrationally-excited H2
Photodissociation Fronts
Interstellar MHD Shock Waves
X-Ray Irradiated Gas