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,
AST-1408723)
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
curricum vitae and list of publications (pdf)
will tell you more than you want to know about my professional activities.
Recent Publications:
Some Recent Presentations:
- The Continuing Mystery of the Anomalous Microwave Emission ESTEC, 2016 June 22
- Quantum Suppression of Alignment in Spinning Nanoparticles ESTEC, 2016 June 22
- Physical Models for Diffuse ISM Dust in the Light of Planck (pdf) IAU GA Focus Meeting 5, Hawaii, 2015 Aug. 12
- Interstellar Dust: New Views after Spitzer, Herschel, and Planck (pdf) IAU GA Division H meeting, Hawaii, 2015 Aug. 7
- Some Questions for Lab Astro (pdf) AAS Meeting, Boston, 2014 June.
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Graduate Courses:
- AST 517: Diffuse Matter in Space (Fall 2020). The
astrophysics of interstellar matter, including gas, dust, plasma,
energetic particles, magnetic field, and electromagnetic radiation
in interstellar space.
Research Interests:
Andromeda's Dust -- maps of properties of
dust and starlight in M31 (Draine, Aniano, Krause, et al. 2014: ApJ, 780, 172).
Scattering and Absorption of Light by Small Particles
Structures Produced by Ballistic Agglomeration:
BA, BAM1, and BAM2 geometries
Light-scattering properties of BA, BAM1, and BAM2 clusters studied by Shen, Draine, & Johnson (2009)
Radiation Pressure on Fluffy Submicron-Sized Grains (Silsbee & Draine 2016)
DDSCAT 7.3 (released 2013.05.26) -- 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 7.3 includes capability for very fast near-field calculations of E and B in and
near the target.
DDSCAT 7.3 comes with a postprocessing program DDPOSTPROCESS.f90 to assist the user in
postprocessing of nearfield E and B computed by DDSCAT.
Users of DDSCAT should go to http://www.ddscat.org
which has available for download the latest version of the code, documentation, and additional information.
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