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,
AST-1908123)
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:
Research Interests:
Andromeda's Dust -- maps of properties of
dust and starlight in M31 (Draine, Aniano, Krause, et al. 2014: ApJ, 780, 172).
Dust and Starlight in the KINGFISH Galaxy Sample: Maps of dust and starlight heating parameters for the KINGFISH galaxies, at SPIRE250 and MIPS160 resolution, as described and analyzed by
Aniano, Draine, Hunt et al (2020)
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
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