Dawn M. Gelino
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
Office: (858) 822-1371 University of California, San Diego
Fax: (858) 534-2294 9500 Gilman Drive
Email: dgelino@ucsd.edu La Jolla, CA 92093-0424
Web Page: http://mamacass.ucsd.edu/~dgelino/
Education:
New Mexico State University - Ph.D. Astronomy September 2001, M.S. Astronomy May 1999
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - B.S. Physics, Magna Cume Laude, May 1996
Appointments/Awards/Scholarships/Fellowships:
September 2001 - Present: Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
Summer 2003: Advisor for NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates student
Fall 2001: Zia Award for outstanding research by a graduate student
Fall 2000: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Graduate Scholarship
July 2000: American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship
Fall 2000 - 2001: President of the Astronomy Graduate Student Association, NMSU
January 2000: Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Grants-in-Aid of Research Award
Winter 1999 - Summer 2000: Head Teaching Assistant, NMSU Department of Astronomy
Fall 1999: Pegasus Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate student
Fall 1999: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Graduate Scholarship
January 1999: Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Grants-in-Aid of Research Award
Fall 1998: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Graduate Scholarship
Spring 1997 - 2001: Center for Higher Education (CHE) Minority Fellowship
Spring 1997: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Research Enhancement Award
Winter 1995 - Summer 1996:Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, RPI
Winter 1994 - Summer 1996:Undergraduate Researcher, RPI
Summer 1995:NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates student
August 1992 - May 1996: Emily Roebling Scholarship
May 1992: Bausch and Lomb Science Award
Invited Talks:
Arizona State University
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Goddard Space Flight Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
San Diego State University
University of California, San Diego
Experience:
Public Outreach:
I have run many open houses that the New Mexico State University Campus Observatory, visited a number of schools in southern New Mexico and California, hosted large and small groups including Brownie and Boy Scout toops as well as adult groups, and given slide shows and lectures to the general public.
Leadership Positions:
May 2000 - August 2001: President of the Astronomy Graduate Student Organization - Preside at weekly student meetings; attend monthly faculty meetings and discuss student issues; liason between students and faculty; represent the Astronomy Graduate Student Organization at University functions, organized the NMSU and graduate student help for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey dedication, October 6, 2000
May 1999 - August 2000: Treasurer for the Astronomy Graduate Student Organization - In charge of spending $2,000 in a timely and responsible manner on items to better the education of the astronomy graduate students
January 1999 - August 2000: New Mexico State University Department of Astronomy Head Teaching Assistant - see below
Teaching:
June 2003 - August 2003: National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Advisor - Taught an undergraduate physics major from the University of Chicago how to take data at a telescope (by taking him with me on an observing run), reduce and analyze the data, and then write a paper and present the data at a conference
January 1999 - August 2000: New Mexico State University Department of Astronomy Head Teaching Assistant - coordinate all teaching assistants; preside at weekly teaching assistant and laboratory meetings; improve/update the introductory astronomy lab manual; coordinate, update, and fix all laboratory and lecture equipment and demonstrations for professors' lectures and teaching assistants' labs; coordinate campus observatory for 300+ students per month, the campus observatory/introductory astronomy webpage, and campus observatory telephone hotline; sit on the astronomy department education committee
August 1996 - May 2000: New Mexico State University Department of Astronomy - Freshman through Senior level classes, teaching introductory laboratory as well as upper level lecture classes
January 1995 - May 1996: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Physics - Freshman through Senior level classes, teaching through interactive learning techniques
Research:
September 2001 - Present: University of California San Diego (CASS Postdoctoral Fellow) - Infrared Astronomy, Soft X-ray Transients Observations and Light Curve Modeling, Damped Lyman Alpha System Identification
January 1999 - September 2001: New Mexico State University - Infrared Astronomy, Soft X-ray Transients Observations and Light Curve Modeling
August 1997 - January 1999: New Mexico State University - Infrared Astronomy, Modeling Dust Shells Surrounding Classical Novae, Low Mass X-Ray Binary Systems
May 1997 - August 1997: New Mexico State University - Modeling Planetary Atmospheres, Brown Dwarfs, Extrasolar Planets
August 1996 - May 1997: New Mexico State University - Infrared Astronomy, X-Ray Binary Systems, High Energy Astrophysics, X-Ray Variability of Scorpius X-1
January 1994 - August 1996: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Infrared Astronomy, Young Stellar Objects, Dust
May 1995 - August 1995: NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Publications:
Refereed:
"Finding the Elusive Optical Counterpart to 4U 0042+32", Gelino, D.M., Tomsich, J.A., Heindl, W.A., Kaaret, P. 2004 in preparation
"The Damped Lyman Alpha Northern Hemisphere Radio-Selected Sample", Gelino, D.M., Wolfe, A.M., Prochaska, J.X., Lu, L., Gawaiser, E., Cooke, J. 2004, in preparation
"Modeling the Dust Shell around Nova Centauri 1991", Johnson, J.J. Harrison, T.E., Gelino, D.M., in preparation
"The Low Quiescent X-Ray Luminosity of the Neutron Star Transient XTE J2123-058", Tomsick, J.A., Gelino, D.M., Halpern, J., Kaaret, P. 2004, ApJ, submitted
"GRO J0422+32: The Lowest Mass Black Hole?", Gelino, D.M., Harrison, T.E. 2003, ApJ, in press
"An Astrometric Calibration of the M_v - P_orb Relationship for Cataclysmic Variables based on HST Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes", Harrison, T.E., Johnson, J.J., McArthur, B.E., Benedict, G.F., Szkody, P., Howell, S.B., Gelino, D.M. 2003, AJ, in Press
"The ESI/Keck II Damped Lyman Alpha Abundance Database", Prochaska, J.X., Gawaiser, E., Wolfe, A.M., Cooke, J., Gelino, D.M. 2003, ApJS, 147, 227
"Modeling the Remarkable Multi-Wavelength Light Curve of EF Eridanus: The Detection of Its Irradiated Brown Dwarf-like Secondary Star", Harrison, T.E., Howell, S.B., Osborne, H., Holtzman, J. Gelino, D.M., Cash, J. 2003, AJ, 125, 2609
"A Multi-Wavelength, Multi-Epoch Study of the Soft X-Ray Transient Prototype, V616 Mon (A0620-00)", Gelino, D.M., Harrison, T.E., Orosz, J. A. 2001, AJ, 122, 2668
"Modeling Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations: Determining the Masses of Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients", Gelino, D.M. 2001, Ph.D. Dissertation, New Mexico State University
"Infrared Observations of Nova Muscae 1991: Black Hole Mass Determination from Ellipsoidal Variations", Gelino, D.M., Harrison, T.E., McNamara, B.J, 2001, AJ, 122, 971
"Infrared Observations of AR Ursa Majoris: Modeling the Ellipsoidal Variations", Howell, S.B., Gelino, D.M., Harrison, T.E. 2001, AJ, 121, 482
"IRAS 13568-6232: A Quiescent Symbiotic Mira?", Leeber, D.M., Whittet, D.C.B., Prusti, T., Kilkenny, D., & Whitelock, P.A. 1996, ApJ, 463, L25
Non-Refereed:
"Measuring the Masses of the Compact Objects in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries", Gelino, D.M., to appear in Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond, IAU Colloquium #194, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, eds. G. Tovmassian and E. Sion full poster
"Measuring the Orbital Inclination Angle or the Low-Mass X-Ray Binary XTE J2123-058", Gelino, D.M., Tomsick, J.A., Heindl, W.A. 2003, BAAS, 34, 1199
"Masses of the Black Holes in N Vel 93 and J0422+32", Gelino, D.M., Harrison, T.E. 2002, BAAS, 34, 654
"Dust Around Novae: The Continuing Saga", Johnson, J.J., Harrison, T.E., Osborne, H., Gelino, D.M., Stringfellow, G.S. 2002, BAAS, 34, 773
"Simultaneous BVRIJHK Photometry of Cataclysmic Variables: Measuring Orbital Inclination Angles Using Ellipsoidal Variations", Osborne, H., Harrison, T.E., Howell, S.B., Johnson, J.J., Gelino, D.M. 2002, BAAS, 34, 775
"The Detection of 13CO and Other Abundance Anomalies in the Secondary Stars of Cataclysmic Variables'', Harrison, T.E., Howell, S.B., Osborne, H., Johnson, J.J., Gelino, D.M. 2002, BAAS, 34, 775
"Modeling Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations: Determining the Masses of Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients", Gelino, D.M. 2002, BAAS, 33, 1474
"Observations of Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations in Cataclysmic Variables: Determining Orbital Inclinations", Harrison, T.E., Osborne, H., Johnson, J.J., Howell, S.B., Gelino, D.M. 2002, BAAS, 33, 1401
"Nova Centauri: A Nova With a Leaky Shell", Johnson, J.J., Harrison, T.E., Osborne, H., Gelino, D.M., Liller, W. 2002, BAAS, 33, 1400
"Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole in GS2000+25 Using Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations", Leeber, D.M., Harrison, T.E., McNamara, B.J. 2001, in Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei, ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany September 1999 (Springer: New York) (astro-ph #9911273)
"Determining the Mass of Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients", Gelino, D.M., Harrison, T.E., McNamara, B.J. 2001, BAAS, 32, 1545
"Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole in GRS 1124-68", Gelino, D.M., Harrison, T.E., McNamara, B.J. 2000, BAAS, 32, 1219
"The Structure of Shells Around Classical Novae", Johnson, J.J., Leeber, D.M., Harrison, T.E. 1999, AAS 195, #40.07
"The Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations of SXTs: Measuring Black Hole Masses", Leeber, D.M., Harrison, T.E., McNamara, B.J.1999, BAAS, 31, 715
"Modeling the Evolution of the Dust Shell Around Nova Centauri 1991", Leeber, D.M., Harrison, T.E., Stringfellow, G.S., Johnson, J.J.1999, BAAS, 30, 1400
"The Peculiar Infrared Behavior of Nova Centauri 1991", Leeber, D.M. et al. 1997, BAAS, 29, 1385
"RXTE ASM Monitoring of Small Gamma Ray Burst Error Boxes for Transient Soft X-Ray Emission", Harrison, T., McNamara, B., Leeber, D., et al. 1997, BAAS, 29, 1288
"Model Visible and Near-Infrared Spectra of Extrasolar Giant Planets", Marley, M., Leeber, D., et al. 1997, Proceedings - 29th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (of the American Astronomical Society)
"Infrared Observations of the Ellipsoidal Light Variation in J0422+32", Leeber, D., Harrison, T.,McNamara, B. 1997, Proceedings - The Fourth Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Symposium AIP CP 410, p.942
Major Telescopes Used:
- 10 meter Keck I and II telescopes at Keck Observatory (with ESI and LRIS); Mauna Kea, HI
- 8.2 meter Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory; Paranal, Chile
- 4 meter Victor M. Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (with OSIRIS and MOSAIC); Cerro Tololo, Chile
- 3.5 meter Astrophysical Research Consortium telescope at Apache Point Observatory (with GRIM and SPICAM); Cloudcroft, NM
- 3 meter Shane telescope at Lick Observatory (with GEMINI and PFCam); San Jose, CA
- 2.1 meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (with IRIM and SQIID); Tuscon, AZ
- Hubble Space Telescope; in orbit around Earth
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory; in orbit around Earth
Conferences Attended:
January 2004: 203rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Atlanta, GA
November 2003: International Astronomical Union Colloquium #194, Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond; La Paz, BCS, Mexico
January 2003: 201st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Seattle, WA
June 2002: 200th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Albuquerque, NM
January 2002: 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Washington D.C.
January 2001: 197th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); San Diego, CA
November 2000: High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS; Honolulu, Hawaii
September 1999: ESO Workshop on Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei; Garching, Germany
April 1999: High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS; Charleston, SC
January 1999: 193rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Austin, TX
January 1998: 191st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Washington D.C.
July 1997: 29th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences; Cambridge, MA
April 1997: The Fourth Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Symposium; Williamsburg, VA
June 1995: Polarimetry of the Interstellar Medium; Troy, NY
