David McDavid
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Curriculum Vitae
- B.S., Physics, Stanford University,
1972
- M.A., Astronomy, University
of Virginia, 1977
- Teaching Associate, University of
Texas at San Antonio, 1977-1993
- Guest Observer, McDonald
Observatory, 1984-1993
- Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Amsterdam,
2001
- Research Associate, University of Virginia, 2002-2006
- Research Scientist, University of Virginia, 2006-2012
- Presently: Here and there, now and then.
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Research Interests
- Stellar
Polarimetry
- Be Stars
- Instrumentation
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Work in Progress
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The Polarization of Achernar
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The Upper Main Sequence of the Open Cluster NGC 2169
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Favorite Science Quote
- "We now find ourselves in the beautiful position of having developed a machine so powerful that we can just stand back and pile up our profits."
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Melvin Schwartz, in Principles of Electrodynamics
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I am one of the many fortunate astronomers who have had the privilege of
helping to maintain the 1-m telescope and its instrumentation at the University
of Virginia Fan
Mountain Observatory. My favorite research interest is precision optical
polarimetry of early emission line stars: massive hot stars that spin so
rapidly they are practically flying apart, making their outer atmospheres
unstable in very mysterious and unpredictable ways.
For fun I enjoy playing the saxophone with a wacky assortment of
rhythm 'n blues musicians around Charlottesville and
San Antonio.
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Selected Recent Papers and Preprints
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Properties and nature of Be stars. 26. Long-term and orbital
changes of ζ Tauri
- Ruždjak, D., Božić, H., Harmanec, P. et al. 2010, A&A, 506, 1319
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Towards an understanding of the Of?p star HD 191612: optical
spectroscopy
- Howarth, I.D., Walborn, N.R., Lennon, D.J. et al. 2007, MNRAS, 381,
433
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A Study of pi Aquarii during a Quasi-normal Star Phase: Refined
Fundamental Parameters and Evidence for Binarity
- Bjorkman, K.S., Miroshnichenko, A.S., McDavid, D., and Pogrosheva,
T.M. 2002, ApJ, 573, 812
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On the polarimetric variability of bright O-type stars
- Clarke, D., McDavid, D., Smith, R.A., and Henrichs, H.F. 2002,
A&A, 383, 580
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A Useful Approximation for Computing the Continuum Polarization
of Be Stars
- McDavid, David 2001, ApJ, 553, 1027
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Multicolor Polarimetry of Selected Be Stars: 1995-1998
- McDavid, David 1999, PASP, 111, 494
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