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Dr Robert Smith

Senior Lecturer/Timetable Advisory Committee
BSc PhD Melb., MASA, MIAU

School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences
UNSW @ ADFA
Canberra   ACT   2600
AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 2 6268 8746
Fax: +61 2 6268 8786
Email: r.smith@adfa.edu.au
Location: PEMS Sth, Room 107

Research Interests:
The physics and chemistry of circumstellar and interstellar dust, with particular emphasis on molecular ices found ongrain mantles in dense molecular clouds. Modelling of extinction propertiesof dust grains. Outflows associated with the early and late stages of stellar evolution. Infrared astronomical spectroscopy. Density structure of Bok globules and other dense dust clouds. Infrared astronomical instrumentation development. Laboratory studies of analogues of interstellar dust grains and grain mantles.

Astronomy and Astrophysics - Laboratory astrophysics, Star formation

Publications
  1. Jones, T.J., Hyland, A.R., Robinson, G., Smith, R.G. and Thomas, J.A., 1980. Infrared Observations of a Bok Globule in the Southern Coalsack, ApJ 242:132-140.
  2. Tokunaga, A.T., Smith, R.G., Nagata, T., DePoy, D., and Sellgren, K., 1986. 3-micron spectroscopy of comet Halley (1982I), ApJ, 310: L45-L48.
  3. Tokunaga, A.T., Nagata, T., and Smith, R.G., 1987. Detection of a new emission band at 2.8 microns in comet Halley, A&A,187:519-522.
  4. Smith, R.G., 1987. An infrared study of the stellar population in the direction of the Carina nebula (NGC 3372), MNRAS, 227:943-965.
  5. Nagata, T., Tokunaga, A.T., Sellgren, K., Smith, R.G., Onaka, T., Nakada, Y., and Sakata A., 1988. High-resolution spectroscopy of the 3 micron emission features in NGC 7027 and IRAS 21282+5050, ApJ, 326:157-163.
  6. Tokunaga, A.T., Nagata, T., Sellgren, K., Smith, R.G., Onaka, T., Nakada, Y., and Sakata A., 1988 High-Spectral Resolution Observations of HD44179 at 3.3-3.5 microns, ApJ, 328:709-713.
  7. Brown, R.H., Cruikshank, D.P., Tokunaga, A.T., Smith, R.G. and Clark, R.N., 1988. Search for volatiles on icy satellites I: Europa, Icarus, 74:262-271.
  8. Cruikshank, D.P., Brown, R.H., Tokunaga, A.T., Smith, R.G., and Piscatelli, J.R., 1988. Volatiles on Triton: the infrared spectral evidence, 2.0-2.25 microns, Icarus, 74:413-423.
  9. Smith, R.G., Sellgren, K., and Tokunaga, A.T., 1988. A study of water ice in the 3 micron spectrum of OH231.8+4.2, ApJ, 334:209-219.
  10. Smith, R.G., Sellgren, K., and Tokunaga, A.T. 1989. Absorption Features in the 3 micron Spectra of Protostars, ApJ, 344:413-426.
  11. Van Citters, G.W., and Smith, R.G. 1989, Further evidence for a Circumstellar Disk around PV Cephei, AJ, 98:382-1387.
  12. Smith, R.G., and Herman J. 1990, Absorption Features in the Infrared Spectra of OH/IR Stars: 3 micron and 10 micron Spectroscopy of OH138.0+7.3, A&A, 227:147-150.
  13. Smith, R.G. 1991, A Search for Solid H2S in Dense Clouds, MNRAS, 249:172-176.
  14. Tokunaga, A.T., Sellgren, K., Smith, R.G., Nagata, T., Sakata, A. and Nakada, Y., 1991, High-resolution Spectra of the 3.29micron Interstellar Emission Feature: A Summary, ApJ, 380:452-460.
  15. Robinson, G., Smith, R.G. and Hyland, A.R., 1992, A Spherical Circumstellar Dust Model for IRAS09371+1212, MNRAS, 256:437-448.
  16. Sellgren, K. and Smith, R.G., 1992, The 3 micron spectrum of the Classical Be Star b Monocerotis A, ApJ, 388:178-183.
  17. Hyland, A.R., Smith, R.G. and Robinson, G., 1992, The Laboratory Astrophysics Facility at University College, ProcASA, 10:77-81.
  18. Smith, R.G., Sellgren, K. and Brooke, T.Y., 1993, Grain Mantles in the Taurus Dark Cloud, MNRAS, 263:749-766.
  19. Smith, R.G., Robinson, G. and Hyland, A.R., 1993, Molecular Ices as Temperature Indicators in the ISM, ProcASA, 10:241-246.
  20. Smith, R.G., 1993, The dust around the cometary nebula Parsamian 13S, MNRAS, 264:587-592.
  21. Sellgren, K., Smith, R.G. and Brooke, T.Y., 1994, The 3 micron spectra of Mon R2/IRS-3 and Elias 16, ApJ, 433: 179-186.
  22. Smith, R.G., Robinson, G., Hyland, A.R. and Carpenter, G.L., 1994, Molecular ices as temperature indicators for interstellar dust: the 44 mm and 62mm lattice modes of water ice, MNRAS, 271:481-489.
  23. Boettger, Ch., Campbell, S.J., Wu, E. and Smith, R.G.,1994, Moessbauer and X-ray studies of an iron meteorite sample, Hyperfine Interactions: Applications of the Moessbauer Effect, 91:563-569.
  24. Duley, W.W. & Smith, R.G., 1995, The formation of condensates on dust in interstellar clouds, ApJ, 450:179-182.
  25. Sellgren, K., Smith, R.G., Brooke, T.Y., and Geballe, T., 1995, A new 3.25 micron absorption feature towards Mon R2/IRS-3, ApJ, 449:L69-L72.
  26. Brooke, T.Y., Sellgren, K. and Smith, R.G., 1995, A study of new absorption features in the 3 mm spectra of molecular cloud sources, ApJ, 459:209-215.
  27. Whittet, D.C.B., Smith, R.G., Adamson, A.J., Aitken, D.K., Chiar, J.E., Kerr, T.H., Roche, P.F., Smith, C.H., and Wright, C.M., 1996, Interstellar dust absorption features in the infrared spectrum of HH100-IR: Searching for the nitrogen component of the ices, ApJ, 458:363-370.
  28. Quinn, D.E., Moore, T.J.T., Smith, C.H., Smith, R.G., and Fujiyoshi, T., 1996, 10-micron imaging of the bipolar proto-planetary nebula Mz-3, MNRAS, 283:1379-1382.
  29. Meyer, A.W, Smith, R.G., Charnley, S.B., and Pendleton, Y.J., 1998, H2O ice in the envelopes of OH/IR stars, ApJ, 115:2509-2514.
  30. Maldoni, M.M., Smith, R.G., Robinson, G., and Rookyard, V.L., 1998, A study of the 2.5-25 micron spectrum of H2O ice, MNRAS, 298:251-258.
  31. Maldoni, M.M., Robinson, G., Smith, R.G., Duley, W.W., and Scott, A., 1999, Measurements of the 44-micron band of H2O ice deposited on amorphous carbon and amorphous silicate substrates, MNRAS, 309:325-331.