George Herbig
George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an American astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.[1] He is perhaps best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.[2][3]
George Herbig | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 2, 1920 |
| Died | October 12, 2013 (aged 93) |
| Citizenship | United States citizen |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Herbig–Haro objects Herbig Ae/Be stars |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Star formation, interstellar medium |
| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi |
Background
Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia,[4] Herbig received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1948 at the University of California, Berkeley; his dissertation is titled A Study of Variable Stars in Nebulosity.
Career
His specialty was stars at an early stage of evolution (a class of intermediate mass pre–main sequence stars are named Herbig Ae/Be stars after him) and the interstellar medium. He was perhaps best known for his discovery, with Guillermo Haro, of the Herbig–Haro objects; bright patches of nebulosity excited by bipolar outflow from a star being born.
Herbig also made prominent contributions to the field of diffuse interstellar band (DIB) research, especially through a series of nine articles published between 1963 and 1995 entitled "The diffuse interstellar bands."
Honors
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1955)[5]
- Foreign Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS (1975)[6]
- Médaille, Université de Liège (1969)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1980)[1]
- Petrie Prize and Lectureship of the Canadian Astronomical Society (1995)
Named after him
Selected publications
- "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars", ApJ 595 (2003) 384–411 [8]
- "The Young Cluster IC 5146", AJ 123 (2002) 304–327 [9]
- "Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ 121 (2001) 3138–3148 [10]
- "The Diffuse Interstellar Bands", Annu. Rev. Astrophys. 33 (1995) 19–73
- "The Unusual Pre-Main-Sequence star VY Tauri", ApJ 360 (1990) 639–649
- "The Structure and Spectrum of R Monocerotis", ApJ 152 (1968) 439
- "The Spectra of Two Nebulous Objects Near NGC 1999", ApJ 113 (1951) 697
References
- "The Bruce Medalists: George Howard Herbig". Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- "George Herbig (1920-2013)". AstroWright. 2013-10-13. Archived from the original on 2013-10-25. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
- Reipurth, B. (2013). "George Herbig (1920–2013) Astronomer who pioneered studies of young stars". Nature. 503 (7477): 470. Bibcode:2013Natur.503..470R. doi:10.1038/503470a. PMID 24284724.
- The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2003. ISBN 9780618252107.
- "Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- "Henry Norris Russell Lectureship". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- "Outbursts from a newborn star". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- Herbig, G. H.; Petrov, P. P.; Duemmler, R. (2003). "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars". The Astrophysical Journal. 595 (1): 384–411. arXiv:astro-ph/0306559. Bibcode:2003ApJ...595..384H. doi:10.1086/377194. S2CID 119436366.
- Herbig, G. H.; Dahm, S. E. (2002). "The Young Cluster IC 5146". The Astronomical Journal. 123 (1): 304. Bibcode:2002AJ....123..304H. doi:10.1086/324638.
- Herbig, G. H.; Simon, T. (2001). "Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results". The Astronomical Journal. 121 (6): 3138–3148. Bibcode:2001AJ....121.3138H. doi:10.1086/321077.
Further reading
- Reipurth, Bo. GEORGE HERBIG and Early Stellar Evolution. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi, Special Publications No. 1.