Linda Sparke
Emeritus
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Ph: (202) 358-7335
Office: NASA Headquarters
Research Interests:
Structure and dynamics of galaxies, including observation and modelling of warped disks and polar rings; dynamical models for bars; studies of circumstellar and circumbinary disks in eccentric stellar binaries.
Biography:
Dr Sparke retired from UW-Madison on 7 May 2010, and is currently working in the Astrophysics division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
A native of London, England, Linda Sparke watched the Apollo moonflights as a teenager, and later the close-up pictures from flyby missions of the giant planets and their satellites. Amazed by the accuracy with which humans on Earth could calculate the flight paths of spacecraft, steering them safely to an orbit millions of miles away, she decided to study physics and astronomy. After undergraduate training in applied mathematics at Cambridge University, she went into astronomy as a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley.
...read moreMy Publications
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Sparke, L., 2012
Conference Proceedings in "American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #204.03" Pages
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The Polar Rings Around NGC 5122 And UGC 7576: Superthin Quiescent Low-surface-brightness Disks
Sparke, L., van Moorsel, G., Cox, A., 2009
Conference Proceedings in "American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #444.12" Pages 328
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The Remarkable Warped and Twisted Gas Disk in NGC 3718
Sparke, L., van Moorsel, G., Schwarz, U., Vogelaar, M., 2009
The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 137, Pages 3976-3992
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Circumstellar and Circumbinary Disks in Eccentric Stellar Binaries
Aguilar, L., Pichardo, B., Sparke, L., 2008
Conference Proceedings in "Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series" Pages 91-97
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Geometrical and physical properties of circumbinary discs in eccentric stellar binaries
Pichardo, B., Sparke, L., Aguilar, L., 2008
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 391, Pages 815-824
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