Ellen Zweibel
W. L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics
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Ph: 608-262-7921
Office: 6281 Chamberlin Hall
Research Interests:
I’m a theoretical astrophysicist with a specialty in plasma astrophysics; evolution of astrophysical magnetic fields, interstellar astrophysics, star formation, cosmic rays, and stellar physics.
Biography:
I did my undergraduate work in Mathematics, at U. Chicago, and my graduate work in Astrophysical Sciences, at Princeton. I was a faculty member at U. Colorado from 1980 to 2003, when I moved to Wisconsin. I'm jointly appointed with Physics, and am currently Director of the center for Magnetic Self-Organization.
My Publications
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Zweibel, E., 2015
Conference Proceedings in "Astrophysics and Space Science Library" Pages 285
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Active Galactic Nuclei, Neutrinos, and Interacting Cosmic Rays in NGC 253 and NGC 1068
Yoast-Hull, T., Gallagher, J., Zweibel, E., Everett, J., 2014
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 780, Pages 137
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Conduction in Low Mach Number Flows. I. Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Regimes
Lecoanet, D., Brown, B., Zweibel, E., Burns, K., Oishi, J., Vasil, G., 2014
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 797, Pages 94
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Finn, J., Billey, Z., Daughton, W., Zweibel, E., 2014
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 56, Pages 099502
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Do Cosmic Rays Sample the Mean ISM Density of Starburst Galaxies?
Boettcher, E., Zweibel, E., Yoast-Hull, T., Gallagher, J., 2014
Conference Proceedings in "American Astronomical Society" Pages
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