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Home Page of Lynn D. Matthews

Research Scientist, MIT Haystack Observatory
Contact Information:
MIT Haystack Observatory
Off Route 40
Westford, MA 01886 USA

Phone: 1-781-981-5401 (direct line)
Phone: 1-781-981-5400 (main Observatory line)
Fax: 1-781-981-0590
E-mail: lmatthew [at] haystack dot mit dot edu


Current research programs:

The KaLYPSO project (a VLA/VLBA study of massive star formation in the Orion KL region)

HI 21-cm line studies of the circumstellar envelopes of evolved stars

The ALMA Phasing Project

Solar imaging with the Murchison Widefield Array

Multiwavelength Imaging of Edge-On "Superthin" Galaxies

Recent Press Releases and News Items

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Press Release: Cosmology Standard Candle Not So Standard

MIT News and Spotlight Feature: A Massive Star is Born

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Weekly Science Update: Dark Matter in a Galaxy

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/National Radio Astronomy Observatory Press Release: Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super-Suns

Selected Preprints and Recent Publications:

Dynamical Evidence for a Magnetocentrifugal Wind from a 20 Msun Binary Young Stellar Object (L. J. Greenhill, C. Goddi, C. J. Chandler, L. D. Matthews, and E. M. L. Humphreys, ApJ Letters, in press)

An HI Imaging Survey of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars (L. D. Matthews, T. Le Bertre, E. Gerard, and M. C. Johnson, 2013, AJ, 145, 97)

Radio Stars and Their Lives in the Galaxy (L. D. Matthews, 2013, PASP, 125, 313)

Discovery of Detached HI Gas Shell Surrounding alpha Orionis (T. Le Bertre, L. D. Matthews, E. Gerard, and Y. Libert, 2012, MNRAS, 422, 3433)

New Evidence for Mass Loss from delta Cephei from HI 21-cm Line Observations (L. D. Matthews, M. Marengo, N. R. Evans, and G. Bono, 2012, ApJ, 744, 53)

The Stability of Low Surface Brightness Disks Based on Multiwavelength Modeling (J. M. MacLachlan, L. D. Matthews, K. Wood, and J. S. Gallagher, 2011, ApJ, 741, 6)

Unveiling Sources of Heating in the Vicinity of the Orion BN/KL Hot Core as Traced by Highly Excited Inversion Transitions of Ammonia (C. Goddi et al. 2011, ApJ Letters, 739, L13)

First Spectroscopic Imaging Observations of the Sun at Low Radio Frequencies with the Murchison Widefield Array Prototype (D. Oberoi, L. D. Matthews, et al. 2011, ApJL, 728, L27)

HI Observations of the Asymptotic Giant Branch Star X Herculis: Discovery of an Extended Circumstellar Wake Superposed on a Compact High-Velocity Cloud (L. D. Matthews et al. 2011, AJ, 141, 60)

A Multi-Epoch Study of the Radio Continuum Emission of Orion Source I: Constraints on the Disk Evolution of a Massive YSO and the Dynamical History of Orion BN/KL (C. Goddi et al. 2011, ApJ, 728, 15)

For a complete list of my publications, click here.

Education and Public Outreach:

"Radio Stars" Podcast Series




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