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Arnold Heiser

Professor, Emeritus

DEGREES AWARDED:

  • Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1961

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

  • Stellar Clusters and Associations
  • Pulsating Variable Stars

CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES & NEWS:

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS:

  • Emeritus Professor of Astronomy

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

  • 1972-1986: Director, Vanderbilt Observatories

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

  • American Astronomical Society
  • International Astronomical Union
  • Sigma Xi
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific

PROFESSIONAL HONORS:

  • 1985-1987: NASA Faculty Fellow

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

  • Outreach Volunteer at the Dyer Observatory

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

  • "BV Observations of S Vulpeculae," Pub. Ast. Soc. Pacific 108, 603, (1996).
  • "Photometry of the RR Lyrae Variable U Comae," Astron J. 112, 2142, (1996).