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Brian Charles Chaboyer

Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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Departments

  • Physics and Astronomy

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Contact Information

Email: brian.chaboyer@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3684
Office: 6127 Wilder Hall

Education

B.Sc. University of Manitoba; M.Sc. Queen's University; M.Phil. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University

Areas of Expertise

Cosmology; astrophysics; galaxy formation; stellar evolution

Selected Works

  • Krusberg, Z A C and B Chaboyer, "UBVI CCD Photometry of the Old Open Cluster Berkeley 17," Astronomical Journal, 131 (March 2006) 1565-1573.
  • Carraro, G, B Chaboyer, and J Perencevich, "The Young Open Cluster NGC 2129," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 365:3 (January 2006) 867.
  • Dotter, A, and B Chaboyer, "Stellar Pollution and [Fe/H] in the Hyades," Astrophysical Journal Letters, 596 no. 1 part 2 (October 2003) L101.
  • Dotter, A, and B Chaboyer, "The Impact of Pollution on Stellar Evolution Models," Astrophysical Journal, 596 no. 1 part 1 (October 2003) 496.
  • Krauss, L M, and B Chaboyer, "Age Estimates of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way: Constraints on Cosmology," Science, 299 no. 5603 (January 2003) 65-69.

Current Projects

"From Canonical to Enhanced Extra Mixing in Low-Mass Red Giants: Tidally Locked Binaries;" "Theoretical Uncertainties in Red Giant Branch Evolution: The Red Giant Branch Bump;" "A New Color-Magnitude Diagram for Palomar 11;" "Extinction toward the Galactic Bulge from RR Lyrae Stars;" "The Metallicity of MACHO Galactic Bulge RRO Lyrae Stars from Fourier Coefficients of Light Curves"