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Jean L. Turner
Alma materHarvard University (A.B. Astronomy)
UC Berkeley (Ph.D. Astronomy)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Jean L. Turner is an astrophysicist and distinguished professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] She was lead author on research and discovery of a particular star cluster in the dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, considered 'remarkable' for being an extremely dusty gas cloud and having highly efficient star formation.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Career

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Turner received her AB in astronomy from Harvard University and her PhD degree in astronomy from UC Berkeley. She was a Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Fellow (1984-1986), a visiting associate at Caltech (2004), Caroline Herschel visiting fellow at Space Telescope (2007), and visiting scientist at the Joint ALMA Observatory (2011). Turner was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006,[16][17] and the UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department chair from 2014 to 2018.[1]

She is an active member of the International Astronomical Union,[18] and has also contributed to the development and commissioning of the Hat Creek Millimeter Interferometer and the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array.[19]

Research areas

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Her research specialty is in the gaseous environments of young 'super star clusters' in local galaxies, including O star winds and star formation efficiency.[20] The youngest star clusters are typically embedded in dusty gas clouds, and therefore hidden from optical telescopes, so observations are done with infrared and millimeter wavelength telescopes.[21] Such studies can help explain the differences in early Milky Way and Population III stars.[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Jean Turner: Biography | UCLA Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics". www.astro.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  2. ^ Turner, J. L.; Beck, S. C.; Benford, D. J.; Consiglio, S. M.; Ho, P. T. P.; Kovács, A.; Meier, D. S.; Zhao, J.-H. (March 2015). "Highly efficient star formation in NGC 5253 possibly from stream-fed accretion". Nature. 519 (7543): 331–333. arXiv:1503.05254. Bibcode:2015Natur.519..331T. doi:10.1038/nature14218. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 25788096. S2CID 4396346.
  3. ^ Wolpert, Stuart; UCLA (2015-03-19). "Young Star Cluster Displays Highly Efficient Star Formation". SciTechDaily. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  4. ^ January 2006, Space com Staff 11 (11 January 2006). "Astronomers See 'Star Formation on Steroids'". Space.com. Retrieved 2020-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "NGC 5253". wise-obs.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  6. ^ "Over million young stars found in nearby galaxy". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  7. ^ "Astronomers watch star clusters spewing out dust: New observations confirm long-standing theory that stars are copious producers of heavy elements". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  8. ^ "More Than a Million Stars Forming In a Mysterious Dusty Gas Cloud - SpaceRef". spaceref.com. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  9. ^ "'Stunned' scientists discover star cluster". From the Grapevine. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  10. ^ "Nearby "Dwarf" Galaxy is Home to Luminous Star Cluster". Technology Org. 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  11. ^ Press, Viva Sarah (2015-06-10). "Astronomers discover colossal star cluster". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  12. ^ "Astronomers Spot Millions Of Stars Forming In Small Nearby Galaxy". IFLScience. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  13. ^ "Over million young stars found in nearby galaxy". The Hindu. PTI. 2015-03-19. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  14. ^ "News Page (Astronomy & Astrophysics) - American Friends of Tel Aviv University". www.aftau.org. Retrieved 2020-07-26.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "UCLA astronomers watch star clusters spewing out dust". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  16. ^ "UCLA Fellows elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science". ucla.edu.
  17. ^ "Astronomy (Section D) | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  18. ^ "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  19. ^ a b "Jean Turner Homepage | UCLA Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics". www.astro.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  20. ^ Turner, Jean L. (August 2015). "Submillimeter View of Gas and Dust in the Forming Super Star Cluster in NGC 5253". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 12 (S316): 31–35. arXiv:1509.08531. doi:10.1017/S1743921316008735. ISSN 1743-9213.
  21. ^ Turner, Jean L.; Consiglio, S. Michelle; Beck, Sara C.; Goss, W. M.; Ho, Paul. T. P.; Meier, David S.; Silich, Sergiy; Zhao, Jun-Hui (2017-09-01). "ALMA Detects CO(3–2) within a Super Star Cluster in NGC 5253". The Astrophysical Journal. 846 (1): 73. arXiv:1706.09944. Bibcode:2017ApJ...846...73T. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa8669. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 119006175.
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