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Dr. Stephen (Steve) Drake
- Employer: Universities Space Research Association
- Job Description: Astrophysicist
- Phone: (301) 286-6962
- e-mail: drake@olegacy.gsfc.nasa.gov
Steve Drake received his BSc in Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh
in 1973, and his PhD in Astronomy at UCLA in 1980, where he wrote
a thesis, under the direction of Roger Ulrich (who was
awarded the Arctowski Medal in April 2002
by the National Academy of Sciences for his pioneering work on the solar
5-minute oscillations), on `The Emission
Lines and Continuum Emission from a Slab of Hydrogen at Moderate-to-High
Densities', and spent a short time as a post-doc. He subsequently worked
at JILA (U. Colorado) as a post-doc for Jeffrey Linsky (1981-1985), and
than at the SMM Project at NASA/GSFC as a UVSP Support Scientist (1985-1991),
before joining the
HEASARC as a support scientist in January 1991.
Steve's research interests are in the area of galactic, particularly
stellar, astronomy, and he has studied stars all over the HR Diagram
from O stars to M (and S) stars, dwarf stars to supergiant stars, and (even)
the Sun. If pressed, he may admit that RS CVn stars and magnetic Bp stars
are his favorites. He has studied the atmospheres (photospheres, chromospheres,
and coronae) and winds of this variety of stars, using a multi-waveband
approach in which observations of these stars at radio, optical, UV,
EUV, and X-ray energies are made use of. He has been previously extensively
involved in the study of the X-ray spectra of the of stellar coronae of
late-type stars using
data obtained from instruments on the 1990s-generation X-ray detectors on the
ROSAT and
ASCA spacecraft, and is currently actively involved in analyzing
newly obtained data from instruments on the 2000s-generation of X-ray
detectors on NASA's
Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO, formerly AXAF) and
ESA's XMM-Newton Observatory ).
At the HEASARC, Steve has been involved in the restoration of old high-energy
datasets into modern formats, the addition of new databases and catalogs
to the HEASARC archive, the maintenance and update of the HEASARC's archive
and webpages of EUVE
data, the monitoring of the usage of the web and anonymous ftp areas on legacy,
the monitoring of users' questions and complaints sent to the HEASARC's
Feedback line among other things. He is also the
designated HEASARC scientist for the
RXTE,
CGRO,
XMM-Newton, and
INTEGRAL
projects. Finally, he is a an active member of the
Constellation-X Stars and Stellar Coronae Science Panel.
Steve's biography and publications list can be found
here
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