Susan E. Thompson
Associate Director
Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center
Whole Earth Telescope
University of Delaware
Department of Physics and Astronomy
215 Sharp Laboratories
Newark, DE 19716
sthomp at udel.edu
Full CV

Education: Ph.D., Astronomy, 2004, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill M.S., Astronomy, 2001, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill B.A., Physics, 1998 Hanover College, Indiana

Employment: Associate Director, DARC/WET Mount Cuba Observatory and U. Delaware 2007-Present Assistant Professor of Physics The Colorado College 2004-2007

Phys139

• Colors of Stars
• Distance and Magnitudes
• Extra Credit: Parallax Worksheet. Due November 20, 8am in my box.
• Moon
• Extra Credit: Moon Worksheet. Due Dec. 4th, 8am in my box.

Sample Publications: Deciphering the pulsations of G29-38 with optical time series spectroscopy Thompson et al. 2008, MNRAS 389 2006 Whole Earth Telescope Observations of GD358: A New Look at the Prototype DBV Provencal et al. 2009, ApJ 693 Constraining the Surface Inhomogeneity and Settling Times of Metals on Accreting White Dwarfs Montgomery, Thompson & von Hippel 2008, ApJ 685

Various Links: Whole Earth Telescope Wqed Software for time series analysis Math Teaching in New Jersey Prisons Latex Help Wiki White Dwarf Research Corporation Science Daily Facebook Page