Roger H. Hildebrand

Professor Emeritus, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, and the College; Enrico Fermi Institute

Education: Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1951

Contact Information

Phone: (773) 702-7581
Location: LASR 123
Email: rogeroddjob.uchicago.edu

Research

Experimental physics, infrared astronomy

Hildebrand and his students, former students, and other colleagues, study the properties of interstellar magnetic fields and interstellar dust by means of far-infrared photometry and polarimetry. They map the field configurations of collapsing clouds, filamentary clouds, and rotating clouds. They use the angular dispersion of field vectors to determine field strengths, turbulent fractions, and size-distributions of turbulent eddies. By 2012, their observations at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, will be supplemented by far infra-red polarimetry with SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astrometry.

Research Fields: Galactic Astronomy

Affiliations: Enrico Fermi Institute

Member of Scientific Groups: Roger Hildebrand's group

Graduate Students

Past Students: Larry Kirby (2008); John E. Vaillancourt (2001)

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