Robin Shelton

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS
Office: 306A Physics Building
Phone: (706) 542-2860
E-mail: rls@hal.physast.uga.edu
Biographical Information: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1996
Honors and Awards: Lilly Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia, 2004-2005

Research Interests

My research explores the interstellar medium, the gas between the stars in our galaxy.   Some of this gas is heated to millions of degrees by the most explosive events in the galaxy, supernova explosions. In order to estimate how supernova remnant bubbles affect parts of our galaxy and in order to study particular microphysical processes, I perform computer simulations. When tests of the theoretical and computational predictions require additional astronomical observations, I use X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes (mounted on satellites) to observe individual supernova remnant bubbles and the general interstellar medium.

Recent Publications

Shelton, R. L., "The Local Bubble Debate", Space Sciences Reviews, DOI: 10.1007/s11214-008-9359-7 (2008)

Shelton, R. L., "Revising the Local Bubble Model due to Solar Wind Charge Exchange X-ray Emission", Space Sciences Reviews, DOI: 10.1007/s11214-008-9358-8 (2008)

Henley, D. B., Shelton, R. L., "Comparing Suzaku and XMM-Newton Observations of the Soft X-Ray Background: Evidence for Solar Wind Charge Exchange Emission", Astrophysical Journal, 676, 335 (2008)

Henley, D. B., Shelton, R. L., and Kuntz, K. D., "An XMM-Newton Observation of the Local Bubble Using a Shadowing Filament in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere", Astrophysical Journal, 661, 304 (2007)

Raley, E. A., Shelton, R. L., and Plewa, T., "A Study of the Vertical Motion of Supernova Remnant Bubbles in the Interstellar Medium Drawn from the Results of Three-Dimensional MHD Simulations", Astrophysical Journal, 661, 222 (2007)

Shelton, R. L., Sallmen, S. M., and Jenkins, E. B., "The Galactic Halo's O VI Resonance Line Intensity" Astrophysical Journal, 659, 365 (2007)

R. J. Chastain, Shelton, R. L., Raley, E. A., Magnani, L., "High-Latitude Molecular Structure in Pegasus-Pisces", Astronomical Journal, 132, 1964 (2006)

R. Shelton, "Simulations of Supernova Remnants in Diffuse Media. III. The Population of Buoyant Remnants above the Milky Way's Disk", Astrophysical Journal, 638, 206 (2006)

W. R. Oegerle, Jenkins, E. B., Shelton, R.L., Bowen, D. V., Chayer, P., "A Survey of O VI Absorption in the Local Interstellar Medium", Astrophysical Journal, 622, 377 (2005)

R. M. Williams, R. M., Chu, Y.-H., Dickel, J. R., Gruendl, R. A., Shelton, R., Points, S. D., Smith, R. C., "Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds. IV. X-Ray Emission from the Largest Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud", Astrophysical Journal, 613, 948 (2004)

R.L. Shelton, K. D. Kuntz, & R. Petre, "A Thermal Composite Supernova Remnant with a Cool Shell",  Astrophys. J. 615 (2004).

R.L. Shelton, K. D. Kuntz, & R. Petre,"'Chandra' Observations and Models of the Mixed-Morphology Supernova Remnant W44: Global Trends", Astrophys. J. 611, 906 (2004).

B.-G. Andersson, D. C. Knauth, S. L. Snowden, R. L. Shelton, & P. G. Wannier, "A Hot Envelope Around the Southern Coalsack: X-ray and Far-Ultraviolet Observations", Astrophys. J. 606, 341 (2004).

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