Gary Ferland
Ph.D., University of Texas (1978)
Phone: (859) 257-8795
Office: CP-291
Research
Theoretical Astrophysics
Research Interests
Quantitative spectroscopy quasars emission lines numerical simulations.
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Peter van Hoof
- Robert Baumann
Graduate Students
- Ryan Porter
- Gargi Shaw
- Nick Abel
Selected Publications
- Hyperfine structure emission and absorption lines in hot gas W.E. Goddard & G.J. Ferland, 2003, PASP, 115, 647-650
- Observational consequences of line optical depths on infrared fine structure lines Nicholas Abel, Adam Bryant, Prabodh Dhakal, Ashley Gale, Alva Gibson, William Goddard, Chad Howard, Ameya Kolarkar, Pey Lian Lim, Gargi Shaw, & Gary Ferland, 2003, PASP 115, 188-192, astro-ph/0211463
- Dissipative heating and quasar emission lines Mark Bottorff & Gary Ferland, 2002, ApJ, 568, 581-591
- State-specific hydrogenic recombination cooling coefficients for a wide range of conditions J. LaMothe & G.J. Ferland, 2001, PASP, 113, 165-168
- Fractal quasar clouds Mark Bottorff & Gary Ferland, 2001, ApJ, 549, 118-132
- The mass of quasar broad line region clouds J.A. Baldwin, G.J. Ferland, K.T. Korista, F. Hamann, and M. Dietrick 2003, ApJ 582, 590-595 (astro-ph/0209335)