Janet Bowey

Department of Physics & Astronomy,
email: jeb@star.ucl.ac.uk
University College London,
tel:+44 (0)20 7679 3495  or  +44 (0)20 7679 3498
Gower Street, 
fax: +44 (0)20 7679 7145
London WC1E 6BT.
 
 

Research Interests

My main research interests are the mineralogy and physical environments of astronomical silicate dust.

This involves infrared observations and laboratory studies of terrestrial minerals for comparison with the astronomical data.

I have studied  (in chronological order)  molecular-cloud and diffuse-medium interstellar dust and the dust around newly forming stars  at the University of Central Lancashire with Andy Adamson (now at UKIRT).  Mike Barlow (UCL),  Jeremy Yates (UCL) and I are looking at new dust formed around evolved stars.

My laboratory studies include infrared spectroscopy of terrestrial minerals at room and cryogenic temperatures. I am collaborating  with members of the Astronomical Instrumentation Group  which is now at  Cardiff Universitylink  (Carole Tucker, Clare Lee and Peter Ade),  and  Anne Hofmeister  at the  Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University.
 

Publications

Refereed

Bowey, J. E., Adamson, A. J. & Yates, J. A. 2003
MNRAS, 340, 1173-1189
Galactic environment and the 10-µm silicate feature of young stellar objects
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Bowey, J. E. & Adamson, A. J. 2002
MNRAS, 334, 94-106
A mineralogy of extra-solar silicate dust from 10 micron spectra
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Bowey, J. E., Barlow, M. J., Molster, F. J., Hofmeister, A. M., Lee, C., Tucker, C., Lim, T., Ade, P. A. R.
&Waters, L. B. F. M. 2002
MNRAS, 331, L1--L6
The 69-micron forsterite band as a dust temperature indicator
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Bowey J. E., Lee C., Tucker C., Hofmeister A. M., Ade P. A. R., Barlow, M. J.  2001
MNRAS 325, 886
Temperature effects on the 15-85-micron spectra of olivines and pyroxenes
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Bowey,  J. E.  & Adamson,  A. J. 2001
MNRAS 320, 131--138
Discs and the 10-micron silicate spectra of embedded objects with non-photospheric continua
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Bradley, J. P.  Keller, L. P.,  Snow, T. P.,  Hanner, M. S., Flynn, G. J.,  Gezo, J. C.,  Clemett, S. J., Brownlee, D. E. &  Bowey, J. E. 1999
Science 285, 1716-1718 + cover
An infrared spectral match between GEMS and interstellar grains

Bowey J. E.,  Adamson, A. J.,  Whittet, D. C. B. 1998
MNRAS, 298, 131
The 10-micron profile of molecular-cloud and diffuse ISM silicate dust
 gzipped postscript file

Bowey, J. E.  & Adamson, A. J. 2000 in Thermal Emission
in Spectroscopy and Analysis of Dust, Disks, and Regoliths, ASP Conf.  Ser. 196, eds. M.L.  Sitko, A.L. Sprague, and D.K. Lynch. (ASP: San Francisco), pp. 83-90.
A disk model for the 10-micron spectra of embedded YSOs with dust-dominated continua

Bowey, J. E.  & Adamson, A. J. 2000
in Thermal Emission Spectroscopy and Analysis of Dust, Disks, and Regoliths, ASP
Conf. Ser. 196, eds. M.L.  Sitko, A.L. Sprague, and D.K. Lynch. (ASP: San Francisco),
pp. 31-39.
Simulation of 10-micron astronomical spectra with mixtures of crystalline and amorphous silicates
 
 

Unrefereed

Bowey, J. E., Lee, C., Hofmeister,  A. N., Tucker,  C.,  Ade, P. A. R. 2000
in ESA Special Publication SP-456
16-100 micron spectra of crystalline silicates at 4K and 295K

Hofmeister,  A. M., Keppel, E.,  Bowey, J. E.,  Speck, A. K.  2000
in ESA SP-456
Causes of artefacts in the infrared spectra of powders
 gzipped postscript file

Bowey, J. E.  & Yates, J. A. 2000
in ESA SP-451
Spectroscopy with DARWIN: the case for R>100
 gzipped postscript file

Bradley, J. P., Keller, L. P., Gezo, J., Snow, T., Flynn, G. J., Brownlee, D. E. and Bowey, J.  1999
In Lunar and Planetary Science XXX, Abstract  #1835, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX(CD-ROM).
The 10 and 18-micron silicate features of GEMS: comparison with astronomical silicates
 

Theses

Ph.D. : Interpreting the 10-micron Astronomical Silicate Feature,  advised by A. J. Adamson at the Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Completed in 1998.
 download from University of Central Lancashire
 

MSc: The History of the Earth/Moon System advised by D. C. Tozer at the Dept. of Physics, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Completed in 1993.
 
 

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