Funded Research and Observing Programs
James E. Neff


I. Hubble Space Telescope (GHRS and STIS)

  1. "Lyman-Alpha Observations of High Radial Velocity Stars" (GO-2238).
  2. "Doppler Imaging HR 1099: Density and Temperature Structure" (GO-4447).
  3. "A GHRS Study of Circumstellar Gas Around Proto-Planetary System Candidates" (GO-5876).
  4. "Lyman Alpha Observations of High Radial Velocity Stars" (GO-6010).
  5. "The First Multiple Layer Doppler Imaging of an Active Binary" (GO-6072).
  6. "Are Dust Disks and Circumstellar Gas Around Young A Stars Unrelated Phenomena?" (GO-10219).

II. Far Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite (FUSE)

  1. "Beta Pic-like Circumstellar Gas Disk Around 2 And" (Program B085).
  2. "Line Profiles and Variability in UltraRapid Rotators" (Program D033).
  3. "FUSE Observation of the Standard Star Vega" (Program D053).
  4. "Circumstellar Gas of Nearby A-Type Stars" (Program E075).
  5. "Phase Variations in the O VI Emission in CF Tuc" (Program F323).
  6. "Circumstellar Gas in the Newly Discovered Edge-On Dust Disk Around HD32297" (Program H021).
  7. "Probing the Temporal Domain Corresponding to Active Region Evolution on AB Dor" (Program H065).

III. Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite (EUVE)

  1. "The Emission Measure Distribution in the Coronae of AR Lacertae" (92-EUVE-107).
  2. "The First Multiwavelength, Multiple Layer Doppler Imaging of An Active Binary" (95-EUVE-027).

IV. X-Ray Satellites: Suzaku, Astro-E, ROSAT, ASCA, GINGA, EXOSAT

  1. EXOSAT: "X-ray Light Curves of the Contact Binary 44 Iota Boo".
  2. GINGA: "X-ray Observations of AR Lacertae".
  3. GINGA: "Flares on RS CVn Systems".
  4. ROSAT: "The Origin of Balmer Emission from Stellar Flares".
  5. ROSAT: "ROSAT/ASS + IUE Coordinated Observations of RS CVn Systems".
  6. ROSAT: "Coordinated ROSAT+IUE+VLA+HST+Ground-Based Observations of AR Lacertae".
  7. ASTRO-E: "An Astro-E Observation of the Long-Period RS CVn Lambda And"
  8. ASTRO-E: "An Astro-E Observation of the Nearby Flare Star AU Mic"
  9. SUZAKU: "Suzaku Observations of Thermal and Nonthermal Coronal Emission on the RS CVn Binaries Sigma 2 CrB and Sigma Gem"

Va. International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite (IUE) --- NASA

  1. "An IUE Archive Search for Doppler Imagable Chromospheres in Active Stars" (RSHDG).
  2. "Ultraviolet Tomography of the Transition Region of V471 Tauri" (LDHFW).
  3. "Doppler Imaging of Active Regions in the Chromospheres of AR Lac", Lead Investigator (OD61K).
  4. "Active Regions on RS CVn and HD 5303 During Secondary Eclipse", Lead-Investigator (RSIJL).
  5. "The Intrinsic Hydrogen Lyman Alpha Profiles of HR 1099 and AR Lacertae", Lead Investigator (ARIJL).
  6. "Rotational Modulation of 44 Boo Based on Simultaneous Lyman Alpha and X-ray Observations" (RMIJL).
  7. "Hydrogen Lyman Alpha Emission From High Velocity Stars", Lead Investigator (CSJJB).
  8. "The Intrinsic Hydrogen Lyman Alpha Profile of AR Lacertae", Lead Investigator (RSJJL).
  9. "Spectral Imaging of HD 199178", Lead Investigator (FKJFW).
  10. "The Intrinsic H I Lyman Alpha Profiles of TY Pyxis", Principal Investigator (IBKJN).
  11. "Spectral Imaging of EI Eridani", Lead Investigator (RSKFW).
  12. "Intrinsic Lyman Alpha Profile of a High Radial Velocity G Giant", Lead Investigator (LGKJB).
  13. "Doppler Dissection of UX Arietis" (RSKTA).
  14. "Simultaneous X-ray and UV Observations of Flares on RS CVn Stars", Principal Investigator (RSLJN).
  15. "A Coordinated Study of Flares and Active Regions on the BY Draconis-Type Star CC Eri" (FSLJL).
  16. "Fourth Epoch Doppler Imaging Observations of AR Lacertae", Lead Investigator (RSLFW).
  17. "A 3-D Picture of RS CVn Stellar Atmospheres" (RSMJL).
  18. "Fifth-Epoch Doppler Imaging Observations of AR Lacertae", Principal Investigator (ARNJN).
  19. "A Multiwavelength Campaign of Active Stars With Intermediate Rotation Rates" (MWOJL).
  20. "The Spatially-Resolved Structure of the V711 Tau Stellar Environment", Principal Investigator (VTOJN).
  21. "Lyman Alpha Observations of High-Velocity Dwarfs" (LAPJB).
  22. "Search For New Proto-Planetary System Candidates" (OD44Z).
  23. "Sixth-Epoch Doppler Imaging of AR Lac: The Return of the Plages" Co-Principal Investigator (ARQFW).
  24. "A Search for New Planetary System Candidates" (PSRKC).
  25. "Coordinated X-Ray and Doppler Imaging Observations of AR Lacertae".

Vb. International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite (IUE) --- ESA

  1. "Active Regions on RS CVn and HD 5303 During Secondary Eclipse" (IC161).
  2. "Lyman Alpha in Contact Binaries VW Cep, 44 Boo, and AW UMa" (IC159).
  3. "IUE Observations of Surface Structures on II Peg" (IC160).
  4. "Spectral Imaging of HD 199178" (JC162).
  5. "Long-Term Behavior of Surface Structures on AR Lacertae" (JC137).
  6. "The Intrinsic Hydrogen Lyman Alpha Line Profile of a High Radial Velocity G Giant" (KC031).
  7. "Spectral Imaging of EI Eridani" (KC136).
  8. "Flares on RS CVn Stars (LC017).
  9. "A Coordinated Study of Flares and Active Regions on the BY Draconis-Type Star CC Eri" (LC110).
  10. "High Velocity Wings in II Peg" (LC095).
  11. "Fourth Epoch Doppler Imaging Observations of AR Lacertae" (LC035).
  12. "A 3-D Picture of RS CVN Stellar Atmospheres" (MC150).
  13. "The Origin of Balmer Emission from Stellar Flares" (MC151).
  14. "Rotational Modulation of Plages on II Peg" (MC098).
  15. "Fifth-Epoch Doppler Imaging Observations of AR Lacertae" (NC078).
  16. "Flaring vs. Rotational Modulation on the RS CVn Star II Peg" (PC157).
  17. "Spatially-Resolved Environment and Coordinated Multi-Frequency Observations of HR 1099" (PC178).
  18. "A Flux-Limited Survey of RS CVn Systems".
  19. "Sixth-Epoch Doppler Imaging Observations of the Active RS CVn Binary AR Lacertae".
  20. "A Flux-Limited Survey of RS CVn Systems (Follow-On)".

VI. Spitzer Space Telescope

  1. "Are Dust Disks and Circumstellar Gas Around Young A Stars Unrelated Phenomena?" (Cycle 2 Archival program).

VII. National Radio Astronomy Observatories -- VLA

  1. "Coordinated Multiwavelength Observations of the RS CVn System EI Eridani" (AL183).
  2. "Coordinated Multiwavelength Observations of the RS CVn System II Pegasi" (AL211).
  3. "Flares and Active Regions on the BY Draconis Star CC Eridani" (AL212).
  4. "Three-Dimensional Structure of RS CVn Stellar Atmospheres" (AV179).
  5. "Multiwavelength Studies of AR Lac" (AB627).
  6. "Rotational Modulation and Coronal Structures of V815 Her" (AG355).
  7. "Active System V711 Tau" (BM012).

VIII. Kitt Peak National Observatory

  1. "Doppler Imaging of Chromospheric Active Regions on Rapidly Rotating Stars Using the Ca II H and K Lines".
  2. "Photometry and High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Structure in AR Lac", Principal Investigator.
  3. "Doppler Imaging of Active Regions in RS CVn Systems", Principal Investigator.
  4. "Doppler Imaging of the Chromospheres of RS CVn Systems", Principal Investigator.
  5. "Using the TiO Bands to Measure Starspot Area and Temperature", Principal Investigator.
  6. "Intensive He I D3 Monitoring of the RS CVn Binary EI Eri".
  7. "Measurement of Starspot Areas and Temperatures on Active Stars".
  8. "Doppler Imaging and Measurement of Starspot Properties Using OH-line Spectra, and a Search for Companions of "Single-lined" RS CVn Systems".
  9. "MUSICOS 1: Non-Radial Pulsations in Rotating Beta Cephei Stars", Principal Investigator.
  10. "MUSICOS 2: Non-Radial Pulsations and Activity in Be Stars", Principal Investigator.

IX. National Solar Observatory

  1. "Ti O 8860 Angstrom Bandhead Measurements of Spot Areas and Stellar Inhomogeneity", (multiple observing runs), Principal Investigator.
  2. "Ca II K Spectral Images of RS CVn Systems", (multiple observing runs), Principal Investigator.
  3. "Multi-site Spectroscopy of Three Targets in International MUSICOS Campaign".
  4. "Rotational Modulation of Visible and UV Spectral Lines of II Peg", Principal Investigator.
  5. "Search For New Protoplanetary System Candidates", (multiple observing runs).
  6. "The MUSICOS 1992 Campaign of Multi-Site Continuous Spectroscopy", Principal Investigator.
  7. "Determination of Starspot Parameters of Active Stars"
  8. "Simultaneous Ca II and Mg II Spectral Imaging of AR Lac", Principal Investigator.

X. Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory

  1. "FK Comae and the G Giant Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae"
  2. "Search For New Proto-Planetary System Candidates".
  3. "Surface Structures on V824 Ara: A Multi-Wavelength Campaign".

XI. University of Hawaii -- Mauna Kea

  1. "Multi-site Spectroscopy of Three Targets in International MUSICOS Campaign"
  2. "MUSICOS92: Doppler Imaging of Magnetic Surface Activity on HR 1099"

XII. University of Texas -- McDonald Observatory

  1. "Variable Circumstellar Absorption From Candidate Proto-Planetary Systems" (multiple observing runs), Principal Investigator.
  2. "High-Resolution Echelle Observations of Cool Active Stars".
  3. "Starspot Parameters by TiO Bands: An Intensive Study of II Pegasi".
  4. "MUSICOS 96: A World Wide Spectroscopic Monitoring Campaign".
  5. "An Intensive Study of Magnetic Activity on DM UMa and EQ Vir".
  6. "An Intensive Study of Magnetic Activity on Three "Interesting" Systems".
  7. "A Detailed Study of Proto-Planetary System Candidates".
  8. "The Pleiades--Starspot Coverage as a Function of Stellar Parameters".

XIII. Australian Telescopes

  1. "Search for New Proto-Planetary System Candidates", 1.9m telescope at Mount Stromlo (MSSSO/ANU) (9 observing runs 1996-2002), Principal Investigator.
  2. "Active Region Evolution on AB Dor", 4 observing runs in 2007 and 2008 at 4m Anglo-Australian Telescope; Co-Investigator.
  3. "Radio, FUV, and Optical Zeeman Doppler Imaging Observations of Active Region Evolution on AB Dor", Australia Telescope Compact Array.

XIV. European Southern Observatory, Nordic Optical Telescope, Obs. Haute Provence, Isaac Newton Telescope, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

XV. Funding-Only Programs (Not Associated With Observing Programs)

  1. NASA Long-Term Space Astrophysics Research Program: "Spatial Structure and Dynamics of Outer Stellar Atmospheres".
  2. NASA Astrophysics Data Program: "A Catalog of Stellar Lyman Alpha Fluxes".
  3. NASA Astrophysics Data Program: "Chromospheric Doppler Imaging of AR Lacertae".
  4. NASA Astrophysics Data Program: "An IUE Study of Circumstellar Gas Around Proto-Planetary System Candidates".
  5. NSF International Cooperative Research Grant: "US-Finland Cooperative Research on The Magnetic Structure of Stellar Atmospheres", Co-Principal Investigator.
  6. NSF Astronomical Sciences RUI: "A Study of Proto-Planetary System Candidates".
  7. NSF UNIDATA Program, Division of Atmospheric Science: "College of Charleston Weather Center".
  8. AAS Small Research Grant: "A Search for Planetary System Candidates: Finding Clues to the Origin of Our Solar System", Co-Principal Investigator.
  9. AAS Small Research Grant: "Search for New Planetary System Candidates".
  10. AAS Small Research Grant: "A Detailed Study of Planet Construction Zones Around Nearby A-Type Stars", Co-Principal Investigator.
  11. South Carolina Space Grant Consortium: "Establishment of a Two-Observatory Search for Earth-Crossing Asteroids".
  12. South Carolina Space Grant Consortium: "Imaging the Chromospheric Surfaces of Magnetically Active Stars Using the Reprocessed IUE and HST/GHRS Database".
  13. NSF Astronomical Sciences RUI: "A Detailed Study of the Circumstellar Environment Around Nearby A-Type Stars: Possible Planet Construction Zones", Co-Principal Investigator.
  14. South Carolina Space Grant Consortium: "High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of Active Stars".
  15. Fund for Astrophysical Research, Inc.: "Purchase of a Filter Wheel for 16-inch Telescope".
  16. AAS Small Research Grant: "Development of an Automated and Remote 0.5m Telescope at Etelman Observatory at the University of the Virgin Islands", Co-Investigator.
  17. South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative: "A Greenhouse Gas Audit of the College of Charleston".
  18. South Carolina Space Grant Consortium: "Development of an Automated and Remote 0.5m Telescope at Etelman Observatory at the University of the Virgin Islands", Co-Investigator.
  19. South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative: "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the College of Charleston".
  20. AAS Small Research Grant: "Advanced Spectroscopic Techniques to Probe Circumstellar Material and Stellar Activity".
  21. South Carolina NASA/Epscor Grant: "An Automated Rapid Response Gamma Ray Burst Afterglow Observing Program", Co-Investigator.
  22. NASA Astrophysics Data Program: "A Detailed Study of Gas Disks Around Main-Sequence A Stars", Co-Investigator.
  23. NSF Research Opportunity Award: Supplement to Alex Brown's NSF grant "Radio Studies of Stellar Cornae, Winds, and Circumstellar Environments" to support my summer fellowship.
  24. NSF Research Grant: "A Gamma-Ray Burst Counterpart and Afterglow Observing Campaign at CofC", Principal Investigator.

XVI. Fellowships

  1. National Research Council Fellowship, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 1988-1991.
  2. NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Summer 1999.
  3. NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Summer 2000.
  4. NASA Faculty Fellowship, Jet Propulsion Lab, Summer 2003.
  5. Visiting Fellow, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, Uniersity of Colorado, Boulder, Summer 2005.

XVII. International Travel Grants

  1. NSF/NATO Advance Study Institute International Travel Grant, "Hot, Thin Plasmas in Astrophysics" (France), 1987.
  2. AAS International Travel Grant: "Modeling the Stellar Environment" (France) and "COSPAR General Assembly" (Finland), 1988.
  3. NSF/NATO Advance Study Institute International Travel Grant, "Active Close Binaries" (Turkey), 1989.
  4. AAS International Travel Grant: "Surface Inhomogeneities in Late-Type Stars" (N. Ireland), 1990.
  5. AAS/IAU International Travel Grant: "IAU General Assembly" (Argentina), 1991.
  6. AAS International Travel Grant: "The Fourth MUSICOS Workshop" (China), 1994.
  7. AAS/IAU International Travel Grant: "IAU General Assembly", (The Netherlands), 1994.
  8. NSF/NOAO Travel Grant for Observations with Large, Unique, Foreign Telescopes, (Australia), 1996.
  9. NSF/NOAO Travel Grant for Observations with Large, Unique, Foreign Telescopes, (Australia), 1998.
  10. AAS International Travel Grant: "Sunspots and Starspots" Workshop, (Germany), 2002.
  11. AAS/IAU International Travel Grant: "IAU General Assembly", (Australia), 2003.

last update: 24 APR 09
James E. Neff, (neffj@cofc.edu)