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James M. Moran

Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Chair 
Department of Astronomy
Harvard University

Senior Radio Astronomer
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
Radio and Geoastronomy Division
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Contact Information

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St.,MS 42
Cambridge, MA  02138

Office: M-336, Phone: (617) 495-7477, Fax: (617) 496-7736
jmoran@cfa.harvard.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Photos

Graduate Students

Most Cited Papers

Poet Robert Pinsky on the SMA

Recent Courses

Fall 2007
Astronomy 218: Radio Astronomy

Spring 2007
Astronomy 193: Noise and Data Analysis in Astrophysics

Recent Research
The Black Hole Accretion Disk in NGC 4258: One of Nature's Most Beautiful Dynamical Systems Black Hole
   
Toward a New Geometric Distance to the Active Galaxy NGC 4258. II. Centripetal accelerations and Investigation of Spiral Structure New Geometric Distance
   
Submillimeter Array Imagin of the Maser Emission from
the H30α Radio Reconbmination Line in MWC 349A		 SMA Imaging
   
The Parsec-Scale Accretion Disk in NGC 3393 Parsec Accretion Disk
   
An X-Ray, Infrared, and Submillimeter Flare of Sagittarius A* Flare of Sgr A*
   
The Collimated Jet Source in IRAS 16547-4247: Time Variation, Possible Precession, and Upper Limits to the Proper Motions Along the Jet Axis
   
Event-Horizon-Scale Structure in the Supermassive Black Hole Candidate at the Galactic Centre Event Horizonpwd

Research Areas

Radio Astronomy
Supermassive Black Holes
Massive Star Formation
Active Galactic Nuclei
Extragalactic Distance Scale
Cosmic Masers
Instrumentation:  Astronomical Detectors and Telescopes
Very Long Baseline Interferometers

Publications

LANL:  Astro-ph Preprint Archive
ADS:   Astrophysics Data System


Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy
Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy, 2nd Edition

A. Richard Thompson, James M. Moran, and
   George W. Swenson, Jr.

© 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Preface (ps, pdf)

For supplemental materials refer to
Richard Thompson, NRAO

Presentations

Sept. 9, 2005    Revealing the Molecular Universe --
         One Telescope is Never Enough
                         PDF    PowerPoint

Sept. 29, 2005  Mauna Kea Observatories Users and         Directors meeting
                         PDF    PowerPoint

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