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Lori E. Allen

Greetings! I am an Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Contact Information:

Mailing Address: 60 Garden St. / MS-42 / Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Tel: (617) 496-7887

FAX: (617) 495-7345

Research

My primary research is on the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems. I work on the instrument team for the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope , the last of NASA's four Great Observatory space missions.

Selected recent papers:

Low Mass Star Formation in the Lynds 1641 Molecular Cloud
L. Allen and C. Davis, 2008 in "The Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Vol I", Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Bo Reipurth Ed. preprint

Clustered and Triggered Star Formation in W5
X. Koenig, L. Allen, R. Gutermuth, J. Hora, C. Brunt and J. Muzerolle, 2008 ApJ Dec 1 astro-ph

Spitzer Observations of the Massive Star-forming Complex S254-S258: Structure and Evolution
L. A. Chavarria, L.E. Allen, J.L. Hora, C.M. Brunt and G.G. Fazio, 2008, ApJ 682, 445 ADS

The Structure and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters
L. Allen, S.T. Megeath, R. Gutermuth, P.C. Myers, S. Wolk, F.C. Adams, J. Muzerolle, E. Young and J.L. Pipher, 2006 to appear in Protostars and Planets V astro-ph

Detection of Thermal Emission from an Extrasolar Planet
D. Charbonneau, L. Allen, S.T. Megeath, G. Torres, R. Alonso, T.M. Brown, R.L. Gilliland, D.W. Latham, G. Mandushev, F.T. O'Donovan and A. Sozzetti, 2005 ApJ 626, 523 ADS abstract

Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Colors of Young Stellar Objects
L.E. Allen, N. Calvet, P. D'Alessio, B. Merin, L. Hartmann, S.T. Megeath, R. Gutermuth, J. Muzerolle, J.L. Pipher,P.C. Myers and G.G. Fazio, 2004, ApJS 154, 363 ADS abstract

My Curriculum Vitae: pdf