Research Interests
The unifying theme of my research is star formation. For my M.Sc., I worked on computational models of the collapse of low-mass pre-protostellar cores. My Ph.D. research is observational in nature, concentrated at radio and sub-mm wavelengths. I am currently pursuing--or have recently pursued--research in the following areas:
- The kinematics of star-forming cores; in particular, examining their sources of support (ex. rotation and turbulence), and bulk motions linked to their evolutionary states (ex. infall and outflows)
- The search for young, high-mass protostellar and pre-protostellar objects
- The development of an evolutionary sequence for high-mass pre-protostellar objects, akin to the PPC through Class III sequence for low-mass cores
- Modelling the gravitational collapse of pre-protostellar cores using high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations
Publications
PapersMy papers can be downloaded using NASA's ADS (Astrophysics Data System):
| [ADS] | High Mass Star Formation III: The Functional Form of the Submillimeter Clump Mass Function, Reid, M. A & Wilson, C. D. 2006, ApJ, 650, 970 |
| [ADS] | High Mass Star Formation II: The Mass Function of Submillimeter Clumps in M17, Reid, M. A. & Wilson, C. D. 2006, ApJ, 644, 990 |
| [ADS] | High Mass Star Formation I: The Mass Distribution of Submillimeter Clumps in NGC 7538, Reid, M. A. & Wilson, C. D. 2005, ApJ, 625, 891-905 |
| [ADS] | Three-dimensional Simulations of the Gravitational Collapse of Logatropic Molecular Cloud Cores, Reid, M. A., Pudritz, R. E., & Wadsley, J. 2002, ApJ, 570, 231-244 |
| [ADS] | Wide-Field Washington Photometry of the NGC 5128 Globular Cluster System. I. The Database, Harris, G. L. H, Geisler, D., Harris, W. E., Schmidt, B. P., Hesser, J. E., Reid, M., Milne, M., Hulme, S. C., Kidd, T. 2004, AJ, 128, 712-722 |
...or jump to my publications via:
- The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) (Please note: because my name is excruciatingly common, and shared by several people who work in the same field. I try always to use "M. A. Reid", but sometimes I'm listed as just "M. Reid". Interpret ADS search results on my name accordingly.)
- astro-ph
Conference Posters
| [PDF] | High-Mass Star Formation in NGC 7538 (CDJO 2004, CASCA 2004), |
| [PDF] | Star Formation: 3D Collapse of Turbulent Cloud Cores (SHARCNET 2002/SF CHEM 2002) |
Various Other Links
- My curriculum vitae in PDF format
- My personal web page: www.oldpath.ca
- My links page
