MS-67
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
MA 02138, USA
dsteeghs "at" cfa.harvard.edu
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I am a Research Associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and was previously a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Clay Fellow from 2002-2006. My research interests focus on the formation and evolution of interacting binary stars. In particular I use indirect imaging techniques to map the mass flow between the two stellar components in the binary. The main goal is to understand the physics controlling the dynamics of the accretion discs that surround the accreting compact stars. Such disc-flows can be found in a wide range of environments, they determine the secular evolution of such compact binary systems and permit us to study the compact remnants of stars whether white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. | Center for Astrophysics MS-67 60 Garden Street Cambridge MA 02138, USA dsteeghs "at" cfa.harvard.edu |
