Haywood C. Smith, Jr.

Curriculum vitae



Education:

  1. A. B. (Physics), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 1967.
  2. M. A. (Astronomy), University of Virginia, June 1969.
  3. Ph. D. (Astronomy), University of Virginia, August 1972.

Positions held:

  1. Associate Professor, University of Florida, July 1979- present.
  2. Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, December 1977 - July 1979.
  3. NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA Langley Research Center, Summer 1975.
  4. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, September 1972 - December 1977.

Professional Memberships:

  1. International Astronomical Union, Commission 28.
  2. American Astronomical Society.
  3. Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the AAS; Executive Committee 1979-1981, 1984-1986.
  4. American Statistical Association.

Publications in reverse chronological order (* = non-refereed)

  1. "Beware lambda-truncation! Sample truncation and bias in luminosity calibration using trigonometric parallaxes," Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. 365, 469-476 (2006).
  2. "Is there really a Lutz-Kelker bias? Reconsidering calibration using trigonometric parallaxes," Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. 338, 891-902 (2003).
  3. "Transformation methods for trigonometric parallaxes," from Fifth Alexander von Humboldt Colloquium proceedings, New Developments in the Dynamics of Planetary Systems, eds. R. Dvorak and J. Henrard (Dordrecht:Kluwer), pp. 349-359, 2001.
  4. "The Lutz-Kelker effect in the Hipparcos era and beyond," in Modern Astrometry and Astrodynamics, eds. R. Dvorak, H. F. Haupt, and K. Wodnar, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, pp. 139-149, 1999.
  5. "On the estimation of distances using trigonometric parallaxes," Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. 281, 211-218 (with H. K. Eichhorn), 1996.
  6. "Spectra of stretching numbers of orbits in oscillating galaxies," Astron. Astrophys. 314, pp. 795-806 (1996).
  7. "Spectra and Lyapunov Numbers in Pulsating Systems," in Waves in Astrophysics, ed. J. H. Hunter, Jr., and R. E. Wilson (New York: N. Y. Acad. Scis.), 189-204 (with G. Contopoulos), 1995.
  8. "On the Sensitivity of the N-body Problem to Initial Conditions. IV.'" Astrophys. J. 428, 458-465 (with H. E. Kandrup and M. E. Mahon), 1994.
  9. "Global Stability of Spherical Polytropes," Phys. Rev. E 49, 3757-3760 (with H. E. Kandrup and M. E. Mahon), 1994.
  10. "The Approach to Integrability in N-Body Systems with a Central Point Mass," in Ergodic Concepts in Stellar Dynamics, ed. V. Gurzadyan and D. Pfenniger (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), 158-162 (with H. E. Kandrup, M. E. Mahon, and C. Siopis), 1994.
  11. "Energy and Phase Space Mixing in Self-Gravitating Systems of Stars," Astron. Astrophys. 271, 440-450 (with H. E. Kandrup and M. E. Mahon), 1993.
  12. "On the Sensitivity of the N-body Problem to Initial Conditions. III.," Astrophys. J. 399, 627-633 (with H. E. Kandrup and D. E. Willmes), 1992.
  13. "Mass Segregation, Relaxation, and the Coulomb Logarithm in N-body Systems," Asrophys. J. 398, 519-524, 1992.
  14. "On the Sensitivity of the N-body Problem to Initial Conditions. II.," Astrophys. J. 386, 635-645 (with H. E. Kandrup), 1992.
  15. "On the Sensitivity of the N-body Problem to Small Changes in Intial Conditions," Astrophys. J. 374, 255-265 (with H. E. Kandrup), 1991.
  16. "The Calibration Problem. V. Numerical Tests Using Synthetic Parallaxes," Astron. and Astrophys. 198, 365-369, 1988.
  17. "A Few Thoughts on Astronomical Databases," Bull. Inform. Centre Donn\'ees Stellaires 33, 63-67, 1987.*
  18. "The Calibration Problem. IV. The Lutz-Kelker Correction," Astron. and Astrophys. 188, 233-238, 1987.
  19. "The Calibration Problem. III. First-order Solution for Mean Absolute Magnitude and Dispersion," Astron. and Astrophys. 181, 391-393, 1987.
  20. "The Calibration Problem. II. Trigonometric Parallaxes Selected According to Proper Motion and the Problem of Statistical Parallaxes," Astron. and Astrophys. 171, 342-347, 1987.
  21. "The Calibration Problem. I. Estimation of Mean Absolute Magnitude Using Trigonometric Parallaxes," Astron. and Astrophys. 171, 336-341, 1987.
  22. "Parallax Estimation Using Both Trigonometric and Photometric Parallaxes," Astron. and Astrophys. 152, 413-416, 1985.
  23. "Mass Segregation and the Rank Correlation of Luminosity with Projected Distance in Clusters of Galaxies," Astrophys. J. 288, 117-121, 1985.
  24. "On the Characteristics of Clusters of Galaxies with Unseen Mass," Astrophys. J. 285, 16-24, 1984.
  25. "Mass Estimation of Clusters with Unseen Mass," in Clusters and Groups of Galaxies, ed. F. Mardirossian, G. Giuricin, and M. Mezzetti (Dordrecht: D. Reidel), pp. 523-524, 1984.*
  26. "On the Mass and Extent of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies," Astrophys. J. 270, 422-426, 1983.
  27. "The Potential-Estimation Method of Cluster Mass Estimation," Astrophys. J. 259, 423-430, 1982.
  28. "The Mean Relaxation Time of Equal-Mass N-body Systems with Small N," Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. 195, 35-38, 1981.
  29. "Application of the Virial Theorem to Clusters of Galaxies with Unseen Mass," Astrophys. J. 241, 63-66, 1980.
  30. "N-body Experiments and Missing Mass in Clusters of Galaxies," Astrophys. J. Lett. 234, L97-L99 (with P. Hintzen, G. Holman, W. Oegerle, J. Scott, and S. Sofia), 1979.
  31. "The Dependence of Statistical Results from N-body Calculations on N," Astron. and Astrophys. 76, 192-199, 1979.
  32. "The Validity of Statistical Results from N-body Calculations," Astron. and Astrophys. 61, 305-312, 1977.
  33. "The Local Space Density and Formation Rate of Planetary Nebulae," Astron. and Astrophys. 53, 333-339, 1976.
  34. "Differential Deceleration of Nebular Shells and the Displacement of Central Stars," Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. 175, 419-427, 1976.
  35. "The Diameter Function for Supernova Remnants and Their Evolution," Astron. and Astrophys. 41, 273-277, 1975.
  36. "The Mass of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies," Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 86, 612-615, 1974.
  37. "Planetary Nebulae: Two Types," Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. 164, 321-327, 1973.
  38. "Integration Errors and Their Effects on Macroscopic Properties of Calculated N-body Systems," Lecture Notes in Mathematics 362, ed. D. Bettis (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), pp. 360-373, 1973.*
  39. "On the Distances of Planetary Nebulae," Astron. J. 76, 193-197, 1971.