Researchers

Astronomy / BECK, SARA C.

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Position

Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Astronomy Department, Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Research interests

· Star formation: study the ways stars are formed and how young stars behave and evolve. In particular the birth of stars in other galaxies, where conditions may be very different from what we see locally and where star formation may work extremely rapidly. This study requires observations at wavelengths from the radio, through the infrared to the optical and sometimes the ultra-violet, which are carried out at observatories in Israel and abroad.
· Theoretical calculations to derive the astronomical conditions from the observed data on star-forming galaxies.
· Infrared and radio observations of galaxies that have large numbers of Wolf-Rayet stars, which are a particularly violent and short-lived stage of evolution.

Prizes and awards

Publications

Beck, Sara C., and Kovo, O.
Where is the Induced Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies?
in Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies
ed. Shlossman, Cambridge University Press, p. 388 (1994)

Beck, S. C., and Turner, J. T.
CO Observations of the Dwarf Starburst NGC 5253
B. A. A. S. 26, 1433 (1994)

Beck, S. C.
The Extraordinary Starburst of NGC 5253
in Massive Star Formation, the ISM, and Galaxy Evolution
ed. D. Knuth (Editions Frontieres, Paris, 1996)

S. C. Beck
Starbursts and Impostors (INVITED TALK)
in The Nearest Active Galaxies, ed. Beckman, Colina, and Netzer (C. S. I. C., Madrid, 1993)

S. C. Beck
Mid-Infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics (INVITED CHAPTER)
in Amazing Light, ed. R. Chiao (Springer Verlag, 1995)

Meier,D., Turner, J., and Beck, S.
Imaging of CO(2-1) Emission in NGC 5253 and He 2-10
Dwarf Galaxies, IAU Joint Discussion 2, p. 40 (1997)

S. C. Beck, J. Turner, and O. Kovo
Wolf Rayet Galaxies in Many Radio Wavlengths and Halpha
IAU Symposium 193: WR Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies
ed. K. van der Hucht, G. Koenigsberger, and P. Eenens (PASP Conference Series, 1999)

D. Meier, J. Turner, and S. C. Beck
High Resolution molecular gas in Dwarf Starbursts
IAU Symposium 193: WR Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies
ed. K. van der Hucht, G. Koenigsberger, and P. Eenens (PASP Conference Series, 1999)

J. Turner, S. C. Beck, and P. T. P. Ho
Gas and Star Formation in NGC 5253
IAU Symposium 193: WR Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies
ed. K. van der Hucht, G. Koenigsberger, and P. Eenens (PASP Conference Series, 1999)