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Rebecca Elson

Physics

#4312

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#5947

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Astronomy

#737

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#1307

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Rebecca Elson's Degrees

Bachelors Physics Smith College

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According to Wikipedia, Rebecca Anne Wood Elson was a Canadian–American astronomer and writer. Early life and education Rebecca "Becky" Anne Wood Elson was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Jeanne Bridgman, née Hickey and John Albert Elson , a geologist and professor at McGill University. Her older sister, Sally was born in 1958. As a teenager Elson often travelled Canada with her geologist father as he performed field research.

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Rebecca Elson's Published Works

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The Structure of Young Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1987) (300)
Age calibration and age distribution for rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1985) (92)
LMC clusters - Age calibration and age distribution revisited (1988) (71)
The structure and evolution of rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1991) (59)
The binary star population of the young cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1998) (58)
HST Imaging of the Globular Clusters in the Fornax Cluster: NGC 1399 and NGC 1404 (1997) (56)
Early-type (‘discless’) galaxies with dust lanes (1981) (56)
The Hubble Space Telescope Medium Deep Survey with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera. 1: Methodology and results on the field near 3C 273 (1994) (54)
Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Globular Clusters in the Fornax Cluster: Color and Luminosity Distributions (1998) (52)
HST Observations of the Stellar Population of the Globular Cluster W CEN (1995) (44)
Core expansion in young star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1989) (44)
HST observations of the field star population in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1997) (43)
A LUMINOSITY FUNCTION FOR STAR CLUSTERS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD. (1985) (43)
The stellar content of rich young clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1989) (39)
Halo stars, starbursts, and distant globular clusters: A survey of unresolved objects in the Hubble Deep Field (1996) (38)
HST STAR COUNTS AT HIGH GALACTIC LATITUDES (1995) (31)
Red giants in the halo of the SO galaxy NGC 3115: a distance and a bimodal metallicity distribution (1996) (28)
Young star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: NGC 1805 and 1818 (2000) (26)
The M87 globular cluster system revisited (1996) (24)
The globular cluster system of M31 (1988) (23)
Surface brightness profiles for five rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1992) (23)
The globular clusters in M87: a bimodal colour distribution (1995) (21)
HST photometry of 47 Tuc and analysis of the stellar luminosity function in Milky Way clusters (1996) (19)
Structural parameters and masses for three old LMC clusters (1985) (12)
HST imaging of the globular clusters in the Fornax Cluster: NGC 1379 (1997) (12)
The Nuclear Colors and Morphology of Field Galaxies at Moderate Redshift (1994) (11)
The internal velocity dispersions of three young star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1989) (11)
Discovery of a Luminous White Dwarf in a Young Star Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1998) (11)
Globular Clusters: Stellar Dynamics in Globular Clusters (1999) (7)
A Responsibility to Awe (2001) (7)
Two serendipitous low-mass LMC clusters discovered with HST (1997) (7)
Deconvolution and photometry of Faint Object Camera images with point sources (1992) (5)
The massive stars in the R136 region of 30 Doradus (1992) (5)
A survey of unresolved objects in the Hubble Deep Field South (1999) (4)
HST IMAGING OF THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD: THE FIELD STAR POPULATION NEAR 30 DORADUS (1994) (4)
The Metal-rich Globular Cluster NGC 6553: Observations with WFPC2, STIS, and NICMOS (2001) (4)
What do you gain from deconvolution? - Observing faint galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera (1993) (3)
The Formation and Evolution of LMC Globular Clusters: The Database (1998) (2)
The HST Medium Deep Survey: galaxy morphology at high redshift (1996) (2)
Structural parameters of globular clusters in the Fornax cluster (1994) (2)
The nature of faint galaxies from the medium deep survey and other deep HST images (1995) (1)
Resolving Globular Clusters in the Fornax Cluster and Beyond (2002) (0)
The Globular Clusters in M 87 : A Bimodal Colour Distribution 1 (1995) (0)
Deep STIS Luminosity Functions for LMC Clusters (1998) (0)
Preliminary Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Medium-Deep Survey. (1993) (0)
Highlights from the HST Medium Deep Survey (1994) (0)
Resolving the Faint Galaxy Excess with HST: Results from the Medium Deep Survey (1996) (0)
An HR Diagram for the LMC From the Medium Deep Survey (1994) (0)
A ug 1 99 8 Deep STIS Luminosity Functions for LMC Clusters (1998) (0)
Fe b 20 01 The Metal-rich Globular Cluster NGC 6553 : Observations with WFPC 2 , STIS , and NICMOS 1 (2001) (0)
Are there Large Variations Among IMFS of LMC Clusters (1990) (0)
Investigating the process of star formation in young LMC star clusters (1999) (0)
Benefits to the nation from astronomy and astrophysics (1991) (0)
A survey and comparison of various models of gravitational dynamical friction (1982) (0)
The Medium-Deep Survey Using the Hubble Space Telescope (1994) (0)

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