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Deidre A. Hunter is an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory. Her primary research area is tiny irregular galaxies — their origins, evolution and star-formation properties. She uses many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and includes spectroscopy in her approach.

Education edit

Hunter's BS is from the University of Arizona (1975) and her PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois in 1982. Her thesis was on the star-forming properties of irregular galaxies. It earned an award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.^[1]

Career edit

Hunter was a postdoctoral fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She joined Lowell Observatory in 1986. Hunter ran Lowell’s Native Americans Astronomy Outreach Program for 25 years, sharing astronomy with 4th-8th grade Navajo and Hopi teachers and their classes.

Awards and honors edit

Robert J. Trumpler Award for her thesis
American Astronomical Society’s 2014 Education Prize, partly for her involvement with Lowell's outreach program.
Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.^[2]

Research edit

Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Hunter, Deidre A. (2010-03-20). "On the Disruption of Star Clusters in a Hierarchical Interstellar Medium". The Astrophysical Journal. 712 (1): 604–623. arXiv:1002.2823. Bibcode:2010ApJ...712..604E. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/712/1/604. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 119272466.
Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Zhang, Hong-Xin; Hunter, Deidre A. (2012-03-10). "In-Spiraling Clumps in Blue Dompact Dwarf Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 747 (2): 105. arXiv:1201.3658. Bibcode:2012ApJ...747..105E. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/747/2/105. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 67821084.
Hunter, Deidre A.; Ficut-Vicas, Dana; Ashley, Trisha; Brinks, Elias; Cigan, Phil; Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Heesen, Volker; Herrmann, Kimberly A.; Johnson, Megan; Oh, Se-Heon; Rupen, Michael P. (2012-11-01). "Little Things". The Astronomical Journal. 144 (5): 134. arXiv:1208.5834. Bibcode:2012AJ....144..134H. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 118441588.
Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Hunter, Deidre A. (2015-05-28). "A Star Formation Law for Dwarf Irregular Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 805 (2): 145. arXiv:1503.04370. Bibcode:2015ApJ...805..145E. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/145. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 119285468.