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  Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith

Graeme H Smith

Professor/Astronomer

 

Physical & Biological Sciences Division

Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
UC Observatories

Professor/Astronomer

Faculty

Regular Faculty

Astronomy
Astrophysics

ISB 135

UCO / Lick Observatory

Ph.D. 1983, Australian National University
B.Sc 1978, Australian National University

Much of Graeme Smith's research centers around properties of red giant stars within the Milky Way galaxy: their physical evolution, their chromospheric activity and mass loss, and what they can tell us about the chemical enrichment history of the Galaxy. Much of this later work has been directed towards the study of abundance differences among stars within globular clusters. These ancient stellar systems formed at a time when the process of chemical enrichment was just commencing within the Milky Way galaxy. Striking differences in the abundances of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen exist among stars within the same globular cluster. Understanding the origin of these differences can provide information about the early environment in the halo of the Galaxy, within which the globular clusters formed, as well as processes such as deep mixing that occur within the interiors of cluster red giants.

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