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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society
  • 1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Bruce T. Draine is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research spans Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Atmospheric Science, Spectroscopy, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist's publication record includes numerous papers in prominent venues such as The Astrophysical Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Harvard Dataverse, and The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The majority of their work is concentrated in The Astrophysical Journal, which accounts for 20 of their publications.

Bruce T. Draine's research covers a variety of main topics, including astrophysics and star formation studies, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, as well as astro and planetary science. Their interests also include galaxies: formation, evolution, phenomena, solar and space plasma dynamics, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Frequent collaborators include L. K. Hunt, Karin Sandström, Brandon S. Hensley, Daniel A. Dale, and J. D. Smith, with whom they have co-authored multiple papers.

Selected recent papers are:

  • Planck 2018 results: VI. Cosmological parameters, 2021, Padua Research Archive (University of Padua)
  • The Astrodust+PAH Model: A Unified Description of the Extinction, Emission, and Polarization from Dust in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Excitation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission: Dependence on Size Distribution, Ionization, and Starlight Spectrum and Intensity, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Dielectric Function of "Astrodust" and Predictions for Polarization in the 3.4 and 10 μm Features, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • On the Shapes of Interstellar Grains: Modeling Infrared Extinction and Polarization by Spheroids and Continuous Distributions of Ellipsoids, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2007, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics awarded by the American Astronomical Society in 2004, and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1982.

Best Publications

  • Optical properties of interstellar graphite and silicate grains

    B.T. Draine;H.M. Lee

  • Discrete-Dipole Approximation For Scattering Calculations

    Bruce T. Draine;Piotr J. Flatau

  • Dust Grain-Size Distributions and Extinction in the Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Small Magellanic Cloud

    Joseph C. Weingartner;Bruce T. Draine

  • Dust Grain Size Distributions and Extinction in the Milky Way, LMC, and SMC

    J. C. Weingartner;B. T. Draine

  • INTERSTELLAR DUST GRAINS

    B. T. Draine

  • Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. IV. The Silicate-Graphite-PAH Model in the Post-Spitzer Era

    Bruce T. Draine;Aigen Li

  • The discrete-dipole approximation and its application to interstellar graphite grains

    B.T. Draine

  • Photoelectric heating of interstellar gas

    B.T. Draine

  • Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium

    Bruce T. Draine

  • Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. II. The Diffuse Interstellar Medium

    Aigen Li;B. T. Draine

  • SINGS: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxies Survey

    Robert C. Kennicutt;Lee Armus;George Bendo;Daniela Calzetti

  • Spectroscopic constraints on the properties of dust in active galactic nuclei

    Ari Laor;Bruce T. Draine

  • The Mid-Infrared Spectrum of Star-Forming Galaxies: Global Properties of PAH Emission

    J. D. T. Smith;B. T. Draine;D. A. Dale;J. Moustakas

  • Dust Masses, PAH Abundances, and Starlight Intensities in the SINGS Galaxy Sample

    B. T. Draine;D. A. Dale;G. Bendo;K. D. Gordon

  • Structure of Stationary Photodissociation Fronts

    B. T. Draine;Frank Bertoldi

  • The Calibration of Mid-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators

    D. Calzetti;D. Calzetti;R. C. Kennicutt;C. W. Engelbracht;C. Leitherer

  • The mid-infrared spectrum of star-forming galaxies: Global properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission

    J. D.T. Smith;Bruce T. Draine;D. A. Dale;J. Moustakas

  • On the physics of dust grains in hot gas.

    B.T. Draine;E.E. Salpeter

  • Magnetohydrodynamic Shock Waves in Molecular Clouds

    B.T. Draine;W.G. Roberge;A. Dalgarno

  • Planck 2013 results. XI. All-sky model of thermal dust emission

    A. Abergel;P. A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel A. Dale
Daniel A. Dale University of Wyoming
George Helou
George Helou California Institute of Technology
Fabian Walter
Fabian Walter Max Planck Society
Lee Armus
Lee Armus California Institute of Technology
Robert C. Kennicutt
Robert C. Kennicutt University of Cambridge
Charles W. Engelbracht
Charles W. Engelbracht University of Arizona
Daniela Calzetti
Daniela Calzetti University of Massachusetts Amherst
George J. Bendo
George J. Bendo University of Manchester
Eric J. Murphy
Eric J. Murphy National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Aigen Li
Aigen Li University of Missouri

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