Professor
Office: 325 Grigg
Phone: (704) 687-8133 mcorwin@uncc.edu
Areas of Specialization
Astronomy
RR Lyrae Variables in Globular Clusters
Selected Publications
The Universe: From Chaos To Consciousness with Dale
Wachowiak. Astronomy text, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1989.
"A Model for V4 in the Globular Cluster M3"
Corwin, T. M. and Carney, B. W. IBVS #4547, 1998.
"The Discovery of Two New Double-Mode RR Lyrae (RRd)
Variables in the Globular Cluster M3" Corwin, T. M.,
Allen, D. M. and Carney, B. W. IBVS #4548, 1998.
"BV Photometry of Eclipsing Blue Stragglers in the
Globular Cluster NGC 5466" McKinley, C and Corwin, T.
M. IBVS #4619, 1998.
"Double-Mode RR Lyrae Variables in the Globular
Cluster M3" Corwin, T. M., Allen, D. M. and Carney,
B.W. AJ, 117, 1332, 1999.
"BV Photometry of SX Phe Blue Stragglers in the
Globular Cluster NGC 5466" Chen, J. and Corwin, T. M.
IBVS #4708, 1999.
"BV Photometry of RR Lyrae Variables in the Globular
Cluster NGC 5466" Corwin, T. M., Carney, B. W. and
Nifong, B. G. AJ, 118, 2875, 1999.
"BV Photometry of RR Lyrae Variables in the Globular
Cluster M3" Corwin, T. M. and Carney, B. W. AJ, 122, 3183, 2001.
"M75, A Globular Cluster with a Trimodal Horizontal Branch. I.
Color-Magnitude Diagram" Catelan, M., Borissove, J., Ferraro,. R., Corwin,
T. M., Smith, H. A. and Kurtev, R. AJ, 124, 364, 2002.
"M75, A Globular Cluster with a Trimodal Horizontal Branch. II. BV Photometry of the RR Lyrae Variables in the
Globular Cluster M75" Corwin, T. M., Borissove, J., Ferraro, F. R.,
Smith, H. A. and Raburn, W. S. AJ, 125, 2543, 2003.
"Image Subtraction of the Variables in M3 and the Discovery of Three
New Double-Mode RR Lyraes" Corwin, T. M., Clementini, G., Sumerel, A.
N. and Carney, B. W. AJ, 127, 938, 2004.
"Newly Discovered Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster NGC 1851"
Sumerel, A. N., Corwin, T. M., Catelan, M., Borissova, J, and Smith, H.
A. IBVS, #5533, 2004.
"Fourier Decomposition Analysis of the RR Lyrae
Light Curves in the Globular Cluster M3" Cacciari, C., Corwin, T.
M. and Carney, B. W. AJ, 129, 267, 2005.
"Optical and Near-Infred Observations of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova
1999ac" Phillips, M. M., Corwin, T. M., et al. AJ, 131, 2615, 2006.
"Newly Discovered Variable Stars in the Globular cluster NGC 6864"
Scott, N. J., Corwin, T. M., Catelan, M., Smith, H. A. IBVS #5706, 2006.
"Image Subtraction Photometry of RR Lyrae Variable Stars in the Globular
Clusters NGC 6441 and NGC 6388" Corwin, T. M., Sumerel, A. N. Pritzl, B. J.,
Smith, H. A. Catelan, M., Sweigart, A. V. AJ, 132, 1014, 2006.
"M15 I. BV Photometry of the RR Lyrae Variables" Corwin, T. M.,
Borissova, J., Catelan, M., Smith, H. A., Kurtev, R. In preparation.
Education
Tulane University, 1960-64. B.S. in Physics
Johns Hopkins Evening College, 1965-69. M.S. in Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology, 1969-73. Ph.D. in
Physics