Dr. Michael Corwin, Professor


Office: 325 Grigg 
Phone: (704) 687-8133  
Email: mcorwin@uncc.edu

Areas of Specialization: Astronomy, RR Lyrae Variable Stars, Globular Clusters

Links to course websites:

LBST 2213

PHYS 1130

 

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
Honors, Awards, and Accomplishments
  • NationsBank Teaching Excellence Award, 1981.

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.
  • "The Globular Cluster M15. I. Identification, Discovery, and Period Determinations of Variable Stars." Corwin, T. M., Borissova, J., Stetson, P. B., Catelan, M., Smith, H. A., Kurtev, R. AJ, 135, 1459, 2008

Last update October 2008 (mcorwin@uncc.edu)