Anita Cochran Research Scientist  Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications: (click to download either postscript or pdf)

Nitrogen Isotope Ratios in Comets [to appear in Proceedings of "Precision Spectroscopy of Astrophysics", Ed. N. Santos, Springer 2006]
(postscript, 448KBytes),     (pdf)

Keck 1 HIRES Observations of Tempel 1 at the Time of Impact [to appear in the proceedings of "Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event - Synergies in Space, Time", ed. Hans Ulrich Käufl and Chris Sterken, Springer, 2006]
(postscript, 392),     (pdf)

Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 with the Keck 1 HIRES Instrument During Deep Impact [Icarus in Press 2007]
(postscript, 2409KBytes),     (pdf)

Using the Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrum of Comet 122P/de Vico to Identify the Parent Molecule CS2 [The Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 607, L139-L141, 2004]
(pdf)

A Search for N2+ in Spectra of Comet C/2002C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) [The Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 576, L165-L168, 2002]
(postscript, 210KBytes),     (pdf)

A McDonald Observatory Study of Comet 19P/Borrelly: Placing the Deep Space~1 Observations into a Broader Context [Icarus 160, 398-418, 2002]
(postscript, 5.1MBytes),     (pdf)          (3 color figures)

A High Spectral Resolution Atlas of Comet 122P/de Vico [Icarus 157, 297-308, 2002]
(postscript, 1.1MBytes),     (pdf)

Observations of O(1S) and O(1D) in Spectra of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) [Icarus 154, 381-390, 2001]
(postscript, 341KBytes),     (pdf)

N2+ and CO+ in comets 122P/1995 S1 (devico) and C/1995O1 (Hale-Bopp) [Icarus 146, 583-593, 2000]
(postscript, 455KBytes),     (pdf)

Some of my hobbies:

• Bicycling (click to see Team Astro's jersey logo)
• Oenology (applied and theoretical!)
• Square Dancing through level C1