Previous Article
Next Article
Table of Contents

Arrival of Research Associate Andrew Layden (1Dec92)
(from CTIO, NOAO Newsletter No. 32, 1 December 1992)

The most recent post-doctoral research associate to take a position at
CTIO is Andy Layden, who is just finishing up his thesis at Yale
University under the supervision of Robert Zinn. Layden will assume the
three-year appointment around the end of November. He is no stranger to
CTIO, having completed many of the observations for his thesis from
Tololo.

Layden's interests have focused on the metallicities and kinematics of
RR Lyrae stars, especially the determination of the spatial, abundance,
and kinematic distributions of the local RR Lyrae population. While at
CTIO, he plans to investigate questions of halo and disk formation and
their relative chronologies by using RR Lyraes as probes of the thick
disk and halo of the Galaxy.

Bob Williams

Previous Article
Next Article
Table of Contents