Letizia Stanghellini

Associate Astronomer
Chair, Telescope Allocation Committees
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
950 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719
E-mail: lstanghellini at NOAO dot edu
Phone: (520) 318 8205

Scientific interests: Planetary Nebulae (PNe) in the Milky Way and beyond; Hot stars, central stars of PNe, AGB and post-AGB stars; Stellar evolution and populations

RECENT PAPERS

  • The Magellanic Cloud Calibration of the Galactic Planetary Nebula Distance Scale
    L. Stanghellini, R. A. Shaw, & E. Villaver, ApJ, submitted
  • Revealing the nature of asymmetric planetary nebulae through abundance analysis
    Letizia Stanghellini, in "Asymmetric planetary nebulae IV", held in La Palma (Spain), June 2007, in press (arXiv:0709.3089v1 [astro-ph])
  • Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph observations of Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae: the nature of dust in low metallicity stellar ejecta.
    Stanghellini, L., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Perea-Calderon, J. V., Davies, J. E., Manchado, A., Villaver, E., and Shaw, R. A., 2007, ApJ 671, 1669
  • High resolution spectra of bright central stars of bipolar planetary nebulae, and the question of magnetic shaping
    Lee, T.-H., Stanghellini, L., Ferrario, L., and Wickramasinghe, D., 2007, AJ 133, 987
  • Press releases: STScI CNN BBC Science Daily Sky and Telescope Space.com

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