Email:

msharaSPAMFILTER@amnh.org

Phone:

212-769-5488

Fax:

212-769-5007

Curriculum Vitae (short version)

Education

• Tel Aviv University, Ph.D., 1977
• University of Toronto, M.Sc., 1973
• University of Toronto, B.Sc., 1971

Research Interests

Dr. Shara's research interests include the structure and evolution of novae and supernovae; collisions between stars and the remnant descendants of those collisions; and the populations of stars inhabiting star clusters and galaxies. He frequently observes with the Hubble Space Telescope and other large ground-based telescopes. His research team at the museum is currently surveying our Milky Way galaxy for all of its pre-supernova stars and black hole binaries. He also studies the evolution of nova binary stars over billions of years, and has recently shown that metamorphosis occurs between different types of cataclysmic binary stars.

• Publications

  K.A. Woodley et al (including M.M. Shara)

  The Spectral Energy Distributions of White Dwarfs in 47 Tucanae:

  The Distance to the Cluster

  Astronomical Journal 143, 50- 61 (2012)

   

  J. Kalirai et al (including M.M. Shara)

  A Deep, Wide-field, and Panchromatic View of 47 Tuc and the SMC with HST:

  Observations and Data Analysis Methods

  Astronomical Journal 143, 11-32 (2012)

             

  W. Li et al (including M.M. Shara)

  Exclusion of a Luminous Red Giant as a Companion Star to the Progenitor of SN

  2011 fe

  Nature 480, 348-350 (2011)

   

  B.E. Schaefer, A. Pagnotta, et al (including M.M. Shara)

  Eclipses during the 2010 Eruption of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii

  Astrophysical Journal 742, 113- (2011)

   

  J.E. Gizis, A.J. Burgasser, J.K. Faherty, P.J. Castro and M.M. Shara

  WISEP J180026.60+013453.1: A nearby late-L Dwarf near the Galactic Plane

   Astronomical Journal 142, 171- 174 (2011)

• Teaching Experience

  Faculty Appointments

  • AMNH Masters of Arts in Teaching Program
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, 1999-present
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, 1993

  Courses Taught

  • Stellar Structure and Evolution, Graduate Course, Columbia University, January-May 2005

  Graduate Advisees

  • Graham Kanarek, Columbia University
  • Kathryn Stanonik, Columbia University

  Graduate Committees