Brian Charles Chaboyer
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Brian Chaboyer is an astrophysicist who studies stars and stellar populations. He has been at Dartmouth College since 1998. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Manitoba, (1987) followed by a MSc from Queen's University (Canada; 1989) and a doctoral degree from Yale University (1993). Brian came to Dartmouth after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and a Hubble Fellowship at the University of Arizona.
Research Interest
stellar evolution, stellar population, galaxy formation, theoretical astrophysics, Exoplanet Host Stars
Publications
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Kunder, A. and Chaboyer, B.An Oosterhoff Analysis of the Galactic Bulge Field RR Lyrae Stars: Implications on Their Absolute Magnitudes, The Astronomical Journal, 138, (2009) 12841291
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Krauss, L M, and B Chaboyer, “Age Estimates of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way: Constraints on Cosmology,†Science , 299 no. 5603 (January 2003) 65-69.
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Chaboyer, B., B. E. McArthur, E. O’Malley, G. F. Benedict, G. A. Feiden, T. E. Harrison, A. McWilliam, E. P. Nelan, R. J. Patterson, and A. Sarajedini. “Testing Metal-Poor Stellar Models and Isochrones with HST Parallaxes of Metal-Poor Stars.†The Astrophysical Journal 835, no. 2 (2017): 152.
