Robin Shelton
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Georgia University
United States of America
Biography
Robin Shelton is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Research Interest
Massive clouds of gas are orbiting around and, occasionally, plummeting into our Galaxy at speeds in excess of 200,000 miles per hour. If your eyes could see radio-waves or ultraviolet light, you would see that these clouds cover 2/3 of the sky. You would also see a variety of shapes, ranging from tiny dots to a 100,000 lightyear long streamer of clouds that weighs 10 million times the mass of the Sun. One of my research goals is to understand these clouds, called High Velocity Clouds (HVCs) and how they affect our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
Publications
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Cumbee, R. S., Henley, D. B., Stancil, P. C., Shelton, R. L., Nolte, J. L., Wu, Y., and Schultz, D. R., Can Charge Exchange Explain Anomalous Soft X-ray Emission in the Cygnus Loop, 2014, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 787L, article id 31 (5 pages)
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Kwak, K., Shelton, R. L., and Henley, D. B., Si IV Column Densities Predicted from Non-equilibrium Ionization Simulations of Turbulent Mixing Layers and High-velocity Clouds, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal 812, article id 111 (15 pages)
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Henley, D. B., Shelton, R. L., XMM-Newton and Suzaku X-Ray Shadowing Measurements of the Solar Wind Charge Exchange, Local Bubble, and Galactic Halo Emission, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal, 808, article id 22 (28 pages)
