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Glenn Piner

Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Whittier College
United States of America

Biography

Professor Glenn Piner received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1998. He did his Ph.D. research with the gamma-ray astronomy group at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and with the VLBI group at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C., on radio properties of quasars detected by the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. After graduate school, Piner spent two years as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, working on space-based radio astronomy. During this time he was an active collaborator on the Japanese VSOP space-based radio telescope. Piner came to Whittier College in 2000. At Whittier, he teaches the full range of physics classes, along with a year-long astronomy sequence designed primarily for non-majors. He maintains an active program in quasar research involving undergraduate physics majors, using data from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes. This research program has been supported by grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation.

Research Interest

Radio Astronomy of Quasars, Blazars, and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs); Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)

Publications

  • “Relativistic Jets in the Radio Reference Frame Image Database. II. Blazar Jet Accelerations from the First 10 Years of Data (1994-2003)”, B.G. Piner, A.B. Pushkarev, Y.Y. Kovalev, C.J. Marvin, J.G. Arenson, P. Charlot, A.L. Fey, A. Collioud, and P.A. Voitsik, 2012, Astrophysical Journal, 758, 84

  • “The Jets of TeV Blazars at Higher Resolution: 43 GHz and Polarimetric VLBA Observations from 2005-2009”, B. Glenn Piner, Niraj Pant, and Philip G. Edwards, 2010, Astrophysical Journal, 723, 1150

  • “First-epoch VLBA Imaging of 20 New TeV Blazars”, B. Glenn Piner and Philip G. Edwards, 2014, Astrophysical Journal, 797, 25

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