Home Page of Dr. Jeonghee Rho


 I have moved to work on Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)  as a Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) instrument scientist. Here is my new address.

Dr. Jeonghee Rho
Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) Science Center
California Institute of Technology
Mail Stop 220-6
Pasadena, CA 91125


room 208 at Keith Spalding  building 
e-mail: rho@ipac.caltech.edu
phone: 1-626-395-2935 
fax: 1-626-432-7484
webpage: http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/rho
sometimes I work at the Astronomy building (Robinson) where you can reach me at 626-395-4010 or 626-395-6858.


Research Area

Galactic Astronomy: Supernova Remnants, Pulsars, Interstellar Medium,  HII regions and Star formation.
Extragalactic Astronomy: Clusters of Galaxies.
Experts in X-ray Observation, particularly using ROSAT, ASCA, and Chandra.
Experts in Infrared Observaiton, particularly using 2MASS, Palomar telescopes and ISO.

SIRTF Calibration Issues: SIRTF: Space Infrared Telescope Facility

2MASS Calibration Issues: 2MASS : 2 Micron All Sky Survey

  SIRTF science for Dr. Jeonghee Rho

 2MASS science for Dr. Jeonghee Rho
 

ISM/Star formation Third Friday Lunch Chat Lunch Chat Schedule

Members of Supernova remnants/Star formation/ISM study Research Group with Drs. Rho and Reach Research Group

 Archive of Multi-wavelength Images of Molecular Supernova Remnants

Link to active collaborators of Dr. Rho

 Farhad Yusef-Zadeh at Northwestern University

 Mike Corcoran at Goddard Space Flight Center

 Steve Reynolds at North Carolina State University

 Kazik Borkowski at North Carolina State University

 Robert Petre at Goddard Space Flight Center

CV and Bibliography of Dr. Jeonghee Rho

CV
Publication list

Recent Academic activities of Dr. Jeonghee Rho

 here


Preprints of Recent Scientific papers
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Freshly Formed Dust in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope 2007, ApJ, in press; Authors: J. Rho, T. Kozasa, W. T. Reach, L. Rudnick, T. DeLaney, J. D. Smith, J. A. Ennis, H. Gomez, and A. Tappe

A Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Survey of Supernova Remnants in the Inner Galaxy 2006, AJ, 131, 1479 ; Authors: Reach, William T., Rho, Jeonghee, Tappe, Achim, Pannuti, Thomas G., Brogan, Crystal L., Churchwell, Edward B., Meade, Marilyn R., Babler, Brian, Indebetouw, Rémy, Whitney, Barbara A.

Shocked Molecular Gas in the supernova remnant W28 and W44: Near-infrared and millimeter-wave observations 2004, ApJ, in press; Authors: Reach, W. T., Rho, J., and Jarrett, T.

Chandra Observation of the Trifid Nebula: X-ray emission from the O star complex and actively forming pre-main sequence stars
2004, ApJ, in press, Authors: J. Rho, S. Ramirez, M.F. Corcoran, K. Hamaguchi and B. Lefloch

Near-Infrared Synchrotron Emission from Cas A
2003, ApJ, in press, Authors: Jeonghee Rho, Stephen P. Reynolds, William T. Reach, Tom H. Jarrett, Glenn E. Allen, and John Wilson
X-ray Synchrotron Emitting Fe-rich Ejecta in the SNR RCW 86 (using Chandra Observation)
2002, ApJ, 581, 1116; Authors: Jeonghee Rho, K. Dyer, K. Borkowski and S. Reynolds
ASCA/ROSAT Observations of the Mixed-morphology supernova remnant W28
2002, ApJ, 575, 201, Authors:Jeonghee Rho, and Kazimierz J. Borkowski
Molecular and Ionic Shocks in the supernova remnant 3C391
2002, ApJ, 564, 302, Authors: Reach, W.T., Rho, J., Jarrett, T.H., Lagage, P.-O.
X-rays and Protostars in the Trifid Nebula
2001, ApJ, 562, 446, Authors: Rho, J., Corcoran, M.F., Chu, Y.-H., Reach, W.T.
Shocked Molecular Gas in the supernova remnant HB 21
2001, ApJ, 552, 175, authors: B.-C. Koo, Jeonghee Rho, W.T. Reach, J. Jung, and J.G. Mangum
Thermal and Nonthermal X-ray Emission in Supernova Remnant RCW 86
2001, ApJ, 550, 334, Authors: Borkowski, K.J., Rho, J., Reynolds, S., Dyer, K.K.
Near-infrared Imaging and [O I] spectroscopy of IC 443 using 2MASS and ISO
2001, ApJ, 547, 885, authors:Jeonghee Rho, T. H. Jarrett, R. M. Cutri, and W. T. Reach
Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Supernova Remnants
2001, ApJ, 544, 843, Authors:William T. Reach and Jeonghee Rho
A521: A cluster forming at the crossing of two filaments?
2000, A&A, 355, 461, Authors: Arnaud, M., Maurogordato, S., Slezak, E., Rho, J.
 

Useful web sites for supernova remnant research

CGPS HI survey

VLA radio maps

A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants: known as Green's SNR catalog

Most Supernova Remnant Catalogue (radio images)

Southern Sky Halph Survey: SuperCOSMOS H-alpha Survey

Skyview: Internet Virtual Telescope (all archival iras, radio, x-ray images etc)

Useful web sites for Talks in Pasadena

ISM/Star formation Third Friday Lunch Chat

Solange's list of Astrotalks and Informal Meetings in Pasadena

Astronomy Colloquia at Caltech

Astronomy Tea Talks at Caltech

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars

Image Gallery relavant to Dr. Rho's research