Scott Schnee

Department of Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
Caltech, MC 105-24
1200 East California Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91125

Phone: (626) 395-2587
Fax: (626) 568-9352
Email: schnee [at] astro.caltech.edu
Office: Robinson 24

Welcome to my home page. I am a postdoctoral scholar (CARMA fellow) at Caltech,
where I have been since September 2006. My postdoctoral advisors are Anneila Sargent
and John Carpenter . Before coming here I was a graduate student at Harvard University
in the astronomy department, working with Alyssa Goodman. To see a more complete
history of my career in astronomy, you can check out my:
CV and list of publications.

Research Interests:

The properties of nearby molecular clouds:
Temperature
Column density
Dust emissivity
The properties of low-mass prestellar cores and protostars:
Chemistry
Kinematics
Temperature
Density
Dust emissivity
High-mass star forming regions:
Testing the evolutionary sequence of high-mass protostars
The IMF in metal-poor enviroments
Outflows and kinematics at high spatial resolution

Journal Club and Talks

I am one of the organizers of the Caltech Astronomy Tea Talks, a weekly series of informal talks
for visitors and the Caltech community to present their recent results. To see the schedule of talks,
go to the Tea Talk page. Please contact me if you would like to sign up to give a talk.

I help run the astro-ph journal club, which meets twice each week to briefly (in about 30 minutes)
discuss three recent papers put up on astro-ph . To learn more about the journal club or sign up
to lead a discussion, visit our web page.

CARMA Commissioning Tasks:

I am currently involved in a few commissioning tasks for CARMA.

I monitor the fluxes of CARMA 1mm calibrators and CARMA 3mm calibrators.

I also am involved in phase transfer tests to determine the angular distance in the sky over which
a source and calibrator can separated and still recover an acceptable image.

I used to monitor the CARMA bandpass stability to test how much time one can go between
observations of the passband calibrator. I no longer work on this, but the short answer is that the
passband is stable within a track, but not necessarily between tracks.

I am now starting to work on CARMA single dish tests, with the eventual goal of recovering the
zero-spacing flux that interferometric observations resolve out.