People:Profiles:Shobita Satyapal



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Shobita Satyapal, Associate Professor

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E-mail:

ssatyapa@gmu.edu

Phone:

+1.703.993.1283 (Office)
+1.703.993.1280 (Department)
+1.703.993.1269 (FAX)

Address:

Department of Physics & Astronomy, MSN 3F3
319 Science and Technology Building I
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030 USA

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Research Interests:

Astrophysics

Biographical Sketch:

Shobita Satyapal.

Dr. Satyapal received a B.S. in Physics from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Rochester. After postdoctoral work at the National Air and Space Museum and Goddard Space Flight Center, she was employed by the Space Telescope Science Institute and an Instrument Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2013. In 1998, Dr. Satyapal received a NASA Presidential Early Career Award, prior to joining the faculty at GMU in 2001. Her research interests have included observational extragalactic astronomy utlizing both ground- and space-based imaging and spectroscopic data and infrared instrumentation for ground- and space-based applications.

Recent Publications:

  1. Spitzer Uncovers Active Galactic Nuclei Missed by Optical Surveys in 7 Late-type Galaxies Satyapal, S.; Vega, D.; Dudik, R. P.; Abel, N. P.; Heckman, T. 2008, ApJ, April 10th issue
  2. [Ne V] Emission in Optically Classified Starbursts Abel, N. P.; Satyapal, S. 2008, ApJ, April 10th issue
  3. Mid-Infrared Fine-Structure Line Ratios in Active Galactic Nuclei Observed with the Spitzer IRS: Evidence for Extinction by the Torus Dudik, R. P.; Weingartner, J. C.; Satyapal, S.; Fischer, Jacqueline; Dudley, C. C.; & O'Halloran, B. 2007, 664, 71
  4. The Discovery of an Active Galactic Nucleus in the Late-Type Galaxy NGC 3621: Spitzer Spectroscopic Observations; Satyapal, S.; Vega, D.; Heckman, T.; O'Halloran, B.; Dudik, R.2007, ApJ, 663, L9

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