Natalie Gosnell

Graduate Student

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Research Interests:

I am interested in how close stellar encounters dynamically alter the population of open clusters.  In particular, I focus on the role of dynamics in the creation of X-ray binaries in open clusters, as well as how dynamics may take part in the formation of blue straggler stars.

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Biography:

I am a fourth-year graduate student working with Professor Bob Mathieu.  I also collaborate closely with Dr. Dave Pooley at Sam Houston State University.

I received my B.A. in Physics from Colorado College in May 2008 and my M.S. in Astronomy from UW - Madison in May 2010.  My dissertation topic focuses on observational evidence for close stellar encounters in open clusters, focusing on the X-ray binary and blue straggler populations.  Our research group was awarded HST time to obtain far-UV imaging of the blue straggler population of NGC 188.  The far-UV data may provide evidence that the blue stragglers in NGC 188 exist in blue straggler-white dwarf binaries, which would be indicative...read more

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