Ellen Zweibel

Position title: W. L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics

Phone: 608-262-7921

Address:
6281 Chamberlin Hall

Research Interests

I’m a theoretical astrophysicist with a specialty in plasma astrophysics; evolution of astrophysical magnetic fields, interstellar astrophysics, star formation, cosmic rays, and stellar physics.

Biography

I did my undergraduate work in Mathematics, at U. Chicago, and my graduate work in Astrophysical Sciences, at Princeton. I was a faculty member at U. Colorado from 1980 to 2003, when I moved to Wisconsin. I’m jointly appointed with Physics, and am currently Director of the center for Magnetic Self-Organization.

Publications

Ambipolar Diffusion

Zweibel, E., 2015
Conference Proceedings in “Astrophysics and Space Science Library” Pages 285
Active Galactic Nuclei, Neutrinos, and Interacting Cosmic Rays in NGC 253 and NGC 1068

Yoast-Hull, T., Gallagher, J., Zweibel, E., Everett, J., 2014
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 780, Pages 137
Conduction in Low Mach Number Flows. I. Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Regimes

Lecoanet, D., Brown, B., Zweibel, E., Burns, K., Oishi, J., Vasil, G., 2014
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 797, Pages 94
Corrigendum: Quasi-separatrix layer reconnection for nonlinear line-tied collisionless tearing modes (2014 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 56 064013)

Finn, J., Billey, Z., Daughton, W., Zweibel, E., 2014
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 56, Pages 099502
Do Cosmic Rays Sample the Mean ISM Density of Starburst Galaxies?

Boettcher, E., Zweibel, E., Yoast-Hull, T., Gallagher, J., 2014
Conference Proceedings in “American Astronomical Society” Pages