faculty
Dr. Kastner

Dr. Joel H. Kastner
Associate Professor
Astronomical Imaging and Spectroscopy

2100 Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623 USA
Phone: 585-475-7179
Fax: 585-475-5988
Email: kastner@cis.rit.edu

Professional Experience:
July 1999 - present: Associate Professor, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
1993 - June 1999: Research Staff, Chandra X-Ray Science Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1990-1993: Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Haystack Observatory

Education:
Ph.D., Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990
M.S., Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1986
B.S., Physics, University of Maryland, 1981

Research Interests in Astronomy and Astronomical Imaging:

Young stars and planet formation...
Letter to Nature (July 22, 2004) on detection of an X-ray outburst from the young star that illuminates McNeil's Nebula
July 23, 2004 interview (w/ Jay McNeil) on NPR's Science Friday

Evolved stars and planetary nebulae

X-ray imaging and spectroscopy...
learn about and download IDL-based software for optimization of Chandra X-ray Observatory CCD imaging (author: Dylan Li, PhD in Imaging Science from RIT Center for Imaging Science, May 2004)

Infrared imaging and spectroscopy

Radio (molecular line) spectroscopy

PUBLICATIONS:
for ADS links to publications since 1999, click here
for astro-ph links to recent preprints, click here