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CXC Biographies: Ann Hornschemeier
Ph.D. student in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State
Ann Hornschemeier is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Astronomy and
Astrophysics at Penn State. She completed her Master's degree in
1999, the topic of which was a 1998 sounding rocket mission to
observe Scorpius X-1, the brightest extrasolar X-ray source in the
sky. For the past two years, she has been working with Gordon Garmire
(PI for ACIS, one of the major instruments on the Chandra X-ray
Observatory) and Niel Brandt of Penn State on a very deep Chandra
X-ray observation of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N), one of the
most intensively studied patches of sky at all wavelengths.
Ann is a NASA GSRP graduate fellow and a NASA Pennsylvania Space
Grant fellow. Ann's main research focus is X-ray astronomy, but she
also observes in the optical band. Her current research relies
heavily on optical spectroscopy done with the Keck and Hobby-Eberly
telescopes. She is also currently working on exciting new prospects
for studying "normal" galaxies in the X-ray band at much larger
distances than was possible before Chandra.
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