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4/20/10 CURRICULUM VITA TERRENCE W. RETTIG I. EDUCATION Indiana University - Ph.D., 1976 Astrophysics Ball State University - M.S., 1970 Physics Defiance College - B.A., 1968 Physics, Mathematics II. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001 - current Professor, University of Notre Dame 1999 - 2001 National Science Foundation Program Director – Physics Program Director - Education and Interdisciplinary Research 1994 - 2000 Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame 1983 - 1993 Professional Specialist 1981 - 1983 Assist. Professor, Western Kentucky University 1976 - 1981 Assist. Professor, Indiana University III. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES Board of Trustees, Defiance College 2000 - Asteroid 1985GA named Rettig (8474) Kaneb Teaching Award 1999 - University of Notre Dame NSF Program Director (Physics 1999 -2001) Citation for Academic Excellence 1995, Defiance College Sigma Pi Sigma (Honorary Physics Society) National Television Broadcast Award for the 1986 Imaging of Comet Halley American Astronomical Society (AAS) Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) AAS Division of Planetary Society (DPS) NASA Origins Reviewer ApJ, ICARUS Reviewer NSF Reviewer IV. VISITING ASTRONOMER KECK II Telescope, Maua Kea, HI Hubble Space Telescope, Space Telescope Science Institute NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea, HI United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, Mauna Kea Observatory, HI Arizona Sate University (Research Sabbatical) 1991 Southwest Research Institute (Research Planetary Astronomy), Boulder, CO Anglo-Australian 4 meter Telescope, Siding Spring Observatory, Australia 2.3 meter New Technology Telescope, Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Siding Spring, AU McDonald Observatory, University of Texas, Alpine, TX WIYN 3.5 meter Telescope, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ Mayall 4.0 meter telescope, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson 1 Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, Mt. Graham, AZ V. CURRENT RESEARCH Chemical processes, environment, and dynamical evolution of the early solar system, comets, and preplanetary disks around young stars. Planet formation has been known for many years to be tied to the accretion and evolution of gas and dust in disks around young HAeBe and T Tauri stars. This early stage of stellar evolution occurs after the shell around an embedded protostar collapses to form a preplanetary disk, revealing a pre-main-sequence star representative of the Sun when our solar system was forming. This research program uses high-resolution spectra of ices, dust, and gas phase molecules in the disks of these pre-main sequence stars to study the physical conditions in the planet forming regions. In one project, + infrared observations of gas phase molecules such as CO, H2, H3 , and H2O can be used to understand the chemical processes, environment, and dynamical evolution of ‘other solar systems’ that may be in the process of planet formation. The abundance and excitation of these molecules can be used to clarify the time scales and initial conditions for planet building and may also provide a new technique to find protoplanets. Infrared spectroscopic data are obtained from the Infrared Telescope (IRTF) and the 10 meter Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea. Using high-resolution infrared observations of CO, we are providing the first direct observational verification of the stratification of gas and dust in disks around young stellar objects (YSOs). How dust settles to the midplane is essential to understanding the initial constraints on planetesimal and planet formation. The physical structure of extended flared disks around YSOs depends on a variety of parameters including the extent of gas and dust mixing (i.e. turbulence), the rate of dust settling and the process of grain coagulation. In general, dust settling and grain growth are expected to occur throughout the upper disk atmosphere until a balance is reached with diffusion (turbulence) near the midplane. Even theoretically, these processes are only superficially understood as observational constraints have remained elusive. Books: Completing the Inventory of the Solar System, T.W. Rettig and J. Hahn, eds., ASP ScienceSeries, 107, 1996. Astronomy: Fundamentals and Frontiers, Study Guide and Course Materials, Independent Study Division, T. Rettig, Indiana University Press, 1980. 2nd Ed., 1983. The Solar System and Stellar Astronomy, Study Guide and Course Materials, Independent Study Division, T.W. Rettig, Indiana University Press, 1981. 2 VI. PUBLICATIONS Brittain, S.D., Rettig, T.W., Simon, T., Gibb, E.L., Liskowsky, J., Near Infrared Spectroscopic Study of V1647 Ori. 2009. ArXiv e-prints arXiv:0911.2940. Accepted to Astrophysical Journal 2009 Liskowsky, J.P., Brittain, S., Rettig, T., Simon, T., Gibb, E., Spectroscopic Diagnostics of FUors and EXors 2009, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 41, 355. Balsara, D.S., Tilley, D.A., Rettig, T., Brittain, S.D., Dust settling in magnetorotationally driven turbulent discs - I. Numerical methods and evidence for a vigorous streaming instability 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 397, 24-43. Tilley, D.A., Balsara, D.S., Brittain, S.D., Rettig, T., Dust settling in magnetorotationally-driven turbulent discs - II. The pervasiveness of the streaming instability and its consequences 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 248. Balsara, D.S., Tilley, D.A., Rettig, T. & Brittain, S.A. Dust Settling in Magnetorotationally Driven Turbulence, MNRAS, 2009, astro-ph/arXiv:0810.0246 Brittain, S., Rettig, T. W., Simon, T., Balsara, D. S., Tilley, D., Gibb, E., Hinkle, K. H. 2007. Post-Outburst Observations of V1647 Orionis: Detection of a Brief Warm Molecular Outflow. Astrophysical Journal 670, L29-L32. Brittain, S. D., Simon, T., Rettig, T. W., Gibb, E. L., Balsara, D., Tilley, D., Hinkle, K. H. 2007. Last gasp of V1647 Ori: a brief post-outburst warm, molecular wind. IAU Symposium 243, 223-230. Gibb, E.L., Van Brunt, K.A., Brittain, S.D., & Rettig, T.W. 2007, Warm HCN, C2H2, and CO in the Disk of GV Tau, ApJ, 660, 1572 Brittain, S.D., Simon, T., Najita, J.R., & Rettig, T.W. 2007, Warm Gas in the Inner Disks around Young Intermediate-Mass Star, ApJ, 659, 685 Rettig, T., Brittain, S., Simon, T., Gibb, E., Balsara, D. S., Tilley, D. A., Kulesa, C. 2006. Dust Stratification in Young Circumstellar Disks. Astrophysical Journal 646, 342- 350. Gibb, E. L., Rettig, T. W., Brittain, S. D., Wasikowski, D., Simon, T., Vacca, W. D., Cushing, M. C., Kulesa, C. 2006. Post-Outburst Infrared Spectra of V1647 Ori, the Illuminating Star of McNeil's Nebula. Astrophysical Journal 641, 383-388. Brittain, S. D., Rettig, T. W., Simon, T., Kulesa, C. 2005. CO Line Emission and 3 Absorption from the HL Tauri Disk-Where Is All the Dust?. Astrophysical Journal 626, 283-291. Rettig, T. W., Brittain, S. D., Gibb, E. L., Simon, T., Kulesa, C. 2005. CO Emission and Absorption toward V1647 Orionis (McNeil's Nebula). Astrophysical Journal 626, 245-252. Rettig, T. W., Haywood, J., Simon, T., Brittain, S. D., Gibb, E. 2004. Discovery of CO Gas in the Inner Disk of TW Hydrae. Astrophysical Journal 616, L163-L166. Gibb, E. L., Rettig, T., Brittain, S., Haywood, R., Simon, T., Kulesa, C. 2004. The Upper Limit for CH4 in the Protostellar Disk toward HL Tauri. Astrophysical Journal 610, L113-L116. Brittain, S. D., Simon, T., Kulesa, C., Rettig, T. W. 2004. Interstellar H_{3}^{+} Line Absorption toward LkH{$ alpha$} 101. Astrophysical Journal 606, 911-916. HL Tau, the missing dust, Rettig, T., Brittain, S., Simon, T., Kulsea, C., and Haywood, J. 2004, in "The Search for Other Worlds", AIP Conf. Series, vol. 713, eds. S. Holt and D. Deming (AIP, Melville, NY), pp. 107-110. Brittain, S. D., Rettig, T. W., Simon, T., Kulesa, C., DiSanti, M. A., Dello Russo, N. CO Emission from Disks around AB Aurigae and HD 141569: Implications for Disk Structure and Planet Formation Timescales. Astrophysical Journal 588, 535-544. K. Walsh (Univ. Maryland), D. Richardson (Univ. Maryland), T. Rettig (Univ. Notre Dame), Modeling the Breakup of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Hubble Science Legacy: Future Optical/UV Astronomy from Space, Edited by K. Sembach, C. Blades, G. Illingworth, R. Kennicutt) A.S.P.vol. 291, 415-419, 2003. Brittain, S. D., Rettig, T. W. 2002. CO and H_{3}^{+} in the protoplanetary disk around the star HD141569. Nature 418, 57-59. Rettig, T. W., Walsh, K., Consolmagno, G. 2001. Implied Evolutionary Differences of the Jovian Irregular Satellites from a BVR Color Survey. Icarus 154, 313-320. Mumma, M. J., Dello Russo, N., DiSanti, M. A., Magee-Sauer, K., Novak, R. E., Brittain, S., Rettig, T., McLean, I. S., Reuter, D. C., Xu, L.-H. 2001. Organic Composition of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR): A Comet Formed Near Jupiter?. Science 292, 1334-1339. Hahn, J. M., Rettig, T. W. 2000. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Dust Size and Velocity Distributions. Icarus 146, 501-513. 4 Mumma, M. J., DiSanti, M. A., Dello Russo, N., Magee-Sauer, K., Rettig, T. W. 2000. Detection of CO and Ethane in Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner: Evidence for Variable Chemistry in the Outer Solar Nebula. Astrophysical Journal 531, L155-L159. Dello Russo, N., Mumma, M. J., DiSanti, M. A., Magee-Sauer, K., Novak, R., Rettig, T. W. 2000. Water Production and Release in Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp. Icarus 143, 324-337. Magee-Sauer, K., Mumma, M. J., DiSanti, M. A., Russo, N. D., Rettig, T. W. 1999. Infrared Spectroscopy of the {$ nu$}_{3} Band of Hydrogen Cyanide in Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp. Icarus 142, 498-508. Disanti, M. A., Mumma, M. J., dello Russo, N., Magee-Sauer, K., Novak, R., Rettig, T. W. 1999. Identification of two sources of carbon monoxide in comet Hale-Bopp. Nature 399, 662. Hahn, J. M., Rettig, T. W. 1998. Tidal disruption of strengthless rubble piles-a dimensional analysis. Planetary and Space Science 46, 1677-1682. Dello Russo, N., Disanti, M. A., Mumma, M. J., Magee-Sauer, K., Rettig, T. W. 1998 Carbonyl Sulfide in Comets C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) and C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): Evidence for an Extended Source in Hale-Bopp.