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| N. McCrady, 2005 The Super Star Cluster Population of the M82 Nuclear Starburst University of California, Berkeley Thesis advisor: James R. Graham Abstract UMI ProQuest citation |
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| REFEREED PUBLICATIONS |
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| *K.A. Kornei & N. McCrady, 2009 A Young Super Star Cluster in the Nuclear Region of NGC 253 Astrophysical Journal, 697, 1180 Astro-ph link |
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| N. McCrady & E.L. Rice, 2008 Development and Implementation of a Lab Course for Introductory Astronomy Astronomy Education Review, 7 (1), 13 ADS link |
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| *E.L. Rice & N. McCrady, 2008 The Interactive Planetarium: Student-led Investigations of Naked-Eye Astronomy and Planetary Motion Astronomy Education Review, submitted Related work |
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| N. McCrady & J.R. Graham, 2007 Super-Star Cluster Velocity Dispersions and Virial Masses in the M82 Nuclear Starburst Astrophysical Journal, 663, 844 ADS link |
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| *R.Kirian, N. McCrady, and J.R. Graham, 2007 NIRSPEC Echelle Spectra of Supergiant and Giant Stars in the H-band Astrophysical Journal, submitted |
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| *C. D. Sheehy, N. McCrady and J. R. Graham, 2006 Constraining the Adaptive Optics Point-Spread Function in Crowded Fields: Measuring Photometric Aperture Corrections Astrophysical Journal, 647, 1517 ADS link |
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| N. McCrady,
J.R. Graham, and W.D. Vacca 2005 Mass Segregation and the Initial Mass Function of Super Star Cluster M82-F Astrophysical Journal, 621, 278 ADS link | |
| G. C. Bower, R. Plambeck, A. Bolatto, N. McCrady, J. R. Graham, I. dePater, M. Liu and F. K. Baganoff, 2003 A Giant Outburst at Millimeter Wavelengths in the Orion Nebula Astrophysical Journal, 598, 1140 ADS link | |
| N. McCrady, A. M. Gilbert and J. R. Graham, 2003 Kinematic Masses of Super Star Clusters in M82 From High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Astrophysical Journal, 596, 240 ADS link | |
| S. Dawson, N. McCrady, D. Stern, M.E. Eckart, H. Spinrad, M.C. Liu and J.R. Graham, 2003 Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of a High-Redshift Hard X-Ray-emitting Spiral Galaxy Astronomical Journal, 125, 1236 ADS link | |
| WORKS IN PREPARATION |
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| N. McCrady & J.R. Graham, 2009 Adaptive Optics Imaging of Super Star Clusters in NGC 1569: Resolving the Double Cluster A1/A2 to be submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Related work |
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| OTHER PUBLICATIONS |
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| J. R. Lu, N. McCrady, M. Krumholz,
A. Ghez, A. Kraus, S. Wright, and M. Goto, 2009 Star Formation's Dependence on Environment a science white paper in conjunction with the Astro2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey Planetary Systems and Star Formation (PSF) & Galactic Neighborhood (GAN) Panels |
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| N. McCrady, 2008 Probing Young Massive Clusters with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics to appear in proceedings of Young Massive Star Clusters: Initial Conditions and Environments Workshop, eds. E. Perez and R.M. Gonzalez Delgado |
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| N. McCrady, J. R. Graham and W. D. Vacca, 2005 IMF Variation in M82 Super Star Clusters in Starbursts: From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies eds. R. de Grijs and R.M. Gonzalez Delgado (Dordrecht: Springer), 75 ADS link |
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| N. McCrady, 2004 News and Views: The Missing Black-Hole Link Nature, 428, 704 ADS link |
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| CONFERENCE POSTERS AND TALKS |
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| N. McCrady, 2008 Adaptive Optics Imaging in Crowded Fields: Dense Super Star Clusters (contributed talk) Center for Adaptive Optics Fall Retreat, Lake Arrowhead, CA, November 2008 | |
| N. McCrady, 2008 Stellar Populations and the Dissolution of Super Star Clusters (contributed talk) Keck Observatory Science Meeting, Santa Cruz, CA, September 2008 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady, 2008 Stellar Populations of Young Massive Clusters at High Spatial Resolution (contributed talk) From Taurus to the Antennae Conference, Sheffield, UK, August 2008 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady & J.R. Graham, 2008 Stellar Populations and the Dissolution of Super Star Clusters (contributed talk) American Astronomical Society Meeting 211, Austin, TX, January 2008 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady, 2007 Probing Super Star Clusters with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (contributed talk) Young Massive Star Clusters: Initial Conditions and Environments Workshop, Granada, Spain, September 2007 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady & E.L. Rice, 2007 Hands-On Lab Exercises to Develop Student Conceptual Understanding of Introductory Astronomy (invited workshop) ASP Cosmos in the Classroom, Pomona, CA, August 2007 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady & E.L. Rice, 2007 Development and Implementation of a Lab Suite for Introductory Astronomy (poster) ASP Cosmos in the Classroom, Pomona, CA, August 2007 Abstract Poster | |
| *E.L. Rice & N. McCrady, 2007 The Interactive Planetarium:Student-led Investigations of Naked-Eye Astronomy and Planetary Motion (poster) ASP Cosmos in the Classroom, Pomona, CA, August 2007 and American Astronomical Society Meeting 211, Austin, TX, January 2008 Abstract Poster | |
| N. McCrady, 2007 Probing Super Star Clusters with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (contributed talk) 5th Annual Symposium of the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows, Seattle, WA, January 2007 Abstract | |
| *C.D. Sheehy, N. McCrady, and J.R. Graham, 2006 Laser Guide Star Observations of Super Star Clusters in NGC 1569 and AO PSF Estimation in Crowded Fields (contributed talk) American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, Washington, D.C., January 2006 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady, 2005 The Super Star Cluster Population of the M82 Nuclear Starburst: Masses, Luminosities and the IMF (contributed talk) American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, San Diego, CA, January 2005 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady, 2004 The IMF in M82 Super Star Clusters, A Population Study (contributed talk) Keck Observatory Science Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, September 2004 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady, 2004 IMF Variation in M82 Super Star Clusters, A Population Study (contributed talk) Starbursts -- From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies, Cambridge, UK, September 2004 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady, A.M. Gilbert and J.R. Graham, 2001 Super Star Clusters in M82: Young Globular Clusters? (poster) American Astronomical Society Meeting 201, Seattle, WA, January 2001 Abstract | |
| N. McCrady, J.R. Graham, A.M. Gilbert,
I.S. McLean, E.E. Becklin, J.E.Larkin, M.K. Wilcox, N.A. Levenson, D.F. Figer and H.I. Teplitz, 2001 Kinematics of stars and gas at 12.6 pc resolution in the starburst nucleus of M82 (poster) Center for Star Formation Studies Workshop, Santa Cruz, CA, July 2001 | |
| N. McCrady & E. Magnier, 1999 Transitional Young Stellar Objects: Cosmic Debutantes (poster) UW Undergraduate Research Symposium, Seattle, WA, May 1999 Poster | |
* Indicates first-author publications by students under my supervision. | |
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