Dr. Varsha P. Kulkarni

Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

Resume

• Brief Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• Selected Recent Publications

Teaching :

• SCCC 115 (Honors Descriptive Astronomy I), Fall 2004

• SCCC 116 (Honors Descriptive Astronomy II), Spring 2005

• Astronomy Center at the Univ. of South Carolina

Research Activities and Interests

• Information for Prospective Students: A Quick Overview of My Research

• Quasar Absorption Lines and Intergalactic Medium--Brief Description

• Postscript file showing the evolution of the global Zn metallicity in damped Lyman-alpha quasar absorbers as a function of redshift, based on our HST and MMT data and the literature (Kulkarni et al. 2005): The metallicity at low redshifts appears to be far lower than the predictions of cosmic chemical evolution models!

• Postscript file showing spectrum of quasar SDSSJ1107-0048 obtained at the 6.5m Multiple Mirror Telescope (Khare, Kulkarni et al. 2004)

• Postscript file showing near-infrared image of quasar LBQS 1210+1731, centered at a wavelength of 1.6 micrometers, obtained with the NICMOS camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. The central part of the quasar was blocked using a coronagraph, in an attempt to detect the faint foreground galaxy caused damped Lyman-alpha absroption at redshift z=1.9 (Kulkarni et al. 2000)

• Jpeg file showing a montage of near-infrared images obtained at wavelengths of 1.1, 1.6 and 2.2 micrometers of Seyfert galaxy IC 5063, with the NICMOS camera on the Hubble Space Telescope (Kulkarni, Calzetti et al. 1998). Notice how the galaxy's point-like nucleus becomes more and more apparent in the longer wavelength images.

• The Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory

• The Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory

• The Apache Point Observatory

• The Apache Point Observatory

• NICMOS Instrument for Hubble Space Telescope

• STScI NICMOS home page

• NICMOS UofA Information Server

• NICMOS page and HST page

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