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My Experiences
in Astronomy
Grade School
(1957-1971)
Undergraduate Life at UC Berkeley (1971-1975)
Graduate School Life at Harvard (1975-1982)
My First Research Job: The Naval Research Laboratory
(1982-1991)
Working for Private Industry: BDM International
(1991-1992)
Return to Research: The COBE Program (1993)
The COBE Years
(1993-1996)
My Internet Years (1995-2003+)
Towards an Uncertain Future (1996)
The End of COBE (1997)
The IMAGE Years (1996-2004)
The Transit of Venus(2004)
Cosmological Research(2005)
Space Weather Research(2005+)
The Experiences
of Other Astronomers
(Interviews
held in 1986)
Case Study.....CS...Deceased
Case Study.....DL
Case Study.....MH
Case Study.....KJ
Case Study.....PS
Case Study.....SW
Case Study.....AN...Deceased
Case Study.....KM
Career Survey.
The Research
Experience
The Laboratory Environment
Let's Go Observing to Get Fresh Data!!
High Altitude Balloons
Kuiper Airborne Observatory
Kitt Peak Observatory
The Very Large Array
Attending a Professional Meeting to Present Your Discoveries
How a Research
Paper in Astronomy is Written
After an astronomer,
or a group of astronomers, make a new discovery or contribution
to our knowledge, they have to convert their months-long or
sometimes even years-long research project into a final, published
document. In this page, I will introduce you to what a research
paper looks like in astronomy, and I will also embed within
the document a variety of hot keys which will examine a number
of issues that come up while a paper is being written. Because
I can provide such in-depth commentary on my own research,
I have chosen a paper that I wrote some years ago, and which
was published in the Astrophysical Journal on July 15, 1987
: volumn 318, pages 702-711. This particular research paper
consisted of the following sections which you can click on
to bring up the relevant text and embedded hot keys:
First, you might
want to read a short HISTORY
explaining
why I wrote the paper and what got me interested in this topic
Title
Author List
Affiliations
Abstract
Introduction
Observations
Analysis
Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Errata
This next section tells about submitting the paper, dealing
with referee's and what finally became of the paper :
Comments by the Referee
The Citation History
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