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D. Nelson Limber Memorial Observatory was founded in the summer of 1979 in the Texas Hill Country near San Antonio as a private observatory and residence. It is named in memory of a distinguished faculty member of the University of Virginia Department of Astronomy.

The 0.4 m telescope is used mainly to monitor the broadband linear polarization of early emission line stars with a Glan prism photopolarimeter.


[nrp] The Mystery of the Be Stars (an introduction to Be stars for the non-specialist, contributed to the Space Telescope Science Institute 1998 May Symposium on "Unsolved Problems in Stellar Evolution")

BRIEF SUMMARIES OF CURRENT
RESEARCH AT LIMBER OBSERVATORY
A Search for Intrinsic Polarization in O Stars with Variable Winds
Astronomical Journal
(January 2000)
A Useful Approximation for Computing the Continuum Polarization of Be Stars
Astrophysical Journal
(June 1, 2001)

Last modified: January 28, 2005

David McDavid