Roger A. Chevalier
Curriculum Vitae

Address

Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, P. O. Box 3818,

Charlottesville, VA 22903

(804) 924-4889 (office); (804) 924-3104 (fax)

Education

Ph.D. Astronomy, Princeton University, 1973

B.S. Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1970

Employment

W. H. Vanderbilt Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville, VA, 1990-

Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 1985-90

Chairman, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 1985-88, 1989-92

Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 1979-85

Associate Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ, 1976-79

Assistant Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ, 1973-76

Honors

Virginia's Outstanding Scientist Award, 1991

President's and Visitors' Prize, University of Virginia, 1992

Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, 1996

elected to National Academy of Sciences, 1996

Selected Recent Publications

Plait, P. L., Lundqvist, P., Chevalier, R. A., and Kirshner, R. P. 1995. "HST

Observations of the Ring Around SN 1987A", Astrophys. J., 439, 730-751.

Chevalier, R. A. and J. M. Blondin 1995. "Hydrodynamic Instabilities in

Supernova Remnants: Early Radiative Cooling", Astrophys. J., 444, 312-317.

Chevalier, R. A. 1995. "Neutron Star Accretion in Dense Environments",

Phys. Reports, 256, 95-108.

Chevalier, R. A. 1995. "Magnetic Effects in the Shaping of Planetary Nebulae",

in Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae: Annals of the Israel Physical Soc., Vol. 11

ed. A. Harpaz and N. Soker (Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing), 240-247.

Chevalier, R. A. and Dwarkadas, V. V. 1995. "The Presupernova H II Region Around

SN 1987A", Astrophys. J. Letters, 452, L45-L48.

Bykov, A. M., Chevalier, R. A., & Yakovlev, D. G., eds. 1995. "George Gamov and

Astrophysics, Proceedings of the Jubilee Gamov Seminar at St. Petersburg".

Space Sci. Revs., 74, 237-501.

Dwarkadas, V. V., Chevalier, R. A., and Blondin, J. M. 1996. "The Shaping of Planetary

Nebulae: Asymmetry in the External Wind", Astrophys. J., 457, 773-788.

Chevalier, R. A. 1996. "Neutrino-Cooled Accretion: Rotation and Stellar Equation of

State", Astrophys. J., 459, 322-329.

Fransson, C., Lundqvist, P., and Chevalier, R. A. 1996. "Circumstellar Interaction

Around SN 1993J", Astrophys. J., 461, 993-1008.

Chevalier, R. A. 1996. "Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants", in Supernovae and

Supernova Remnants, ed. R. A. McCray and Z. Wang (Cambridge: CUP),

399-406.

Chevalier, R. A. 1996. "The Circumstellar Interaction Model for Radio Supernovae", in

Radio Emission from the Stars and the Sun, ed. A. R. Taylor and J. M. Parades

(Provo: ASP Conf. Series), 125-133.

Blondin, J. M., Lundqvist, P., and Chevalier, R. A. 1996. "Axisymmetric Circumstellar

Interaction in Supernovae", Astrophys. J., in press.

Chevalier, R. A. 1996. "The Shaping of Planetary Nebulae and the Nebula Around