Howard E. Bond

Past and Current Positions

• Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1970-75
• Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1975-79
• Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1979-84
• Astronomer (tenured), Space Telescope Science Institute, 1984-2008
• Astronomer Emeritus, Space Telescope Science Institute, 2008-present

Education

• B.S. (Physics), University of Illinois, 1964
• M.S. (Astronomy), University of Michigan, 1965
• Ph.D. (Astronomy), University of Michigan, 1969

Journal and Book Editorships

• Managing Editor, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1991-97
• Volume Editor, Planets, Stars, and Stellar Systems (to be published in 2012)

Prizes and Awards

• Co-recipient, Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (for Hubble Heritage project), 2003
• Co-recipient, American Astronomical Society Education Prize (for Hubble Heritage project), 2007

Research Interests

• V838 Monocerotis and the new class of intermediate-luminosity transients
• Light echoes
• Planetary nebulae and their central stars
• Post-asymptotic-giant-branch (post-AGB) stars
• Extragalactic distance scale
• Extrasolar planets
• Astrometry and trigonometric parallaxes
• Novae, cataclysmic variable stars, gamma-ray bursts
• White dwarfs
• Globular clusters
• Visual binary stars
• Stellar chemical compositions
• Peculiar red giants
• Population II and III stars

• 189 refereed publications (70 as first author)
• 29 invited and 57 contributed conference papers
• 476 total publications and 7006 citations in NASA ADS database
• h-index = 47 (i.e., 47 publications that have each been cited at least 47 times)

"On the Spectral Energy Distribution of the Barium Stars"
H. E. Bond & J. S. Neff
Astrophys. J., 158, 1235, 1969.

"A Search for Metal-Deficient Stars"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J. Suppl., 22, 117, 1970.

"The Subgiant CH Stars"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 194, 95, 1974.

"UU Sagittae:  Eclipsing Nucleus of the Planetary Nebula Abell 63"
H. E. Bond, W. Liller, & E. J. Mannery
Astrophys. J., 223, 252, 1978.

"Extremely Metal-Deficient Red Giants. I. A New Objective-Prism, Photometric, and Radial-Velocity Survey"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J. Suppl., 44, 517, 1980.

"Extremely Metal-Deficient Red Giants. II. Chemical Abundances in 21 Halo Giants"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 244, 919, 1981.

"Where is Population III?"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 248, 606, 1981.

"Subgiant CH Stars. I. s-Process Abundances, C/O Ratios, and Evolutionary Status"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 259, 792, 1982.

"The Precataclysmic Nucleus of Abell 41"
A. D. Grauer & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 271, 259, 1983.

"The Pulsating Central Star of the Planetary Nebula Kohoutek 1-16"
A. D. Grauer & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 277, 211, 1984.

"Extremely Metal-Deficient Red Giants. III. Chemical Abundance Patterns in Field Halo Giants"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 292, 559, 1985.

"Morphologies of Planetary Nebulae Ejected by Close-Binary Nuclei"
H. E. Bond & M. Livio
Astrophys. J., 355, 568, 1990.

"Subgiant CH Stars. II. Chemical Compositions and the Evolutionary Connection with Barium Stars"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J. Suppl., 77, 515, 1991.

Discovery of Optical Afterglow of GRB 970508, First GRB to Have a Measured Redshift
H. E. Bond
IAU Circular No. 6654, 1997.

"A Hubble Space Telescope Survey for Resolved Companions of Planetary Nebula Nuclei"
R. Ciardullo, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 118, 488, 1999.

"Binarity of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae"
H. E. Bond
In Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae II: From Origins to Microstructures, ASP Conference Series 199, p. 115, 2000.

"Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of V471 Tauri: Oversized K Star, Paradoxical White Dwarf"
M. S. O'Brien,  H. E. Bond, & E. M. Sion
Astrophys. J., 563, 971, 2001.

"An Energetic Stellar Outburst Accompanied by Circumstellar Light Echoes"
H. E. Bond, et al.
Nature, 422, 405, 2003.

"Indications of a Large Fraction of Spectroscopic Binaries Among Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae"
O. De Marco, H. E. Bond, D. Harmer, & A. Fleming
Astrophys. J., 602, L93, 2004.

"The uBVI Photometric System. I. Motivation, Implementation, and Calibration"
H. E. Bond
Astron. J., 129, 2914, 2005.

"Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Outburst Site of M31 RV"
H. E. Bond & M. H. Siegel
Astron. J., 131, 984, 2006.

"A Young Stellar Cluster Surrounding the Peculiar Eruptive Variable V838 Monocerotis"
M. Afsar & H. E. Bond
Astron. J., 133, 397, 2007.

"V838 Monocerotis: A Geometric Distance from Hubble Space Telescope Polarimetric Imaging of its Light Echo"
W. B Sparks, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 135, 605, 2008.

"Direct Detection of the Close Companion of Polaris with the Hubble Space Telescope"
N. R. Evans, G. H. Schaefer, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 136 , 1137, 2008.

"On Geometric Distance Determination to the Cepheid RS Puppis from Its Light Echoes"
H. E. Bond & W. B. Sparks
Astron. Astrophys., 495 , 371, 2009.

"The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 300"
H. E. Bond, et al.
Astrophys. J., 695 , L154, 2009.

"XMM-Newton Detection of a Transient X-ray Source in the Vicinity of V838 Monocerotis"
F. Antonini, et al.
Astrophys. J., 717, 795, 2010.

"The Exotic Eclipsing Nucleus of the Planetary Nebula SuWt 2"
K. Exter, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 140, 1414, 2010.

"Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Outburst Site of M31 RV. II. No Blue Remnant in Quiescence"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 737, 17, 2011.

"The Photometric and Spectral Evolution of the 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in NGC 300"
R. M. Humphreys, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astrophys. J., 743, 118, 2011.

"Light Echoes Reveal an Unexpectedly Cool eta Carinae During its 19th-Century Great Eruption"
A. Rest, et al.
Nature, in press.

"Hubble Space Telescope FUV Spectra of the Post-Common-Envelope Hyades Binary V471 Tauri"
E. M. Sion, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astrophys J., submitted.
 

STScI Experience

• Co-Investigator and Co-Founder, Hubble Heritage Program
• Editor of the WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17, 2007
• Chair of HST Telescope Time Review Board, 2006-2008
• Manager, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship program, 1994-2002
• Education and Outreach Scientist in the Office of Public Outreach, 2002-2004
• Member, Scientific Oversight Committee for HST's Wide Field Camera 3, 1998-present
• Appointed Astronomer Emeritus, 2008

• Councilor, American Astronomical Society, 1987-89
• Member, Management Council, SMARTS telescope consortium, 2003-present
• Member, NOAO Telescope Allocation Committee, 2009-present
• Chair, Scientific and Local Organizing Committees, STScI Workshop on Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients, 2011
• Received Hubble Space Telescope observing time in all 19 review cycles