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-present
• Effective August 2008: Astronomer Emeritus, Space Telescope Science Institute

Journal Editorship

• Managing Editor, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1991-97

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

Education

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

Research Interests

• V838 Monocerotis and the new class of luminous 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 and cataclysmic variable stars
• White dwarfs
• Globular clusters
• Visual binary stars
• Stellar chemical compositions
• Peculiar red giants
• Population II and III stars

• Katrina Exter (Postdoc)
• Melike Afsar (Graduate student)

• 153 refereed publications (64 as first author)
• 27 invited and 53 contributed conference papers
• 481 total publications and 5587 citations in NASA ADS database
• h-index = 41 (i.e., 41 publications that have each been cited at least 41 times)

"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.

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

"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.

"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, A. Henden, Z. G. Levay, N. Panagia, W. B. Sparks, S. Starrfield, R. M. Wagner, R. L. M. Corradi, & U. Munari
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.

Current STScI Responsibilities

• Member of Wide Field Camera 3 group
• Editor of the WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17
• Chair of HST Telescope Time Review Board
• Previously Education and Outreach Scientist in the Office of Public Outreach
• Co-Investigator and Co-Founder, Hubble Heritage Program
• Member, Scientific Oversight Committee for HST's Wide Field Camera 3

• Councilor, American Astronomical Society, 1987-89
• Manager, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship program, 1994-2002
• Member, Management Council, SMARTS telescope consortium, 2003-present
• Received Hubble Space Telescope observing time in all 17 review cycles