Ph.D., Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Texas (1978)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Peter van Hoof
Robert Baumann
Graduate Students
Ryan Porter
Gargi Shaw
Nick Abel
Selected Recent Publications
Hyperfine structure emission and absorption lines in hot gas
W.E. Goddard & G.J. Ferland, 2003, PASP, 115, 647-650
Observational consequences of line optical depths on infrared fine
structure lines
Nicholas Abel, Adam Bryant, Prabodh Dhakal, Ashley Gale,
Alva Gibson, William Goddard, Chad Howard, Ameya Kolarkar, Pey Lian Lim,
Gargi Shaw, & Gary Ferland, 2003, PASP 115, 188-192, astro-ph/0211463
Dissipative heating and quasar emission lines
Mark Bottorff &
Gary Ferland, 2002, ApJ, 568, 581-591
State-specific hydrogenic recombination cooling coefficients for a
wide range of conditions
J. LaMothe & G.J. Ferland, 2001, PASP, 113,
165-168
Fractal quasar clouds
Mark Bottorff & Gary Ferland, 2001, ApJ,
549, 118-132
The mass of quasar broad line region clouds
J.A. Baldwin, G.J.
Ferland, K.T. Korista, F. Hamann, and M. Dietrick 2003, ApJ 582, 590-595
(astro-ph/0209335)
