Todd J. Henry
Encyclopedia
Todd J. Henry or Todd Jackson Henry is an American astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Georgia State University
, Atlanta, Georgia. He is founder and director of the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
.
, Ithaca, New York
in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from University of Arizona
, Tucson, Arizona
in 1991.
. Henry wrote several papers with Sagan on the organic chemistry in planetary atmospheres between 1985 and 1991. As a graduate student he became interested in the study of nearby stars and wrote his Ph.D. thesis about methods for studying them.
In 1994 he founded the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
(RECONS) to perform concentrated study of stars near the Earth and to search for stars and other objects in nearby interstellar space. He established a series titled The solar neighborhood in The Astronomical Journal that now has over twenty chapters.
He is also an active participant in a number of other projects. He is on the CRIRES team that failed to confirm any planetary companions for the nearby star VB 10
.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...
, Atlanta, Georgia. He is founder and director of the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
The Research Consortium on Nearby Stars is an international group of astronomers founded in 1994 to investigate the stars nearest to the Solar System - those within 10 parsecs...
.
Education
Henry obtained his B.A. in Physics/Planetary Sciences from Cornell UniversityCornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, Ithaca, New York
Ithaca, New York
The city of Ithaca, is a city in upstate New York and the county seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area...
in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
, Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
in 1991.
Work
While an undergraduate student at Cornell he became acquainted with the Planetary Scientist Carl SaganCarl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books...
. Henry wrote several papers with Sagan on the organic chemistry in planetary atmospheres between 1985 and 1991. As a graduate student he became interested in the study of nearby stars and wrote his Ph.D. thesis about methods for studying them.
In 1994 he founded the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
The Research Consortium on Nearby Stars is an international group of astronomers founded in 1994 to investigate the stars nearest to the Solar System - those within 10 parsecs...
(RECONS) to perform concentrated study of stars near the Earth and to search for stars and other objects in nearby interstellar space. He established a series titled The solar neighborhood in The Astronomical Journal that now has over twenty chapters.
He is also an active participant in a number of other projects. He is on the CRIRES team that failed to confirm any planetary companions for the nearby star VB 10
VB 10
VB 10, also referred to as Van Biesbroeck's star, is a very small and very dim M-type red dwarf star located in the constellation Aquila...
.