Christine Allen (astronomer)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Allen and the second or maternal family name is Armiño.

Christine Patricia Allen Armiño is a Mexican astronomer whose research has included runaway stars including the Becklin–Neugebauer Object,[A][D] the overall distribution of mass in the Milky Way and its effects on stellar orbits,[B] binary and multiple star systems,[C] and the applications of binary star observations in testing physical theories.[E] She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the editor of the Mexican Magazine of Astronomy and Astrophysics.[1]

The galactic mass distribution model she developed with Alfredo Santillán[B] has been called the Allen–Santillán model.[2]

Recognition

Allen is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[3] UNAM gave her their Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz prize in 2008.[4]

Selected publications

A.
Poveda, A.; Ruiz, J.; Allen, C. (April 1967), "Run-away stars as the result of the gravitational collapse of proto-stellar clusters", Boletín de los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya, 4: 86–90, Bibcode:1967BOTT....4...86P
B.
Allen, Christine; Santillán, Alfredo (October 1991), "An improved model of the galactic mass distribution for orbit computations", Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 22: 255, Bibcode:1991RMxAA..22..255A
C.
Poveda, A.; Herrera, M. A.; Allen, C.; Cordero, G.; Lavalley, C. (April 1994), "Statistical studies of visual double and multiple stars, II: a catalogue of nearby wide binary and multiple systems", Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 28: 43–89
D.
Rodríguez, Luis F.; Poveda, Arcadio; Lizano, Susana; Allen, Christine (June 2005), "Proper motions of the BN object and the radio source I in Orion: Where and when did the BN Object become a runaway star?", The Astrophysical Journal, 627 (1): L65–L68, Bibcode:2005ApJ...627L..65R, doi:10.1086/432052
E.
Monroy-Rodríguez, Miguel A.; Allen, Christine (July 2014), "The end of the MACHO era, revisited: New limits on MACHO masses from halo wide binaries", The Astrophysical Journal, 790 (2): 159, arXiv:1406.5169, Bibcode:2014ApJ...790..159M, doi:10.1088/0004-637x/790/2/159

References

  1. ^ Biographical Sketch, UNAM Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2022-12-07
  2. ^ Bajkova, A. T.; Bobylev, V. V. (September 2016), "Rotation curve and mass distribution in the Galaxy from the velocities of objects at distances up to 200 kpc", Astronomy Letters, 42 (9): 567–582, arXiv:1607.08050, Bibcode:2016AstL...42..567B, doi:10.1134/s1063773716090012
  3. ^ Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-07
  4. ^ Awards, UNAM Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2022-12-07