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| Email: | eli.dwek@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.6209 |
| Org Code: | 665 |
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NASA/GSFC Mail Code 665 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | EMERITUS |
1983 - present Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight center, Greenbelt, MD.
1981-1983 National Academy of Sciences, NRC Resident Research Associate at NASA /GSFC
1979-1981 Research Fellow, Astronomy Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
1977-1979 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
Cosmic chemical evolution. The extragalactic background light, and the TeV opacity of the gamma-ray universe. The interrelations between the radio, X-ray, optical, and cosmic neutrino backgrounds. The contribution of primordial stars to the extragalactic background light.
The evolutions of the stellar population, metallicity, and abundance of dust in the Milky Way, in local galaxies, and in dusty galaxies in the high-redshift universe
The chemical evolution of the Milky Way. The nature, origin, and evolution of the dust generating the observed interstellar extinction, diffuse IR emission, scattered sunlight, elemental depletions, and X-ray haloes in the MW. Reprocessing of dust in the ISM accretion and coagulation.
The formation of dust in supernovae and their circumstellar media. Analysis of dust formation, heating, cooling, and grain destruction processes in supernova ejecta and the shocked interstellar medium. The evolution of supernovae light curves. Echoes from line and continuum emission from supernovae.
The nature and origin of the infrared emission from the interplanetary dust cloud
2022 - NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
2013 - Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award for Science
2013 - Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2007 - Excellent Achievements Award - NASA/GSFC
2006 - Peter Gruber Foundation Prize in Cosmology as member of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Science Team
2006 - The Swedish National Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Drs. John Mather and George Smoot, for their discovery of the shape and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation made with the COBE satellite.
2006 - Special Act Award "For theoretical investigations of the contribution of primordial stars to the near-infrared background radiation."
1995 - Outstanding Achievement Award
1994 - Outstanding Achievement Award
1990 - Excellence Achievement Award
1989 - Group Achievement Award for KAO observations of SN1987A
1989 - Group Achievement Award for the COBE Science Team
2017. "Constraints on the Progenitor of SN 2010jl and Pre-existing Hot Dust in its Surrounding Medium." The Astrophysical Journal 847 91 [10.3847/1538-4357/aa8665] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Infrared Continuum and Line Evolution Of The Equatorial Ring Around SN 1987A." The Astronomical Journal 151 (3): 62 [10.3847/0004-6256/151/3/62] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "The evolution of dust mass in the ejecta of SN1987A." The Astrophysical Journal 810 (1): 75 [10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/75] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "The Extragalactic Background Light and the Gamma-Ray Opacity of the Universe – 2013, , 43, 112, Eli Dwek, & Frank Krennrich." Astroparticle Physics 43 112 [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "The Chemistry of Population III Supernova Ejecta II The Nucleation of Molecular Clusters as a Diagnostic for Dust in the Early Universe." The Astrophysical Journal 713 1 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/713/1/1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Spitzer Observations of Dust Destruction in the Puppis A Supernova Remnant." The Astrophysical Journal 725 585 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/585] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Disentangling the Origin and Heating Mechanism of Supernova Dust: Late-time Spitzer Spectroscopy of the Type IIn SN 2005ip." The Astrophysical Journal 725 1768 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/725/2/1768] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Examining Dust Grain Models Using the Reddening and X-Ray Dust Halo of Terzan 2." The Astrophysical Journal 692 502 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/502] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Diffuse supernova neutrino background is detectable in Super-Kamiokande." Physical Review D, vol 79, Issue 8, id 083013 79 83013 [Full Text] [10.1103/PhysRevD.79.083013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "The Chemistry of Population III Supernova Ejecta I Formation of Molecules in the Early Universe." The Astrophysical Journal 703 642 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-637X/703/1/642] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Stellar Evolutionary Effects on the Abundances of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Supernova-Condensed Dust in Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal 672 214 [Full Text] [10.1086/523621] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Infrared and X-Ray Evidence for Circumstellar Grain Destruction by the Blast Wave of Supernova 1987A." The Astrophysical Journal 676 1029 [Full Text] [10.1086/529038] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Infrared Echoes Reveal the Shock Breakout of the Cas A Supernova." The Astrophysical Journal 685 976 [Full Text] [10.1086/589988] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Constraints on Energy Spectra of Blazars based on Recent EBL Limits from Galaxy Counts." The Astrophysical Journal 689 L93 [Full Text] [10.1086/595960] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "GISMO, a 2 mm Bolometer Camera Optimized for the Study of High Redshift Galaxies." Journal of Low Temperature Physics 151 709 [Full Text] [10.1007/s10909-008-9733-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "The Evolution of Dust in the Early Universe with Applications to the Galaxy SDSS J1148+5251." The Astrophysical Journal 662 927 [Full Text] [10.1086/518430] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Evolution of Dust in Primordial Supernova Remnants: Can Dust Grains Formed in the Ejecta Survive and Be Injected into the Early Interstellar Medium?." The Astrophysical Journal 666 955 [Full Text] [10.1086/520621] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Determination of the Far-Infrared Cosmic Background Using COBE DIRBE and WHAM Data." The Astrophysical Journal 667 11 [Full Text] [10.1086/520079] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "SN 1987A after 18 Years: Mid-Infrared Gemini and Spitzer Observations of the Remnant." The Astrophysical Journal 650 212 [Full Text] [10.1086/505929] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Simultaneous Constraints on the Spectrum of the Extragalactic Background Light and the Intrinsic TeV Spectra of Markarian 421, Markarian 501, and H1426+428." The Astrophysical Journal 618 657 [Full Text] [10.1086/426010] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "The Near-Infrared Background: Interplanetary Dust or Primordial Stars?." The Astrophysical Journal 635 784 [Full Text] [10.1086/497569] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Is There an Imprint of Primordial Stars in the TeV ?-Ray Spectrum of Blazars?." The Astrophysical Journal 634 155 [Full Text] [10.1086/462400] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "The Detection of Cold Dust in Cassiopeia A: Evidence for the Formation of Metallic Needles in the Ejecta." The Astrophysical Journal 607 848 [Full Text] [10.1086/382653] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Galactic Center Extinction: Evidence of Metallic Needles in the General Interstellar Medium." The Astrophysical Journal 611 L109 [Full Text] [10.1086/423893] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Interstellar Dust Models Consistent with Extinction, Emission, and Abundance Constraints." Astrophys J Suppl S 152 (2): 211-249 [Full Text] [10.1086/382351] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "An Empirical Decomposition of Near-Infrared Emission into Galactic and Extragalactic Components." The Astrophysical Journal 585 305 [Full Text] [10.1086/345983] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "The Zodiacal Emission Spectrum as Determined by COBE and Its Implications." The Astrophysical Journal 578 1009 [Full Text] [10.1086/342658] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "The Cosmic Radio and Infrared Backgrounds Connection." The Astrophysical Journal 575 7 [Full Text] [10.1086/341143] [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "X-Ray Halos and Large Grains in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium." The Astrophysical Journal 550 L201 [Full Text] [10.1086/319630] [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "The Effect of Dust Evolution on the Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies." ISO Surveys of a Dusty Universe, Proceedings of a Ringberg Workshop Held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 8-12 November 1999, Edited by D Lemke, M Stickel, and K Wilke, Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 548, p157 548 157 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]