Anthony Moffat

Anthony (Tony) Lee Moffat is an emeritus professor of astronomy at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dr. Moffat was appointed as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. Dr. Moffat's interests focus on massive stars (Wolf-Rayet stars in particular), stellar winds, binary stars, as well as the structure and dynamics of star formation regions and galaxies.

Portrait of Anthony Moffat, astronomer and emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Montreal

Professional history

Prof. Moffat completed his Master of Science at the University of Toronto in 1966. His doctorate was granted in 1970 from Universität Bonn (Dr. rer. nat.). Following postdoctoral studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 1970 to 1976, and the awarding of his second Dr. Habil. in 1976, Moffat was hired to the faculty of Université de Montréal in 1976.

Professional progeny

Prof. Moffat has supervised 8 postdoctoral scientists and 14 doctoral students at Université de Montréal. This includes Alexandre David-Uraz's research into dust formation around Wolf-Rayet stars.[1]

Massive star clusters

In a series of papers beginning with a study of the open star cluster NGC 7380 [2] and eleven other clusters,[3] Moffat used photographic UBV photometry [4] to identify the massive star population.

References
  1. Alpaslan, Mehmet (7 June 2011). "Wolf-Rayet binary a dust-forming factory". Astronomy Now. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
  2. Moffat, A.F.J. (June 1971). "Photometry and structure of the young open cluster NGC 7380". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 13 (1): 30–39. Bibcode:1971A&A....13...30M.
  3. Moffat, A.F.J. (November 1972). "Photometry of eleven young open star clusters". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement. 7 (1): 355. Bibcode:1972A&AS....7..355M.
  4. Moffat, A.F.J. (December 1969). "A Theoretical Investigation of Focal Stellar Images in the Photographic Emulsion and Application to Photographic Photometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 3 (1): 355. Bibcode:1969A&A.....3..455M.


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