Dale A. Frail


National Radio Astronomy Observatory
P.O. Box 0
Socorro, NM 87801
575-835-7338 (office)
575-835-7027 (fax)
(dfrail at nrao dot edu)


I am an Astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). I work on a wide variety of research problems in high energy astrophysics. These days I am mainly focused on gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows. In my research I use observations from the entire electromagnetic spectrum, but my particular specialty is radio astronomy. I am based at the NRAO Array Science Center in Socorro, New Mexico home of the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array.

Over the years I have been very fortunate to work with some excellent graduate and undergraduate students who come from all over to spend their summers in New Mexico working with me. My past students who are still involved in astronomy are Alicia Soderberg, Brian Metzger, Edo Berger, Crystal Brogan, Josh Bloom, Craig Heinke, Britt Scharringhausen, David Moffett, and Chip Kobulnicky.

My peer-reviewed publications can be found on
ADS while my more recent work is on astro-ph. A Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography can be found here.

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Professional History