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.
Research Interests
- The origin of gamma-ray bursts and soft gamma-ray repeaters
- Time-domain astronomy with an emphasis on the dynamic radio sky
- The missing baryon problem and the warm-hot intergalactic
medium
- Pulsars, supernova remnant associations and pulsar wind
nebulae
- The 1720 MHz OH maser line toward supernova remnants
- HI absorption and interstellar scattering
Professional History
- 2006-2009, Assistant Director, Science and Academic
Affairs
- 2001-2002, Visiting Associate in Astronomy, Caltech
- 1999-now, Astronomer
- 1995-1999, Associate Astronomer
- 1993-1995, Assistant Astronomer
- 1990-1993, Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1989-1991, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1989, PhD, University of Toronto
- 1983, BSc, Acadia University