Catherine A. Pilachowski

Early life and education Pilachowski was born and raised in California. She has stated that growing up during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union led to her interest in becoming an astronomer.

Pilachowski became a professor of astronomy at Indiana University and in 2001 was named the Daniel Kirkwood Chair in the Department of Astronomy.

Pilachowski specializes in understanding the spectra of starlight. Her work has included searching for the molecular species hydrogen fluoride.

Publications

Chemical abundances of open clusters from high-resolution infrared spectra - II. NGC 752 Bocek Topcu, G.; Afsar, M.; Sneden, C.; Pilachowski, et al. 2020, MNRAS, 491, 544 Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Ratios. II. Semiregular Variable M Giants Lebzelter, T.; Hinkle, K. H.; Straniero, O.; Lambert, D. L.; Pilachowski, C. A.; Nault, Kr. A. 2019, AJ, 886, 117L Phosphorus Abundances in the Hyades and Galactic Disk Maas, Z. G.; Cescutti, G.;Pilachowski, C. A. 2019, AJ, 158, 219 Chemical Abundances of Open Clusters From High-Resolution Infrared Spectra. II. NGC 752 Bocek Topcu, G.; Afsar, M.; Sneden, C.; Pilachowski, C. A. et al. 2020, MNRAS, Chemical abundances of open clusters from high-resolution infrared spectra - I. NGC 6940 Bocek Topcu, G.; Afsar, M.; Sneden, C.; Pilachowski, C. A. et al. 2019, MNRAS, 485, 4625 Carbon Isotope Ratios in M10 Giants Maas, Z. G.; Gerber, J. M.; Deibel, Alex; Pilachowski, C. A. 2019, ApJ, 878, 43 Chlorine Isotope Ratios in M Giants Maas, Z. G., Pilachowski, C. A. 2018, AJ, 156, 2 Is the Young Star RZ Piscium Consuming Its Own (Planetary) Offspring? Punzi, K. M., Kastner, J. H. et al. 2018, AJ, 155, 33. Photometric Detection of Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters Using Integrated Light Bowman, W. P., Pilachowski, C. A., van Zee, L., Winans, A., Ciardullo, R., Gronwall, C. 2017, AJ, 154, 131. Photometric and radial-velocity time series of RR Lyrae stars in M3: analysis of single-mode variables Jurcsik, J., Smitola, P. et al. 2017, MNRAS, 468, 1317. Phosphorus Abundances in FGK Stars Maas, Z. G., Pilachowski, C. A., Cescutti, G. 2017, ApJ, 841, 108. Differences in the rotational properties of multiple stellar populations in M13: a faster rotation for the `extreme' chemical subpopulation Cordero, M. J., Henault-Brunet, V., Pilachowski, C. A., Balbinot, E., Johnson, C. I., Varri, A. L. 2017, MNRAS, 465, 3515 An Archive of Spectra from the Mayall Fourier Transform Spectrometer at Kitt Peak Pilachowski, C. A., Hinkle, K. H., Young, M. D., Dennis, H. B., Gopu, A., Henschel, R., Hayashi, S. 2017, PASP, 129, 024006. The M Dwarf Eclipsing Binary CU Cancri Wilson, R. E., Pilachowski, C. A., Terrell, D. 2017, ApJ, 835, 251. The Abundance of Lithium in an ABG Star in the Globular Cluster M3 (NGC 5272) Givens, R. A., Pilachowski, C. A. 2016, PASP, 128, 124203.