Dr. Sharon Montgomery

DEGREES EARNED / CERTIFICATIONS / PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Ph. D., astronomy, Case Western Reserve University, 1989

"Detection of variable gaseous absorption features in the debris disks around young A-type," 2012, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124, 1042, with B. Welsh. DOI: 10.1086/668293
"Circumstellar gas-disk variability around A-type stars: The detection of exocomets?" 2013, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 125, 759, with B. Welsh. (DOI: 10.1086/671757)
"The Appearance and Disappearance of Exocomet Gas Absorption," 2015, Advances in Astronomy (DOI: 10.1155/2015/980323)
"Exocomet Circumstellar Fe I Absorption in the Beta Pictoris Gas Disk," 2016, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, 064201, with B. Welsh. (DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/128/964/064201)
"Unusually high circumstellar absorption variability around the δ Scuti /λ Boötis star HD 183324", 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letter, 468, L55, with B. Welsh.
"Warm Circumstellar Disk Gas Surrounding the 1.4 Gyr-old F2V Star HD 109085?" 2019, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, with B. Welsh.

Distinguished Faculty Award, 2019, Clarion University

Director of Peirce Planetarium, which hosts frequent shows for school groups, scouts and the general public

Keynote speaker at an international workshop on exocomets held in the Netherlands.
Frequent observer at Texas' McDonald Observatory
Recent observer at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, and at the South African Astronomical Observatory,
Has also been a visiting astronomer at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Green Bank Radio Observatory, and UC Berkeley