Dr. Brandon Marshall
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Research focus areas: Astronomy - Evolution of high-mass stars, their impacts on the interstellar medium, and star formation
Areas of Expertise
- Astronomy
- Graduate Faculty
Biography
Dr. Marshall’s primary research expertise is in the field of observational infrared astronomy as applied to the study of high-mass stars and star formation. He is especially interested in aspects of high-mass star formation and exploring the role that accretion disks play in the evolution of young stars. He received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Iowa State University studying the environments impacted by high-mass stars and their formation before joining the faculty at UNK in 2019.
Education
- Ph.D. Astronomy (2018) - Iowa State University
- B.Sc. Physics (2012) - Western Michigan University
Recent Publications
- B. Marshall and C. R. Kerton, Long-Term Monitoring of the Oe Star VES 735: Ope! Not So Quiet After All , MNRAS, vo. 528, pp. 3802-3822, Jan. 2024
- B. Marshall and C. R. Kerton, Triggered Star Formation in a Cometary Atomic/Molecular Cloud in the Cep OB3 Association , MNRAS, vol. 489, pp. 4809 4816, Sept. 2019
- B. Marshall, S.-j. Kang, C. R. Kerton, Y. Kim, M. Choi, and M. Kang, High-resolution Observations of the Molecular Clouds Associated with the Huge H II Region CTB 102 , ApJ, vol. 876, p. 45, May 2019.
- B. Marshall and C. R. Kerton, The Long-lived Double-peaked H Emission of VES735: A Herbig Oe Star? , Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 2,p. 221, Dec. 2018.
