Jason Aufdenberg

Title: Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Email: Jason.Aufdenberg@erau.edu Email
Department: Physical Sciences Department
College: College of Arts & Sciences

Office Hours

Mon 12:30 pm–2:00 pm; Tue 2:30 pm–4:30 pm; Wed 10:30 am–12:00 pm; Thu 9:30 am–11:00 am & 2:30pm–3:30pm; Fri 12:30 pm–2:00 pm

External Links

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Link to my papers on the NASA Astrophysical Database System

Education

Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Arizona State University

Currently Teaching

PS 405: Atomic Nuclear Physics
EP 492: Senior Project
EP 345: Space Science Seminar

Courses Taught

PS 150 Physics for Engineers I with Calculus

PS 301 Astronomy

PS 318 Introductory Astronomy & Astrophysics Laboratory

PS 401 Astrophysics I

PS 405 Atomic and Nuclear Physics
PS 408 Astrophysics II

EP 345 Space Sciences Seminar

EP 393 Spaceflight Dynamics

EP 420 Planetary Science
EP 425 Observational Astronomy

EP 492 Senior Thesis

HON 350 History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

HON 350 The Moon in Science, History and Culture.

Publications

The Optimization of a Model Pipeline for Rapidly Rotating Stars (Jackson Ladd Sackrider, Jason P. Aufdenberg) Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2024)
Quality Control of Synthetic Spectra for Sirius A (Katelyn Sonnen, Jason P. Aufdenberg) Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2024)
Mobile-Friendly Bicycle Map for Sustainable Transportation (Jason P. Aufdenberg) Sustainability Conference (2023)
Stellar Atmosphere Models for Select VERITAS Stellar Intensity Interferometry Targets (Jackson Ladd Sackrider, Jason P. Aufdenberg, Katelyn Sonnen) Beyond: Undergraduate Research Journal (2023)
Spinning Slow and Fast: Stellar Atmosphere Models for β Ursae Majoris and α Leonis. (Jackson Ladd Sackrider, Jason P. Aufdenberg, Katelyn R. Sonnen, Katelyn Sonnen) Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2022)
A Geospatial PDF Map for Local Bicycle Transportation: update (Jason P. Aufdenberg) Sustainability Conference (2022)
A Geospatial PDF Map of Low-Stress Bicycling Routes to/from ERAU (Jason P. Aufdenberg) Sustainability Conference (2020)
Chemical Abundances for Sirius using ERAU's Supercomputer Vega (Allison Acosta, Jason P. Aufdenberg, Peter H. Hauschildt) Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2019)
Refining the Spectroscopic Orbit of the Massive Binary Star Spica (Timothy M. Robinette, Timothy M. Robinette, Jason Aufdenberg) McNair Scholars Research Journal (2015)
Modeling the Radial Velocity of Spica Using Bayesian Statistics (Robinette, Timothy M, Aufdenberg, Jason P) Discovery Day - Daytona Beach (2014)

Labs

Astrophysics Lab