| Joni Johnson |
| Research Faculty |
| Office: | 211A Astronomy |
| Phone: | (575)646-1518 |
| Fax: | (575)646-1602 |
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| E-mail: | jojohnso |
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| Ph.D. | University of Minnesota, | 1990 |
| B.A. | Lawrence University, | 1984 |
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Dr. Johnson studies cataclysmic variables (CVs) such as classical novae and
dwarf novae, and post-asymptotic giant branch (PAGB) objects. She has a
strong interest in polarimetry, particularly spectropolarimetry, which gives
information about the structure of the circumstellar material around both CVs
and PAGB objects. She has recently become involved in a project using the HST
Fine Guidance Sensors to find parallaxes for dwarf novae, allowing accurate
distances and hence luminosities to be determined.
Joni Johnson's personal homepage.
