Sumner Starrfield, Arizona State University (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Sumner Starrfield, Arizona State University

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ASU Regent's Professor Sumner Starrfield is a computational astrophysicist who has been studying stellar explosions for more than 30 years using ground-based optical and infrared telescopes as well as space-based telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope. In collaboration with colleagues Frank Times of ASU and Christian Iliadis at UNC, Starrfield is studying thermonuclear reaction rates to determine how much of certain elements exploding stars can produce.

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