Professional Appointments

• Adjunct/Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, UNC-CH, 2023 -- present
• Visiting Research Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Sydney, Australia, 2014-2015
• Professor, UNC-CH, 2000-2022
• Project Scientist, International SOAR telescope project, 1996-2000
• Associate Professor, UNC-CH, 1995-2000
• Assistant Professor, UNC-CH, 1989-1995
• Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1987-1989
• Research Assistant, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 1981-1986
• Research Assistant, Theoretical Physics, McGill University, 1978-1980

Education

• Ph.D. - University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1987 (Astronomy)
M.Sc. - McGill University, 1978 (Theoretical Nuclear Physics)
• B.S. - McGill University, 1976 (Physics)

Research Interests

(Supported by NASA/NSF/Research Corp.)

• Structure of Nearby Galaxies (SOAR, AAT, VLT, HST, CXO, VLA, ALMA, JWST)
• Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation (ADC, FP, slicer, solar imaging)

Recent Lecture Courses

• Astr 704/501 - Stars and Exoplanet Atmospheres
• Astr 719/519 - Observational Astronomy
• Astr 102 - Introduction to Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies & Cosmology
• Phys 108 - Climate and Energy Transitions: Understanding the Forecasts
• Phys 131 - Physics of Energy

Some Science Talk Recordings

• Milky Way's vestigial jet (AAS 2022)
• Milky Way's historical Seyfert flare (NOIRlab 2019)
• Pondering the Energy Transition (UNC Geology colloquium 2019)
• SAMI galaxy survey (NOAO and South African Astronomical Observatory 2016)

(Talks before 2016 used Flash so are unsupported in modern browsers.)

Publications

• NASA ADS summary

Selected Publications (NASA/ADS abstract)

• Tracing the Milky Way's Vestigial Nuclear Jet, Cecil, Wagner, Bland-Hawthorn, Bicknell, Mukherjee, Astrophysical Journal, 922, 254 (2021)


• The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the third and final data release, Croom et al, MNRAS, 505, 991 (2021)


• Tunable filters, Bland-Hawthorn and Cecil, The WSPC Handbook of Astronomical Instrumentation, Volume 3: UV, Optical and IR Instrumentation Part 2, ed. by Anna M. Moore, World Scientific, June 2021, p. 309-335


• The SOAR telescope atmospheric dispersion corrector Briceño et al, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10700, id. 107003Z 12 pp. (2018)


• Exploring the dust content of galactic winds with Herschel - II. Nearby dwarf galaxies, McCormick et al, MNRAS, 477, 699-726 (2018)


• Galactic Winds, Veilleux, Cecil, Bland-Hawthorn, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 43, 769-826 (2005)


• Spatial Resolution of High-Velocity Filaments in the Narrow-Line Region of NGC 1068: Associated Absorbers Caught in Emission?, Cecil et al, Astrophysical Journal, 568, 627-638 (2002)


• The Active Jet in NGC 4258 and Its Associated Shocks, Cecil et al, Astrophysical Journal, 536, 675-696 (2000)

PhD Dissertation Publications

• Kinematics of Spatially Extended High-Velocity Outflow from the Nucleus of M51, Cecil, Astrophysical Journal, 329, 38 (1988)


• Imaging Spectrophotometry of Ionized Gas in NGC 1068. I. Kinematics of the Narrow-Line Region, Cecil, Bland-Hawthorn, Tully, Astrophysical Journal, 355, 70 (1990)