Helen Fraser
Senior Lecturer
Helen is a senior lecturer.
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Research
Research summary
Highlights
Visiting Professor at the University of Provence, Marseille 2005-2007 and at the Paris Observatory 2007-
Scientific organizing committee of International European Conference on Surface Science 2008; Chair of Organizing Committee of “Chemistry in Space” Symposium at IUPAC 2009.
Plenary lecturer at the Arab International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry, Libya 2006; Invited talks include the International Conference on Molecules in Space and the Laboratory, Paris 2007
Selected publications
S.E.Bisschop, H.J.Fraser, K.I.Oberg, E.F.van Dishoeck, S.Schlemmer, "Desorption rates and sticking coefficients for CO and N-2 interstellar ices", Astron. Astrophys. 449, 1297-1309 (2006) doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054051
K.I.Oberg, F.van Broekhuizen, H.J.Fraser, S.E.Bisschop, E.F.van Dishoeck, S.Schlemmer, "Competition between CO and N-2 desorption from interstellar ices", Astrophys. J. 621, L33-L36 (2005) doi: 10.1086/428901
H.J.Fraser, S.E.Bisschop, K.M.Pontoppidan, A.G.G.M.Tielens, E.F.van Dishoeck, "Probing the surfaces of interstellar dust grains: the adsorption of CO at bare grain surfaces", Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 356, 1283-1292 (2005) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08541.x
M.P.Collings, J.W.Dever, H.J.Fraser, M.R.S.McCoustra, D.A.Williams, "Carbon monoxide entrapment in interstellar ice analogs", Astrophys. J. 583, 1058-1062 (2003) doi: 10.1086/345389
K.M.Pontoppidan, H.J.Fraser, E.Dartois, W.F.Thi, E.F.van Dishoeck, A.C.A.Boogert, L.d'Hendecourt, A.G.G.M.Tielens, S.E.Bisschop, "A 3-5 mu m VLT spectroscopic survey of embedded young low mass stars I - Structure of the CO ice", Astron. Astrophys. 408, 981-1007 (2003) doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031030
P.Ehrenfreund, H.J.Fraser, J.Blum, J.H.E.Cartwright, J.M.Garcia-Ruiz, E.Hadamcik, A.C.Levasseur-Regourd, S.Price, F.Prodi, A.Sarkissian, "Physics and chemistry of icy particles in the universe: answers from microgravity", Planet. Space Sci. 51, 473-494 (2003) doi: 10.1016/S0032-0633(03)00052-7
H.J.Fraser, M.P.Collings, M.R.S.McCoustra, "Laboratory surface astrophysics experiment", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 73, 2161-2170 (2002) doi: 10.1063/1.1470232
H.J.Fraser, M.P.Collings, M.R.S.McCoustra, D.A.Williams, "Thermal desorption of water ice in the interstellar medium", Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 327, 1165-1172 (2001) doi: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04835.x
Current Grants
Helen Fraser, , , , ,
EU (2010-2014) £230696
Title: LASSIE
