Howard E. Bond

Past and Current Positions

• Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1970-75
• Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1975-79
• Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1979-84
• Astronomer (tenured), Space Telescope Science Institute, 1984-2008
• Astronomer Emeritus, Space Telescope Science Institute, 2008-present
• Independent Consultant, 2008-present
• Adjunct Professor of Astronomy, Pennsylvania State University, 2012-present

Education

• B.S. (Physics), University of Illinois, 1964
• M.S. (Astronomy), University of Michigan, 1965
• Ph.D. (Astronomy), University of Michigan, 1969

Journal and Book Editorships

• Managing Editor, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1991-97
• Volume Editor, Planets, Stars, and Stellar Systems (published 2013)

Prizes and Awards

• Co-recipient, Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (for Hubble Heritage project), 2003
• Co-recipient, American Astronomical Society Education Prize (for Hubble Heritage project), 2007

Research Interests

• V838 Monocerotis and the new classes of intermediate-luminosity transients
• Light echoes
• Planetary nebulae and their central stars
• Post-asymptotic-giant-branch (post-AGB) stars
• Extragalactic distance scale
• Extrasolar planets
• Astrometry and trigonometric parallaxes
• Novae, cataclysmic variable stars, gamma-ray bursts
• White dwarfs
• Globular clusters
• Visual binary stars
• Stellar chemical compositions
• Peculiar red giants
• Population II and III stars

• 207 refereed publications (72 as first author)
• 30 invited and 62 contributed conference papers
• 604 total publications and 7820 citations in NASA ADS database
• h-index = 48 (i.e., 48 publications that have each been cited at least 48 times)

"On the Spectral Energy Distribution of the Barium Stars"
H. E. Bond & J. S. Neff
Astrophys. J., 158, 1235, 1969.

"A Search for Metal-Deficient Stars" [PhD Thesis]
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J. Suppl., 22, 117, 1970.

"The Subgiant CH Stars"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 194, 95, 1974.

"UU Sagittae:  Eclipsing Nucleus of the Planetary Nebula Abell 63"
H. E. Bond, W. Liller, & E. J. Mannery
Astrophys. J., 223, 252, 1978.

"Extremely Metal-Deficient Red Giants. I. A New Objective-Prism, Photometric, and Radial-Velocity Survey" [most cited paper]
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J. Suppl., 44, 517, 1980.

"Extremely Metal-Deficient Red Giants. II. Chemical Abundances in 21 Halo Giants"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 244, 919, 1981.

"Where is Population III?"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 248, 606, 1981.

"Subgiant CH Stars. I. s-Process Abundances, C/O Ratios, and Evolutionary Status"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 259, 792, 1982.

"The Precataclysmic Nucleus of Abell 41"
A. D. Grauer & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 271, 259, 1983.

"The Pulsating Central Star of the Planetary Nebula Kohoutek 1-16"
A. D. Grauer & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 277, 211, 1984.

"E2003 + 225 - A 3h 42m AM Herculis type binary system"
J. A. Nousek, et al.
Astrophys. J., 682, 211, 1984.

"Extremely Metal-Deficient Red Giants. III. Chemical Abundance Patterns in Field Halo Giants"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 292, 559, 1985.

"Morphologies of Planetary Nebulae Ejected by Close-Binary Nuclei" [2nd most cited paper]
H. E. Bond & M. Livio
Astrophys. J., 355, 568, 1990.

"Subgiant CH Stars. II. Chemical Compositions and the Evolutionary Connection with Barium Stars"
R. E. Luck & H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J. Suppl., 77, 515, 1991.

Discovery of Optical Afterglow of GRB 970508, First GRB to Have a Measured Redshift
H. E. Bond
IAU Circular No. 6654, 1997.

"White Dwarfs in Globular Clusters: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of M4"
H. B. Richer, et al.
Astrophys. J., 484, 741, 1997.

"A Hubble Space Telescope Survey for Resolved Companions of Planetary Nebula Nuclei"
R. Ciardullo, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 118, 488, 1999.

"Binarity of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae"
H. E. Bond
In Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae II: From Origins to Microstructures, ASP Conference Series 199, p. 115, 2000.

"Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of V471 Tauri: Oversized K Star, Paradoxical White Dwarf"
M. S. O'Brien,  H. E. Bond, & E. M. Sion
Astrophys. J., 563, 971, 2001.

"An Energetic Stellar Outburst Accompanied by Circumstellar Light Echoes"
H. E. Bond, et al.
Nature, 422, 405, 2003.

"Indications of a Large Fraction of Spectroscopic Binaries Among Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae"
O. De Marco, H. E. Bond, D. Harmer, & A. Fleming
Astrophys. J., 602, L93, 2004.

"The uBVI Photometric System. I. Motivation, Implementation, and Calibration"
H. E. Bond
Astron. J., 129, 2914, 2005.

"Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Outburst Site of M31 RV"
H. E. Bond & M. H. Siegel
Astron. J., 131, 984, 2006.

"A Young Stellar Cluster Surrounding the Peculiar Eruptive Variable V838 Monocerotis"
M. Afsar & H. E. Bond
Astron. J., 133, 397, 2007.

"V838 Monocerotis: A Geometric Distance from Hubble Space Telescope Polarimetric Imaging of its Light Echo"
W. B Sparks, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 135, 605, 2008.

"Direct Detection of the Close Companion of Polaris with the Hubble Space Telescope"
N. R. Evans, G. H. Schaefer, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 136, 1137, 2008.

"On Geometric Distance Determination to the Cepheid RS Puppis from Its Light Echoes"
H. E. Bond & W. B. Sparks
Astron. Astrophys., 495, 371, 2009.

"The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 300"
H. E. Bond, et al.
Astrophys. J., 695, L154, 2009.

"The Exotic Eclipsing Nucleus of the Planetary Nebula SuWt 2"
K. Exter, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astron. J., 140, 1414, 2010.

"Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Outburst Site of M31 RV. II. No Blue Remnant in Quiescence"
H. E. Bond
Astrophys. J., 737, 17, 2011.

"The Photometric and Spectral Evolution of the 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in NGC 300"
R. M. Humphreys, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astrophys. J., 743, 118, 2011.

"Light Echoes Reveal an Unexpectedly Cool eta Carinae During its 19th-Century Great Eruption"
A. Rest, et al.
Nature, 482, 375, 2012.

"Hubble Space Telescope FUV Spectra of the Post-Common-Envelope Hyades Binary V471 Tauri"
E. M. Sion, H. E. Bond, et al.
Astrophys. J., 751, 66, 2012.

"Swift UVOT Photometry of the Planetary Nebula WeBo 1: Unmasking a Faint Hot Companion Star"
M. H. Siegel, E. Hoversten, H. E. Bond, M. Stark, & A. Breeveld
Astron. J., 144, 65, 2012.

"A Star in the Solar Neighborhood that Formed Shortly after the Big Bang"
H. E. Bond, D. A. VandenBerg, E. Nelan, G. H. Schaefer, & D. Harmer
Astrophys. J. Letters, 765, 12, 2013.

"Microlensing Events by Proxima Centauri in 2014 and 2016: Opportunities for Mass Determination and Planet Detection"
K. C. Sahu, H. E. Bond, J. Anderson, & M. Dominik
Astrophys. J., submitted, 2013.
 

STScI Experience

• Co-Investigator and Co-Founder, Hubble Heritage Program
• Chair of HST Telescope Time Review Board, 2006-2008
• Member of WFC3 Group, 2006-2008
• Editor of the WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17, 2007
• Education and Outreach Scientist in the Office of Public Outreach, 2002-2004
• Manager, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship program, 1994-2002
• Member, Scientific Oversight Committee for HST's Wide Field Camera 3, 1998-present
• Appointed Astronomer Emeritus, 2008

• Councilor, American Astronomical Society, 1987-89
• Member, Management Council, SMARTS telescope consortium, 2003-2011
• Member, NOAO Telescope Allocation Committee, 2009-2011
• Chair, Scientific and Local Organizing Committees, STScI Workshop on Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients, 2011
• Visiting Observer at Kitt Peak since 1966, and Cerro Tololo since 1970
• Received Hubble Space Telescope observing time in all 21 review cycles