Karen Lewis

Department/Affiliation: Physics
Phone: 330-263-2488
Office Address: 106 Taylor
Email: KLewis@Wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison (Physics and Mathematics) 1999
• Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University (Astronomy and Astrophysics) 2005

Senior Theses Advised

• Patrick Butler, Air Drag and External Ballistics, 2012
• Monte Carlo Simulations of the Clumpy Torus in Active Galactic Nuclei, 2012
• Alex Sullivan, Determining the clumpy nature of the toroidal region: An analysis of X-ray emissions from active galactic nuclei, 2011

Recent Publications

• "Multi-Wavelength Observations of a Sample of Intermediate-Luminosity Radio-Loud Active Galaxies", Karen T. Lewis, Rita M. Sambruna, Emmanouil Angelakis, Michael Eracleous, Chi C. Cheung and Matthias Kadler The Astronomical Journal, Volume 142:9, p13 (2011)
• "Long-term Profile Variability in Active Galactic Nucleus with Double-peaked Balmer Emission Lines", Karen T. Lewis, Michael Eracleous (Department of Astronomy, The Pennsylvania State University), Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegra, RS, Brasil) The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 187, 416-446 (2010)
• "Optical Properties of Swift BAT-detected Active Galactic Nuclei Sources", L. Winter, K.T. Lewis, M. Koss, S. Veilleux, B. Keeney and R.F. Mushotzky The Astrophysical Journal, 710:1, p 503 (2010)

Courses Taught

• General Physics
• General Physics Lab
• Foundations of Physics Lab
• Astronomy of the Solar System
• Astronomy of the Stars and Galaxies
• Astrophysics
• Math Methods for Scientists

Research Interests

• Analysis of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) found in the XMM-Newton Slew Survey; also AGN with unusual double-peaked emission lines.