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Shadia Rifai Habbal

 

University of Hawaii
Institute for Astronomy
2680 Woodlawn Drive
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
office: 808 956 6531
fax: 808 956 4604

Shadia Rifai Habbal

Astronomer
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1977
sdh@ifa.hawaii.edu

  • Origin and Evolution of the Solar Wind
  • Solar Magnetic Fields
  • Eclipse Polarimetric Observations
     
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Honors and Awards

Pioneer, Arab Thought Foundation, December 2004
Certificate of Guest Professor from the University of Science and Technology of China,
     Hefei, September 4, 2001
NASA Group Achievement Award, Spartan 201 white Light Coronagraph Team,
     Washington DC, August 14, 2000
Adventurous Women Lecture Series Award, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
     Women's Program Committee, June 8, 1998
Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding service and support - Harvard-Smithsonian
     Center for Astrophysics, December 19, 1997
Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding service -National Research Council, Board on
     Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 1996
Certificate of Award in recognition of special achievement reflecting a high standard of
     accomplishment, Smithsonian Institution, July 25, 1993

Professional Service

Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics 2001-2005

Selected Publications

Crystalline Si Nanoparticles as Carriers of the Blue Luminescence in the Red Rectangle Nebula
Munir H. Nayfeh, Shadia Rifai Habbal, and Satish Rao
The Astrophysical Journal, 621, L121-L124 (2005)

On the Detection of the Signature of Silicon Nanoparticles Dust Grains in Coronal Holes
S. Rifai Habbal et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 592, L87-L90 (2004)

Solar Wind: The Solar Wind and the Sun-Earth Link
Shadia Rifai Habbal and Richard Woo
Astronomy and Geophysics, 45, 38-43 (2004)

Hydrogen Lyman Alpha Oscillations Observed by SOHO/UVCS
H. Morgan, S. Rifai Habbal and X. Li
The Astrophysical Journal, 605, 521-527 (2004)

Role of Closed Magnetic Fields in Solar Wind Flow
Richard Woo, Shadia Rifai Habbal and Uri Feldman
The Astrophysical Journal, 612, 1171-1174 (2004)

Coronal Loops Heated by Turbulence-driven Alfvén Waves
Xing Li and Shadia Rifai Habbal
The Astrophysical Journal, 598, L125-L128 (2003)

On the Predominance of the Radial Component of the Magnetic Field in the Solar Corona
Shadia Rifai Habbal, Richard Woo and Jean Arnaud,
The Astrophysical Journal, 558, 852 (2001)

Connecting the Sun and the Solar Wind: Comparison of the Latitudinal Profiles of Coronal and Ulysses Measurements
Shadia Rifai Habbal and Richard Woo
The Astrophysical Journal, 549, L253-L256 (2001)

Thermal Coupling of Protons and Neutral Hydrogen with Anisotropic Temperatures in the Fast Solar Wind
Lorraine Allen, Shadia Rifai Habbal and Xing Li
Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 23123-23134 ( 2000)

Radial Evolution of Density Structure in the Solar Corona
Richard Woo and Shadia Rifai Habbal
Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1793-1796 (1999)

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