Department of Physics and Astronomy

Adolf Witt (retired)

Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy Emeritus
Ph.D., 1967, University of Chicago

Research Profile

419.530.2241

Selected publications:

• Are the carriers of diffuse interstellar bands and extended red emission the same?
  Thomas Lai, Adolf Witt, Carlos Alvarez, Jan Cami. (2020). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 492, Issue 4, 5853–5864. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa223
• Extended red emission: observational constraints for models.
  Adolf Witt, Thomas Lai. (2020). Astrophysics and Space Science. 365, 58. DOI:10.1007/s10509-020-03766-w
• Dust properties of the cometary globule Barnard 207 (LDN 1489)
  Aditya Togi, Adolf Witt, Demi St John. (2017). Astronomy & Astrophysics. Volume: 605, A99. DOI10.1051/0004-6361/201629414
• Extended red emission in IC59 and IC63. Thomas Lai, Adolf Witt, Ken Crawford. (2017). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 469, Issue 4, 4933–4948. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1124