Mary Crone Odekon
Professor and Chair

Office: Dana Science Center 239
Tel: 518-580-5123
Email: mcrone@skidmore.edu

Education

• BS, College of William and Mary
• MS, University of Michigan
• PhD, University of Michigan

Research Interests

Professor Crone Odekon is an astrophysicist who studies the formation of galaxies and large-scale structure of the universe. She has approached the problem from multiple perspectives, including computer simulations, Hubble Space Telescope observations and, most recently, radio telescope data from Arecibo. 

Courses

• The Human Colonization of Space
• Astronomy
• General Physics I and II
• Modern Physics
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
• Galaxies and Cosmology
• Mechanics
• Electricity and Magnetism

Current Projects

• Undergraduate ALFALFA Team
• Cosmic Freaks

Selected Publications

Nestor Sanchez, Neyda Anez, Emilio Alfaro, and Mary Crone Odekon, 2010, "The Fractal Dimension of Star-Forming Regions at Different Spatial Scales in M33," The Astrophysical Journal, 720, 541

Mary Crone Odekon, 2010, "The Uses of Astronomy," Mercury, Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 18

Mary Crone Odekon, 2008, “Characteristic Scales in Stellar Clustering:  A Transition Near the Disk Scale Height,” The Astrophysical Journal, 681, 1248

Mary Crone Odekon, 2006, “The Correlation Dimension of Young Stars in Dwarf Galaxies,” The Astronomical Journal, 132, 1834

Mary Crone Odekon, 2005, “A Very Liquid Heaven,” Mercury, Vol. 34, no. 5, p. 32

Ian Berry, Margo Mensing, and Mary Crone Odekon, 2005, A Very Liquid Heaven, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (Book to accompany the exhibition, with original essays)

Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Ulrich Hopp, Igor O. Drozdovsky, Laura Greggio, and Mary M. Crone, "The Oldest Stars of the Extremely Metal-Poor Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Leo A," 2002, The Astronomical Journal, 124, 896.

Igor O. Drozdovsky, Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Ulrich Hopp, Laura Greggio, and Mary M. Crone, "The Dwarf Irregular/Wolf-Rayet Galaxy NGC 4124 I. A New Distance, Stellar Content, and Global Parameters," 2002, The Astronomical Journal, 124, 811.

Mary M. Crone,  Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Ulrich Hopp, and Laura Greggio, "The Star Formation History of the Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy UGCA 290,"  2002, The Astrophysical Journal,  567, 258.

Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Ulrich Hopp,  Laura Greggio, Mary M. Crone, and Igor O. Drozdovsky, "A Near-Infrared Stellar Census of Blue compact Dwarf Galaxies: The Wolf-Rayet Galaxy I Zw 36", 2001, The Astronomical Journal, 212, 3007.

Igor O. Drozdovsky, Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Ulrich Hopp, Mary M. Crone, and Laura Greggio, "The Stellar Content of NGC 6789, A Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy in the Local Void," 2001, The Astrophysical Journal, 551, L135.

Mary M. Crone,  Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Ulrich Hopp, and Laura Greggio, "A Compact Population of Red Giants in the Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy UGCA 290," 2000, The Astrophysical Journal, 545, L31.

R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, U. Hopp, Laura Greggio, and Mary M. Crone, "A Near-Infrared Stellar Census of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: NICMOS Detection of Red Giants in the Wolf-Rayet Galaxy Markarian 178," 2000, The Astronomical Journal, 120, 171.

R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, U. Hopp, Laura Greggio, and Mary M. Crone, "A Near-Infrared Stellar Census of the Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy VII Zw 403," 1999, The Astronomical Journal, 118, 2705.

R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, U. Hopp,  Mary M. Crone, and Laura Greggio, "A Stellar Population Gradient in VII Zw 403 - Implications for the Formation of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies," 1999, The Astrophysical Journal, 525, 709.

R.E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Mary M. Crone and U. Hopp, "Baade's Red Sheet Resolved into stars with HST in the Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy VII Zw 403," 1998, The Astrophysical Journal, 493, L23.

Mary M. Crone, Fabio Governato, Jaochim Stadel and Thomas Quinn, "Prospects for Cosmology with cluster Mass Profiles," 1997, The Astrophysical Journal, 477, L5.      

Mary M. Crone, August E. Evrard and Douglas O. Richstone, "Substructure in Clusters as a Cosmological Test," 1996, The Astrophysical Journal, 467, 489.

Mary M. Crone and Margaret Geller, "Recent Evolution of Cluster Velocity Dispersions," 1995, The Astronomical Journal, 110, 21.

Mary M. Crone, August E. Evrard and Douglas O. Richstone, "The Cosmological Dependence of Cluster Density Profiles," 1994, The Astrophysical Journal, 434, 402.

August E. Evrard and Mary M Crone, "Previrialization," 1992, The Astrophysical Journal, 393, L1.

Mary M. Crone and Marc Sher, "The Environmental Impact of Vacuum Decay," 1991, The American Journal of Physics, 59, 25.