Assistant Professor

Contact

(205) 348-3791
jairwin@ua.edu
Office: 311B Gallalee Hall
Fax: (205) 348-5050

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Alabama, Box 870324, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0324

Education

B.S. 1992, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Indiana University
M.S. 1995, Astronomy, University of Virginia
Ph.D. 1997, Astronomy, University of Virginia

Research Interests

• Hot Gas Around Supermassive Black Holes
• X-ray Binary Populations of Galaxies
• Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
• Intermediate-Mass black holes
• X-ray Emission From Hot Gas in Early-type Galaxies
• Clusters/Groups of Galaxies

In the News

NASA's Chandra Observatory Images Gas Flowing Toward Black Hole

Massive Black Hole Implicated in Stellar Destruction

Research Group

Evan Million - postdoc - 2010-present
Ka-Wah Wong - postdoc - 2010-present
Mihoko Yukita - postdoc - 2010-present
Yuanyuan Su - graduate student - 2009-present
Beidi Peng - graduate student - 2011-present

Teaching