Some of our Publications, Including Those Related to the Nebulae Displayed:



Martin, P.G., Rubin, R.H., Ferland, G.J., Dufour, R.J., O'Dell, C.R., Baldwin, J.A., Hester, J.J., & Walter, D.K., Extinction Corrections and the Decrement of the He I lines in the Orion Nebula. Bulletin AAS, 28, 1416, 1996



Baldwin, J.A., Crotts A., Dufour, R.J., Ferland, G.J., Heathcote, S., Hester, J.J., Korista, K.T., Martin, P.G., O'Dell, C.R., Rubin, R.H., Tielens, A.G.G.M., Verner, D.A., Verner, E.M., Walter, D.K., & Wen, Z., Physical Conditions in Low Ionization Regions of the Orion Nebula. Astrophysical Journal, 468, L115, 1996



Rubin, R.H., Dufour, R.J., Ferland, G.J., Martin, P.G., O'Dell, C.R., Baldwin, J.A., Hester, J.J., Walter, D.K., & Wen, Z., [Fe IV] in the Orion Nebula. Astrophysical Journal, 474, L131, 1997



Rubin, R.H., Dufour, R.J., Browning, M., & Harrington, J.P., HST Imagery and Temperature Fluctuations for the PN NGC 6818. Bulletin AAS, 30, 896, 1998



Rubin, R.H., Martin, P.G., Dufour, R.J., Ferland, G.J., Baldwin, J.A., Hester, J.J., & Walter, D.K., Temperature Variations and N/O in the Orion Nebula from HST Observations. Astrophysical Journal, 495, 891, 1998



Rubin, R.H., Colgan, S.W.J., Dufour, R.J., & Lord, S.D., The He+/H+ Abundance in the Orion Nebula from ISO Measurements. Astrophysical Journal, 501, L209, 1998



Baldwin, J.A., Verner, E.M., Verner, D.A., Ferland, G.J., Martin, P.G., Korista, K.T., & Rubin, R.H., High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Faint Emission Lines in the Orion Nebula. Astrophysical Journal Suppl., 129, 229, 2000



Rubin, R.H., Dufour, R.J., Martin, P.G., Ferland, G.J., Baldwin, J.A., Ortiz, C.O., & Walter, D.K., Temperature Variations and N+/O+ in the Orion Nebula II. The Collision Strengths. Proceedings of the Seventh Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics, Revista Mexicana de Astronomio y Astrofisica , eds. S. Torres-Peimbert & W. Lee, 10, 23, 2001



Rubin, R.H., Dufour, R.J., Geballe, T.R., Colgan, S.W.J., Harrington, J.P., Lord, S.D, Liao, A.L., & Levine, D.A., Infrared Spectroscopy of Atomic Lines in Gaseous Nebulae. Spectroscopy Challenges of Photoionized Plasmas, ASP Conference Series, eds. G.J. Ferland & D.W. Savin, 47, 479, 2001 (astro-ph/0109398)



Rubin, R.H., Bhatt, N.J., Dufour, R.J., Buckalew, B.A., Barlow, M.J., Liu, X.-W., Storey, P.J., Balick, B., Ferland, G.J., Harrington, J.P., & Martin, P.G., Temperature Variations from Hubble Space Telescope Imagery and Spectroscopy of NGC 7009. MNRAS, 334, 777, 2002



Rubin, R.H., Dufour, R.J., Colgan, S.W.J., Liao, A.L., Harrington, J.P., Levine, D.A., & Lord, S.D., Planetary Nebulae Results from the Infrared Space Observatory. Ionized Gaseous Nebulae, Serie de Conferencias, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, eds., W. Henney, J. Franco, M. Martos, & M. Pena, 12, 106, 2002



Rubin, R.H., Bhatt N.J., Dufour R.J., Buckalew B.A., Barlow M.J., Liu X.W., Storey P.J., Balick B., Ferland G.J., Harrington J.P., & Martin P.G., Temperature Variations from Hubble Space Telescope Imagery and Spectroscopy of NGC 7009. Planetary Nebulae: Their Evolution and Role in the Universe, IAU Symposium No. 209, ASP Conference Proceedings, eds. S. Kwok, M. Dopita, & R. Sutherland, 2002



Rubin, R.H., Martin, P.G., Dufour, R.J., Ferland, G.J., Blagrave, K.P.M., Liu, X.W., Nguyen, J.F., & Baldwin, J.A., Temperature Variations from Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of the Orion Nebula. MNRAS, 340, 362, 2003



Rubin, R.H., Ferland, G.J., Chollet, E.E., & Horstmeyer, R., 12C/13C Ratio in Planetary Nebulae from the IUE Archives. Astrophysical Journal, 605, 784, 2004



Rodríguez, M., & Rubin, R.H., The Ionization Equilibrium of Iron in H II Regions. Recycling Intergalactic and Interstellar Matter, IAU Symposium No. 217, ASP Conference Proceedings, eds. P.-A. Duc, J. Braine, & E. Brinks, p. 188, 2004 (astro-ph/0312246)



Rubin, R.H., Flux ratio [Ne V] 14.3/24.3 as a Test of Collision Strengths. Recycling Intergalactic and Interstellar Matter, IAU Symposium No. 217, ASP Conference Proceedings, eds. P.-A. Duc, J. Braine, & E. Brinks, p. 190, 2004 (astro-ph/0402447)



Simpson, J.P., Rubin, R.H., Colgan, S.W.J., Erickson, E.F., & Haas, M.R., On the Measurement of Elemental Abundance Ratios in Inner Galaxy H II Regions. Astrophysical Journal, 611, 338, 2004



Fischer, C.F., & Rubin, R.H., Breit-Pauli energy levels, transition probabilities, and lifetimes for 3d5 levels in Fe IV of astrophysical interest. MNRAS, 355, 461, 2004

Erratum MNRAS, 355, 1400, 2004



Cotera, A.S., Colgan, S.W.J., Simpson, J.P., & Rubin, R.H., The Interaction of the Galactic Center Arches Cluster and the Thermal Filaments. Astrophysical Journal, 622, 333, 2005



Zhang, Y., Liu, X.-W., Liu, Y., & Rubin, R.H., Helium recombination spectra as temperature diagnostics for planetary nebulae. MNRAS, 358, 457, 2005



Rodríguez, M., & Rubin, R.H., The [Fe IV] Discrepancy: Constraining the Iron Abundances in Nebulae. Astrophysical Journal, 626, 900, 2005



Zhang, Y., Rubin, R.H., & Liu, X.-W., Helium Recombination Lines as a Probe of Abundance and Temperature Problems. Proceedings of the Ninth Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics, Serie de Conferencias, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, eds. S. Torres-Peimbert & G. MacAlpine, 15, 23, 2005 (astro-ph/0506309)



De Marco, O., O'Dell, C.R., Gelfond, P., Rubin, R.H., & Glover, S.C.O., Cloud fragmentation and proplyd-like features in H II regions imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Astrophysical Journal, 131, 2580, 2006



Rubin, R.H., Simpson, J.P., Colgan, S.W.J., Dufour, R.J., Ray, K.L., Wakefield, B.F., Key, D.B., Erickson, E.F., Haas, M.R., & Pauldrach, A.W.A., Spitzer Observations of M83 and the Hot Star, H II Region Connection, in Planetary Nebulae in our Galaxy and Beyond, IAU Symposium 234, Eds. M.J. Barlow & R.H. Méndez, (Cambridge U. Press), p. 495, 2006



Simpson, J.P., Colgan, S.W.J., Cotera, A.S., Erickson, E.F., Hollenbach, D.J., Kaufman, M.J., & Rubin, R.H., Spitzer IRS Observations of the Galactic Center, in Galactic Center Workshop 2006 -- From the Center of the Milky Way to Nearby Low-Luminosity Galactic Nuclei. JPhys: Conf. Ser. 54, ed. R. Schödel, G.C. Bower, M.P. Muno, S. Nayakshin, & T. Ott, p. 161, 2006 (www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1742-6596/54/1)



Rubin, R.H., Simpson, J.P., Colgan, S.W.J., Dufour, R.J., Citron, R.I., Ray, K.L., Erickson, E.F., Haas, M.R., & Pauldrach, A.W.A., Spitzer Observations of M33 & M83 and the Hot Star, H II Region Connection, in Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time, IAU Symposium 235, Eds. F. Combes & J. Palous, (Cambridge U. Press) p. 326, 2006



Blagrave, K.P.M, Martin, P.G., Rubin, R.H., Dufour, R.J., Baldwin, J.A., Hester, J.J., & Walter, D.K., Deviations from He I Case B Recombination Theory and Extinction Corrections in the Orion Nebula. Astrophysical Journal, 655, 299, 2007



Rubin, R.H., Simpson, J.P., Colgan, S.W.J., Dufour, R.J., Ray, K.L., Erickson, E.F., M.R. Haas, M.R., Pauldrach, A.W.A., & Citron, R.I., Spitzer Observations of M83 and the Hot Star, H II Region Connection. MNRAS, 377, 1407, 2007



Simpson, J.P., Colgan, S.W.J., Cotera, A.S., Erickson, E.F., Hollenbach, D.J., Kaufman. M.J., & Rubin. R.H., Spitzer IRS Observations of the Galactic Center: Shocked Gas in the Radio Arc Bubble. Astrophysical Journal, 670, 1115, 2007



Rubin, R.H., Simpson, J.P., McNabb, I.A., Brunner, G., Colgan, S.W.J., Dufour, R.J., Pauldrach, A.W.A., Browne, A.D., Zhang, R., Csongradi, E.J., Observations of M33 H II Regions: the Ne/S ratio, metallicity, and ionization variations. Proceedings of Spitzer Conference on "The Evolving ISM in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies", 2008 (in press)



Rubin, R.H., Simpson, J.P., Colgan, S.W.J., Dufour, R.J., Brunner, G., McNabb, I.A., Pauldrach, A.W.A., Erickson, E.F., Haas, M.R., Citron, R.I., Spitzer observations of M33 and the hot star, H II region connection. MNRAS, 387, 45, 2008