Christine Patricia Allen Armiño is a Mexican astronomer whose research has included runaway stars including the Becklin–Neugebauer Object,[A][D] the overall distribution of mass in the Milky Way and its effects on stellar orbits,[B] binary and multiple star systems,[C] and the applications of binary star observations in testing physical theories.[E] She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the editor of the Mexican Magazine of Astronomy and Astrophysics.[1]

The galactic mass distribution model she developed with Alfredo Santillán[B] has been called the Allen–Santillán model.[2]

Recognition

Allen is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[3] UNAM gave her their Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz prize in 2008.[4]

Selected publications

References

  1. Biographical Sketch, UNAM Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2022-12-07
  2. Bajkova, A. T.; Bobylev, V. V. (September 2016), "Rotation curve and mass distribution in the Galaxy from the velocities of objects at distances up to 200 kpc", Astronomy Letters, 42 (9): 567–582, arXiv:1607.08050, Bibcode:2016AstL...42..567B, doi:10.1134/s1063773716090012
  3. Astronomy section members (PDF), Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-07
  4. Awards, UNAM Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2022-12-07
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