Anne Pyne Cowley is an American astronomer known for her spectroscopic observations of stars and stellar black holes, including the 1983 discovery of a likely black hole in LMC X-3, an X-ray binary star system in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This became the first known extragalactic stellar black hole,[1][2] and the second known stellar black hole after Cygnus X-1.[2] She is a professor emerita at Arizona State University.[3]

Education and career

Cowley is a 1959 graduate of Wellesley College, where she became interested in astronomy after taking a general education course on the subject. She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study in astronomy, earned a Ph.D. there, and met her eventual husband, astronomer Charles R. Cowley.[1]

She continued as a researcher at the University of Chicago until 1967, when she returned to the University of Michigan as a research scientist. In 1983, she took a professorship at Arizona State University.[1]

Recognition

In 1986, Wellesley College gave Cowley their Alumnae Achievement Award.[1] She was named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Anne Pyne Cowley '59", Alumnae Achievement Awards 1986, Wellesley College, retrieved 2022-05-28
  2. ^ a b Sullivan, Walter (January 7, 1983), "'Black hole' star is believed found", The New York Times, retrieved 2022-05-28
  3. ^ "Anne Cowley", iSearch, Arizona State University, retrieved 2022-05-28
  4. ^ AAS Fellows, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-05-28
  5. ^ ASU professors among first class of American Astronomical Society Fellows, Arizona State University, March 5, 2020, retrieved 2022-05-28
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