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Michael William Feast

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British-South African astronomer (1926–2019)

Michael William Feast
Born(1926-12-29)29 December 1926
Deal, Kent, England
Died1 April 2019(2019-04-01) (aged 92)
Cape Town, South Africa
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Michael William Feast (29 December 1926[1][2] – 1 April 2019) was a British-South African astronomer. He served as Director of theSouth African Astronomical Observatory from 1976–1992, then became a professor at theUniversity of Cape Town.[3]

His research focussed on the structure of theMilky Way, theMagellanic Clouds, and thecosmic distance ladder using variable stars.[4][5]

Career and honours

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Feast holds the degrees of BSc (Hons) and PhD from London[6] From 1949 to 1951 he worked withGerhard Herzberg at theNational Research Council inOttawa, Ontario, Canada, following which from 1952 to 1974 he was at theRadcliffe Observatory, Pretoria[7] He was also director of theSouth African Astronomical Observatory from 1976 to 1992.[8]

He received the DeBeers Medal[9] from the South African Institute of Physics in 1992 and the Gill Medal from theAstronomical Society of Southern Africa in 1983.[10][11] Feast was an Honorary Fellow of theRoyal Astronomical Society,[1]Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.[12] The University of Cape Town awarded him an honoraryDoctor of Science degree in 1993.[13] Feast was an editor of the journalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.[14]

His most frequently cited paper (440 times[15]) relates to his pioneering study of the brightest stars in the Magellanic Clouds with Thackeray and Wesselink;[16] see, for example, Hodge (1999).[17]

Much of his work has related to the Cepheidperiod-luminosity relation,[18] for example that on its zero-point as determined via theHipparcos satellite[19]

He died in his sleep on 1 April 2019, aged 92.[1]

References

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  1. ^abcWhitelock, Patricia (1 June 2019)."Michael William Feast 1926–2019".Astronomy & Geophysics.60 (3): 3.12.Bibcode:2019A&G....60c3.12W.doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atz143.
  2. ^Uwechue, Raph (1991).Africa Who's who. Africa Journal Limited. p. 665.ISBN 978-0-903274-17-3.
  3. ^"Honorary Professor Michael W. Feast". Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town. Retrieved18 March 2013.
  4. ^Warner, Brian (1999). Warner, B. (ed.).Introduction. Variable Stars and Galaxies, a Symposium in Honour of Professor Michael W. Feast ..., Conference Series Vol.30.Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
  5. ^Webb, Stephen (1999).Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder. Springer. p. 155.ISBN 9781852331061.
  6. ^Feast, Michael.On the Spectra of Gases Exhibited in the High Voltage Arc (PhD). University of London.
  7. ^Thackeray, A.D. (1972).The Radcliffe Observatory. The Radcliffe Trust..
  8. ^"South African Astronomical Observatory". Archived fromthe original on 28 September 2013.
  9. ^"Past winners of the De Beers Gold Medal". South African Institute of Physics. Retrieved18 March 2013.
  10. ^Anon (1983). "Citation".Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa.42: 16.Bibcode:1983MNSSA..42...16.
  11. ^"Gill Medal". Astronomical Society of South Africa. Archived fromthe original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved18 March 2013.
  12. ^"Royal Society of SA Fellows". Royal Society of South Africa. Archived fromthe original on 14 August 2012. Retrieved18 March 2013.
  13. ^"Honorary degrees awarded". University of Cape Town. Archived fromthe original on 4 March 2013. Retrieved18 March 2013.
  14. ^"RAS Committee Members".RAS website.Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved3 September 2013.
  15. ^"SAO/NASA ADS Custom Query Form Mon Mar 18 14:32:27 2013". Adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved18 March 2013.
  16. ^Feast, M.W.; Thackeray, A.D.; Wesselink, A.J. (1960)."The Brightest Stars in the Magellanic Clouds".Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.121 (4):337–385.Bibcode:1960MNRAS.121..337F.doi:10.1093/mnras/121.4.337.
  17. ^Hodge, Paul (1999). Chu, Y.H.; et al. (eds.).Magellanic Cloud Studies, Past and Future. New Views of the Magellanic Clouds, IAU Symposium 190. Vol. 190.IAU. pp. 3–7.
  18. ^Feast, M.W.; Walker, A.R. (1987). "Cepheids as Distance Indicators".Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.25. Annual Reviews Inc:345–375.Bibcode:1987ARA&A..25..345F.doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.25.090187.002021.
  19. ^Feast, M.W.; Catchpole, R.M. (1997)."The Cepheid period-luminosity zero-point from HIPPARCOS trigonometrical parallaxes".Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.286 (1): L1.Bibcode:1997MNRAS.286L...1F.doi:10.1093/mnras/286.1.L1.
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