Professor Adam Ginsburg

I am a Waldo W. Neikirk Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Florida's Department of Astronomy. I am also the Graduate Coordinator. I research massive star and cluster formation, astrochemistry, the IMF, turbulence, and the Central Molecular Zone.

I am supported by

the University of Florida
Astropy Moore Foundation Grant "Sustaining and Growing the Astropy Project"
NSF AST grant 2008101 "How are stellar masses set?"
NSF CAREER grant 2142300, "Mass Measurements in the Galaxy"
NSF AST grant 2206511, "ACES Galactic Center Mass Flow."
Space Telescope Science Institute observer support for JWST programs 1905, 2221, 3523, 5365, and 6151.

These grants support the data processing and analysis of two ALMA large programs, ALMA-IMF and ACES, that each require about 250 TB of storage on the University of Florida's HiPerGator high performance computing system. My group has led the data processing efforts on both programs.

I am a member of the James Webb Space Telescope Users Committee (JSTUC), so please contact me if you have constructive feedback to offer the JWST scientific management.

In Spring 2024, I taught Star Formation.
In Fall 2024, I teach AST 4723: Observational Techniques II.

News highlights:

[4/24] We discovered a Millimeter Ultra-Broad Line Object (MUBLO)! We don't know what it is yet (we're "flummoxed"). Stay tuned! Coverage in: [metro][msn][popular mechanics][daily mail]
[4/24] My group has two successful JWST Cycle 3 programs, one led by Nazar Budaiev to map Sgr B2 and one led by Taehwa Yoo to measure the (pre)IMF in W51. These are both critical targets for JWST!
[1/24] My student Theo Richardson has updated a grid of YSO models (the Robitaille grid)
[1/24] My student Desmond Jeff found ten new Hot Cores (high-mass protostars) in Sgr B2 DS
[3/24] We have a press release on JWST observations of The Brick with an associated WorldWide Telescope CosmicDS MiniStory. It was picked up by CNN and Inverse
[9/23] My student Savannah Gramze found evidence of colliding gas flows along the Galactic bar
[9/23] My student Nazar Budaiev found hundreds of YSOs in Sgr B2
[8/23] Our article on CO gas and ice in The Brick has received some press coverage including a podcast episode on Universe Today. Check out our before/after star removal slider.
[8/23] My student Alyssa Bulatek identified a methanol line as a dasar in G0.253+0.016, aka "The Brick"
[5/23] I've made some data visualizations zooming in to the ACES [WARNING: LARGE!] and ALMA-IMF data sets. Use keyboard arrows or swipe to flick between slides.
[4/23] I'm featured in two Explore videos by the UF museum
[11/22] We found salt (NaCl and KCl) around the 15 solar mass Orion Source I (and eight others) and CS masers around W51e2e, which have been partly explained and may trace the disk around the most massive YSOs accreting today, which is kept small by 'chaotic', asymmetric inflow.
[6/22] ALMA-IMF has published its first data release and initial results .
[12/21] The ALMA development study "Linking CASA to the astropy ecosystem" has resulted in many improvements to the radio-astro-tools suite, especially spectral-cube. Check out our tutorials.
[8/21] In Spring through Summer 2021, I co-hosted a talk series on Star Formation in the CMZ.