ApJ
catdynamics | December 20, 2012The venerable Astrophysical Journal, Letters has a new editor: Prof. Fred Rasio.
Fred is the 4th editor in the journal's 45 year existence. The Letters are for the publication of rapid, short papers, which are timely, and often somewhat speculative.
Fred takes over from Chris Sneden, who did a fabulous job over the last decade, having replaced Alexander Dalgarno, who reigned over the Letters for three decades, having taken over from the first editor, Don Osterbrock when Don became Director of Lick Observatory.
Fred has published the traditional First Editorial - editorials by actual editors…