Papers, etc.
Wilson’s papers are at the Huntington Library. There is an oral history interview, conducted by David DeVorkin in 1978, at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives .
Other References: Historical
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Apt, Helmut A., “Solving Olin Wilson’s Mystery,” PASP 114, 559-62 (2002).
Griffin, R.F., “O.C. Wilson and His K-line Intensities,” Observatory 118, 145-53 (1998).
Hall, Jeffrey C., "Stellar Chromospheric Activity," Living Rev. Sol. Phys. 5, 2 (2008).
Hearnshaw, J. B., The Analysis of Starlight (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1986)
Noyes, R.W., “Olin C. Wilson and the Solar-Stellar Connection,” in Roberto Pallavicini & Andrea K. Dupree, eds., Cool Stars; Stellar Systems; and the Sun, Proceedings of the 9th Cambridge Workshop; held 3-6 October 1995 in Florence; Italy (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco,1996), pp. 3-10.
Other References: Scientific
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Merrill, Paul W. & Olin C. Wilson, Jr., ”Comparison of the Paschen and the Balmer Series of Hydrogen Lines in Stellar Spectra,” Ap.J. 80, 19-50 (1934) [Wilson’s doctoral dissertation].
Christie, William H. & O.C. Wilson, “ζ Aurigae: the Structure of a Stellar Atmosphere,” Ap.J. 81, 426 (1935).
Merrill, Paul W., Roscoe F. Sanford, O.C. Wilson, & Cora G. Burwell, “Intensities and Displacements of Interstellar Lines,” Ap.J. 86, 274-310 (1937).
Sanford, Roscoe F., & O.C. Wilson, “On the Doublet Ratio of Interstellar H and K and the Absolute Magnitudes of Wolf-Rayet Stars,” Ap.J. 90, 235-43 (1939).
Wilson, O.C., “Possible Applications of Supernovae to the Study of the Nebular Red Shifts,” Ap.J. 90, 634-36 (1939).
Wilson, O.C., “The New Cassegrain Spectrograph for the Mount Wilson 60-Inch Telescope,” PASP 68, 346-50 (1956).
Wilson, O.C. & M.K. Vainu Bappu, “H and K Emission in Late-Type Stars: Dependence of Line Width on Luminosity and Related Topics,” Ap.J. 125, 661-83 (1957). [reprinted in the centennial edition Ap.J. 525C, 753 (1999) with a modern commentary by Jeffrey L. Linsky]
Hoyle, F. & O.C. Wilson, “Some Theoretical Aspects of H and K Emission in Late-Type Stars,” Ap.J. 128, 604-15 (1958).
Wilson, O.C., “Chromospheric Variations in Main-Sequence Stars,” Ap.J. 226, 379-96 (1978) [an expanded version of the 1977 Henry Norris Russell Lecture].
Vaughan, Arthur H., George W. Preston, & Olin C. Wilson, “Flux Measurements of CA II H and K Emission,” PASP 90, 267-74 (1978).
Wilson, O.C., “Photoelectric Measures of Chromospheric H and K and Hε in Giant Stars,” Ap.J. 257, 179-92 (1982).
Duncan, Douglas K., et al, “CA II H and K measurements made at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1966–1983,” Ap.J. Supp. 76, 383-430 (1991).
Baliunas, S.L., et al, “Chromospheric Variations in Main-Sequence Stars. II,” Ap.J. 438, 269-87 (1995).
Other Works: Popularizations, Fiction, etc.
Wilson, Olin C., “Planetary Nebulae,” Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflets 6, 20-27 (1967) [Leaflet #253].
Wilson, O.C., A.H. Vaughan, & D. Mihalas, “The Activity Cycles of Stars,” Scientific American 244, 104 (1981).
Wilson, O., A. Vaughan, R. Kraft, & G. Preston, “Activity Cycles in Other Stars,” Sky & Telescope 62, 312 (1981).