Christine Patricia Allen Armiño is a Mexican astronomer whose research has included runaway stars including the Becklin–Neugebauer Object,[A][D] the overall distribution of mass in the Milky Way and its effects on stellar orbits,[B] binary and multiple star systems,[C] and the applications of binary star observations in testing physical theories.[E] She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the editor of the Mexican Magazine of Astronomy and Astrophysics.[1]
The galactic mass distribution model she developed with Alfredo Santillán[B] has been called the Allen–Santillán model.[2]