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White Dwarf Stars and the Age of the Galaxy

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EXES: mid-IR Spectrograph for SOFIA

Spitzer Legacy Project - c2d

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EXES

Publications


ARTICLES

The first detection of propane on Saturn
Greathouse, Lacy, Bezard, Moses, Richter, & Knez (2006) Icar, 181, 266.
[available here]

Water Vapor on Betelgeuse as Revealed by TEXES High-Resolution 12 Micron Spectra
Ryde, Harper, Richter, Greathouse, & Lacy (2006) ApJ, 637, 1040.
[available here]

H2 Pure Rotational Lines in the Orion Bar
Allers, Jaffe, Lacy, Draine, Richter (2005) ApJ, 630, 368.
[available here]

Infrared imaging spectroscopy of Mars: H2O mapping and determination of CO2 isotopic ratios
Encrenaz, Bezard, Owen, Lebonnois, Lef̬vre, Greathouse, Richter, Lacy, Atreya, Wong, & Forget (2005) Icar, 179, 43.
[available here]

Latitudinal and seasonal models of stratospheric photochemistry on Saturn: Comparison with infrared data from IRTF/TEXES
Moses & Greathouse (2005) JGRE, 110, 9007.
[available here]

Meridional variations of temperature, C2H2 and C2H6 abundances in Saturn's stratosphere at southern summer solstice
Greathouse, Lacy, Bezard, Moses, Griffith, & Richter (2005) Icar, 177, 18.
[available here]

Mass Flows in Cometary Ultracompact H II Regions
Zhu, Lacy, Jaffe, Richter, & Greathouse (2005) ApJ, 631, 381.
[available here]

Mid-infrared detection of large longitudinal asymmetries in Io's SO2 atmosphere
Spencer, Lellouch, Richter, Lopez-Valverde, Lea Jessup, Greathouse, & Flaud (2005) Icar, 176, 283.
[available here]

Observations of Titan's Mesosphere
Griffith, Penteado, Greathouse, Roe, & Yelle (2005) ApJ, 629, L57.
[available here]

Measurements of CH3D and CH4 in Titan from Infrared Spectroscopy
Penteado, Griffith, Greathouse, & de Bergh (2005) ApJ, 629, L53.
[available here]

Hydrogen peroxide on Mars: evidence for spatial and seasonal variations
Encrenaz, Bezard, Greathouse, Richter, Lacy, Atreya, Wong, Lebonnois, Lefevre, & Forget (2004) Icar, 170, 424.
[available here]

Kinematics of Ultracompact H II Regions Revealed: High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Mapping of the 12.8 Micron [Ne II] Line in Monoceros R2
Jaffe, Zhu, Lacy, & Richter (2003) ApJ, 596, 1053.
[available here]

Propane on Titan
Roe, Greathouse, Richter, & Lacy (2003) ApJ, 597, L65.
[available here]

A stringent upper limit of the H2O2 abundance in the Martian atmosphere
Encrenaz, Greathouse, Bezard, Atreya, Wong, Richter, & Lacy (2002) A&A, 396, 1037.
[available here]

Looking for Pure Rotational H_2 Emission from Protoplanetary Disks
Richter, Jaffe, Blake, & Lacy (2002) ApJ, 572, L161.
[available here]

TEXES: A Sensitive High-Resolution Grating Spectrograph for the Mid-Infrared
Lacy, Richter, Greathouse, Jaffe, & Zhu (2002) PASP, 114, 153.
[available here, here, and here ]

High Sensitivity, High Spectral Resolution, Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
Richter, Lacy, Jaffe, Greathouse, & Zhu (2001) to appear in ASP Conference Series: Astronomical Instrumentation and the Birth and Growth of Astrophysics.
[available here]

Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy with SOFIA, EXES, and TEXES
Richter, Lacy, Greathouse, & Jaffe (2001) in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 10, 53.
[available here]

EXES: a progress report on the development of a high-resolution mid-infrared grating spectrograph for SOFIA
Richter, Lacy, Jaffe, Greathouse, & Hemenway (2000) SPIE conference on IR instrumentation (Munich, March 2000).
[available here (pdf) 0.5 Mb]

EXES: A Versatile Mid-infrared Spectrograph for SOFIA
Lacy, Richter, Jaffe, and Hemenway (1999) in Workshop on Thermal Emission Spectroscopy and Analysis of Dust, Disks, and Regoliths, 3043.

EXES: an echelon cross echelle spectrograph for SOFIA
Richter, Lacy, Jaffe, Hemenway, & Yu (1998) in SPIE conference on IR instrumentation (Kona, March 1998).
[available here (pdf) 0.5 Mb]

Texas echelon cross echelle spectrograph
Lacy, Richter, Yu, & Basso (1998) in SPIE conference on IR instrumentation (Kona, March 1998).
[available here]


ABSTRACTS

A search for H2O2 in the Martian Atmosphere
T. Encrenaz, T. Greathouse, B. Bezard, S. Atreya, and M. Richter, European Geophysical Society Meeting 27, EGS02-A-01900, 2002.
[available here (pdf)]

Observations of Infrared Molecular Lines Toward the Massive Protostar GL 2591
C. Knez, A. M. S. Boonman, J. H. Lacy, N. J. Evans II, and M. J. Richter, American Astronomical Society Meeting 199, 134.10, 2002.
[available here]

Searching for Pure-Rotational H2 Emission near Young Stars
M. J. Richter, D. T. Jaffe, G. A. Blake, and J. H. Lacy, American Astronomical Society Meeting 199, 60.05, 2002.
[available here]

Detection of Ethylene (C2H4) on Jupiter and Saturn in Non-Auroral Regions B. Bezard, J. I. Moses, J. Lacy, T. Greathouse, M. Richter, and C. Griffith, DPS Meeting 33, 22.07, 2001.
[available here]

Spectral images of Jupiter's stratosphere, its temperature field and major coolants
Greathouse, Griffith, Lacy, Richter, and Bezard, DPS Meeting 33, 11.25, 2001.
[available here]

Diameters of Miras and Red Giants Measured by Narrow Bandwidth Mid-IR Interferometry
Weiner, Hale, Townes, and Lacy, American Astronomical Society Meeting 198, 22.02, 2001.
[available here]

TEXES: The Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph
Lacy, Richter, Greathouse, and Jaffe, American Astronomical Society Meeting 197, 15.09, 2001.
[available here]

Education/Public Outreach with the Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (EXES)
M. K. Hemenway, J. H. Lacy, D. T. Jaffe, M. J. Richter, K. Green, J. L. Harkrider, C. L. Lutsinger, E. Noid, R. Penn, L. Shepherd, R. Suder, M. J. Tykoski, and M. J. Willis, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30, 1291, 1998.
[available here]


PRESS RELEASES

EXES Teachers Program (Jan 1999) [available here (pdf)]