Instrumentation & Device Development

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment

EXES: mid-IR spectrograph

Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics

IGRINS

GMTNIRS

Instrumentation & Device Development

Faculty/Scientists

Publications


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 |  astro-ph

Karl Gebhardt

Professor

Research Interests

Formation and evolution of galaxies; dynamics of stellar systems; study of supermassive black holes.

Group Areas

Black Holes & AGN, Dark Matter, HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


ADS
 |  astro-ph

Mary Kay Hemenway

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

Astronomy education.

Group Areas

EXES: mid-IR spectrograph


ADS
 |  astro-ph

Gary Hill

Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests

Observational cosmology; radio galaxies and quasars; astronomical instrumentation.

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


ADS
 |  astro-ph

Daniel Jaffe

Professor

Research Interests

Infrared spectroscopy of protostars and star forming clouds; submillimeter observations of interstellar gas, star formation regions, and protostars; physics of the dense interstellar medium; instrumentation for infrared spectroscopy.

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, Spitzer Legacy Project: c2d, HII Regions & Planetary Nebulae, IGRINS, Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, GMTNIRS, EXES: mid-IR spectrograph


ADS
 |  astro-ph

Eiichiro Komatsu

Professor

Research Interests

Cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and polarization; inflationary scenarios of the early universe; alternative theories of gravity; radio band observational cosmology.

Group Areas

Early Universe, Structure Formation, HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


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 |  astro-ph

John Lacy

Professor

Research Interests

Infrared astronomical spectroscopy; infrared studies of interstellar molecules; studies of ionized gas in the Galactic Center; development of high-resolution infrared spectrographs.

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, HII Regions & Planetary Nebulae, Spitzer Legacy Project: Gould's Belt, EXES: mid-IR spectrograph


ADS
 |  astro-ph

Hanshin Lee

Research Associate

Research Interests

Astronomical instrumentation; focal-plane wide-field wavefront sensing; active alignment control of imaging systems; adaptive image compensation/recovery; phase-retrieval.

Group Areas

Instrumentation, HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment, IGRINS, GMTNIRS


ADS
 |  astro-ph

Phillip MacQueen

Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests

Instrumentation, CCD detectors, exoplanets, the Galaxy halo.


 

Soojong Pak

Visiting Professor

Group Areas

IGRINS, GMTNIRS


 

Insoo Yuk

Research Fellow

Group Areas

IGRINS, GMTNIRS

Postdocs

Publications


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 |  astro-ph

Sarah Tuttle

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

Intergalactic Medium; Galaxy formation and evolution; Large Scale Structure; Matter distribution in galaxies.

Group Areas

Instrumentation, Star Formation (Extragalactic), Secular Evolution, HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment

Graduate Students

Publications


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 |  astro-ph

Taylor Chonis

Graduate Student

Research Interests

Astronomical Instrumentation, Properties of Lyman-Alpha Emitters, Stellar Tidal Streams in the Local Volume.

Group Areas

Instrumentation, Galaxy Mergers, HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


ADS
 |  astro-ph

Michael Gully-Santiago

Graduate Student

Research Interests

Discovery and characterization of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs; star and planet formation; infrared astronomical spectroscopy; innovative technologies for astronomical instrumentation; electron beam lithography; semiconductor processing; optical metrology

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, IGRINS, Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, GMTNIRS


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 |  astro-ph

Jeremy Murphy

Graduate Student

Research Interests

Galaxy dynamics and dark matter halos. Fiber optics testing for the VIRUS instrument.

Group Areas

Dark Matter, Stellar Populations, Instrumentation, HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment

Staff

Publications


 

Cynthia Brooks

Research Engineer/Scientist Associate IV

Group Areas

Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, IGRINS, GMTNIRS


 

Walter Moreira

Senior Software Engineer

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


 

Dave Perry

Resarch Engineer/Scientist Associate III, BME

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


 

Marc Rafal

HETDEX Project Manager

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment, IGRINS, GMTNIRS


 

Tom Rafferty

Project Coordinator

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


 

Richard Savage

Project Manager

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


 

Trey Taylor

Software Engineer

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


 

Brian Vattiat

Research Engineer/Scientist Associate III

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment

Undergraduate Students

Publications