Research

Instrumentation & Device Development

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment

EXES: mid-IR spectrograph

Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics

IGRINS

GMTNIRS

Instrumentation & Device Development

Faculty/Scientists

Publications


ADS
 |  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

Research Fellow

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

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.

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

Staff

Publications


 

Cynthia Brooks

Research Engineer/Scientist Associate IV

Group Areas

Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, IGRINS, GMTNIRS


 

Dave Perry

Resarch Engineer/Scientist Associate III, BME

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


 

Richard Savage

Project Manager

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment


 

Brian Vattiat

Research Engineer/Scientist Associate III

Group Areas

HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment

Undergraduate Students

Publications