Primary Area of Research

Detector development.

Massive stars.

Office

17-3153

Classes

ASTP-613 (Observational Techniques and Instrumentation)

Current Students

None currently

Recent Grants

Total recorded funding: $16,972,207

A Photon Counting Imaging Detector for NASA Exoplanet Missions

• Sponsor: NASA/APRA
• Amount: $133,000
• Years: 2015-2018

Phase II: New Infrared Detectors for Astrophysics

• Sponsor: NSF/ATI
• Amount: $1,983,212
• Years: 2015-2018

Recent Publications

All publications from 2015/2016 tracked on ADS:

• Probing the Dragonfish star-forming complex: the ionizing population of the young massive cluster Mercer 30
• Large format MBE HgCdTe on silicon detector development for astronomy
• Evolved massive stars in W33 and in GMC 23.3-0.3
• Massive Stars in the W33 Giant Molecular Complex
• The nature of FS CMa stars as revealed by host young clusters
• First detections of FS Canis Majoris stars in clusters. Evolutionary state as constrained by coeval massive stars
• VizieR Online Data Catalog: Candidate red supergiants in Galactic clusters (Messineo+, 2014)
• The Massive Star Population at the Center of the Milky Way
• Herschel/PACS: Constraining clumping in the intermediate wind region of OB stars

Collaborators

• Ben Davies
• Christine Trombley
• Francisco Najarro
• Diego de la Fuente