Asilomar 2010 Electronic Proceedings
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Programmatic Presentations
Monday, June 7
SOFIA Overview
Pamela M. Marcum, NASA SOFIA Project Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
SOFIA – a NASA HQ View
Jon A. Morse, Director Astrophysics Division, NASA HQ
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Second Generation SOFIA Instrument AO
Paul Hertz, Chief Scientist, Science Mission Directorate and SOFIA Program Scientist NASA HQ
Tuesday, June 8
First and Next Generation German Instruments
Alois Himmes, DLR SOFIA Development Program Manager, Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) SOFIA
First Generation Instruments
Eric E. Becklin, SOFIA Chief Science Advisor
Feedback
Thomas Roellig (Chair), Deputy NASA SOFIA Project Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
- Detector Needs for SOFIA
Harvey Moseley for the "Detector Group" - TeraHertz Array Receivers for Wide Field Spectroscopy on SOFIA
Christopher Walker for the "Array Receiver Group" - Next. Gen SOFIA Instruments for Star Formation
John Bally for the "Star Formation Group" - Polarimetry with SOFIA
John Vaillancourt for the "Polarimetry Group"
Workshop Summary
Steven Beckwith, Vice President for Research, University of California
Invited Science Reviews
The Interstellar Medium
- Supernovae and Their Remnants: Producers and Processors of Interstellar Dust
Eli Dwek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Interstellar Dust
A.G.G.M. Tielens, Leiden Observatory - Molecular Astrophysics
David Neufeld, Johns Hopkins University
Galaxies and Extragalactic Astronomy
- The Galactic Center
Paul Ho, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and CfA - The Potential of Star Forming Nearby Galaxies
Eva Schinnerer (MPIA) - Line Diagnostics of the Intermediate-z Universe
George Helou (Caltech)
Star Formation and Stellar Evolution
- Massive Star Formation
John Bally, University of Colorado - Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy for the Study of the Late States of Stellar Evolution
Sun Kwok, University of Hong Kong
Planets: Local and Distant
- Transiting Exoplanets with SOFIA
Drake Deming, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Solar System Science: SOFIA Second Generation Instrumentation Needs
Dale Cruikshank, NASA Ames Research Center
Contributed Posters
1. SOFIA First Generation Instruments
- 1.1. FORCAST
Terry Herter et al. - 1.2. GREAT
Rolf Güsten et al. - 1.3. FLITECAM
Ian McLean - 1.4. FIFI-LS - SOFIA's Facility Far-Infrared Spectrometer
Randolf Klein et al. - 1.5. HIPO: A High-speed Imaging Photometer for Occultations
Edward Dunham et al. - 1.6. CASIMIR, The Caltech Airborne Submillimeter Interstellar Media Investigations Receiver
M. L. Edgar et al. - 1.7. Status of the Echelon-cross-echelle spectrograph (EXES)
Matt J. Richter et al. - 1.8. HAWC: the facility far-IR camera for SOFIA
Marc Berthoud et al.
2. New Instruments and Upgrades
- 2.1. Lessons from AIRES for SOFIA Instrument Proposals
Edwin Erickson - 2.2. CASIMIR 1.2 THz channel characterization and future development
Alexandre Karpov et al. - 2.3. Approaches for Multi-Wavelength Far-Infrared Polarimetry with SOFIA
Darren Dowell et al. - 2.4. Mid-infrared Polarimetry
Chris Packham et al. - 2.5. µ-Spec: A Compact High Performance Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Spectrometer
Harvey Moseley et al.
3. Technology
- 3.1. A Miniature Crogenic Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer for Airborne and Space Applications
Thomas Nikola et al. - 3.2. Laser Frequency Comb Calibrator for High-Precision NIR Spectroscopy
Steve Osterman et al. - 3.3. Large Format, Far-IR Photodetector arrays for SOFIA
Jam Farhoomand et al. - 3.4. Large Format Bolometer Arrays for SOFIA Instruments
Christine Jhabvala et al. - 3.5. Quasi-optical devices for millimetre to FIR spectral range
Bruno Maffei et al. - 3.6. Compact THz local oscillator based on a quantum-cascade laser
Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers et al. - 3.7. THz Mixers with Very Wide IF Bandwidth
Neal Erickson et al. - 3.8. Facility Large Format Heterodyne Array for SOFIA
Christopher Walker et al. - 3.9. Development of a terahertz heterodyne receiver front-end with quantum cascade laser and hot electron bolometric mixer in a pulse tube cooler
Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers et al. - 3.10. Building Bigger, Better Instruments with Dry Cryostats
Dominic Benford and George Voellmer - 3.11. Taking Full Advantage of SOFIA Airtime: Technologies to Maximize THz Receiver Performance
Eric Bryerton et al.
4. Synergies, Observatories and Pathfinders
- 4.1. Ball Aerospace Infrared Technologies
Sarah Lipscy and Dennis Ebbets - 4.3. ALMA: The March to Early Science and Beyond
Alwyn Wootten et al. - 4.4. The Large Millimeter Telescope: Status and Outlook
Gopal Narayanan and Neal Erickson - 4.5. Florida IR Silicon immersion grating spectromeTer (FIRST) and its science
Jian Ge et al. - 4.6. GISMO, a groundbased testbed camera for large bolometer arrays
Johannes Staguhn et al. - 4.7. The Pathfinder High Resolution NIR Spectrograph at the Hobby Eberly Telescope: Exploring Radial Velocity Precision in the NIR with an Uncooled Instrument
Suvrath Mahadevan et al.
5. Science Applications and Diagnostics
- 5.1. Understanding the Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation
Richard Crutcher - 5.2. Mid-Infrared Spectropolarimetry with SOFIA
Terry J. Jones and Chris Packham - 5.3. Protostellar Disk Polarimetry
Megan Krejny et al. - 5.4. Mapping Magnetic Fields near Low-mass Protostars
Giles Novak et al. - 5.5. Far-Infrared Polarimetry from SOFIA
John E. Vaillancourt et al. - 5.6. SOFIA Follow-up to Spitzer Observations of the North American Nebula
D. M. Cole et al. - 5.7. Molecular Line Emission from Time-Dependent, Multi-fluid MHD Shock Waves
Wayne Roberge et al. - 5.8. Modelling the FIR-line emission of the ISM by clumpy cloud PDR-models
Jürgen Stutzki et al. - 5.9. Observing Exoplanets with SOFIA
Daniel Angerhausen and Alfred Krabbe - 5.10. Near- and mid-infrared (2.4 to 25 micron) spectroscopy of Solar System bodies
Joshua Emery et al. - 5.11. Lunar Occultations at Far-IR Wavelengths - A Niche for SOFIA?
Paul Harvey