Astrophysics
Most of the research done by members of the IRA is performed at the Hale 200-inch Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California and the two 10-m Keck Telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. We work in the "near infrared" range of the electromagnetic spectrum between wavelengths of 1 and 10 microns.
Some Research projects include:
- Infared spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei
- Imaging and spectroscopy of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
- High-resolution speckle imaging of AGN
- Imaging and photometry of quasars
- Imaging and photometry of Galactic compact objects
- Development of instrumentation
Instrumentation available in our group includes:
- 256x256 NICMOS Camera with grism and broad and narrow filters
- 256x256 SBRC InSb Camera with grism, CVF and broad band filters
- Long Slit Spectrometer
- Integral Field Spectrograph
Because no astronomy WWW page should be allowed to exist without some pretty pictures, we also have (under construction) an image gallery with a few inlined and external images.
IR/submm/mm sack lunch talk schedule.
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Gallery of Individuals
Faculty
- George Helou
- Gerry Neugebauer
- B. Thomas Soifer
Post Doctoral Fellow
- Alessandra Contursi
- Danny Dale
- Eiichi Egami
- Marcin Sawicki
- Dave Thompson
Graduate Students
Member Of The Professional Staff
- Keith "Full Service" Matthews
Staff Members
- Doug Warden
- Sean Lin
- Dustin Ericksen
Softball
Our softball team is a traditionally, shall we say, relaxed, summer pastime of the infrared/sub-millimeter groups. It's captain in recent years has been Alycia Weinberger. This team is traditionally a participant in the D-League anti-playoffs, which is saying something.Other relevant WWW pages
The Caltech Submillimeter ObservatoryThe Caltech Astronomy Department
egami@monk.caltech.edu