– SMC: 5→20 (bumps rare) – M31/M33 (like MW) • Near- & Mid-IR – In prep (2020!) Gordon et al. (2009, ApJ, 705, 1320) Gordon et al. (2003, ApJ, 594, 279) Extension to 912 A – still rising! LMC/SMC do not follow MW R(V) relation
104) Baysian Extinction And Stellar Tool Focused on fitting millions of SEDs of stars in nearby galaxies PHAT, SMIDGE, Scylla, ... https://github.com/BEAST-Fitting/beast https://github.com/BEAST-Fitting/megabeast Broad wavelength coverage breaks degeneracies
Red Emission – Photoluminescence – Present in diffuse ISM – Carbonaceous grains? – Silicon nanoparticles? • New feature (1.5 micron) – Iron? • JWST GTO/ERS – Excitation wavelengths For aromatic/PAHs, aliphatics, new features! Gordon et al. (2000, ApJ, 544, 859) NW filament in reflection nebula NGC 7023
Provided the tool I’ve always wanted to handle (correlated) data uncertainties – Priors allow for quantifying assumptions – BEAST, DustBFF, DGFit, … • Distributed coding – DIRTY early example (two coders) – BEAST the forcing function – Python in Astronomy meeting – Skill, not just tools
years – 4 before launch, 4 after • Instrument team data reduction pipeline lead – MIPS DAT – Team included Chad Engelbracht, Karl Misselt, Jane Morrison, James Muzerolle • Lead the 70 micron absolute flux calibration • Lots of science – Focused on nearby galaxies
• Early years included all instrument aspects – Operations, user interaction, data reduction • Now focus on data reduction and calibration – Lead of JWST Baseline Pipeline → algorithms for all instruments – Lead of JWST AbsFlux WG → surface brightness/flux calibration for all instruments
– Testing power electronics in high radiation environments – Hot star Teff, logg from spectroscopy • MS, PhD in Physics (Univ. of Toledo – Ohio) – Extended Red Emission in the Diffuse ISM – Dust radiative transfer – Echelle spectroscopy of stars with 1m telescope • Postdoc, Geoff Clayton (Louisiana State Univ) – Extinction curves, grant writing, observing • Research staff, George Rieke (Univ. of Arizona) – Instrumentation, data reduction pipelines • Astronomer (STScI)