Results for "McDonald Observatory"

The Observatory is equipped with a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation for imaging and spectroscopy in the optical and infrared, and operates one of the first and most productive lunar ranging stations.

Website: http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/mcdonald.html

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Faculty

George Benedict

Affiliated Departments:
Astronomy
Research Interests:

Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry, Extragalactic Astronomy, Outer Planet Satellite Astrometry, Lunar Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (LUTE)

Michael Endl

Affiliated Departments:
Astronomy
Research Interests:

Detection of Extrasolar Planets

Gary Hill

Affiliated Departments:
Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
Research Interests:

Observational cosmology; radio galaxies and quasars; astronomical instrumentation
Hill is also a Project Scientist for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Low-Resolution Spectrograph and the Prime Focus Instrument…

Phillip Macqueen

Affiliated Departments:
Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
Research Interests:

Instrumentation, CCD detectors; stellar abundances.

Barbara McArthur

Affiliated Departments:
Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
Research Interests:

HST Astrometry;
search for extrasolar planets.

Michael H Montgomery

Affiliated Departments:
Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences, Physics
Research Interests:

asteroseismology/determination of internal structure (e.g., chemical profiles, crystallization, convection) of stars; laboratory astrophysics of measurements of line profiles and opacities; cooling theory/age dating…

Stephen Odewahn

Affiliated Departments:
Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
Research Interests:

The Galaxy Image Library
A Study of Isolated Galaxies
Dwarf Hunting in Abell 868
Studies of the Coma cluster
The Mid-UV Morphology of Galaxies
Star-Galaxy Counts North and South of the…