Submillimeter Astrophysics Group at Cornell

People:

• Prof. Gordon Stacey (PI)
• Thomas Nikola (Research Associate)
• Graduate Students:
  • Steven Hailey-Dunsheath
  • Tom Oberst
• Engineer:
  • Stephen Parshley (South Pole Winter Over 2005)
• Master Students:
  • Danette Fitzgerald
  • Laura Hall
• Current and recent undergraduate students
  • Ashley Blum
  • Yu Gu
  • Steve Wilkening
  • Tanja Bode
  • Amy Shaw
  • Carl Ferkinhoff

Projects:

• SPIFI: The South Pole Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometer
• ZEUS: High-Redshift (Z) Early Universe Spectrometer

Selected Publications:

• Oberst, T.E., Parshley, S.C., Stacey, G.J., Nikola, T., Loehr, A., Harnett, J.I., Tothill, N.F.H., Lane, A.P., Stark, A.A., Tucker, C.E., "Detection of the 205 micron [N II] Line from the Carina Nebula", 2006, ApJ, 652L, 125
• Stacey, G.J., Golwala, S.R., Bradford, C.M., Dowell, C.D., Cortes-Medellin, G., Nikola, T., Zmuidzinas, J., Herter, T.L., Radford, S.J., Lloyd, J.P., Blain, A.W., Brown, R.L., Campbell, D.B., Giovanelli, R., Goldsmith, P., Harvey, P.M., Henderson, C., Langer, W.D., Phillips, T.G., Readhead, A.C.S., Woody, D.P. "Instrumentation for the CCAT Telescope", 2006, SPIE, 6275, 47, (Full Paper)
• Bradford, C.M., Stacey, G.J., Nikola, T., Bolatto, A.D., Jackson, J.M., Savage, M.L., and Davidson, J.A., "High Resolution Imaging of CO (J=7->6) in the Central 2pc of the Galaxy: Dynamical Heating of the Circumnuclear Disk", 2005, ApJ., 623, 866
• Bradford, C. M., Nikola, T., Stacey, G. J., Bolatto, A. D., Jackson, J. M., Savage, M. L., Davidson, J. A., Higdon, S. J., "CO (J=7->6) Observations of NGC 253: Cosmic-Ray-heated Warm Molecular Gas", 2003, ApJ, 586, 891
• ZEUS Poster
• Stacey, G.J., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Nikola, T., Parshley, S.C., Benford, D., Moseley, S.H., Staguhn, J.G., and Shafer, R.A. "ZEUS: The Redshift (Z) and Early Universe Spectrometer", 2004, SPIE, 5498, 232, (Full Paper)
• Nikola, T., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Stacey, G.J., Benford, D.J., Moseley, S.H., Jr., Staguhn, J.G., "ZEUS: A Submillimeter Grating Spectrometer for Exploring Distant Galaxies", 2003, SPIE, 4855, 88, (Full Paper)
• Bradford, C. M., Stacey, G.J., Swain, M.R., Nikola, T., Bolatto, A.D., Jackson, J.M., Savage, M.L., Davidson, J.A., Ade, P.A.R., "SPIFI: A Direct-detection Imaging Spectrometer for Submillimeter Wavelengths", 2002, ApOpt, 41, 2561
• Swain, M.R., Bradford, C.M., Stacey, G.J., Bolatto, A.D., Jackson, J.M., Savage, M.L., Davidson, J.A., "Design of the South Pole Imaging Fabry-Perot interferometer (SPIFI)", 1998, SPIE, 3354, 480