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[SAGE-LMC]
[SAGE-Spec]
[SAGE-SMC]
[30 Doradus ]
[HERITAGE ]
Principal Investigator: Margaret Meixner, STScI
| Margaret Meixner is the Principal Investigator of the SAGE
project. She is an Associate Astronomer at Space Telescope
Science Institute where she supports the James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST) project. She is a member of the science
team for Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on JWST. Her main
scientific interest is circumstellar matter found in the
youngest, forming stars and the oldest, dying stars. She
also has a long standing interest in building infrared
instrumentation. She will use the SAGE data to study the
nature of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)
and the process of mass loss return by the evolved, dying
stellar population to the interstellar medium of the LMC.
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- Co-Investigator: Karl Gordon, STScI
| Karl Gordon is an Assistant Astronomer at Space Telescope Science
Institute. His main scientific research interests are in the field of
interstellar dust, including the observational properties of dust grains
(eg., extinction curves, Extended Red Emission, and infrared dust
emission) and radiative transfer in dusty systems (eg., reflection
nebulae and galaxies). The Magellanic Clouds are obvious bridges between
work on Milky Way dust and dust in other galaxies. He is the PI of the
SAGE-SMC team. Functionally, he helps with the MIPS reductions and
point source creation for SAGE-LMC and SAGE-SMC and leads the reduction
of the MIPS SED data and IRS extended source data for SAGE-Spec.
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- Co-Investigator: Edward Churchwell, University of Wisconsin
| Ed Churchwell is the leader of the GLIMPSE I & II teams who are imaging the
inner 2/3rds of the Galaxy (+&- 0 to 65 degrees on either side of the
galactic center in all four IRAC bands). My main scientific interests are
the physics of massive star formation and the impact a massive star
has on it‘s environment; the role of molecular clouds in star formation;
and, large scale galactic structure as inferred from the distribution of
stars at infrared wavelengths. The SAGE LMC project offers an array
of opportunities for progress in all these areas.
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- Co-Investigator: Remy Indebetouw, University of Virginia
| Remy Indebetouw is trying to understand star formation in the Milky
Way and nearby galaxies, and the interactions between young stars and
the interstellar medium. In particular, he has been working recently
on observations of massive protostars and star formation regions
between 1 and 100000 microns, radiative transfer modeling of spectral
energy distributions, and spectroscopic diagnostics of physical
conditions in star-forming clouds. He holds a joint position on the
faculty of the University of Virginia and the staff of NRAO's North
American ALMA Science Center. He is a member of the SAGE, GLIMPSE,
and MIPSGAL surveys and part of the IRAC pipeline core team.
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- Co-Investigator: Joseph Hora, CFA/Harvard
| Joseph L. Hora is the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Project Scientist at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is a member of the team
that was responsible for building and calibrating the IRAC instrument on
the Spitzer Space Telescope. His research interests include star
formation, planetary nebulae, and infrared instrumentation.
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- Co-Investigator: Robert Blum, CTIO/NOAO
- Co-Investigator: William Reach, IPAC/Caltech
- Co-Investigator: Jean-Philippe Bernard, Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements
| Jean-Philippe Bernard is a full time research scientist for CNRS at CESR in Toulouse, France. His main interest concerns the properties of the interstellar medium, IR to millimeter dust emission and polarization properties, statistical studies of star formation and observational cosmology, in particular the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect on galaxy clusters and cosmology using the Cosmic Microwave Background. He has been working on several satellite and balloon-borne missions such as ISO, XMM, Pronaos and Archeops. He is now actively involved in the preparation of the data processing for Planck and is the Prime Investigator of the PILOT balloon experiment.
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- Co-Investigator: Brian Babler, University of Wisconsin
| Brian Babler is an Associate Researcher at the University of
Wisconsin. He helped develop the Wisconsin IRAC pipeline, and
established himself as the resident stellar photometry expert. He
helps with data processing, trouble-shooting, and providing quality
assurance on the data products. Brian is also a member of
the GLIMPSE team.
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- Co-Investigator: Francois Boulanger, IAS, Paris
- Co-Investigator: Martin Cohen, UC Berkeley/RAL
| Martin Cohen is a Research Astronomer at UC-Berkeley working on the
interstellar medium of the Galaxy and of the LMC. He specializes in
the relationships between optical, mid-infrared, and radio images,
particularly for planetary nebulae and HII regions. He has also
invested 15 years in the establishment of absolute calibration stars
for the optical-infrared range. This work underpins many space and
airborne infrared missions, as well as selected instruments on large
ground-based telescopes. He is a member of the Science Teams of the
US "WISE" MidEx and Japan's "ASTRO-F", and of ESA's "SPIRE" Instrument
Consortium for the Herschel mission.
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- Co-Investigator: Charles Engelbracht, University of Arizona
| Chad Engelbracht is an Assistant Astronomer at Steward Observatory, University
of Arizona, where he is the MIPS Instrument Scientist and the MIPS lead on the
SINGS legacy project. His service role on the SAGE team will be to lend his
expertise to the data-reduction effort. His main scientific interests are in
observational extragalactic astronomy. His work includes modeling of
starburst galaxies and studying the nature of the ISM in nearby galaxies. His
studies of star formation and metallicity effects on the ISM naturally led to
an interest in the LMC, where he will explore how the trends in global
properties he has measured in more distant galaxies vary spatially within a
galaxy.
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- Co-Investigator: Jay Frogel, AURA
| Jay A. Frogel is Special Assistant to the President of AURA, Bill Smith and Co-director of the Science, Discovery, and the Universe part of the College Park Scholars program at the Univ. of Maryland. His main research interests are the stellar populations of galaxies and their morphology. Frogel has published many papers on the stellar content of the Magellanic Clouds and their clusters as well the clusters and bulge of the Milky Way, M31, and M33. He also was the PI for the Ohio State University Survey of Bright Spiral Galaxies. His somewhat outdated webpage is http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~frogel/ - it has a link to the Galaxy Survey.
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- Co-Investigator: Yasuo Fukui, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Jay Gallagher, University of Wisconsin
- Co-Investigator: Varoujan Gorjian, JPL/Caltech
- Co-Investigator: Jason Harris, University of Arizona
- Co-Investigator: Stephen Jansen, University of Wisconsin
- Co-Investigator: Douglas Kelly, University of Arizona
| Doug Kelly is a staff scientist at the University of Arizona.
He is a member of the MIPS instrument team, and he was chief
test engineer during the development of the instrument. His
scientific interests include mass loss, late stages of stellar
evolution, star formation in galaxies, and the evolution of
galaxies in clusters. Doug is currently serving as chief
systems engineer for the near-infrared camera on the James Webb
Space Telescope. Doug's interests in the LMC include dust
properties and stellar mass loss in a metal-poor environment,
feedback of ejected material into the ISM, and the evolution
of the mass-losing stars.
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- Co-Investigator: Ciska Kemper, University of Manchester
| Ciska Kemper is the PI of SAGE-Spec.
She is a lecturer at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
at the University of Manchester. Ciska is interested in the life cycle
of dust in galaxies. Her work focusses on understanding the formation
and processing of circumstellar and interstellar dust, mainly by
studying the mineralogical composition and grain properties by means
of infrared spectroscopy. She has also worked on mass loss processes
in post-main-sequence stars. Ciska Kemper has extensive experience with infrared spectroscopy,
in particular ISO-SWS and LWS, and more recently Spitzer-IRS.
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- Co-Investigator: Akiko Kawamura, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: William Latter, IPAC/Caltech
- Co-Investigator: Claus Leitherer, STScI
| Claus Leitherer received his Ph.D. in 1985. Following postdoctoral positions
in Heidelberg and Boulder he joined Space Telescope Science Institute in
1988, where he is currently an Associate Astronomer. His responsibilities at
STScI include the panel review and proposal selection process within the
Science Policies Division. His main scientific interests are atmospheres and
evolution of hot stars, resolved and unresolved massive stellar populations,
the stellar content and interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies,
starburst activity in galaxies, and spectrophotometric evolution models of
galaxies.
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- Co-Investigator: Suzanne Madden, CEA, Saclay
| Suzanne Madden is a research scientist at the Service d'Astrophysique
(SAp) of the CEA in Saclay, France. She was on the ISOCAM instrument
team and is on the Herschel SPIRE and PACS teams and the Planck HFI
team. Her science interests include the interplay between star
formation and the ISM in the wide variety of galactic
environments. She studies the IR to mm properties of dust, the ionised
gas and photodissociation regions/molecular clouds. The LMC allows us
to zoom in on star formation and the ISM properties of our nearby
neighbor. Exploring the physical properties of the various components
of this well-resolved low metallicity galaxy in detail, will help us
understand the intrinsic properties of more distant, unresolved
galaxies.
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- Co-Investigator: Marilyn Meade, University of Wisconsin
| Marilyn Meade is a Researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
Marilyn has over 30 years experience processing data, starting with the
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, and including the International
Ultraviolet Explorer, the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimetry
Experiment, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer and now the
Spitzer Space Telescope. Marilyn helped develop the Wisconsin
IRAC pipeline, and keeps it running 24 hours a day. She is
also a member of the GLIMPSE team.
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- Co-Investigator: Karl Misselt, University of Arizona
- Co-Investigator: Akira Mizuno, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Norikazu Mizuno, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Jeremy Mould, NOAO
| Jeremy Mould is Director of NOAO, a member of the Spitzer MIPS team,
and interested in the late stages of stellar evolution.
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- Co-Investigator: Antonella Nota, ESA/STScI
- Co-Investigator: Sally Oey, University of Michigan
- Co-Investigator: Knut Olsen, CTIO/NOAO
| Knut Olsen is an Associate Astronomer at the Cerro Tololo
InterAmerican Observatory in Chile. His research is in the area of
stellar populations in nearby galaxies; the Large Magellanic
Cloud is a frequent target of his studies. He is particularly
interested in the star formation, chemical enrichment, and dynamical
histories of nearby galaxies and the role that globular clusters
played in their formation. His current CTIO responsibilities include
serving as Instrument Scientist for the Hydra-CTIO spectrograph,
providing support for the Mosaic-2 imager, and aiding in the planning
for a ~30-m Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope; he is transitioning to a
position with the NOAO Gemini Science Center in Tucson, AZ.
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- Co-Investigator: Toshikazu Onishi, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Roberta Paladini, Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements
| Roberta Paladini is a Post Doctoral fellow at the Centre d‘Etude Spatiale
des Rayonnements (CESR) in Toulouse (France) where she holds an individual
European Marie Curie Fellowship. Her major scientific interest
are Galactic HII regions, star formation, interstellar medium and Galaxy
structure. As a PLANCK
associate, she also works in the field of Galactic foregrounds (free-free,
synchrotron and dust emission) in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background
experiments. In addition, she participates in the PILOT balloon experiment
led
by Jean-Philippe Bernard.
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- Co-Investigator: Nino Panagia, ESA/STScI
| Nino Panagia is an ESA Senior Astronomer working at STScI on JWST
related matters. His main scientific interests include supernovae and
supernova remnants, diffuse matter in galaxies (HII regions, molecular
clouds and star-forming regions, planetary nebulae, and interstellar
dust), stellar winds from early type stars, stellar populations (mostly
in the LMC, SMC and M51), and cosmology (expansion and acceleration of
the universe, primordial stellar populations, and reionization of the
universe). He is a member in several large project teams, such as SCP
(HST-10496: Efficient Dark Energy Studies with Supernovae and Clusters -
Supernova Cosmology Project), GRAPES (HST-9793: The Grism-ACS Program
for Extragalactic Science) and PEARS (HST-10530: Probing Evolution And
Reionization Spectroscopically), SAINTS (HST-10549: Supernova 1987A
INTensive Survey), and "Searching for galaxies at z>6.5 in the Hubble
Ultra Deep Field" (HST-10632).
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- Co-Investigator: Pablo Perez-Gonzalez, University of Arizona
- Co-Investigator: Marta Sewilo, Space Science Institute
- Co-Investigator: Hiroshi Shibai, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Sato Shuji, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Linda Smith, University of College, London
- Co-Investigator: Lister Staveley-Smith, CSIRO
- Co-Investigator: Xander Tielens, Kapteyn Institute
- Co-Investigator: Toshiya Ueta, NASA/Ames
- Co-Investigator: Schuyler Van Dyk, IPAC/Caltech
- Co-Investigator: Kevin Volk, Gemini
| Kevin Volk is a Science Fellow at Gemini Observatory, based in Hilo,
Hawaii. He was the instrument scientist for the T-ReCS mid-IR instrument
for a while at Gemini South before recently moving to Gemini North, where
he is about to become the instrument scientist for its mid-IR instrument
Michelle. His research interests are in the areas of planetary nebulae,
circumstellar dust shells in evolved stars, and in particular in
mid-infrared spectroscopy of dust features of all sorts.
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- Co-Investigator: Michael Werner, JPL/NASA
- Co-Investigator: Barbara Whitney, Space Science Institute
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Barbara Whitney is a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science
Institute. She lives and works in Madison Wisconsin and is a
member of the Wisconsin IRAC pipeline team. She has developed
radiative transfer models of forming stars, and assisted Tom Robitaille in producing a large grid of models,
available on this website.
These will be used in conjunction with a model fitter to analyze star
formation in the LMC. Barbara is also a member of the GLIMPSE team
and will be interested to compare star formation characteristics between our
Galaxy and the LMC.
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- Co-Investigator: Dennis Zaritsky, University of Arizona
| Dennis Zaritsky is a Professor at the University of Arizona's
Steward Observatory. He has recently completed an optical photometric
catalog
of the Magellanic Clouds (http://ngala.as.arizona.edu/dennis/mcsurvey.html)
and studies the star formation history and structure of the Clouds.
In parallel with SAGE, he and collaborators are undertaking a large
kinematic survey (~10000 stars) of the the LMC.
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