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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: Suzanne Madden, Service d'Astrophysique of CEA
| 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: Sacha Hony, Service d'Astrophysique of CEA
- Co-Investigator: Alexander Tielens, NASA/AMES
- 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: Alberto Bolatto, University of Maryland
- Co-Investigator: Charles Engelbracht, University of Arizona
- 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: 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: Tracy Beck, STScI
- Co-Investigator: Jean-Philippe Bernard, CESR
| 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: Caroline Bot, Caltech
| Caroline Bot is a postdoctoral fellow from CNES, working at the Strasbourg observatory in France.
Her main research interest is the properties of the interstellar medium, and in particular of dust grains.
Her work relies mainly on analyzing infrared to millimeter emission from dust in nearby galaxies and in
particular in various regions of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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- Co-Investigator: Francois Boulanger, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
- Co-Investigator: Steve Bracker, University of Wisconsin
- Co-Investigator: Geoffrey Clayton, Louisiana State University
- Co-Investigator: Martin Cohen, UC, Berkeley
| 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: Kazuhito Dobashi, Tokyo Gakugei University
- Co-Investigator: Yasuo Fukui, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Frederic Galliano, University of Maryland
- Co-Investigator: Jason Harris, NOAO
- Co-Investigator: Joseph Hora, Harvard-Smithsonian/CfA
| 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: Annie Hughes, Swinburne University
- Co-Investigator: Remy Indebetouw, University of Virginia
- Co-Investigator: Frank Israel, Leiden University
- Co-Investigator: Akiko Kawamura, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Sungeun Kim, Sejong University
- Co-Investigator: Carsten Kramer, Phys. Inst., Universitaet zu Koeln
- Co-Investigator: Aigen Li, University of Missouri
- Co-Investigator: Knox Long, STScI
- Co-Investigator: Massimo Marengo, Harvard-Smithsonian/CfA
- 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: Mikako Matsuura, University College, London
- 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: Erik Muller, Australia Telescope National Facility
- Co-Investigator: Dave Neufeld, Johns Hopkins University
- Co-Investigator: Antonella Nota, STScI/ESA
- Co-Investigator: Sally Oey, University of Michigan
- Co-Investigator: Koryo Okumura, Service d'Astrophysique of CEA
- Co-Investigator: Joana Oliveira, Keele University
- Co-Investigator: Toshikazu Onishi, Nagoya University
- Co-Investigator: Deborah Paradis, Caltech/IPAC
| Déborah Paradis is a Ph.D student with Jean-Philippe Bernard at CESR in
Toulouse, France.
Her scientific interest are the interstellar medium, dust emission (IR
to millimeter), essentially studies of the variations of dust properties
in the various phases of the ISM.
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- Co-Investigator: Albrecht Poglitsch , MPE-Garching
- Co-Investigator: William Reach, Caltech/IPAC
- Co-Investigator: Thomas Robitaille, University of St. Andrews
- Co-Investigator: Monica Rubio, Universidad de Chile
- Co-Investigator: Douglas Rubin, Service d'Astrophysique of CEA
- Co-Investigator: Marc Sauvage, Service d'Astrophysique of CEA
- Co-Investigator: Marta Sewilo, STScI
- Co-Investigator: Joshua Simon, Caltech
- Co-Investigator: Linda Smith, STScI/ESA
- Co-Investigator: Sundar Srinivasan, Johns Hopkins University
- Co-Investigator: Snezana Stanimirovic, University of Wisconsin
- Co-Investigator: Jacco van Loon, Keele University
- 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: Mark Wolfire, University of Maryland
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