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Matthew Route

Matthew Route

  • Graduate Student
421 Davey Lab
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-8485

Education

  1. Ph.D. Astronomy and Astrophysics (in progress), minor in Computational Science, Pennsylvania State University
  2. M.A. Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
  3. B.A. Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Biography:

Selected Publications

  • Diniega, S., Balcerski, J., Carande, B., Diaz-Silva, R., Guzewich, S., Hudson, J., Nahm, A., Potter, S., Route, M., Sayanai, K., Vasisht, S., Benneke, B., Fraeman, A., Gil, S., Livi, R., Urban, K., Williams, B., Budney, C., Leslie, L.  “Mission to the Trojan Asteroids: Lessons Learned Suring a JPL Planetary Science Summer School Mission Design Exercise.”  Submitted to Planetary and Space Science, April 2012.
  • Nahm, A. L., Potter, S. L., Sayanagi, K. M., Diniega, S., Gil, S., Balcerski, J., Carande, B., Diaz-Silva, R., Fraeman, A. A., Hudson, J. S., Guzewich, S. D., Livi, R., Route, M., Urban, K. D., Vasisht, S., Williams, B., Budney, C. J., Lowes, L. L., “TASTER: Trojan Asteroid Tour, Exploration, and Rendezvous, a JPL Planetary Science Summer School Mission Design Exercise,” 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, LPI Contribution No. 1659, 19 March 2012.
  • Route, M. & Wolzszcan, A. “The Arecibo Detection of the Coolest Radio-Flaring Brown Dwarf.”  The Astrophysical Journal, 747, L22, 10 March 2012.
  • Colwell, J. E., Sture, S., Cintala, M., Durda, D., Hendrix, A., Goudie, T., Curtis, D., Ashcom, D., Kanter, M., Keohane, T., Lemos, A., Lupton, M., Route, M.  “Ejecta from Impacts into Regolith at 0.2-2.3 m/s in Low Gravity.”  Icarus, June 2008.
  • Feldman, P., McCandliss, S., Route, M., Weaver, H., A’Hearn, M., Belton, M., Meech, K.  “Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact Encounter.” Icarus, March 2007.
  • Dima, M., J. Barron, A. Johnson, L. Hamilton, U. Nauenberg, M. Route, D. Staszak, M. Stolte, T. Turner.  “Mass determination method for the left and right selectron above production threshold.” Physical Review D, Volume 65, 071701, 5 April 2002.
  • Battaglia, M., J. Barron, M. Dima, L. Hamilton, A. Johnson, U. Nauenberg, M. Route, D. Staszak, M. Stolte, T. Turner, C. Veeneman, J. Wells, J. Butler, H. E. Montgomery, R.N. Cahn, I. Hinchliffe, G. Bernardi, J. K. Mizukoshi, G. W. Wilson, G. A. Blair, J. Jaros, P. D. Grannis.  “Run Scenarios for the Linear Collider.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Paper LBNL-51654.

Research Interests

  • Detection and characterization of the radio emission from exoplanets and brown dwarfs.
  • Characterization of the magnetic fields of exoplanets and brown dwarfs.
  • Characterization of exoplanets by transits and by innovative, new methods.
  • The Jupiter and Saturn systems, their rings, their moons, and the search for life in these systems.
  • Solar System collisions and impact studies.
  • Digital signal processing and image exploitation.
  • Computational aspects of signal and image processing, with an emphasis on concurrent scientific computing.

Honors and Awards

  • NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellowship, 2011-2013.
  • JPL Planetary Science Summer School Fellowship, 2011.
  • Zaccheus Daniel Fellowship, 2009.
  • Roberts Graduate Fellowship, 2008.
  • Sigma Pi Sigma, 2002.
  • Norlin Scholar Program, 2000.
  • Undergraduate Academy, 2000.
  • Golden Key Honor Society, 2000.
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