Penn State's High Energy
Astrophysics group is involved in a number of research efforts.
Dr. Gordon Garmire
is the Principal Investigator of the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)
experiment which will be launched aboard the Space
Shuttle Columbia in August of 1998. Dr. Garmire and Dr.
John Nousek led a team of scientists and engineers to calibrate the
ACIS camera. Following its launch, they will lead a team of scientists
in analyzing data from this instrument. To
learn more about ACIS and AXAF, click here.
Some of our graduate students are also involved in launching
x-ray cameras aboard sounding rockets. In fact, graduate students, scientists,
and engineers in our sounding rocket lab were led by Dr.
David Burrows and Dr. Gordon Garmire in
building the first photon-counting CCD camera ever flown. To
learn more, click here.
The
Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics is involved in a wide
range of research areas.
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope
shown here is one example of innovative technology being built by a collaboration
of faculty, staff, and graduate students at Penn State and other institutions.
Visit our Department Home Page to
learn more about educational and research opportunities at Penn State.
Here is a list of Publications by Penn State's High Energy Astrophysics Group.
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Many faculty, students, and staff have personal web pages where you can learn the details of their research. Or if you would like to contact someone here, see our Department Directory.
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