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The astronomer (by Lucy)

Contact:

• Office: 228 INSCC
• Phone: 1-801-587-9923
• Fax: 1-801-581-4801
• Email:

Teaching:

• Gamma ray astronomy (here for an interactive sky map) with the Whipple 10m telescope and VERITAS. Here is an animated stereo-scopic view of a few selected events recorded with the three first VERITAS telescopes (pictures of telescope 4 under moonlight [1][2]). Among other things we work on the optical calibration of the VERITAS telescopes using Rayleigh scattered LASER light pulse. We had a first test run in May 2005, a preliminary analysis is presented at the 29th ICRC. We also investigate technical approaches to 100TeV gamma-ray astronomy.
  
• GrISU(tah) a simulation package for Atmospheric Cherenkov cosmic ray detectors
  
• SGARFACE the Short GAmma Rar Front Air Cherenkov Experiment (in search for ultra short gamma ray burst) described in a paper in Astroparticle Physics
  The data acquisition is a c program with a threaded TCP/IP socket server as in the prototype server.c (Makefile). The control interface is a TclTk TCP/IP client script as in the prototype client.wish I find this an easy way to remotly control hardware from a graphical interface easy to develop.
• Going back to stellar intensity interferometry ( 29th ICRC, ApJ article , poster, undergraduate seminar slides, HTRA 2007 conference paper 1, and slides , paper 2 and poster, Lund 2007 ELT conference paper, Marseille 2008 SPIE conference paper announcing the formation of a IAU working group on Intensity Interferometry, pictures of our not tested yet prototype: global view, global view with open box, pinhole, pinhole and light source, again, open photodetector box, photodetectors under the light from the pinhole, again, prototype digital correlator )
• Deployment of Star Base Utah with two 3m telescopes as a Air Cherenkov and Intensity Interferometry instrumentation test bed.
• Conferences and workshops
• Astronomy Day 2007 was on April 24th. The Physics department had a booth at the Clark planetarium. In the evening we joined the star parties organized by the Salt-Lake Astronomical Society at this is the place state park and at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex. As a lecture on the working of telescopes was going on, visitors were setting up their telescopes for the night.

• American Astronomical Society
• American Physical Society
• Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News
• SPIE
• The NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Astrophysics preprint server
• The astrophysicsal Journal
• Elsevier and Astroparticle Physics
• SkyView Virtual Observatory
• NASA Extragalactic Database
• MPI pointers to cosmic-ray and neutrino experiments worldwide
• The American Journal of Physics  
  

• Wikipedia (English, French, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, Latin,...
• Wolfram ScienceWorld ( Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Biography, ,...)
• Cut the knot, Interactive Mathematics
• Astronomy picture of the day
• Poesie Francaise
• Radios: RFI, FIP, France Culture.
• Lexilogos
• HyperPhysics
• Fourmilab with in particular the virtual telescope.
• WIKISKY
• I made this minisky a while ago. If you have ideas to improve it, let me know.
• Cooking: My Cake and The far breton
• This is a movie that was sent to me by one of my 2008 PHYS2020 students. There is a lot of physics in it!
• A picture of my son Louis by one of his friends