Outputs (14)

The core of the massive cluster merger MACS J0417.5-1154 as seen by VLT/MUSE (2018)
Journal Article
Jauzac, M., Mahler, G., Edge, A. C., Sharon, K., Gillman, S., Ebeling, H., …Salomé, P. (2018). The core of the massive cluster merger MACS J0417.5-1154 as seen by VLT/MUSE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(3), 3082-3097. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3312

We present a multiwavelength analysis of the core of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0417.5−1154 (⁠z = 0.441). Our analysis takes advantage of Very Large Telescope/Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer observations which allow the spectroscopic confirma... Read More about The core of the massive cluster merger MACS J0417.5-1154 as seen by VLT/MUSE.

Grid Mapping the Northern Plains of Mars: Geomorphological, Radar, and Water‐Equivalent Hydrogen Results From Arcadia Plantia (2018)
Journal Article
Ramsdale, J. D., Balme, M. R., Gallagher, C., Conway, S. J., Smith, I. B., Hauber, E., Orgel, C., Séjourné, A., Costard, F., Eke, V. R., Gasselt, S. A., Johnsson, A., Kereszturi, A., Losiak, A., Massey, R. J., Platz, T., Reiss, D., Skinner, J. A., Swirad, Z. M., Teodoro, L. F., & Wilson, J. T. (2019). Grid Mapping the Northern Plains of Mars: Geomorphological, Radar, and Water‐Equivalent Hydrogen Results From Arcadia Plantia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124(2), 504-527. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018je005663

A project of mapping ice‐related landforms was undertaken to understand the role of subsurface ice in the northern plains. This work is the first continuous regional mapping from CTX (ConTeXt Camera, 6 m/pixel; Malin et al., 2007) imagery in Arcadia... Read More about Grid Mapping the Northern Plains of Mars: Geomorphological, Radar, and Water‐Equivalent Hydrogen Results From Arcadia Plantia.

Grid Mapping the Northern Plains of Mars: A New Overview of Recent Water‐ and Ice‐Related Landforms in Acidalia Planitia (2018)
Journal Article
Orgel, C., Hauber, E., Gasselt, S., Reiss, D., Johnsson, A., Ramsdale, J. D., Smith, I., Swirad, Z. M., Séjourné, A., Wilson, J. T., Balme, M. R., Conway, S. J., Costard, F., Eke, V. R., Gallagher, C., Kereszturi, Á., Łosiak, A., Massey, R. J., Platz, T., Skinner, J. A., & Teodoro, L. F. (2019). Grid Mapping the Northern Plains of Mars: A New Overview of Recent Water‐ and Ice‐Related Landforms in Acidalia Planitia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124(2), 454-482. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018je005664

We used a grid‐mapping technique to analyze the distribution of 13 water‐ and ice‐related landforms in Acidalia Planitia as part of a joint effort to study the three main basins in the northern lowlands of Mars, that is, Acidalia, Utopia, and Arcadia... Read More about Grid Mapping the Northern Plains of Mars: A New Overview of Recent Water‐ and Ice‐Related Landforms in Acidalia Planitia.

Growing a ‘cosmic beast’: observations and simulations of MACS J0717.5+3745 (2018)
Journal Article
Jauzac, M., Eckert, D., Schaller, M., Schwinn, J., Massey, R., Bahé, Y., …Umetsu, K. (2018). Growing a ‘cosmic beast’: observations and simulations of MACS J0717.5+3745. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(3), 2901-2917. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2366

We present a gravitational lensing and X-ray analysis of a massive galaxy cluster and its surroundings. The core of MACS J0717.5+3745 (M(R < 1 Mpc) ∼ 2 × 1015 M, z = 0.54) is already known to contain four merging components. We show that this is surr... Read More about Growing a ‘cosmic beast’: observations and simulations of MACS J0717.5+3745.

Image Reconstruction Techniques in Neutron and Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy: Improving Lunar Prospector Data (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, J., Lawrence, D., Peplowski, P., Cahill, J., Eke, V., Massey, R., & Teodoro, L. (2018). Image Reconstruction Techniques in Neutron and Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy: Improving Lunar Prospector Data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123(7), 1804-1822. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018je005589

We present improved resolution maps of the Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer thermal, epithermal, and fast neutron data and gamma ray spectrometer Th‐line fluxes via global application of pixon image reconstruction techniques. With the use of moc... Read More about Image Reconstruction Techniques in Neutron and Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy: Improving Lunar Prospector Data.

VIS: the visible imager for Euclid (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cropper, M., Pottinger, S., Azzollini, R., Szafraniec, M., Awan, S., Mellier, Y., Berthé, M., Martignac, J., Cara, C., Di Giorgio, A.-M., Sciortino, A., Bozzo, E., Genolet, L., Philippon, A., Hailey, M., Hunt, T., Swindells, I., Holland, A., Gow, J., Murray, N., …Fazio, G. G. (2018, December). VIS: the visible imager for Euclid. Presented at Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Austin, Texas

Euclid-VIS is the large format visible imager for the ESA Euclid space mission in their Cosmic Vision program, scheduled for launch in 2021. Together with the near infrared imaging within the NISP instrument, it forms the basis of the weak lensing me... Read More about VIS: the visible imager for Euclid.

Auto-tuned thermal control on stratospheric balloon experiments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Redmond, S., Benton, S., Brown, A., Clark, P., Damaren, C., Eifler, T., …Tam, S. (2018). Auto-tuned thermal control on stratospheric balloon experiments. In H. K. Marshall, J. Spyromilio, & R. Gilmozzi (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII : 10–15 June 2018, Austin, Texas, United States ; proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312339

Balloon-borne experiments present unique thermal design challenges, which are a combination of those present for both space and ground experiments. Radiation and conduction are the predominant heat transfer mechanisms with convection effects being mi... Read More about Auto-tuned thermal control on stratospheric balloon experiments.

Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romualdez, L., Benton, S., Brown, A., Clark, P., Damaren, C., Eifler, T., …Tam, S. (2018). Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope. In H. Takami, C. J. Evans, & L. Simard (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307754

Balloon-borne astronomy is a unique tool that allows for a level of image stability and significantly reduced atmospheric interference without the often prohibitive cost and long development time-scale that are characteristic of space-borne facility-... Read More about Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope.

Quantifying the abundance of faint, low-redshift satellite galaxies in the COSMOS survey (2018)
Journal Article
Xi, C., Taylor, J., Massey, R., Rhodes, J., Koekemoer, A., & Salvato, M. (2018). Quantifying the abundance of faint, low-redshift satellite galaxies in the COSMOS survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(4), 5336-5355. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1333

Faint dwarf satellite galaxies are important as tracers of small-scale structure, but remain poorly characterized outside the Local Group, due to the difficulty of identifying them consistently at larger distances. We review a recently proposed metho... Read More about Quantifying the abundance of faint, low-redshift satellite galaxies in the COSMOS survey.

AutoLens: automated modeling of a strong lens's light, mass, and source (2018)
Journal Article
Nightingale, J., Dye, S., & Massey, R. (2018). AutoLens: automated modeling of a strong lens's light, mass, and source. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(4), 4738-4784. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1264

This work presents AutoLens, the first entirely automated modeling suite for the analysis of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses. AutoLens simultaneously models the lens galaxy’s light and mass whilst reconstructing the extended source galaxy on... Read More about AutoLens: automated modeling of a strong lens's light, mass, and source.