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Sensors and
Imaging Systems

We conduct research into the development of fully integrated end to end sensor systems for diverse applications, including emergency response, with an emphasis on the building of systems which deliver fully integrated data products into the hands of decision makes and researchers in near real-time.  We conduct research into the development of state-of-the art sensors and detectors for imaging under low light level conditions, including the testing and development of large focal plane infrared and optical arrays.
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Publications

  • Najarro, F., Figer, D. F., Hillier, D. J., & Kudritzki, R. P. Metallicity in the Galactic Center: The Arches cluster Astrophysical Journal Letters, 611, L105 (2204)
  • Wachter, S., Ramirez-Ruiz, E. Dwarkadas, V. V., Kouveliotou, C., Granot, J., Patel, S. K. & Figer, Detection of an Infrared Ring around the magnetar SGR1900+14 Nature, in press (2008)
  • Walvoord, D.J. and R.L. Easton, Jr., Digital Transcription of Archimedes Palimpest accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing (2008)
  • Davies, B., Figer, D. F., Law, C. J., Kudritzki, R. P., Najarro, F., Herrero, A., and MacKenty, J. The cool supergiant population of the massive young star cluster RSGC1 Astrophysical Journal, in press (2007)
  • Najarro, F., Figer, D. F., Hillier, D. J., Geballe, T. R., and Kudritzki, R. P Metallicity in the Astrophysical Journal, in press (2007)
  • Zhu, Q., Kudritzki, R. P., Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., and Merritt, D. Radial Velocities of Stars Astrophysical Journal, in press (2007)
  • Davies, B., Figer, D., Herrero, A., Kudritzki, R.P., MacKenty, J., Najarro, F A massive cluster of Red Supergiants at the base of the Scutum-Crux arm Astrophysical Journal, 671, 781 (2007)
  • Wachter, S., Kouveliotou, C., Patel, S., Figer, D., & Woods, P. Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of SGR and AXP Environments Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 308, Issue 1-4, pp. 67-71 (2007)
  • Figer, D. F. The Arches Cluster Mass Function Api (2006)
  • Figer, D. F. Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster Science (2006)
  • Figer, D. F. Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Cluster of Red Supergiants Apj (2006)
  • Ninkow, Z. RYTSI:The Rochester Institute of Technology-Yale Tip-Tilt Speckle Imager PASP 118,162 (2006)
  • Ninkow, Z. Quantum Efficiency Overestimation and Deterministic Cross Talk Resulting from Interpixel Capacitance Optical Engineering 45 (2006)
  • Figer, D.; MacKenty, J.; Robberto, M.; Smith, K.; Najarro, F.; Kudritski, R. Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Young Stellar Cluster ApJ, 643, 1166 (2006)
  • Tanner, A., Figer, D. F., Najarro, P., Kudritzki, R. P., Gilmore, D., Morris, M., Becklin, E. E., High Spectral Resolution Observations of the Massive Stars in the Galactic Center Astrophysical Journal, 641, 891 (2006)
  • Kim S. S., Figer, D. F., Lee, M. G., & Oh, S Theoretical Isochrones with Extinction in the K Band PASP, 117, 445 (2005)
  • Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., Geballe, T. R., Blum, R. D., & Kudritzki, R. P. Massive Stars in the SGR 1806-20 Cluster Astrophysical Journal Letters, 622, L49 (2005)
  • Figer, D. F. An upper limit to the masses of stars Nature, 34, 192 (2005)
  • Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., & Kudritzki, R. P. The Double-lined Spectrum of LBV 1806-20 Astrophysical Journal Letters, 610, L109 (2004)
  • Kim S.S., Morris, M., & Figer, D.F. Dynamical Friction on Galactic Center Star Clusters with a Central Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Astrophysical Journal, 607, L123 (2004)
  • Figer, D. F. History for the Galactic Center from Hubble Space Telescope/NICMOS Observations Astrophysical Journal, 601, 319 (2004)
  • Easton, Jr., R.L. and Noel, W. Multispectral Imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest Gazette du Livre Medieval 45, pp. 39-49, Autumn (2004)
  • Figer, D. F., Gilmore, D., Kim, S. Graham, J. R., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., & Teplitz, H. I. S., Morris, M., Becklin, E. E., McLean, I. S., Gilbert, A. M., High Precision Stellar Radial Velocities in the Galactic Center Astrophysical Journal, 599, 1139 (2003)
  • Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., Gilmore, D., Morris, M., Kim, S. S., Serabyn, E., McLean, I. S., Gilbert, A. M., Graham, J. R., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., & Teplitz, H. I. Massive Stars in the Arches Cluster Astrophysical Journal, 581, 258 (2002)
  • Stolte, A., Grebel, E. K., Brandner, W., & Figer, D. F. The Mass Function of the Arches Cluster from Gemini Adaptive Optics Data Astronomy &Astrophysics, 394, 459 (2002)
  • Altman, M. Proof-of-Concept: Three Dimensional Pipe Surface Reconstruction from 2D Laser Scanned Image  (2001)
  • Roe, H. G., Graham, J. R., McLean, I. S., de Pater, I., Becklin, E. E., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K. The Altitude of an Infrared Bright Cloud Feature on Neptune from Near-infrared Spectroscopy Astronomical Journal, 122, 1023 (2001)
  • Carson, Jennifer E., Larkin, Jame s E., McLean, Ian S., Graham, James R., Becklin, E. E., Figer, Donald F., Gilbert, Andrea M., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, Harry I., Wilcox, Mavourneen K. Resolved IR Spectroscopy of Two High Redshift Radio Galaxies Astrophysical Journal, 563, 63 (2001)
  • Moneti, A., Stolovy, S., Blommaert, J. A. D. L., Figer, D. F., & Najarro, F. Mid-Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Enigmatic Cocoon Stars in the Quintuplet Cluster Astronomy and Astrophysics, 366, 106 (2001)
  • Mumma, M. J. Figer, D. et al. A Survey of Organic Volatile Species in Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) Using NIRSPEC at the Keck Observatory Astrophysical Journal, 546, 1183 (2001)
  • Kim, S. S., Figer, D. F., Lee, H. M., & Morris, M. N-body Simulations of Compact Young Clusters Near the Galactic Center Astrophysical Journal, 545, 301 (2000)
  • Teplitz, H. I.; Figer, D.F., et al. Measurement of [OIII] Emission in Lyman Break Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal, 542, 18 (2000)
  • Figer, D. F., Becklin, E. E. , McLean, I. S. , Gilbert, A. M., Graham, J. R., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., Wilcox, M. K., & Morris, M. 2-micron Spectroscopy within 0.3 arcseconds of Sgr A* Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L49 (2000)
  • Gilbert, A. M. Graham, J. R., McLean, I. S. , Becklin, E. E. , Figer, D. F., Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K. Infrared Spectroscopy of a Massive Obscured Star Cluster in the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/9) with NIRSPEC Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L57 (2000)
  • Levenson, N. A., Graham, J. R., McLean, I. S. , Becklin, E. E. , Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M. Larkin, J. E., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K. Hot Stars and Cool Clouds: The Photodissociation Region M16 Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L53 (2000)
  • Larkin, J. E., McLean, I. S., Graham, J. R., Becklin, E. E., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M., Glassman, T. M., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K. Discovery of an Obscured Broad Line Region in the High Redshift Radio Galaxy MRC 2025-218 Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L61 (2000)
  • Teplitz, H. I., McLean, I. S. , Becklin, E. E. , Graham, J. R., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M. Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A. Wilcox, M. K. The Rest-Frame Optical Spectrum of MS 1512-cB58 Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L65 (2000)
  • McLean, I. S., Graham, J. R., Becklin, E. E., Figer, D. F., Gilbert, A. M. Larkin, J. E., Levenson, N. A., Teplitz, H. I., & Wilcox, M. K J-band Infrared Spectroscopy of a Sample of Brown Dwarfs using NIRSPEC on Keck II Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533, L45 (2000)
  • Geballe, T. R., Najarro, F., & Figer, D. F. A Second Luminous Blue Variable in the Quintuplet Cluster Astrophysical Journal Letters, 530, L97 (2000)
  • Lang, C. C., Figer, D. F., Goss, W. M., & Morris, M. Radio Detections of Stellar Winds from the Pistol Star and from other Stars in the Galactic Center Quintuplet Cluster Astronomical Journal, 118, 2327 (1999)
  • Figer, D. F., Kim, S. S., Morris, M., Serabyn, E., Rich, R. M., & McLean, I. S. HST/NICMOS Observations of Massive Stellar Clusters Near the Galactic Center Astrophysical Journal, 525, 750 (1999)
  • Figer, D. F., Morris, M., Geballe, T. R., Rich, R. M., Serabyn, E., McLean, I. S., Puetter, R., & Yahil, A. High-Resolution Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Pistol Nebula: Evidence for Ejection Astrophysical Journal, 525, 759 (1999)
  • Figer, D. F., McLean, I. S., & Morris, M. Massive Stars in the Quintuplet Astrophysical Journal, 514, 202 (1999)
  • Serabyn, E., Shupe, D., & Figer, D. An Extraordinary Cluster of Massive Stars in the Milky Way’s Core Nature, 394, 448 (1998)
  • Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., Morris, M., McLean, I. S., Geballe , T. R., Ghez, A. M., & Langer, N. The Pistol Star Astrophysical Journal, 506, 384. (1998)
  • Figer, D. F., McLean, I. S., & Najarro, F. A K band Spectral Atlas of Wolf Rayet Stars Astrophysical Journal, 486, 420. (1997)
  • Blum, R. D., Ramond, T. M., Conti, P. S., Figer, D. F., & Sellgren, K. H Band Spectroscopic Classification of OB Stars Astronomical Journal, 113, 1855. (1997)
  • Easton, Jr.,R.L.; Reiner Eschbach, and Ramesh Nagarajan Error diffusion in cell-oriented holograms to compensate for printing constraints Journal of Modern Optics 43(6), pp.1219-1236 (1996)
  • Figer, D. F., McLean, I. S., & Morris, M. Two New Wolf-Rayet Stars and a Luminous Blue Variable Star in the Quintuplet (AFGL 2004) Near the Galactic Center Astrophysical Journal Letters, 447, L29. (1995)
  • Levine, D. A., Figer, D. F., Morris, M., & McLean, I. S. A Circumstellar H2O Maser Associated with the Circumnuclear Molecular Disk at the Galactic Center? Astrophysical Journal Letters, 447, L101 (1995)
  • R. Eschbach, R.L. Easton, Jr., and R. Nagarajan Using adaptive quantization in cell-oriented holograms Optics Communications 114, 370-374 (1995)
  • Ninkov, Z.; D.R. Bretz, R.L. Easton, Jr., and M. Shure The Stellar Content of the Central Region of IC 1805 Astronomical Journal 110, 2242-2255 (1995)
  • Hildebrand, R. H., Davidson, J. A., Dotson, J., Figer, D. F., Novak, G., Platt, S. R., & Tao, L. Polarization of the Thermal Emission from the Dust Ring at the Center of the Galaxy Astrophysical Journal, 417, 565. (1993)
  • Easton, R.L., Jr SIGNALS: Interactive Software for One-Dimensional Signal Processing Computer Applications in Engineering Education 1(6), 489-501 (1993)
  • Morris, M., Davidson, J. A., Werner, M., Dotson, J., Figer, D. F., Hildebrand, R. H., Novak, G., & Platt, S. R. Polarization of the Thermal Arches at the Galactic Center Astrophysical Journal Letters, 399, L63. (1992)
  • Daels, K., R. Easton, and R. Eschbach Analysis of threshold modulations in one-dimensional error diffusion Optics Communications 87, pp. 93-98, 15 January (1992)
  • Steinberg, E., R. Rolleston, and R. Easton Analysis of random dithering patterns using second-order statistics Journal of Electronic Imaging 1, pp. 396-404 (1992)
  • Gmitro, A.F., G.R. Gindi, H.H. Barrett, and R.L. Easton, Jr Two­dimensional image processing by one-dimensional filtering of projection data Proc. SPIE, 388, 132 (1988)
  • Easton, R.L., Jr. and H.H. Barrett Tomographic Transformations in Optical Signal Processing chapter in Optical Signal Processing Processing, (J. Horner, ed.), pp. 335-386, Academic Press, San Diego (1987)
  • Milster, T.D., L.A. Selberg, H.H. Barrett, R.L. Easton, Jr., G.R. Rossi, J., Arendt, and R.G. Simpson A modular scintillation camera for use in nuclear medicine IEEE Trans. Nuc. Sci. NS-31, 578 (1985)
  • Ticknor, A.J., R.L. Easton, Jr., and H.H. Barrett A two-dimensional Radon­-Fourier transformer Opt.Eng. 24(1), 82 (1985)
  • Easton, R.L., Jr., A.J. Ticknor, and H.H. Barrett Two-dimensional complex Fourier transform via the Radon transform Appl. Opt. 24, 3817 (1985)
  • Easton, R.L., Jr., A.J. Ticknor, and H.H. Barrett Application of the Radon transform to optical production of the Wigner distribution function Opt.Eng. 23(6), 738, (invited paper) (1984)
  • Easton, R.L., Jr., A.J. Ticknor, and H.H. Barrett 2-D Fourier transform by means of the Radon transform Proc. IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. (B.R. McAvoy, editor), 185 (1983)
  • Blodgett, J.A., and R.L. Easton, Jr Two-stage spatial filtering for diffraction pattern analysis Appl. Opt. 20, 1050, (1981)
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