Elliott
Horch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Applied Physics
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
3136 Carlson
(716)475-6380
horch@cis.rit.edu
- Research Highlights
- Experience
- Publications
Elliott grew up near Columbus, Ohio. After college in Chicago, graduate school in California, and a postdoctoral position on the East Coast, he came to RIT in 1996. In addition to astronomy and imaging science, Elliott enjoys the tuba, biking, travel, frisbee golf, and is a huge fan of the British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf.
- Check out these photos of the group activities, Summer 2001!!
RYTSI: the RIT-Yale Tip-tilt Speckle Imager. This new imaging system has been developed in Elliott's lab and makes it possible for any observatory with a typical CCD camera to take advantage of diffraction-limited imaging with speckle interferometry. Learn More
Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. Binary stars are studied to determine the precise orbits of stars, which in turn allows us to deduce the masses of these systems. Observationally determined masses and luminosities can then be compared to theoretical predictions. Learn More
Observations of
Binary Stars with the Hubble Space Telescope. Over the
next three years, observations of thirteen metal-poor spectroscopic binaries
will be made with the Find Guidance Sensors on HST. They will allow us
to learn more about the fundamental properties of the so-called "Population
II" stars and about distances and ages of the Galactic globular clusters.
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Assistant Professor of Imaging Science (1999 to the present)
Center for Imaging Science, RIT
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1996 to 1999)
Center for Imaging Science, RIT
Associate Research Scientist (1995 to 1996)
Department of Astronomy, Yale University
Postdoctoral Research Associate (1994 to 1994)
Department of Astronomy, Yale University