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Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Contact Information
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St., MS 19 Cambridge, MA 02138 Office: Jefferson 372, Phone: (617) 495-2866, Fax: (617) 496-1047 cstubbs@cfa.harvard.edu Research Interests Dark energy and dark matter, observational cosmology. Astronomical instrumentation and detector development; high performance computing applied to astronomical data analysis. Gravitational microlensing and supernova observations. Gravitational physics. Publications Cosmological Results from High-z Supernovae (2003), John L. Tonry et al. (the High Redshift Supernova Search Team). Supernova Limits on the Cosmic Equation of State, P. M. Garnavich et al. (the High Redshift Supernova Search Team). Astrophysical Journal 509 (1998) pp. 74-79. The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations, C. Alcock et al. (the MACHO Collaboration). Astrophysical.Journal 542 (2000) pp. 281-307. Experimental Limits on the Dark Matter Halo of the Galaxy from Gravitational Microlensing, C. Alcock et al. (The MACHO Collaboration). Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) pp. 2867-2871. Lunar Laser ranging Using Avalanche Photodiode (APD) Arrays, Strasburg, Jana D.; Murphy, Thomas W., Jr.; Stubbs, Christopher W.; Adelberger, Eric G.; Miller, D. W.; Angle, J. I. Proceedings of the SPIE 4836 (2002) pp. 387-394. Observational Cosmology: Stubbs is a participant in the ESSENCE survey, a proejct designed to detect 200 type Ia supernovae at redshifts between 0.2 and 0.8, with the goal of measuring the equation of state parameter of the Dark Energy. He is also a member of the SuperMacho team, which is a next-generation microlensing survey of the LMC. Gravitational Physics: Lunar Laser Ranging is a premier technique for testing our understanding of the foundations of gravitaional physics. Stubbs is a member of the APOLLO collaboration, which aims to improve existing limits by a factor of ten. Astronomical Instrumentation and Techniques: Stubbs is a member of the team working to construct the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a proposed 8.4m wide field survey telescope. He is also working to refine the calibration of ground-based flux measurements. Theoretical Astrophysics DivisionInstitute for Theory and Computation |
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